2010: The Year We Make Contact...With Awesome!

This year's Q4 release season is already underway (man, Borderlands comes out next week!) and it is more than enough to keep any respectable person busy through until December. But thanks to all the delays we had in the last few months, the release schedule for early 2010 is shaping up to be even more incredible. Here's a few announced shelf dates that should get your motor running...

DARK VOID - January 15, 2010

MASS EFFECT 2 - January 29, 2010

BIOSHOCK 2 - February 9, 2010

SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION - February 23, 2010

We're just dealing with actual confirmed release dates here but there a whole bunch more of amazing titles that are set to drop sometime in the first half of 2010. Such as:

RED DEAD REDEMPTION - Sometime between Feb and June 2010

HEAVY RAIN - early 2010

ALAN WAKE - March 2010

MAX PAYNE 3 - between March and June 2010

Sam Fisher finally returns in February.

After a delay earlier this year (it was originally supposed to hit shelves in October), Splinter Cell: Conviction has got itself a hard release date - February 23, 2010. 

To coincide with this happy news, Ubisoft have released a new trailer celebrating the subtle art of mass murder. Rogue agent Sam Fisher is on the hunt to find out why his daughter died and the dude kills a fuckload of people in the process. Check. This. Out.