This Game Spotlight is coming out of nowhere actually. It’s a case of casually looking around the net and then suddenly being reminded of a certain game you used to play way back in the age of DOS based games… wow.

For those of you who remember Stunts (aka 4D Sports Driving), just the mere mention of the name will bring back a lot of great memories of the track editor, racing against those crazy AI opponents, the strange glitches and trying to get yourself to ricochet off an obstacle and fly hundreds of metres into the air… For those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, prepare to be schooled…

One of the great things about online gaming is the ability to play with your friends from down the street or on the other side of the town or in the same state. Even better is the ability to meet and play with people you have never physically met before in your entire life. It’s the reason why online networks such as Steam, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network are so great.

The thing that sucks about online gaming is when the companies involved in the production of the game see the need to lock people into separate regions with online play. For some games this isn’t such a big deal, it’s just extremely inconvenient… however there is one game (take a look at the pic and take a guess) where this region locking has pretty much killed the games main selling point.

Recently the Xbox Live Arcade version of Perfect Dark was released and everyone except Perfect Dark fans who don’t own a 360 rejoiced. It’s taken me awhile to download it but I did a few days ago and have been playing through it and enjoying it just as much as I did back in the day when it was a Nintendo 64 game.

So how does this revamped HD version stand up to the original? It seems like a stupid question considering the fact that crisp visuals, solid frame-rates and online support are all a very big plus for the game… but as I have been playing through Perfect Dark, I have been noticing some small factors that seem oddly different… or just plain MISSING from the Nintendo 64 version.

A lot of us are gripped with a bit of Pokémon fever with the release of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Nintendo has just accelerated things with the announcement of Pokémon Black and White for the Nintendo DS…

Initial reactions to this news don’t seem to be as positive as you’d think. Sure, it’s great to have a new generation of Pokémon games, however from seeing comments from around the net, it’s clear that a lot of people would prefer to have the series debut on the Nintendo 3DS so it can take advantage of whatever new features the new system will provide.

So what do people want from the 5th generation?