Here we are, another glorious weekend, another 48 hours to blow. And thanks to every single publisher who magically hit upon the last two months to release every single title in one go, we’ve practically gone under all the fantastic games that we want to play, our unforgiving work schedules and of course, managing a tiny corner of the Interwebs here at The ANGRY Pixel.

As we slowly get our reviews out and get our posting schedule back on its rickety track, we’re going to be giving you folks a lot more to chew over the coming weeks. As you can see, we’re already tweaking our site’s look and feel in bits and will slowly be overhauling it over the coming months, in addition to taking you behind the scenes of all the interesting tedious stuff that goes on to build and run a successful videogame blog (sorry, groundless rumours have another place to call home!) which should give you folks an inside look at how things work in India all the way from the top to the dirty, dirty bottom. And obviously, we just can’t wait to start pissing everyone off. Fun times ahead!

And for all the folks eagerly awaiting the return of the Game of the Year sweepstakes, well, we’re abandoning the approach we took last year. It’s not like it wasn’t hugely successful, but there’s a whole bunch of awesome stuff that we’re working on for the moment (Shh! January!) and thriving on change constantly like we do, we let our pals at GamingIndians work on the community voting feature as well as the elaborate write-ups while we focus our energies on something “else” which we hope and pray would turn out to be a much more entertaining alternative to what we did last year. As for the cool prizes and the devilishly devious contests that y’all enjoy so much, don’t you worry your pretty little heads about it – all we can ask you to do is keep checking back regularly. Something wicked this way comes! /wink

Until then, I’m just free running all over Hong Kong of the Dystopian Future The City in Mirror’s Edge, scorching and blasting through wave after wave of Locust and zombie cannon fodder in Gears 2 and L4D, and squealing with joy as I get to explore all my favourite lost underworld myths with the lovely Lara Croft. Abhinav, on the other hand is having a blast with the Prince, Elika and his donkey, Farah on the PC, even as he spends 7 hours straight hammering out 600+ swords in Fable II and getting his poor heart broken by Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. Vijay seems to be in his element making Mortal Kombat and the DC universe characters beat each other silly while Jay seems hell-bent on tearing his hair out with the PC port of GTA IV. And Bobby? Well, with two broken PCs, two unused Xbox 360s and a FUBARed disc of GTA IV, he does what any sane person would do – take his tricked out Jeep out to the nearest rally track and win the damn thing. Wow!

So yeah, drop us a note or a comment telling us what kind of content you’d like to see us churn out or what craziness you’ve got planned over the weekend. Just don’t come back to us with 12 hours of sword making or 14 hours of unprotected sex in Fable II!

UPDATE #2: The game is now available in India. Check here for more information.

UPDATE: We spoke with the distributor, who said that there was a minor unforeseeable delay, and that the game has already been despatched to all metros and should be available on shelves by Saturday (6/12) morning at the latest. If you don’t live in a metro, expect to find the game at your favourite game outlet by Monday (8/12) or Tuesday (9/12).

When Calvin once asked why the world couldn’t even be unfair in his favour, he would’ve been really happy if he was one of those thousands of people who were left confused, heartbroken and angry after news emerged that GTA IV for the PC could get delayed in the country.

And, to add to one of those rare occasions where we are the bearer of good news, it looks like you really wouldn’t have to wait after all if you were planning to drive Mr. Bellic around town on your monster PC. So yes, the game is coming out on December 3rd, as originally planned and yes, it will be available at the previously mentioned low, low price of INR 499, so there’s really no excuse not to buy one copy for playing and one NRFB copy for a keepsake, like someone I know is planning to do.

And for all those people who were getting increasingly paranoid over the game’s SecuROM DRM software, (yours truly included) it looks like things aren’t as bad as they are with EA’s games. Head over here for a 2-page interview by PC Games Hardware with Rockstar where every detail about the relaxed DRM mechanism in use by GTA IV PC is revealed.