This almost slipped my mind, but with Gazza off and studying hard for his imminent exams and what have you, it has befallen me to tackle the Community Round-Up once more. So, without much further ado, let’s crack on and see what’s been happening on with TSA this week.
There’s been another bout of footballing fun in the FIFA Ultimate Team Tournament this past week, as the group stage winners and runners up engaged in their first knockout round matches. To check up on all the winners and loser, and who made it through to the quarter finals, you can check in on the latest competition update, as well as popping into the forum thread for some first hand accounts and videos of the action.
We’ve also seen the end of the latest Plus Points Challenge, with Lieutenant Fatman taking top spot with a hugely impressive speed run through the designated level on Mercenary Kings. You can see how people fared in the competition results post, but Tony’s also posted the latest from the overall competition standings, with Lt. Fatman now potentially just two months away from wrapping up first place.
I admit I’m being lazy by reusing the Gran Turismo themed banner, with the regular but unadvertised GT6 meet 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!), but there’s also a new meet been set up by Kitch (AKA GTOWN).
If you’ve been gadding about in Final Fantasy XIV on PS4 and want to run with friends and acquaintances from TSA, pop your name down on the meet here. Admittedly, the date and time is for a week on Sunday, but this seems to be more of an open invitation to get a friendly group of people to run with.
And as always, if neither of those takes your fancy, you can always create your own Meet, providing you have 250 TSA Points.
I can’t be quite so lazy with the banner here, as we’ve a host of new content to cover. In the land of the preview, yours truly took a look at a pair of Lemmings inspired puzzlers, with Team17’s Early Access release of the murderous Flockers, and Crunching Koala’s Mousecraft, which blends in shades of Tetris along the way.
Blair got his grubby mitts on likely the most anticipated Wii U game of the year, with an early look at Mario Kart 8, while Dan stopped by to give some early impressions of the first major Action RPG to grace the PlayStation 4, Bound by Flame. You can expect a full review of that soon.
It was fairly quiet on the reviews front, with Jim spending the week in the skin-tight suit of Spider-Man. He started the week by addressing the most divisive aspect of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the ceaseless march of crime and the Hero or Menace morality system, took a brief break to have a quick look at the mobile The Amazing Spider-Man 2, before returning to give us his full verdict on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on console. (I never thought I’d write ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ so many times in one sentence)
In this week’s Indie Focus, I focussed on this week’s release of Titan Attacks! on PlayStation, as well as working my way through the chat I had with Caspian Prince from Puppy Games, one of the game’s creators. I’m not entirely sure where he found the time, but Jim also wrote about the evolution of the competing NFC toy fueled franchises, with Disney Infinity and Skylanders set to butt heads once more, later this year, before turning his eye to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for Playback and giving his thoughts on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Sticking to the opinion pieces, Blair took issue with Harmonix’ new Kickstarter and the way that some backers could be seen to be paying for the privilege of working on the game. Fresh faced newbie, Sam Peterson, took to his first assignment with relish, as he tackled the furore surrounding the omission of same sex relationships in Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life and their subsequent response.
The community focussed articles this week saw the surprisingly enthusiastic verdict land for Knack’s WeView, with FIFA 14 stepping into his boots for this week’s opinion poll. The Chronicle turned to DriveClub, DriveClub – and I think DriveClub’s probably going to feature tomorrow too –Â alongside the dearth of big PS4 and XBO titles.
Finally, Greg regaled us with more tales of gaming in What We Played #155 and the Podcast hit episode 140 as Kris, Lewis and Kev made do without Peter for the week.
There’s been some good discussions in the forums this week:
- Shadow_lawless asks if the Project Morpheus headset could potential reinvigorate the game arcades.
- There’s been some fresh chit chat in the Warframe Clan thread, if you’re interested in joining the fun.
- Roynaldo‘s question on if the PS4 has proven its worth, from last week, has been continuing quite nicely.
- Finally, the hub of activity that has been the FIFA Ultimate Team Tournament thread.
There was also something about watching The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for free, but I deleted that, so none of you would get to see this tasty but completely illegal secret. Cheerio!