This Week In The Twitterverse: December 7th through December 14th

Twitter is the newest edition to the social networking “trifecta” (along with Facebook and MySpace) but there is one thing that makes it stand apart: It is much more useful for gamers! With many major game companies, studios and developers posting their daily news announcements and activities, gamers can get news straight from the mouths of the people making things happen in the industry. In this new feature I will highlight some of the important “tweets” of the week from all over the world.

2K Games makes announcements…

2K: The Bioshock 2 full website is live! http://www.bioshock2game.com/uk/ (2:48 AM Dec 8th)

2K: We’ve announced the second DLC pack for Borderlands! (7:38 AM Dec 11th)

EA posts announcements and holiday deals…

EA: Dead Space 2 has been announced! Follow @DeadSpace for all the latest. (8:42 AM Dec 7th)

EA: Star studded cast announced for Mass Effect: Martin Sheen, Seth Green, Adam Baldwin, Michael Dorn and more can be heard next month. (11:11 AM Dec 10th)

EA: Mac gamers rejoice! Dragon Age: Origins is coming to Mac on December 21st (10:04 AM Dec 14th)

EA: Check out the Holiday Digital Sale at the EA Store! Buy 2+ PC Downloadable titles and save 40% 12/14 - 12/24.

Sega celebrates…

Sega: We’re nominated for 10 IGN GOTY Awards! Madworld, The Conduit, Empire: Total War and Super Monkey Ball 2 all nominated. (1:10 PM Dec 14th)

Sega: Scratch that… we’re nominated for 11 (!!) IGN GOTY awards. House of the Dead: Overkill is also nom’d for Best Shooter on Wii. (1:14 PM Dec 14th)

Lots of new content coming to Xbox 360…

Microsoft_Xbox: December 18 through December 31, Xbox Live Holiday Deal, 1-day disconts on select XBLM content every day - games, movies, game add-ons and themes. (10:05 AM Dec 10th)

Microsoft_Xbox: Modern Warfare 2 Live Update today: Removes Javelin glitch, Care Package glitch and addresses areas where players could get into geography. (4:05 AM Dec 11th)

Microsoft_Xbox: (Deal of the Week) Gold members can save 45% off Lips: Coldplay Track Pack now 240 MS points. Not available India or Japan. (12:19 PM Dec 14th)

Microsoft_Xbox: Alien Breed Evolution: Episode 1 will be available on XBLA this Wednesday for 800 MS points. ESRB: T (Teen). (1:04 PM Dec 14th)

Microsoft_Xbox: Puzzlegeddon will be available on XBLA this Wednesday for 800 MS points. ESRB: E (Everyone). (3: 20 PM Dec 14th)

Naughty Dog celebrates…

Naughty_Dog: Nice! Associated Press places UNCHARTED2 as first in list of top 10 video games in 2009. (3:55 PM Dec 8th)
Naughty_Dog: Metacritic lists the Best Games of 2009, based on their ranking system - UNCHARTED2 comes out as the #1 game overall.

Naughty_Dog: UNCHARTED2 wins the Spike VGA 2009 Game of the Year!! Congrats to all the Dogs and a HUGE THANK YOU to all our fans.

For future editions of this feature, you can suggest any developers or companies you’d like me to post about, just let me know in the comments below!