This has been a decent year for gaming so far. I have picked up Dead Space 2 (which I loved), Stacking and You Don't Know Jack (for the wife), and Bulletstorm (a huge disappointment/at least I can play the Gears 3 beta early).

Today on PSN the SOCOM 4 beta releases and I am looking forward in getting to play it. I have never played a SOCOM game before but this looks very good. Unfortunately the beta only lasts a week so I plan on playing it as much as possible. As soon as the SOCOM 4 beta is over I will wait another week and get my hands on the Gears 3 beta. The Gears beta lasts roughly a month and that is all that I will be playing. During the Gears 3 beta Portal 2 and SOCOM 4 will be releasing so I will have to pick up both of those if SOCOM 4's beta is pretty good. Portal 2 will give me roughly 6 hours of single player and 6 hours of co-op multiplayer (not really sure on replay value, only played the 1st portal 1 time through). SOCOM 4 should be my multiplayer game of the summer but if the game flops I don't know what I will be playing; maybe a XBLA game or something new that catches my eye.

In September I am going to purchase Gears 3 and it will take over my gaming life until November when Uncharted 3 releases. I have read that Battlefield 3 is also supposed to release the same day as Uncharted 3 but I really hope not. It is hard buying two games at once and having to choose which to play. It looks like the 2nd half of 2011 in video gaming is going to be way better then the 1st.