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You got it, folks; I’m talking about Geometry Wars (or, as the Good Reverend DLB would say, “Math Attack”).  As I’m sure many of you have heard, Geometry Wars 2 is being released next week (July 30).  When I had first heard about it (I was sure it was in development, but the Microsoft E3 press briefing was the first I had heard about any concrete details about it) I was overjoyed!  As Khidr succinctly put it, GeoWars 1 was the killer app for the 360 at launch.  And then, the bad news started rolling in…

In no particular order, here are two terrible mistakes that they have made with GeoWars 2:

• Read more: From Killer App to Forgettable Mistake

…doesn’t have the same ring to it.  And Jeebus knows I’ve been wrong about my predictions before.  But I’d call your attention to a couple of interesting pieces of information:

• Read more: Beware the Ides of July?*

So, Khidr and I just finished completing the single player campaign in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 cooperatively.  We’ve touched on it before in previous posts, but co-op is an extremely important part of why I love multiplayer gaming, and weighs in fairly heavily when considering whether a game should be rented, bought, or passed-over completely.  (Too Human broke our heart by not following Ozymandias’ Co-op Bil of Rights‘ first tenant: All co-op games should allow players to play cooperatively through the rich, single-player experience. Doing so through suspension of disbelief (ie, when cinematics refer to only a single player) is ok, though not ideal.  Jerks.)

• Read more: Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Review (Freeform)

Hot on the heels of this morning’s dashboard 2.0 visualization post is a Kotaku-sourced rumor about a THREE-DEE Dashboard!!!  ZOMG!  I’m not really dropping this one in the “confirmed” bin just yet, but it’s nice to dream, I suppose.

Kind of a busy day today, but I want to point “y’all” to a fairly well-written (and awesomely rendered) post about a particular gentleman’s take on what the dashboard should look like.  For all of my waxing about what the functionality should be, this is a great visual representation, and I wanted to be sure it gets some more exposure.  Anything he’s leaving out?