What You Missed: 03/10/11

I had all kinds of ideas for names for this feature.  Most were based around Andrew Weatherall meeting up with Todd Terry and having a right old time, but nobody would have understood them so I decided to just ignore the obscure references (and the rather obvious one) and just plump for What You Missed.  Still with me?  Jolly good.

It’s an oddly accurate title, really – our traffic dips lower than a Swizzle Stick when there’s no sherbet left at the weekend, but it’s conversely when most of our lovely community posts appear – so we wanted to bring some of those funky, original blogs and features to the attention of our readers that only clock-in during office hours.

[videoyoutube]So, as you lot went off to the pub, our Friday ended with Kris talking to Prey 2’s Chris Rineheart, who seems lovely, but not before a few ‘high profile’ sites went the way of ‘high profile’ clicks and decided to spoil one of Batman: Arkham City’s major plot twists.  I’m remaining as professional as I can be about all this, but let’s just say that the stunt backfired, and I’m no longer interested in buying the game.

A few snippets of news rounded off the last day of last week, including a delay to some Dead Island DLC and some further discussion about Vita games and memory cards.

Most interestingly, especially for me, was the date for the first official round of Portal 2 DLC, which includes challenge modes and some more co-op levels – yay – the pack is out this week!

Friday Evening:

• Portal 2 DLC Announced, Out Next Week
• Some Vita Games Won’t Require A Memory Card
• Dead Island “Bloodbath Arena” DLC Delayed
• Advisory: Major Gaming Sites Running Batman Spoilers
• TSA Talks to Chris Rhinehart About Prey 2

Anyway, the weekend really kicked off with Peter’s hands-on with the devilishly difficult (pah) Dark Souls, which he volunteered to review in exchange for the rather wonderful (and considerably easier) Forza 4, which I’m having a blast playing.  Then there was Teflon’s weekly community round-up, far more sensible than his ridiculous sock-shoe-things he was wearing in London.

[drop]Resident DJ Tuffcub went to the BAFTA Batman event, saw the spoilerific bit, but didn’t make it into a headline.  Instead, he fired over some bulletpoints here and an proper full article that will hopefully be on the site soon enough.

Then there was Toby’s article about technology in videogames and whether developers are missing the point, and then my little blog about what we reckon will be in firmware 4.0 for PS3, which some people really embraced and some really didn’t – it’s nice being called an idiot and for the record, syncing once a day for Plus owners is not automatic by any stretch of the imagination.

Saturday ended with a round table discussion about EGX.  You should read it to hear four of the team talking about their best games (there’s some interesting decisions there) and hear what shocked who.  In terms of games, I mean.  Oh, and a massive group hug.  Awww.

Saturday:

• TSA Talks EGX Special
• What Are You Hoping For From PS3 FW 4.0?
• Too Technological?
• Batman At BAFTA: The Bulletpoints
• Community Round-Up 01/10/11
• New Bloody Roar In Development
• Preparing to Die: A Dark Souls Diary

Sunday started with two articles about Uncharted 3 – one about requiring PSN Pass and the other about Plussers getting access to the multiplayer demo – and then it was Spooferbarnabas’ turn in the TSA Hot Seat for the weekly Meet The Reader report before Jas-n’s Folding@Home round-up.  The TSA Folding team is now at position 407 and – get this – just about to overtake Microsoft.  Microsoft.

Then there was a guest article from reader SolidSteven about whether developers are putting profits over quality and then Greg’s Tweak It series continued with a look at the Wii controller.  Finally, there was Kris’ thoughts on EGX as a whole – a surprisingly honest and genuine read from a lovely chap with a very kind heart.

Sunday:

• Sunday Thoughts: EGX
• Tweak It: Wii Controllers
• Guest Writer: Profits Over Quality
• Folding@Home: October 2011 Stats & Competition
• Meet the Reader: Spooferbarnabas
• PS+ Members Getting Early UC3 Multiplayer Access
• Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Will Require PSN Pass

So, there you go.  A busy weekend with lots of original content that you’re probably hurting over having not read it live when it went up.  If everyone did that, I wouldn’t need to spend Sunday evening typing this up and I could be enjoying a lovely round of toast or something.

You should probably feel bad.

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