The Tuesday Cap is a new regular column capping of and commenting on game news for the past week.

It's Tuesday again, and I'd rather be playing Skyrim. My Redguard has bandits to smite and dragons to kill, mines to explore and maidens to thrill.

Man we've been spoiled by releases this year. A few years ago, when Bioshock, Halo 3 and Modern Warfare all dropped in the same holiday season, many suggested we'd never see another release season like it. But holy heck this year has seen a none stop flood of amazing games from every band of the gamer rainbow. So much like you I'm off to enjoy them. See ya!

That’s a Big Game News

This is the lead story this week because this game looks madder than a beehive hairdo full of real bees that sing and dance.

I was a big fan of the last two Kingdom Under Fire games on the Xbox, they were maddeningly challenging and intelligent real time strategy fantasy war games. While you were in the thick of the hack and slash action you could still order around units and work on your strategies. It was a war game where you were usually fighting in the vanguard at the same time.

I’ve been waiting for Kingdom Under Fire 2 for some time, but this trailer is pretty gobsmacking. Looks like the developers have decided with this game they’re throwing everything in the pot and making Kingdom Under Fire an MMO. So you and your buddies can gather up your armies and then go out and take part in huge scale battles with siege engines and fantasy creatures storming the field.

Ignore the ridiculous jiggling boobies of the elf ladies for a moment, if you can, and just take a look at this game. It looks massive and amazing. Personally I’d preferred if the game stuck with the single player campaign only, but with the right group of people this could be an amazing online title.

Not to mention this could be the first MMO title on the Xbox 360.

Kingdome Under Fire 2 is due in early 2012.

Bad News

Following the lead of Nintendo and Sony, Microsoft and Apple have just thrown their weight behind the US Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA as it’s frequently referred to. So that’s all the manufacturers of your favourite game devices (unless you’re still side talking rocking your N Gage) signing their support for one of the worst censorship acts ever proposed.

But wait you wail, I’m don’t live in America and I’m not a pirate, how will SOPA possibly affect me?

Well as to your first problem, the bill is so broad that it covers anything deemed a domestic web address, and under its terms every thing that ends with a .com .net or .org is registered in the US and therefore falling under this bill’s jurisdiction. That’s a helluva lot of web addresses.

What’s this bill going to do to me you wonder? It puts most of the internet under US jurisdiction and at the mercy of the American Attorney General’s Office. Domain providers who host sites that conflict with SOPA regulations could be completely shutdown with one court order that could affect all the non infringing sites associated with that provider. Entire parts of the internet could be left dark at a whim.

SOPA is another in a long line of aggressive and portentous government bills that put the greater part of the internet under direct control of the federal government in the US. And it seems all the major players are keen for this bill to go ahead. It’s a decision based purely on corporate economics that could potentially strangle opportunities for innovation and free enterprise on the internet. Just to supposedly protect their IP’s from piracy their willing to do a huge disservice to their existing legitimate consumers. Slaps your brand loyalty right in face doesn’t it.

Note as well that companies whose business is the internet, Google, Zynga, Facebook, Twitter and numerous others; have come out strongly opposing the bill.

As Australian’s we can do bugger all about SOPA, other than hope our American cousins hassle the crap out of their congress persons and get this bill thrown in the fire along with previous ‘regulate the internet’ attempts.

Delayed News

Torchlight 2, sequel to my favourite Diablo clone, has been pushed from its upcoming release to early 2012.

The reason? Bug fixes? Beta data? Sexual Harrassment scandals? Nope, seems there’s just too many damn good games out right now and the developers want to wait till we’ve finished them all before they send out their game. Wise move I say.

Helljumper News

Posted a video last week of a dirt cheap Halo fan film that was looking pretty good for it’s budget. Here’s another one, about the badass guys and girls of the ODST, that looks even better.

Still no Halo movie, but seems like fan films are filling the void.

Legal News

EA promised to give PS3 owners a free copy of Battlefield 1943 along with their store bought copy of Battlefield 3. Then they decided, naaah, let’s not do that actually. Now there’s a class action against EA by disgruntled Battlefield fans, demanding their downloads. Interesting to note the lawsuit states that they are unwilling to settle for cash compensation, they want their promised game.

Ah, gamers, we are a unique and beautiful people. Sometimes.

Movie News

New Line, who used to make really good films, has decided to make a giant monster movie based on the old game Rampage. Obviously they failed to take into account the fact the worlds greatest film maker, Guillermo Del Toro, is making a robots versus giant monster movie called Pacific Rim. Against which every other giant monster movie will wither in comparison.

Oh and still no Halo movie. Apparently Rampage has more brand awareness.

Mech News

While a young teenage man, struggling to suppress my rampant hormones and throbbing biological urges, one of my many nerdish distractions was Mechwarrior. Myself and a few friends played and enjoyed the game, but the most enjoyment came from using the monolithic rule books to design and build our own Mechwarriors on paper. This nebbish delight in mech customisation translated delightfully to games like Chromehounds and Trenched, and older games like Privateer and the original Mechwarrior series.

Unfortunately the console versions of the series devolved into generic shooters.

Mechwarrior Online though, looks like it may have some potential. At the very least it’s going to look pretty good, the game will run on the new and improved Cryengine of Crysis fame.

Better Late Than Never News

Minecraft is out, yay! I mean, sure you’ve been playing it for a year now, but it’s officially out. Gone gold so to speak. There’s new stuff in there, an experience and buff system and an actual end game content process, so you can finally finish Minecraft and stop working on that giant penis sculpture you’ve been building.

It’s also about to appear on the Xbox which is pretty swanky, as is its recent appearance in the Apple Ap Store. Minecraft be all over de place! I’ll be getting back into Minecraft to try out all this cool new stuff and will report back to you dear readers!

Souls and Swords News

Here’s some screenies for Soul Calibur 5. Yoshimitsu continues to be the most crazy cool looking fighting game character of all time.

An unusually hale and hearty looking Cervantes, if it is him

It's not Kilik, but it's some guy with a Bo

That is one smoothly rendered reptile

The new lizard also looks pretty cool

Monkey King Attack!

Oh Yoshimitsu, you teleporting, wooden cyborg armed, robin hood like samurai ninja bandit you

Blam Blam Kapow News

Max Payne special edition has all the cool stuff you see above.

Max Payne video shows lots of shooting and then more shooting, check it out:

Max Payne.

Syndicate News

I know this is all just a trick to lower my defences, but the upcoming Syndicate games has four player coop. I LOVE coop in shooting games, I’m a team player as opposed to a team killer kinda player.

Snaaaaaake!? News

Like an obese man with a jar of nutella and a packet of scotch finger biscuits every time Hideo Kojima says ‘this is the last one’ everybody knows he’s fibbing.

So it comes as no surprise then, certainly not to me as I type this with nutella stained fingers, that Kojima has confirmed that yes, there is a Metal Gear Solid 5 in the works, and yes he is working on it right in.

As for us poor neglected Australians, all we want to know is when the flip we’re getting the Metal Gear Solid HD collection.

That's it, time to go to the forums and snark it up.