It’s no secret that I personally coined the term and gave it a certain umph if you will.  Now not only can you take part in that which is filled with awesome sauce here but now you can literally dish awesome sauce all over your internets.  Have a bottle or two or three and go forth to spread more awesome sauce in the world courtesy of Team 51 and me!

I’d like to take this time to spread a little awesome sauce on the folks at EA and Epic Games for the upcoming release of the Bulletstorm demo.  I’d also like to dab a little awesome sauce on 2011 itself.

Which game, moment or occassion will you use your awesome sauce on?

Can you believe it’s 2011 and we’re not even close to figuring out what the next generation of consoles will be?  Both the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii have been out for a few years and there’s no mention of their next entry into the console wars.  I guess that means we’ll all have to keep on playing games then!

There are quite a few that have peaked my interest this year.  Bullestorm, Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls V, X-Men Destiny, the new Marvel vs. Capcom, Test Drive Unlimited 2, the new Deus Ex, Gears of War 3…there are quite a few!

It’ll be hard to find time to visit the vault and entertain you boys and girls.  I hope everyone on The List is doing well.  I’m planning on sending an update about all things 51 soon so watch your inbox!

Getting prepared to introduce something we think is a really awesome sharing event for the community of gamers out there.  And perhaps in fact for the community of everyone out there. 

More details soon little aliens.  In the meantime, let it fill your mind….digest Pickture Presents.

One of my favorite games on the Xbox 360 is Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake.  It’s a game that many of you likely have heard nothing about and that’s a shame.  It has one of the best chapters to experience in recent game memory (Chapter 6) and it has some very good downloadable content that extends it beyond the final game.

I suppose though you’ll be checking it out after this though right?  So we’ll be looking for our check in the mail Remedy. (wink)

Anyway, IGN had an interesting story that revolved around marketing and how it could be ineffective.  Alan Wake suffered from quite a few marketing blunders and none perhaps more critical than its release date.  Why would they release it next to one of the year’s most anticipated titles?  It’s about proper strategy people.

“I think we could have benefited from maybe being able to have an even crisper communication of what the game does,” says Remedy’s Matias, “and we should have probably backed that up with stronger advertising about what’s unique about this game.””

Don’t worry Matias, if you guys get the green light for a sequel then we’ll have 51 ways to make sure Alan Wake 2 kicks the doors down on the shadows and the public!  So give us a call.

What say you out there?  Have you played Alan Wake?  If so, what did you think?  And if not, why not?