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Ubisoft emailed my student paper email address a couple of weeks ago to say review copies of Rogue were available for request. Am I fuck going to do that, though.

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I feel like there's some trickery going on with that trailer.

Anyone else pumped for the Carlsen vs Anand world championship? (Doesn't start til next Monday, but still)

And you could just play a GIANT MELEE!!!!!!11 with Pokeballs and Bob-Ombs if you wanted to make it stupid.

You live a very boring life.

Yeah I have no idea what's going on.

Damn, and I've always hated gullible people on Tumblr. This was the post: http://deggowaffles.tumblr.com/post/101349894715/draculas-cigarette-deggowaffles 'These are the photos they chose to be inside the actual article.' Still funny either way.

Hilarious. Why is Daenerys trying to kill airport tarmac?

I don't understand your disbelief. As Daft said, they didn't forecast these issues when they announced the free version, but they need to be dealt with now they've arisen. If it's broken, what would they achieve by releasing a nerfed PS+ edition? It's really that simple. Also, why is Liger still a member? He has zero interest in this game and yet feels compelled to add nothing to the thread, or any other 'Other Consoles' discussions. I'm not angry, just bemused.

Fuckers...

Christ, it hasn't even been out a year. You knew what you were buying, Daz. There's no need to throw your arms up every month asking where the games are. Some people are waiting for the fruit to ripen, but you bought the console anyway in the face of the facts, and you're now staining the forum with mock surprise. All console launches are the same. They take a couple of years to build momentum. Plus, it's not as if the system is harming you by sitting there unplayed. You've got both Nintendo and Sony to choose from when a great deal of people have neither, and the PS4 has kept its value anyway. The Xbox is hardly producing a glut of megat0ns. Ebbs and flows Daz, ebbs and flows. No need for the hysterical panic.

I want to see Uncharted 4 gameplay.

Just got an email through from Curve Studios saying I set one of the high scores on their game at the Play Expo event (Iron Fisticle). They said I can have a free code for one of the following, are any of these good? Which should I choose? I'm thinking of plonking for Iron Fisticle because it was a solid little arcade affair. Similar to Boxheads: More Rooms if you've ever played that flash game.

Yeah I found that it was more educational than fun, was hoping for more big upcoming releases. I saw a Bloodborne poster at one point and was terrifically let-down when I realised it wasn't at the show. Also, the PS4 games on show REQUIRED sound to be enjoyable, so I was more than miffed after plugging headphones into the controller that I couldn't hear anything. Massive fuck-up to be honest.

Dewd, I know. They had 3 Oculus headsets there and there weren't any first-person games on show. The Virtual Boy wasn't that far behind technically.

Yeah but your disappointment is now registering in spam territory. The forum isn't that big, I don't understand why you're so surprised and angered about low participation all the time. I've lost two days of my life on The Last of Us online and yet it is extremely obvious to me that it isn't for everyone. It can be very unforgiving. I have a pretty handy K/D of 1.6 (blows trumpet) and I still find it to be a demoralising experience occasionally, getting rushed and having my head caved in by someone's boot on consecutive spawns. Other games like CoD are less off-putting because death is trivial and you can get back into the action straight away, whereas in this you can't rush and you can have a long trek around the map collecting items only to be trashed by Molotov that comes out of nowhere.

I tried the PS4 for the first time at the PlayExpo Yesterday. Controller is damn nice, super solid and satisfying to hold. It took me a while to recover from the lack of a pause button. I always thought that button would be a stable source of support in my life, but apparently not. Minced a couple of races on Drive Club - graphically amazing and I was surprised by the sense of speed - they definitely let you tear it down some of the straights, and there is a solid degree of difficulty. A corner penalty pissed me off when I had no option but to take the inside line. Surely if I can corner better than the AI by shaving the corner a little, that's a problem with the track design/AI capability, not me. Also felt the game was a bit flat and lacking verve, but that could've been due to the pitiful booth volume. Maybe the online aspects help to invigorate the game with life, but I feel like they could've added to the general excitement with crazy announcers and heavier music rather than make do with a slick, functional aesthetic. That was the only new game on show. Got to try out MGS GZ and was taken aback at the bump in animation and lighting quality in the cutscenes. Metro seemed underwhelming. OctoDad was incredible and made me laugh out loud several times. They also had Castlevania (II ?) running on PS4, which was shite and much in need of canning. Had as much fun on the PC indie titles as anything else, tried an Oculus Rift demo of TxK which was pretty rad, and had a good laugh on the mile-long line of arcade machines and pinball tables. Had a go on the Virtual Boy as well, was very surprised at how impressive the 3D effect was. Obviously everything was in red and the actual game (Mario Tennis) was awful, but I thought the graphics would be blindingly bad. Alsov ripped myself off for a Boo cap which I'll probably wear twice in my life.

Broken record Cooky, let them enjoy it how they want to dude.

It doesn't reach the heights of something like, say, Disaster: Day of Crisis, but it is decent.

Looking at the videos I imagine they'll just change the rear bumper collisions because it doesn't make sense to penalise the player for wanky AI behaviour.

I reckon they'll patch the AI/penalty system.

Eurogamer 6/10 'The PS4's DriveClub barely manages to raise itself beyond mere competence.' http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-07-driveclub-review Ooh dear. The actual handling looks a bit Dirt-like to me in the way that it isn't super precise and is quite forgiving, which means you don't really feel like you improve as you progress through the game. I'm interested to see what you guys make of it.

I'm going on the Saturday. Really want to try Oculus Rift.

This is hilarious Dedicated man shreds through Dark Souls 2 with a guitar controller http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-07-dedicated-man-shreds-through-dark-souls-2-with-a-guitar-controller?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialoomph He beats every boss (DLC included) without being able to turn left. What a player.