With Lewis Hamilton having already secured the F1 Drivers World Championship, all the drivers can now throw caution to the wind for the final two races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Do you have any hot predictions for the end of this year’s season?
In the News This Week
- Sony Registers A Trademark For Syphon Filter
- Star Wars Battlefront II – The Last Jedi Season Brings Weekly Events, New Heroes & Single Player Content
- Star Wars Battlefront II Confirms That Chickens Exist In The Star Wars Universe
“Finally,” Nate said. “The under-representation of poultry in the Star Wars universe was an incredibly out-dated concept. Nice to see them getting the exposure they deserve.”
- There Is No PlayStation Experience Showcase This Year, But A “Presentation” Will Feature Dreams And Ghost Of Tsushima
TSBonyman is looking forward to Ghost of Tsushima and also hoping Dreams VR is confirmed. What about you?
- Fortnite Passes 20 Million Players, Battle Royale Will Soon Let You Hide In A Bush
- Destiny 2 Is Getting HDR On Consoles And 4K For Xbox One X In December
- It’s Quiz Time Heads To PS4, Xbox One, And PC On November 28th
Ron is excited, saying “Awesome news, glad to see this format return and a slither of a connection to Buzz is always worth shouting about. I’m in!” - Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Will Get SteamVR Support On 15th November
- EA Buys Titanfall 2 Developer Respawn Entertainment
“Sales targets up to 2022?”, says Starman. “I’ll be surprised if they haven’t been shut down before then.”
Games in Review
Miguel described Yomawari: Midnight Shadows as a “masterful horror game that tops anything else on the Vita, and rivals many other things on the PS4”, and overall calls it his “ideal horror game.”
- Yomawari: Midnight Shadows – PS4, PC, Vita – 9/10
- Call Of Duty: WWII – PS4, XBO, PC – 8/10
- Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy: The Telltale Series Ep.5 & Season Review – PS4, XBO, PC, Android, iOS – 7/10
- Sonic Forces – PS4, XBO, PC, Switch – 6/10
- Demon Gaze 2 – PS4 – 6/10
- The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk – PS4 – 5/10
- Morphite – Switch, PS4, XBO, PC, Android, iOS– 3/10
- Thrustmaster T-GT Racing Wheel [Hardware]
- Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds – PS4 – [DLC]
This Week’s Features
Even before its release, Star Wars Battlefront 2 was in hot water for the way it locked character progression behind loot boxes. Fortunately, DICE have taken feedback on board and have made some changes from the beta, but have they gone far enough? Tef also spoke with the developers about how they see feedback going forwards and ask what’s going on with the chickens in the game?
Meanwhile, Aran looked at the other characters in Wolfenstein II’s Freedom Chronicles Episode Zero, and Tef also looked at Bravo Team, which is helping PSVR become the home to the VR FPS’s.
Although Jim said that COD: WWII was “the most fun I’ve had playing the series online since Black Ops”, there are some changes he’d like to see to the ‘Bronze Star’ system, which is not implemented nearly as well as Overwatch’s similar ‘Play of the Game’.
Finally, we have What We Played, which featured COD: WWII, Battlefront II, and Destiny 2.
Trailer Park
Blizzard Shares Rare Footage Of Overwatch In Early Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH0GsOKZHMQ
Out Of Ammo Lands On PlayStation VR Next Year
Take A Look At The New Version Of Okami HD
Your Achievements
The Life and Times of TSA’s Community continues this week with:
- tactical20 is 40 hours into the “seemingly never ending” Assassin’s Creed Origins, which Ade is also still enjoying.
- ron_mcphatty’s verdict on Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is that the snow looks so good, Guerilla’s next game should be SSX!
- MrYd’s been blasting through PS+, just don’t mention the spiders!
- JR. hasn’t had the best week (mainly thanks to Royal Mail), but he still enjoyed COD WWII and completed Artifex Mundi’s Nightmares of the Deep: The Cursed Heart.
- Andrewww also didnt get much gaming in, but managed to make a start on Telltale’s Game of Thrones.
- DividSmythe has fallen in love with his new Xbox One X and Assassin’s Creed, and says that Fallout 4 is also great on it.
- And lastly, TSBonyman was so busy with other games, he didnt get any time in for No Man’s Sky!
The Week Ahead
A busy week for Switch owners, you’re spoilt for choice!
- Batman: The Telltale Series – Switch – 14/11
- Demon Gaze 2 –PS4, Vita – 14/11
- LA Noire – PS4, XBO, Switch – 14/10
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 – PS4, XBO, PC, Switch – 14/10
- Rocket League – Switch – 14/11
- Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon – 3DS – 17/11
- Star Wars Battlefront II – PS4, XBO, PC – 17/11
- Elder Scrolls Skyrim – Switch – 17/11
- The Sims 4 – PS4, XBO – 17/11
That’s all for this week, and hopefully we’ll see you again soon!
TSBonyman
I believe media molecule tweeted a few days ago – looks like the standard PS4 version of Dreams will release first with the PSVR version to follow later on.
tactical20
Just been in a mega Tesco and they had Deus Ex, Fallout 4, Dishonoured 2 and something else I can’t remember for a fiver each. Thought I’d mention…
ron_mcphatty
Anyone come across the bum slap in the Horizon DLC? I don’t know what to make of it, am I being too prudish or PC or am I right to think it’s not quite right?
https://youtu.be/TtTiQixm8CE
Tony Cawley
Looked more like her lower back to me.
Besides it was hardly a little tap on the bum, that was a full on whack!
Nothing wrong there imo, world is going crazy if there’s anything wrong with that.
ron_mcphatty
Yeah I wondered about lower back, but then I thought why didn’t they just make it look like he slapped her on the upper back, so it was obvious? I’m getting too uptight and outragey in my old age… mid thirties :P
JR.
He also kept referring to her as ‘girl’. What a pig.
I’ve noticed that the male characters in this DLC are either extremely ignorant, hostile or idiots. Whereas the female characters are intelligent, creative and strong-willed. I’m all for female-empowerment in videogames but I think I’d prefer a more subtle approach in the future.
I wonder if it was made by the same team who worked on the original game or if they brought in some extreme feminist developers to mix things up? :D