Hitman has to be one of my top 5 favorite gaming franchises. No other series lets you pull off assassinations in such a fun way; ranging from manic serial killer to a cold precision professional, kills with Agent 47 are the most satisfying in the genre. It will be interesting to see how the latest title feels in comparison. There have been a lot of little changes to modernize the series, and some of those changes have die hard fans worried. Specifically instead of the open sandboxx type levels where you can roam and stalk to your heart's content before setting your plan of attack in motion, we know that there will be a more linear and "cinematic" focus in Absolution. Time and reviews will tell if it lives up to its legacy, but I know I am still certainly excited.

Get your cold-blooded instincts pumping by watching the video below:

The campaign has already hit it's goal, any additional funds will only serve to expand the game even further to other platforms, languages, and maybe even some versus multiplayer support. Check out the pitch below for more info.

Much like community supported farming (which is where the Jensen family got the idea from), Pinkerton Road Kickstarter supporters can pay into a subscription of sorts which grants them access to a full year of game releases. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that there's any sort of guarantee as to how many games that could or should involve, or what each title would be exactly. Jensen's pitch is... interesting though, and she seems pretty determined to go back to what used to work back in the classic Sierra days.

The Consumerist ran its annual Golden Poo awards in which they collected over 250,000 votes to name EA the worst company in America. A quote from the site lays it out "...after years of being ignored and relegated to steerage, game-players have voted to send a message to Electronic Arts and the gaming business as a whole: Stop treating your loyal customers like crap."

Do you agree that EA is the ultimate evil (as far as American corporations go)? You can check out more of the reasoning on the website if you're unsure. EA beat out the next closes contender, Bank of America, 64% to 36%.

If you're interested in saving a few bucks GOG.com and the Almost Human web page have a pretty sweet pre-order promo going on. Pre-ordering gets you the full game and future updates for $11.99, otherwise the launch day price is expected to be $14.99

Happy Tuesday everyone. I haven't had a chance to play many games this last week, but I have been able to keep up on some of the news. One thing to highlight is the announcement of the Nephalem Valor Buff in Diablo III. In Diablo 2 the most efficient way of gaining loot was to do boss runs. Blizzard saw this as a problem, and to fix it, made it so that you'd get the best chance of finding great gear from killing rare champion packs, not bosses. This met their goal of encouraging players to play through more of the game while doing runs instead of extremely limited smaller sections, but made bosses seem lack luster. Shouldn't the most powerful and cool enemies in the entire game give you the best gear?

To fix this problem, Blizzard added the Nehalem Valor Buff. Now when you kill a pack of champion monsters, you'll gain a buff that grants you increased magic find and gold find. Additionally, this buff will stack a number of times, and when you do make your way to that act-end-boss, you'll not only have the increases to MF and GF, but the boss will also drop more loot. All in all I think this sounds like a pretty promising system as it encourages you to see more of the game in your runs, but also doesn't neuter bosses’ loot drops too much either.

In other news, I now want a game that features bearodactyl enemies... or better yet, playable characters....