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Don't worry - the fractured Tory government have put aside their differences and set out a clear plan for leaving the EU

Ahh! That's why I don't like him

Interested, without wishing to be inflammatory, in what you Corbynites made of his campaigning and general presence during the referendum. It's changed how I view him, particularly after his rating his interest in staying in the EU at 7/10 seemingly confirming that he'd be happy enough with us out (I understand that in that clip he's criticizing certain aspects of the EU as an organisation rather than the idea of staying in, but I feel like a fortnight before the vote isn't the time to be offering such indifference in such a tight race) Boris pulling out is a total shocker, but to my mind a massive relief. He's a cynic and a calculating prick, but Gove or May don't seem half as electable material - could finally pave the way for a labour government, assuming a general election is held in the next year or two. But I feel like we learnt learned last election that being too far left, and having too strange a personality doesn't win elections. And for all his success in opposition, I'd put money on Corbyn, again, not having the mainstream appeal to get in office. Fair play for sticking to his principles, but if labour blow it again I'll be devastated.

Haha amazing. Don't know a load about Jeff but from what I do know he has a lot of integrity - (back on topic), I remember everyone kicking off when he gave Twighlight Princess an 8.8 for Gamespot way back in the day. Looking at the metacritic reviews list for that is completely laughable in hindsight. You'd hope that criticism becomes less bias or hype as the industry matures, but that doesn't really seem to be the case.. -- Anyway yeah. Think I agree with doc Bob about the dungeon size thing. Prefer more not-totally-massive ones with some excitement about finding them in the first place.

Agreed agreed agreed. Gonna be real sad when this ends. The only TV show in the last few years that's a genuine weekly watercooler event, to my mind. Everyone in my office was talking about it all day.. and the only guy who wasn't has been catching up during lunchbreaks, lol.

Wow. Wooowww. That was utterly bizarre. Totally melted. Never seen the Spurs players in that squad play like that. Abysmal. Nice of Roy to give some competition to Cameron as the history's most appalling, abject embarassment of an England boss though eh.. Edit: Ha, I see Ashley's beaten me to the Brexit gag

This is just it for me too. I find myself getting swept up in the hype but what was the last console Zelda I truely enjoyed? Wind Waker at a push. The default glowing reviews are really irritating. I think it's more broadly an issue with videogame criticism - the way that game websites tend to give reviews to staff who are predisposed to like whatever the genre or franchise they're reviewing. Obviously not always the case, but I do feel that videogame reviewers buy into hype in a way that film critics etc don't. (Fallout 4 another recent example). For me, it'll be a big ask since I don't own an NX and probably won't be getting a WiiU. Drahkon's TLDR sums it up for me too - 'I can see the hype, but I don't understand the IMMENSE hype that it gets.'. I'm specifically worried about the slightly lightweight looking equipment stats etc, and as I've said before, the current absence of towns is a real alarm bell. Solitude across a massive realm worked for Shadow of the Colossus because it added gravitas to the massive beasts that were the spine of the game. Here it just makes the world look like it's missing something The one thing I am loving is the verticality of the world. It was the best thing about Skyrim's world design and if you take that an combine it with Unchartered-esque rock climbing then I think it adds a lot to the sense of go-anywhere-do-anything. But yeah.. calm down everyone it doesn't look particularly new or particularly amazing, even if we all hope it will be.

Hahaha You see what I mean though right? If you only own a WiiU of course you're going to be discussing Zelda, where a PS4 owner who might only post one trailer has a whole host of games they might be interested in to pick from. Plus as Ronnie points out Zelda had an entire day to itself, more or less, whereas on the previous day there were new trailers for what, 40 games, across the Microsoft and Sony shows? Clearly Zelda's done well but I'm just sayin' that such a graph is hardly definitive proof of anything

Absolutely my most anticipated game right no. All the impressions I've heard of the game are sounding great. I'll even give it a free pass on buying myself a PS3 way back when mainly for this game..

Well yeah, because Sony / Microsoft fans have more than one game to show, so obviously their social media discussion is more thinly spread. Nonetheless, I'm really quite intrigued by it. I'm into the sense of verticality in the world design, and the general shadow of the colossus combined with NES Zelda vibe. Almost has a bit of No Man's Sky in the general mystery of exploration. Nonetheless.. I'm with Drahkon when he mentions that it doesn't seem to do anything new. Not to ramble on again about Witcher 3, but the shadow of that game is going to loom large over this - most of the stuff we've seen, that game (and others) have done before, and better - and theyve had vibrant set of npcs and bustling locations to boot (I'm aware they're yet to show the towns but..). Hopefully the use of items , physics, and some fleshy main dungeons can make it distinct enough to withstand comparisons. Anyway, I'm intrigued. Don't own a WiiU and have no interest in an NX so this'll have to be seriously good to justify the purchase after the stinker that was Skyward Sword...

Chaps gutted to say I won't be able to stay up for the Sony conference - absolutely loved being in the chat the last couple of years. If anyone could save all the chat and put it in a post as has been done last before that would be aweesome.

^ That looks really interesting. I'm a big Mark Strong fan so I'll check it out - doesn't seem to be getting a proper UK release though so might have to wait. Has anyone seen the new Ghibli flick yet? A little baggy in the middle and a little less fantastical than would be expected from the studio but I found it to be incredibly moving by the end.. to the extent that I was practically in floods of tears. Quite beautiful, and surprising in it's tone (keeping it vague for spoilers). I highly recommend!

Came in here to ask the very same question! I find it fairly enjoyable to browse at work given there's always about 6 new stories on the page. More importantly though I feel like they're one of the few videogame sites that do actual journalism, at least in so far as I'm aware. The No Man's Sky delay and the PS4 4K both spring to mind as recent stories broken by the site. In those cases both were also news rather than just information given to the site by publishers, which seems to be the way that most videogame 'news' websites work. Open to the idea that it's not particularly well written, but I'm still interested in why it gets all the hate

Come on lads give me the cred for calling it a couple weeks back yeah?

Ha yeah for suure. Those games shaped the music tastes of thousands of millennials I'm sure! Loving these other Borderlands ones too. Didn't realise the awesome title sequences cme from gearbox rather than Telltale. Good suggestions all round

Pretty much agree with this. I feel like everyone hating on it is doing so either because they're member of Cult of Clarkson, and so were never going to like it, or people who'd forgotten that Top Gear is pretty boring to watch week in week out if you don't have an interest in cars. Le Blanc was great, not sold on Evans, but Top Gear was pretty dire when it started from the clips I've seen. I do feel like they'd benefit from a third main presenter - I thought Sabine was meant to fill that role but she seemed reduced to a bit part. Anyway, seemed fine to me, might even watch a few episodes this season for a change. Prime video has some ok content but the UI (or lack thereof) for their video service is utterly baffling to me. It's utterly atrocious. That said I'm actually quite interested in watching GT if they go for more of the big adventure specials - Vietnam, Myanmar, Bolivia, were all absolutely top class entertainment in my book.

Whaa?? Hold up. How do I do this? Is there a website to do so? Do you have to pay extra for the set or is it free if you have the pass?

Reviews are trickling out! Essential from eurogamer 9 / 10 destructoid and 9 / 10 ign Great reviews pretty much across the board. Bring it aawwnnn!

Interesting one to think about. I find that these days, looking back at my recently played catalogue, it's one of a couple of things. - Simple controls, hard to master - Rocket League, N++, Geometry Wars etc. Only a few buttons, simple concepts, excellently executed. I want pure, excellently finessed gameplay that you can dive in and out of. As @Kav says, multiplayer and particularly co-op seal the deal for me. - Excellent story with choices - Telltale games, Firewatch, Witcher 3 - multiple choice choices in a fleshed out world with strong characters. In most cases the gameplay becomes secondary if the story is strong enough to hold up. (I'd also add that graphical stylishness (titan souls, firewatch, hyperlight drifter) and explorability (skyrim, witcher 3, fallout 4) are made up terms that that attract me to buy games but dont neccessarily leave me hooked) Looking back at the games I've played the last 3 years, they pretty much all fall into those two categories!

^^ lol at House of Cards being the comparison of a great show. They're both hugely entertaining but they clearly aim for and achieve similar things - being hugely entertaining dramas, tier B, as doggy dog puts it. Nonetheless, this season has been fantastic thus far. I feel like, freed from the shackles of the source material, the plot is moving twice as fast this season. The bran scenes last episode were truely awesome in payoff. And the acting is always top notch.

Agreed. But also I'm wondering about the timing - I swear I got the Guardian notificaiton on my phone about 15 minutes after the game. Could've at least given LVG the evening to celebrate his trophy! Press conference afterwards sounded ridiculous

^ Dunno if you really need to to, to be honest. I'd never played 1 or 2 and never felt particularly in the dark barring a brief bit of dialogue at the start. Anyway, totes psyched. My girlfriend goes back to Italy for a couple months a days before release. This, U4, No Man's Sky, swooping in to fill dat void - timing couldn't be more perfect. These 12 mutations sound like a great way to spice up the combat. Only thing I'm hoping is that I'd like it to be a little more integrated to the world than Hearts of Stone was - would like a few more W3 characters integrated in for a nice catchup. Or maybe I just want to see true love of my life Triss again? In any case, £20 for these two expansions is bonkers value. Bring it onnn. This shot got me salivating

Hello pals I have quite a general query - I'm to get back into watching a bit of anime again after rewatching Death Note last year and noticing that there's quite a good catalogue on netflix now. Asides from the big really long ones (had my fill with naruto back in the day - tho I might give Brotherhood a go) have you guys got any highlights from the last few years? I remember quite liking Death Note, Beck, Noein, Baccanno, back in the day. I guess I like sort of rooted-in-contemporary and down-to-earth-ish stuff? I haven't watched any in about 8 years so - any big series' I've missed out on? I'm kind of interested in Physcho Pass, Attack on Titan, Steins Gate and Knights of Sidonia, if anyone's got anything to say about them? I noticed Kav was enjoying Psycho Pass a few pages back.

Cheers brahh!! First three pics I posted were taken on my phone (S6) so that kind of snap should be well within the range of a standard camera. The S6 has a wider focal view than my camera lenses. At the risk of giving away all my secrets... To be honest a huge amount of it is in the post processing. In Lightroom the 'clarity' and 'sharpness' sliders go a long way to bringing back the detail between colours that you can lose in jpegs out of the camera. Some people say it feels light cheating but it's really no different than using a darkroom properly with film photography. It's also what the .raw format is there for, if you have a dslr. You have a lot more scope to play around with exposure, colour temperature, etc etc afterwards. I'm sure there are free alternatives to LR (the Lux slider in instagram produces a similar effect) but I'd say Lightroom is maybe worth the cash if you're into photography. Or get it by other means of course.. Here's the original of one of those images in raw. Huge difference! For scenery pictures, consider where you spot focus to set the exposure and stuff (focusing on landscape can blow out / overexpose the sky, sky focusing can lose detail on landscape). To be honest the landscape preset settings on most cameras do a pretty good job. And obviously a tripod will give you more detail. And as Smeagol says, it's all about the lighting angle (dat golden hour) Hope that helps!