It’s been a good few days at the Olympics, hasn’t it? Lots of gold medals and stuff for Great Britain (and Northern Ireland), but no platinums that I’ve noticed so far. Hope we can nab one of those before the games are finished.
But from one kind of games to another, as we go through this week’s Round-Up.
A few meets get us up and running this week, starting off with the regular Uncharted 3 meet tonight at 7PM.
Tomorrow night, we have Dirt Showdown as usual at 6PM, with Ridge Racer Unbounded in a special attempt for hunting trophies at 9PM. I’m sure we’ll see Ridge Racer pop up a few times more in the coming weeks.
Monday night we have the regular Max Payne 3 at 9PM, with Dirt Showdown again on Tuesday night at 8PM.
Rounding us out on Thursday we have Battlefield 3’s DLC meet at 7PM, featuring the Close Quarters maps. Speaking of Battlefield, there’s bound to be the regular meet on Friday night, with some news of future plans on TSA in this forum thread.
So as always, keep an eye as the week progresses, and if you fancy creating your own meets you can do so, providing you have 250 TSA points or more.
Stop. The. Press.
I’m tempted to leave this section there, but I guess I should probably carry on.
Things are on the quieter side at the moment, as we lead in to Gamescom, so Jim resorted to reviewing an iOS game. The Dark Knight Rises must have been pretty decent to warrant a 7/10. We also have a look at the latest Zombie game to make a splash, in the form of Day Z, a mod for Arma 2 on PC, which Gamoc had a play with for our Cheap PC Gaming feature.
Al interviewed the developer of Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell. They talked about the world of consoles, software piracy and a few other things. If you remember, Al was enthusing about this title a while ago, so certainly a game you should have a look at.
So swiftly onwards to our opinion pieces, then, where Kris looked at the controversial future of gaming, which will no doubt heavily rely on online passes, DLC and mobile titles. Al similarly looked to the future of FIFA in particular, which could lie with a Free-to-Play model. Kris also talked about betas, arguing that they shouldn’t really be used for promotional purposes, as they so often are.
Rounding us out are our usual community features, starting with last week’s Community Chronicle, featuring Origami Killer’s gaming rig. WeView’s verdict is in for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, whilst the next title on the block is FIFA Street. Finally, we have What We Played and the TSA Podcast with their weekly episodes.
Bit of a zombie theme this in the forums this week as:
- SavageOranges says you have to use the item directly to your left in order to fend off a Zombie attack. Are you going to make it?
- Sympozium reckons that the (kind of attractive, judging by that photo) zombie apocalypse is approaching. Lots of flesh eating these days.
- There’s a few advice requests from theberzerka and Sympozium, regarding switching HDDs in PS3s and selling iPods second hand respectively.
- Roynaldo asks what your favourite games of this generation have been.
- Finally Freezebug has embarked on the video game capture path, and wanted some tips and tricks.
There’s plenty more going on, so take a look!
After thoroughly kicking Sonic up the bum last week, with an 11-3 scoreline, Batman is on the verge of going into the hall of fame here. So I figure maybe he should go up against someone that’s pretty handy when being attacked by things that jump out at him from dark corners… Isaac Clarke, the engineer from Dead Space.
Batman
Pros
- Kicks butt in a brawl.
- The world’s greatest detective.
- Shark-repellant Spray and other gadgets.
Cons
- Just a normal man.
- Never gets any time off.
- Doing that growly voice all the time must really hurt.
Isaac Clarke
Pros
- That Plasma Cutter is pretty darned handy.
- Sensible head on his shoulders, this one, being rather distrustful of those Unitology chaps.
- Named after two legends of science fiction.
Cons
- That suit was rather heavy, and he turned slower than your average whale.
- Big glowing bits mean he probably can’t hide too well in the dark.
- Always being attacked by massive giant Necromorph things!
So who do you think would win?
Gazza should be back next week, so goodbye for now!
Nate
My vote goes to Batman, he wouldn’t have any problems sticking to the shadows and taking out the lumbering Clarke.
hazelam
i’ve been looking at getting a new hard drive for my ps3 so i’ll be checking out that thread.
oh, and Batman FTW.
Clarke’s got some dangerous weaponry, but batman’s dealt with worse than that in the past, and Clarke is just too slow.
and unlike the Necromorphs, Batman won’t just charge headlong at him.
and with all those lights and holograms he’ll be lit up like a christmas tree.
an easy target for Batman while he hides, almost invisible in the shadows.
and it wouldn’t be the first time he’s fought armoured opponents before, or ones who are insane either.
end result, Clarke would be the newest resident of Arkham Asylum. ^_^