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Credit to whoever named their dog Cortana. (image: digitalbattle.com)

It’s just before midnight and I’m done with the Fable II DLC already. I’m gazing fondly at my hero who now dons a full set of plate armour, sadly no statistical benefits along the lines of damage mitigation, but he looks fantastic. Not to mention the suspisciously Bungie-esque “Hal’s Rifle” on his back. It’s been a fantastic bit of additional content, and I’ll have a full review on it up on GamerNode tomorrow, so I’ll link to it once it’s up.

In other news today, the Cartoon Network MMO launched today, which came as a slight suprise. I know I pine on and on about a Lego online experience, but Cartoon Network? Seriously? Imagine what raiding would be like, or being PvP spawncamped by Cow and Chicken. It’ll be a fad event I should expect, unless it develops a hardcore cult following from those of the 80s generation.

Doom 4 has finally entered the writing stage, and I couldn’t be happier. I piddled around on the third incarnation, but my main feelings were of disappointment. It was almost like an early Bioshock prototype; alone and scared in a sealed-off-from-civilization universe, nothing but audio logs for company. But it lacked what Doom was famous for; simplistic gunplay and tounge-in-cheek sci-fi humour. But they’ve got one Graham Joyce, a science fiction writer, to take the helm for the plot, which is stunning, as I don’t remember any storyline in the first three bar “Mars = Hell Portal. Uhoh.” and the obvious shutting of said portal.

The rumour mill has fired up once again for 2009, with some GTA V rumours to kickstart everything this month. The only interesting part of it, ignoring the blatantly unrealistic Christmas ’09 release date, is a rumour of it being set in Tokyo, as opposed to the heavily suggested San Andreas. Tokyo would be a welcome change of scene, and possibly a fantastic storyline. That said, with GTA: Chinatown Wars already out, the East seems to be getting a lot of attention from Rockstar, so it’s not too far off the mark to cross my fingers for Smart Car related antics in the Shibuya district just yet.

And finally, the Daily Mail are likely to hit the journalistic roof, as MadWorld, the insanely violent yet quite stylish Wii title, has been given the green light by the BBFC. I can’t express how happy I am that the BBFC have not only given a big yes to a game that involves brutally murdering your opponents, but does so via use of the Wii Remote. It’s brilliant. All the violent videogames protesters are going to go absolutely crazy, and I cannot wait to see the Mail’s response to this being released. It’s a matter of time before Postal makes it to the DS and then we’ll start hearing about people stabbing eachother with styluses. Honestly. I read it in the Daily Mail, they said that it must be happening somewhere, in some dimension of reality. Chortle.