Ever found yourself on the fence about buying a new game? This should get you off it!

There’s some Mirror’s Edge in my Modern Warfare 2!

First Bobby Kotick now this! Whilst playing through Modern Warfare 2’s campaign this morning I noticed this For Lease sign (above). Make what you will of it, the last time I checked though IW stood for Infinity Ward or could it just be coincidence?

Mark the time and the date, we’ve just reached a milestone in gaming! Gone are the days when video games were considered a fad, video games have blasted into orbit and it’s only going to get bigger and better from here on out – or is it?

Like a summer blockbuster the Hans Zimmer composed theme bumped through a large portion of London’s Leicester Square, passers-by stopped on their way home from work, cameras flashed and celebrities finally pulled off that pose they’d spent weeks practicing, this is all strange to me as it’s not often a video game is given the red camouflage carpet treatment.

Dubbed as “the decade’s most anticipated game” you can probably understand the fuss and without checking I’m sure it’s still a trending topic on Twitter – and will be for the rest of the week. So what’s so special about this particular game, big titles like these come out all the time right? Well this one’s a little different, it’s the follow up to the critically acclaimed Call of Duty 4, fans were forced to return to World War II last year due to the Infinity Ward/Treyarch rotation deal and weren’t happy. Two years and £55 later and Activision have created what might be the biggest hype for a title in video game history.

Since I didn’t manage to make it onto the VIP list I watched the event unfold from the crowd, like a West End premiere the stars rolled in one by one from Kevin McKidd (voice of “Soap” MacTavish) to Craig Fairbrass, by 7pm everyone had headed inside and the crowd started clearing. I do wish people like myself were treated to a little game time, celebrities and video games never made much sense to me. It’s a mediocre event when your sitting on the sideline but I guess the closed door strategy definitely added some more buzz to the impending launch.

This really shows how far video games have actually come and I think it’s safe to say as far as premieres go this won’t be the last. Like most fans in attendance we didn’t leave empty handed, Kayla managed to grab one of these before security grabbed her!

While down the West Down this evening I spotted this in the window of Tottenham Court Road’s CEX, for a shocking £75. This doesn’t surprise me from Computer Exchange, if this were Fallout they’d be selling Purified Water for one million bottlecaps – such thieves!