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Review Diary Day 1: Welcome to San Paro Day 2: Enforcers, get enforcin’ Day 3: Coming tomorrow Day 4: Coming Friday This is part two of a four-part review of Realtime Worlds’ new MMO APB. Yesterday, I talked about installing the game and creating a character . Today: the grind.

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Review: APB (Day 2: Enforcers, get enforcin’)

A 500MB PC patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is ready to deploy tomorrow, June 30, at 1AM EST.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC patch deploying tomorrow, June 30

Rock Band 3 is set to introduce a new instrument — the keyboard — to the performance simulation genre, and a new, more complex level of simulation in Pro Mode. At a pre-E3 event, we asked the project lead, Daniel Sussman of Harmonix, to provide us with comfort in these times of frightening music-game flux. Well, mostly we asked him to tell us things about the game.

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Interview: Harmonix’s Daniel Sussman on Rock Band 3’s new tune

Crytek co-founder Cevat Yerli tells Develop that you might be paying money just for the privilege of trying Crysis 2 before it comes out. Yerli calls free game demos an antiquated “luxury” that have become “prohibitively expensive” to produce. The result: many studios will either stop releasing them or try to charge for an early test of the game

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Crytek boss: free game demos ‘prohibitively expensive’

2K Marin’s surprise announcement of an XCOM reboot upset a number of purists. “I’d rather have something that played like X-Com …

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Xenonauts capitalizes on XCOM rage

PopCap today announced that the iPhone port of Plants vs. Zombies is heading to Apple’s handheld on February 15, seemingly aiming for the exact day that it had originally approximated for a delayed release

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Plants vs. Zombies shambling to iPhones February 15

Rather than getting on Steam and playing gobs of classic Aliens vs. Predator leading up to the game’s almost assured (though still ” unconfirmed “) February launch, wouldn’t you rather spend the next three-ish minutes watching the folks at Rebellion speak about the history behind both games’ development? We knew you’d see it our way! Regardless, the trailer you see above does plenty in the way of explaining the near-direct connection between the original game and the upcoming release.

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Newest Aliens vs. Predator trailer explores the title’s heritage

Hey buddy, you like guns, right? Lots of guns? Good! The newest Mass Effect 2 trailer is meant just for you, then — packed from top to bottom with bullets and explosives, lead gameplay designer Christina Norman discusses the gun-centric proclivities of the Soldier class

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Mass Effect 2’s Soldier class really likes guns

Given that the entirety of Metro 2033 is set in a bleak, subway-based future — Moscow’s subway system of 2033, specifically — it’s not exactly an outright lie when we say the trailer is “from the future.” Sure, it might not have “traveled through time” or whatever your “fact-based” interpretation of our statement was, but it’s of a fictional post-apocalyptic world and that’s more than enough for us. Heck, there’s talk of the next evolution of human beings even. That’s about as futurey as you could possibly want, right?! Gallery: Metro 2033 3 minutes of Metro 2033 footage from the future originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST

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3 minutes of Metro 2033 footage from the future