June means the start of summer, filling out lives with sunshine, days in the park watching dogs chase frisbees, and long, cool drinks in shaded pub gardens, the laughter of friends dancing through the air. Unless, that is, you are a video games journo, in which case it means sleeping most of day so you can be awake at 3am to get the latest news from E3.
Ahead of the main event the Skyrim remaster, Dead Rising 4, Injustice 2, Destiny: Rise of Iron, the PS4 Neo, and the Xbox One S leaked out. However, there were many secret reveals that did make it, with a new God of War, Steep, Days Gone, Death Stranding (which is about ropes and sticks, but isn’t), Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and loads, loads more. Looking at the amount of pages posted, Team TSA produced almost half a month’s worth of news in less than 36 hours, so you can understand why were a little shattered by the end of it.
Rock of Ages got a sequel that nobody asked for, Violation announced Agents of Mayhem (where did that go since?),Microsoft officially confirmed Project Scorpio, and the new Kratos declared his love for rainbow swirled lycra leggings. A couple of big name games got cancelled, with Team Bondi’s Whore of the Orient and Criterion’s Beyond Cars both biting the bullet, but Rockstar’s Agent still lives on. Have hope people, have hope!
Reviews included Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Soul Axiom, Plague Inc Evolved, Skylanders Battlecast, Umbrella Corps, and the game with the most ridiculous name of the year, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code. I also had the ‘pleasure’ of reviewing Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival, a game that almost beat Wander to the title of ‘Worst pile of poo released on PlayStation 4’.
By June everyone knew that 2016 was going to be messed up and things did not improve. A massacre at a nightclub in Orlando was quickly followed by yet another failure by the US senate to pass gun control laws, boxer Muhammad Ali died, as did actor Anton Yelchin who died in a tragic car accident aged 27. A two-year-old boy was eaten alive by an alligator at Disneyworld, a terrorist attack at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul killed 45 and left 230 injured… oh, and Britain voted to leave the EU.
If you read our recap of May 2016 you will know our regular weather presenter has done a runner, so I’ve had to find a quick (and cheap) replacement, so here is StormrockBoy13 with some rather specific weather news from June.
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“By June everyone knew that 2016 was going to be messed up and things did not improve. A massacre at a nightclub in Orlando was quickly followed by yet another failure by the US senate to pass gun control laws, boxer Muhammad Ali died, as did actor Anton Yelchin who died in a tragic car accident aged 27. A two-year-old boy was eaten alive by an alligator at Disneyworld, a terrorist attack at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul killed 45 and left 230 injured… oh, and Britain voted to leave the EU.”
Tuffclub, would you be interested to learn how Venn diagrams work?