Sometimes it’s hard to know where or how something went wrong, or to precisely put your finger on what’s actually wrong. Ghostbusters has gone wrong and I don’t know how and I’m scared. We’ve got the original cast providing all their voices, we’ve got a script by the original writers (and yes I know they’re the cast as well), we’ve got a story that even ties into the original film and we’ve got gameplay pilfered from all the ‘what’s hot games’ of the last twelve months. I should be trumpeting this song from the rafters, for four years in a row I went out for Halloween dressed as a Ghostbuster in a carefully hand crafted outfit, I had the theme song on loop on an eight track tape and drove my parents to almost mental ruin playing it constantly. I even liked Ghostbusters 2 the first time I saw it and worshipped at the altar of the cartoon show every weekday at 4. But this game rubs me all kinds of wrong ways.

Here’s a weird one, Micrososoft have just patented Advertars, AI controlled Avatars that will come up to you and ask if you would like to learn about a product/film/download/whats in their pocket. In exchange for which you could get MS points or in game items.

At first it sounds like telemarketing for your dashboard which admittedly sounds absolutely awful. Then after a moment it doesn’t sound like that bad an idea, think about it, you say yes, tell me about the latest movie based on an 80’s cartoon based on a Hasbro product, then go for a whiz, get a drink, flip to another channel, then flick back and profit. It’s like experiencing grinding using advertising!

Of course this also indicates that MS has some kind of Home like social space for Avatars to make use of planned for the future which might be cool. Microsoft just need to look at Home and then do the exact opposite of that.

I’m having an itch to dig into some games of yesteryear lately and GTA IV is pretty close to topping that list. Good news for 360 owning fans of the game today too seems the next GTA Episode of DLC, The Ballad of Gay Tony, will be available to download from October 29.

But there’s some even better news for late adopters.

First there was a Marvel MMO, then for a time there was not and there was much mailing and gnashing of teeth. People went back to just talking about whether or not the Hulk could beat Wolverine (he totally could, he’s the Hulk, nothing can stop him, it just makes him angrier).

Now there is a Marvel MMO again, rejoice! They seem pretty serious about it this time considering the talent they’ve brought on board.

How to become a neuroscience researcher:

Step 1: Submit a grant request for research into head injuries resulting from car surfing.

Step 2: Spend five years spending that grant money like crazy on tequila and high class prostitutes.

Step 3: Submit a conservative angled report specifically blaming Jackass, YouTube and what the hell, GTA as well. Make some nice graphs to support your findings.

Well there really has been a study by neurosurgeons into the incidence of car surfing and examined 74 cases that resulted in injury over ten years. That’s right in ten years of study 74 cases was enough to warrant some concern.

As some of you know Uncharted 2 is my most anticipated game for this year, the first one being a fantastic single player experience and the multiplayer Beta just got me extra excited. Well now we have a release date to go on and some shiny new box art, although that may just be North American.

Just as you thought that Modern Warfare 2 was only going to cost you 199 with a flash new set of night vision goggles Robert Bowling, of Four Zero Two fame on Twitter, has tweeted he is in a design meeting for a Modern Warfare 2 Controller. Hmmm