Community Round-Up: 07/12/13

After being down for a few weeks, the Forums are back up and running as a bit of a soft launch, and it’s great to see people getting stuck in again. This week on TSA has seen plenty of discussion about both the present and past generations, so let’s get to it, in this week’s Community Round-Up!

There’s two meets this week, and they’re both all about cars. Stefan kicks things off creating an official meet for the regular Monday Gran Turismo race off at 7PM, but this time featuring Gran Turismo 6, and not 5.

Following on from that, Kitch has got a Grid 2 Meet on Wednesday night at 8pm, and he’s hoping to make it a regular thing if people are up for it.

If you’ve got more than 250 TSA points, feel free to add your own Meet to the list and organise your own get-together.

The Q4 release schedule has pretty much come to an end, and as a result it’s looking a tad quiet on the Reviews and Previews front.

We’ll start things though with Stefan’s first impressions of Gran Turismo 6, and whether he thinks it’s enough of an upgrade from GT5, while Gamoc shared his thoughts on Contrast and Warframe in the Indie Focus PS4 special.

Looking at the Reviews, Peter gave Zoo Tycoon for Xbox One a 6/10, while Aran gave Rainbow Moon for Vita a 7/10, commenting that while the visuals and mechanics are great, the story and excessive grinding lets it down.

In the Chronicle this week, people discussed launch issues, while R1MJAW earned a mention with his 100th Platinum! WeView returned after it’s short break with Killzone: Mercenary, while Stefan looked at what features are currently missing from the new consoles.

From the Blogs, following the What We Played PS4 Launch Special, the staff also shared their initial impressions after having their hands on their PS4s for a few days. Also, now that we are fully into the ‘next-gen’, they also looked back at the previous gen, and shared their favourite ‘Memories of a Generation’, all of which can be found here.

Meanwhile, Aran and a Matter of Perspective looked at Skyrim this week, as Jim shared his thoughts about Knack, and also looked at LEGO: The Lord of the Rings in PlayBack.

Finishing off in the usual way, the Podcast returned with Episode 121, Greg has What We Played #134, and a slightly shorter than usual episode appeared for Newsdesk Episode #24.

As I mentioned at the top, the Forums have finally relaunched! Let’s take a look at what’s been going on, shall we?

• To introduce you to the new Forums, Peter explains what went on, while I threw together a handy little guide, that will hopefully answer any questions about avatars, images and the like.
• Youles revives the ‘What are you playing thread?‘, while Del kicks off Trophy Banter again.
• Freezebug boots up the Screenshots thread again, while Mike shares his thoughts of the PS4’s launch as someone who’s eagerly waiting to join in too.

That’s it for this week, I’ll see you next time!