When the much-aligned gaming drought is onset, I usually find myself looking to either the rest of the crap that’s dwindled out since the holiday boom, or scour the archives of my hard drive searching for an .iso I missed, say, playing Crysis or Call of Duty 4.

So what have I been doing to keep my mind sharp and my WASD hand nimble (don’t go there)?

Well, I picked up copies of Frontlines and Turning Point, both of which have turned out to be pretty big duds, Turning Point moreso than Frontlines, as I managed to find a game-stopping bug which prohibits me from switching weapons, firing them, or even having their models display correctly. So I uninstalled it. Expect a review of both of these guys coming sometime soon.

I have begun to play through Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War, it’s been the first RTS I’ve been able to get into in a long while and I’m having fun playing it so far, so we’ll see how far I get into it.

I’ve also been entrenched in a staring competition with Sins of a Solar Empire, seeing who can outlast the other. My brother only says great things about it (I’ve gotten three text messages early in the morning, saying both how tired he is and how great the game is). I played through a tutorial, liked it and never picked it up. Hopefully that’ll change at some point.

I’ve been also watching more and more YouTube lately and have been captured by this video of an Airbus A320 attempting to land in Hamburg, Germany. It’s undeniably badass.

But, let’s get to the point of the post: The gaming drought is done! The gaming gods doth rain upon us big-name releases! Hooray for Spring! What’s coming out in the next month, you ask? Let’s see:

-God of War: Chains of Olympus
-Army of Two
-SSBB
-Condemned 2
-Rainbow 6: Vegas 2
-Metal Gear Collection
-Dark Sector
-FFVII: Crisis Core
-C&C3: Kane’s Wrath
-STALKER: Clear Sky
-and maybe even Home!

Hooray for March! If I ever get a job, maybe March will be the month I find myself picking up a PSP and seeing what I can do with it.