Now that I have a computer that may actually be able to play DC Universe Online, I'm probably a little more excited about the game due out this coming February. Especially after reading the following:

There are also secondary quests that are given through interactions with the world such as the aforementioned kiosk which begins a series of quests that show you around the landmarks of the zones (for those that like the DC lore, Booster Gold drives you around these quests and each area you visit is accompanied by a nice little fly around and commentary by Booster Gold throwing in the expected Booster Gold product placement which I had to laugh at sometimes).
--GiantDave7, www.theoldergamers.com

Having previously learned that Booster would be the game's tour guide from Massively.com's interview with Chris Cao, I returned to that source for more information. Sure enough, Larry Everett confirms this in a recent review of the game.

In each safehouse, Booster Gold has kiosks that grant tour missions. Each one of these level-appropriate guided tours takes you to all the important places around Gotham City and Metropolis while the tour guide gives humorous commentary about himself and the various locations.
--Massively.com

What I still don't know is who is voicing Booster Gold (Tom Everett Scott?). Whoever it is, if Booster is selling, I'm buying.

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The long awaited, Booster Gold-including DC Universe Online is being pushed back to a 2011 release. ComicsAlliance.com has the press release, which indicates that the game's release was pushed back for quality assurance reasons. I assume that in this day and age where games are released with complementary bugs that require extensive patching, quality assurance means that they want the game to be bootable, if not actually playable.

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So, did you see the DC Universe Online trailer unveiled last week at Comic Con? Sadly no Booster Gold, but there's plenty of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and alternate future time traveling! How can a game whose storyline features Lex Luthor traveling back-in-time from the future to warn the present about Brainiac not feature DC's current Time Masters? I had wondered how much Booster Gold might be in the game considering his public persona as super hero shill. But now I begin to suspect that there may be an opportunity to take a ride with Rip Hunter in a Time Sphere. Don't let me down here, Sony. (You can see the trailer yourself here.)

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Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the Booster Gold advertisements in the urban backgrounds of the latest E3 2010 DC Universe Online trailer. Booster has never been anything more than background detail in previous DC video games. (He was referred to by name in 2006's Justice League Heroes but never appeared on screen.) Here's to hoping that he gets to play a bigger part in the upcoming Sony DC Universe Online MMORPG. I know I'm not alone in saying that I won't be playing if I can't interact with Skeets.

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