Something For The Weekend – 23/12/17

It’s been a busy week on TSA with the Game of the Year Awards. It’s been quite easy to miss something, so this should be a nice recap for you all. I must warn you, if this was an episode of Friends, it would be called ‘the one with all the bullet points’!

In the News This Week

• EU PlayStation Store Have Started Their January Sale… In December
• Xbox Have Started Their Countdown Sale To End The Year
• Get Your Own Personalised Xbox Year In Review Stats From Microsoft
• Keyboard And Mouse Support Appears To Be On The Way For Xbox One
• Catherine Full Body Heading To PS4 And Vita
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew Update Removes VR Requirement

Games in Review

Time to look at this week’s selection of reviews:

• Shooty Fruity – PSVR, PC  – 8/10
• ELEX  – PS4, XBO, PC, – 7/10
• LocoRoco 2 Remastered – PS4 – 7/10
• Gang Beasts – PS4 – 6/10
• Gorogoa– Switch- 6/10
• Fallout 4 VR – HTC Vive  – No Score
• Logitech G433 Headset – Hardware

This Week’s Features

As you would expect, this week has been dominated by our look back over 2017 with our Game of the Year awards. Below are the categories and their winners:

• Best Multiplayer – Splatoon
• Award For Ongoing Support – Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood
• Best Character – Senua (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice)
• Best Performance – Melina Juergen as Senua (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice)
• Best Visual Design – Cuphead
• Best Narrative – NieR: Automata
• Best Audio Design – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Best Soundtrack – Sonic Mania
• Best Remaster – Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
• Best Virtual Reality Game – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

And there’s plenty more to come this weekend and next week, right up until the end of the year.

Finishing off the busy week, What We Played, featured AC Origins, Destiny 2 & Doki Doki Literature Club.

Trailer Park

Watch As A Bandit Camp Gets Infiltrated In New Kingdom Come: Deliverance Footage

Check Out A Couple Of Far Cry 5 Trailers

The Trailer TT Isle Of Man: Ride On The Edge Is Poetic

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT’s New Trailer Touches Upon The Story

Develover Digital’s Scum Trailer May Have Misjudged The True Meaning Of Christmas

And an early Christmas prezzie from Tuffcub, Here Are Some Trailers For Games I Have Never Heard Of.

Your Achievements

The Life and Times of TSA’s Community continues this week with:

• ron_mcphatty has been playing  Battlefront 2 and Unbox, the later of which pleased him since it was patched up to 720p.
• MrYd flew through South Park, which he found “funnier than the last few series of the show”.
• TonyCawley this week got stuck into Destiny 2 again, and a little bit of Fortnite and GT Sport.
• tactical20 has been adding to his backlog, picking up FIFA 17, Modern Warfare Remastered & Lego Ninjago.
• Dead Synchronicity was described by JR. as “what is possibly the most dreadful game ever made”.
• Steelhead found a bit of time for  Super Mario 3D with his family.
• And lastly gernboes grabbed his 74th and 75th plats with Pyre and Smite respectively. Congrats!

That’s all for this week, and for 2017 from me. I hope you have a great Christmas, and see you in the new year!