It’s me again, with Gazza knee deep in his end of year exams, here to catch up on all the latest articles and features on TSA over the last week. Not to blow my own trumpet, but there’s been some really lovely stuff, so let’s just crack on and see, shall we?
You guessed it, there’s more on the FIFA Ultimate Competition this week, as the quarter-finals wrapped up and the semi-finals getting under way. It won’t be too long until we have the winners decided!
Elsewhere, the latest entry in the Plus Points Challenge has kicked off, featuring Stick it to The Man in a caption competition. With the spotlight on wit rather than gaming skill, there’s a lot more scope for people to catch up to Lieutenant Fatman who is still quite far out in front!
More laziness as I settle for the Gran Turismo themed banner once more, but the regular unadvertised GT6 meet is bound to happen on Monday night at 7PM. Just give THLNetwork or Manorhowze a shout if you need someone to befriend in order to find them!
Also, if you’re looking for some company in Final Fantasy XIV on PS4, pop your name down on Kitch’s meet here. It’s set to kick off at 9PM tomorrow night.
Kitch has also been quite busy getting word of the TSA Warframe Clan out there. Vandix founded the group on day one, and barely a day goes by without someone I follow tweeting about how much time they’ve been spending in it. As a free to play title, it’s surely worth a look, and having some friendly TSA faces behind the masks should help to let you settle in.
And as always, if neither of those takes your fancy, you can always create your own Meet, providing you have 250 TSA Points.
I think we’ll start off with the Reviews this week, as Blair got to the tasty proposition of Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U, finding it to be another excellent addition to the series and awarding it a stellar 9/10. He also turned his gaze to the third episode of The Walking Dead: Season 2, which he thought was a marked improvement over the first two, as he gave it an 8/10.
However, not everything needs to have a score, as was proven by Dominic’s look at the PS4 release of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Dan scared himself silly with Outlast’s Whistleblower DLC.
It appears that I had the only preview article this week, taking a look at the rather sublime Valiant Hearts: The Great War, another title on Ubisoft’s UbiArt engine. I also spoke to Guillaume Cerda about the inspirations behind the game in one of three interviews that I had posted. The other saw me speak to some of the guys at Curve Studios, for a peak behind the scenes at one of the driving forces in Sony’s Indie game push, as well as sitting down with the always lovely Mike Bithell to talk about his latest game release.
That game, as it turns out, was an iPad release of Thomas Was Alone, which Blair took a look at for this week’s Mobile Watch. Alongside it in the regular features, our newest writer, Sam, chipped in with a PlayBack for Okami HD, while Aran’s Matter of Perspective series turned to Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel.
With E3 just around the corner, Peter pondered on what each of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo should try and bring to the table. In some cases, his predictions and ideas were met or contradicted within a matter of hours!
The community features saw DriveClub, Unreal Tournament and the DualShock 4’s lightbar feature in last Sunday’s Chronicle, while a generally positive verdict landed for FIFA 14 in WeView. The paper-iffic Tearaway takes its place in the stands for you to pass judgement on.
Rounding things out, we have the usual contribution from Greg with What We Played entering its third year with number #156, while the Podcast hits #141, with Tuffcub and Jim wading into the fray, with Kev the only regular in attendance.
We’re light on newer content in the forums, but a few threads have seen some activity this past week:
- Crazy_Del and his travails with a couple of bugs in Dead Nation co-op play seem to have resolved themselves, but if you need help, pipe up!
- The one and only “What are you playing?” thread is still going strongly, as everyone tells everyone else the, uh, games that they’ve been playing.
- And if that wasn’t enough people then go and spill all the details on the trophies that they’ve earnt, which I then have to trawl through for tomorrow’s Chronicle.
- Sometimes they even take pictures of their games and post them in the Screenshots thread!
Sadly, it’s not as busy as I’d like to see, but you’re always welcome to drop in and air your thoughts on practically any topic.
Right, I think that brings to an end my stint on the round-up. I’m fairly sure that Gazza will be back for next week.
GTOWN
Thanks for the opportunity to shout about the clan. Loads of new members. Wouldn’t be possible without this amazing little community.