The Week Ahead - 20/04/07

[wraggster]

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How are you enjoying the sunshine? Great isn't it? The only reason we ask is that there's really not a lot of reasons to be indoors playing games at the moment. This Friday's release list isn't looking like much to get excited about.

So you've probably got a bit of a back catalogue to get through that'll keep you busy. But as far as new releases go - bar a couple of stellar titles over the next few months - it's going to be a fallow period.

What the industry needs is a summer blockbuster mentality. We shouldn't forget that before Spielberg's Jaws shook up the movie industry back in 1975 it had a similar lull in its cycle. Of course, you may remember that Atari admirably tried to bring out a summer blockbuster with Driver 3 a couple of years ago. A shame it was a mess of a game with more bugs than an insect zoo. After saying all that, pick of the bunch next week is probably F.E.A.R. on PS3 or DKR on DS. Apart from that, there isn't a great deal else to say.

The complete list of games released in the UK this week (20/04/07):

Diddy Kong Racing, DS, Nintendo

F.E.A.R., PS3, Vivendi

Free Running, PS2/PSP, Ubisoft

Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe, PC, Zoo Digital

Raw Danger, PS2, 505 Games

SnoCross 2, PS2, Oxygen

Super Fruitfall, PS2, System 3

World Championship Poker, PS2/PC/360/PSP, Oxygen

Zendoku, DS, Eidos

[cswallstreet]

We arnt having any sunshine here. Its freaking snowing in middle of april.

[Basil Zero]

Its cold and hot everyother day lol

Diddy kong racing imo got downsized for losing banjo and conker

[kaffie]

We arnt having any sunshine here. Its freaking snowing in middle of april.

Looking at the not so exciting range of games this week it seems like we are starting the summer games drought early.