Community Chronicle: 22/09/13

It’s Eurogamer Expo this coming week, and we all know what that means! Tens of thousands of gamers turning out to get their hands on with upcoming games, with new console hardware in the mix too. Should be a good one.

Are you going? What are you most looking forward to seeing?

 After last week’s confectionary based silliness, Avenger decided to help me out and send in some pictures of his current gaming set up.

Well, I just moved in to my new place for second year Uni, so hopefully included in the pics is a nice sense of pine. I’m on an economical set-up so everything is easy to carry around. My pride and joy is the Vita with a few games on the side, but mostly everything is digital thanks to PS Plus though the 16 gig memory which is burnt to the hilt with content at the moment.

The laptop was actually a cheap one, but runs brilliantly thanks to AMD’s new Trinity APU (AMD Dual Core APU 2.7GHz, Combined AMD 600/800mhz GPU, Shared 6GB DDR3 RAM). It runs most games at 720p and 30 FPS which is just fine for me, especially as I can run some of the more intense games like BioShock Infinite, Crysis 2 and Metro 2033. I’d still like to get my PS3 back after Christmas, though.

There’s not many game discs around, as most of my PC games are digital via Steam, and in the current financial climate my special editions are either sold or at home where my Xbox 360 has been reduced to being used as a DVD player.

That laptop actually sounds really quite handy in those games. I’m quite pleasantly surprised by that!

As for the rest of you, my little supply of submissions has run dry. So, if you don’t want a repeat of last week’s Kit Kat unboxing nonsense, please use the submission form below, get in touch with me on Twitter at @teflon, or just send me an email out of the blue to [email protected].

Most of you have been delving into Los Santos this week, since GTA V’s release on Tuesday, but with such a mammoth game and variety of things to do, nobody’s claimed the platinum trophy, just yet.

Instead we see a bunch of August releases being completed by people. Yoshi!! took the fastest time and platinum for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, while TheChunkyMunky went through to collect the Saints Row IV platinum, after the second attempt at the ‘Where’s My Cape?’ trophy.

Freezebug also made Saints Row IV his 69th platinum, quite appropriately, but probably didn’t spend anywhere near as long in the game as Crazy_Del did on his way to othe Payday 2 platinum. He took the fastest time there, but does rather wish it had more stats, so that he could know just how, well, crazy the amount of time it took him was!

R1MJAW‘s been making good progress on Diablo 3, finishing an Inferno run through on his way to Paragon level 4. I’m not sure I know what that means exactly, but I do know how very tough it was for Bambo_19 to get the Wipeout HD platinum. That game’s really rather difficult!

Spec Ops: The Line has been seeing a bit of love, thanks to its appearance in PS+, with B_Cambo – that chap I always confuse with Cambo… no wait… Bambo! – and Taylor Made both managing the platinum. Sounds like it was pretty tricky, too.

This week’s featured gaming set up came from Avenger, and he’s been putting that PS Vita of his to good use, getting his 4th platinum with MotoGP 13. Finally, we come to Germanos and his wife, who have been enjoying/torturing themselves with a playthrough of Heavy Rain. A rather tense experience, which has them quite looking forward Beyond: Two Souls.

We’re nearly done, but you can head over to page two for the full trophy leaderboards. To finish off this page, we have the usual submission form for photos and accomplishments.