Sunday, August 22, 2010


QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. There were some big stories this week getting a lot of attention. The Sony press conference was very popular but so where reports of both the Xbox 360 Slim and PS3 Slim being hacked. Its great to see soo many posts from QTE Gamers making it into the top 10.

10 PS3: Mortal Kombat Arcade Compilation has popped up on a retailers website. Contains MK 1, MK2 and Ultimate MK in HD http://ht.ly/2q8qX

9 UK Game Charts, Toy Story 3, Red Dead Redemption, Dance On Broadway, Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4, Art Academy top 5 http://ht.ly/2q8sI

8 QTE Blog: Funcom Reveal The Games They Are Bringing To GamesCom And Razer Partnership http://ht.ly/18AUn6

7 QTE Blog: Sony Announce Vidzone Update 1.15 And Reveal EMI Music Has Joined Vidzone Bringing 8,000 New Music Videos http://ht.ly/18AUn5

6 THQ Announce new copies of WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 will come with a single use code to unlock multiplayer + more http://ht.ly/2s1aY

5 360: its reported that the new Xbox 360 has already been hacked to allow backup discs to play on it http://ht.ly/2q8oO

4 QTE Blog: Firemint Announce Flight Control HD Is Coming Out On The Playstation 3 On 15th September http://ht.ly/18AR8T

3 PS3: there are reports/rumours that the PS3 has finally been hacked. the hack allows you to play games from HDD/USB http://ht.ly/2rRF9

2 Sony GamesCom press conference catch it live blogged from Sony http://ht.ly/2qQ3d VG247 http://ht.ly/2qQ3u or Kotaku http://ht.ly/2qQ5t now!

1 PS3: Sony are live blogging their GamesCom press Conference. its start has been delayed though http://ht.ly/2qOkS


What Have You Played This Week?

That was a busy week. GamesCom came out of know where and was soo news heavy. Couple this with all the new press sites i'm a member of...lets just say I rarely had a moment to play games. I decided to take the weekend off, and thankfully it looks like the rest of the industry did, and played as many games as I could.

Football Manager 10 – PC – things are going better in the championship than they did in my first season. I think it'll be a comfortable mid-table finish. I'll look to get some players in at Christmas that can be built up for a promotion challenge next year.

3D Dot Game Heroes – PS3 – Still stuck on the fire dungeon, but I didn't get much play in. the problem is its soo big and relies much more on magic than other dungeons, that there is a point where I run out of life or health. The main culprit is a monster that drains your health, leaving 1 bar, and takes all your magic. I just keep running in to them. But the more I try, the more I'm learning and the more i'm better prepared. It has reached a point where I want to get it finished just so I can rent a new game.

Transformers: War For Cybertron – PS3 – I finally completed the multiplayer mode this week, mostly thanks to the 4x XP weekend. So all my characters are level 25 and i've turned on Prime Mode. it was nice to see a larger community playing the game this weekend, but it did seem to increase connection issues. I'll dip into the single player throughout the week and get the missing trophies.

Little Big Planet – PS3 – I played a few community levels. I hadn't played since the Water patch was added so it was fun discovering all the ways water is being used. Playing this makes me want little Big Planet 2 a lot.

Did you manage to play more games than I have over the week, or do you have any comments on my experiences or questions about the games i've played? If you do, feel free to add them in the comments section.