Community Round-Up: 15/10/11

Hello there comrades! I hope you’ve all had a good week, and seeing as it’s now the weekend, I give you permission to grab a refreshing drink, put your feet up, and get ready for this week’s Community Roundup.

Last Saturday night saw a bunch of wily competitors battling it out in our Resistance 3 Competition. It was a fierce tournament, but in the end, Origami Killer was victorious, with gtaman7 and topgearsam following closely behind. Origami won himself the Resistance: A Hole in The Sky novel and all of them received a Resistance 3 T-shirt. Picked at random to also win themselves a T-shirt were Roynaldo and Tom Lord.

The participants for this year’s TSA F1 Championship were announced on Wednesday. The Championship begins tomorrow, on Sunday (16th) and if you forgot to enter, you’re in luck – there are still spaces available for all days, especially Monday. If you want to participate, you need to email Adam with your TSA and PSN ID with your day and date of preference as soon as you can. Check the original competition post for the rules and other important details.

And just a quick reminder, Jas-n is still looking for emails from TheDeathAvenger, XisTG and Slimeh, as they have won themselves a lovely TSA badge each. See details here.

Moving on now, let’s take a look at what Meets are set to take place in the coming week:

Starting at 6pm tonight, camtheman is hosting an F1 2011 Meet, primarily for those of you that want to get some practice in for the Championship, but feel free to put your name down if you just fancy a few races. Teflon is hosting a Resistance 3 Meet starting at 7pm, although you can drop in whenever you’re free, as he’s planning on going until 9pm.

If you want to add some of those Split Second trophies to your collection, yogdog is hosting a boosting meet tomorrow at 7pm. Also tomorrow, the regular SARPBC Meet takes place with your regular host, Death_in_Flamez at 7pm.

Lastly, Mondays Motorstorm Madness, hosted by theberzerka kicks off at 8pm on Monday night. That’s all that is planned for this week so far, so feel free to host your own meet here, provided you have at least 250 TSA points.

Let’s start by looking at what reviews have gone up on TSA over the past week, shall we? For all you football hooligans out there, both our FIFA 12 and PES 2012 reviews went live. So if you’re undecided over which one to get, look no further! Dan reviewed Crysis for the PS3 and 360 on Tuesday, and Isaac took a look at Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.

Looking at the previews we’ve had this week, Kris got hands on with Batman: Arkham City, a game which has caused quite a stir on the internet this week. Kris also got eyes on with Hitman: Absolution, a game I myself am keeping an eye on. I expect that Kris is exhausted from playing and writing, as he also gave us a preview of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Resident Zelda fanboy Blair got his hands on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and gave us his impressions on it.

Staying with the theme of opinions, you can catch up with last week’s WeView Verdict of WipEout HD, or give us your impressions of God of War III, by letting us know your thoughts in the forum thread.

As I said earlier, the new Batman has caused quite a stir, so much in fact, that Tuffcub decided it was necessary to whip out his Massive Poll. You can have your say on the ‘Catwoman Pass’, something that Warner Brothers have included even though there is no multiplayer aspect, so the argument that it’s to cover sever costs isn’t valid in this instance.

OMM’s Podcast Episode 38 was released on Monday, and Jim brings us the third edition of TSA Talks, where the gang discuss Move, Uncharted 3 and Long Live Play (Sony’s new advertising campaign.) If that doesn’t satisfy your need to know what the TSA staff are up to, you can read this week’s What We Played written up by Greg. And just when I thought all of the EGX content was over, Kris brings us some video interviews that he did with a few of the Indie Devs at EGX.

Finishing up, let’s head on over to the TSA Forums.

• Firstly, here’s a thread for you to wish Peter (ColossalBlue) a very Happy Birthday! Though you’re late already, since it was yesterday.
• NemesisND1derboy and our good friends over at MediaKick are currently undertaking the Extra Life 24 hour Charity Gaming Marathon, you can see what games he is playing, or even donate and see what prizes you may win!
• Adam has quite an embarrassing (and hilarious) story to tell involving his sister and some compromising pics that he’s come across. You can give him your own advice here, or you can just pester him to upload them all.
• Boomshanks wants to know which video game characters you hate most.
• And lastly, Colmshan wants you to share all the Nerdy Jokes you know.

Phew! All done. I’m off now to annoy Adam until he sends me all those pictures. Have a good week guys and I hope to see you all next week!