I almost completed Valiant Hearts: The Great War this weekend. I came up two achievements short of it. I’m down to two collectibles left for the all collectibles achievement, and I need the one for the rhythm game. The rhythm one will be the toughest, but not that tough compared to others I’ve done. It’s pretty short and I should get it after a few tries, but that’ll have to wait ‘til next weekend.

So, this was the question: 

I have a hell of a lot of Vita games.

6. Final Fantasy XIII

Here we are, Blog a Day 2014! I have a series of things to talk about, but for today it's a wrap up of last month. I'm at the mercy of tradition!

     I tried some demos on Monday on Xbox 360 instead of playing Enchanted Arms. First I played Gears of War Judgment with a friend. It's only Overrun mode that's 4v4. It looks and plays just like GOW3 and that's just fine with me. More of great is good. Then it was Army of Two: Devil's Cartel which was a really good co-op experience. The shear amount of destruction in the game is glorious! Then I played some XBLA demos. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was hilarious and fun. I absolutely loved it! God Mode seemed to be just an endless hoard mode. Serious Sam DD XXL had controls that were unintuitive. Sacred Citadel was overly difficult and Double Dragon II annoyed me by consistently surrounding me with enemies to disrupt my fighting moves. Enjoyable however was Poker Night 2. It's just Texas Hold 'em but it's fun to listen to the characters responses especially the Venture Bros.'s Samson, Glados and Claptrap. Plus you can unlock a Samson skin for the Gunzerker in Borderlands 2. How cool is that! Then I played the demo for The Cave and got hooked and bought it.

Since my review of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time recently went up and I want to promote that game as much as possible, no matter how late, I thought I'd post another blog on what I've been reviewing recently.

The Oddworld series is a beloved franchise, but outside of a the recently released Stranger's Wrath HD port and the upcoming Munch's Oddysee rerelease not much has been heard.  The Hand of Odd is still coming, but no one really knows when, but that's okay since Just Add Water keeps on giving the series some HD love, as it has been announced that the first game in the series, Abe's Oddysee, will not get a HD remix as originally planned, but a full-on remake.

Oddworld: Hand of Odd has had a rather strange journey.  Development for the game began in parallel with Munch’s Oddysee on the PlayStation 2.  When Munch jumped the Sony ship to be a launch title on Microsoft’s original Xbox, Hand of Odd was left in limbo and development on what was to be some sort of real-time strategy game came to a screeching halt.

Just a few weeks ago developer Just Add Water delivered on their promise to rerelease Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath in glorious HD.  Many gamers would have been content with seeing this underappreciated gem get a second chance on a new platform, but according to a tweet from their official Twitter account, the folks running Oddworld these days have further plans to spread the HD love by announcing Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee for an end of quarter two release.

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD was originally supposed to be released this past Easter. After horribly missing that day, Gamespot has confirmed that the HD remake will be released on December 27, 2011 for the PlayStation Network for $15.

Its manual claims to be a “fantastic action jump 'n' run game” and there is certainly a lot of jumping. The three playable characters, Pixie, Madboy, and a dog, Rex, can be switched to at the press of the C button. Each has specialized, if minimally effective moves that are required to get through levels which do contain considerable amounts of platforming. But it can be more honestly described as a “plat-borer” because The Kore Gang's 30 levels are a near-nonstop string of menial and utterly pointless fetch quests that will bore players of all ages.

Lorne Lanning, founder of Oddworld Inhabitants attempted to create an ambitious, fully-realized universe with the Oddworld series. Spanning 4 games (the series was originally designed to be a five part series), the series garnered critical acclaim but tepid sales after the first release, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Lanning eventually shuttered Oddworld and left the video game industry, focusing instead on animated films. Now Lorne Lanning is back, and he has been working with developer Just Add Water on an HD remake of their final Oddworld game: Stranger’s Wrath for PS3.

Back in late 2001, Microsoft first entered the realm of console gaming with the Xbox. Although its sales numbers are nothing impressive when compared to that of the PlayStation 2, it did manage to outsell longtime videogame company Nintendo's GameCube, which is still a fine showing for a first console outing. Despite being a massive financial loss for the company, it laid the groundwork for much of what is now standard in the gaming industry.

Today's PSN Store update brings with it a ton of downloadable items including new games, wallpapers, videos, and more.

Oddworld is the creation of Lorne Lanning, co-founder and creative director of Oddworld Inhabitants. His first two PSone titles, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe's Exodus will be available this week on PSN, according to a recent post of his on the PlayStation Blog.

Recently Bitmob.com had the opporutunity to sit down and talk with President and Co-Founder of Oddworld Inhabitants, Lorne Lanning.