Sunday, November 21, 2010


QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. Its good to see that posts from the site have made it into the top 10. Despicable Me is not surprising that it made it as any news received good traffic. What was interesting was the amount of hits on What Have You Played This Week?. The big 2 stories focused on UK events whilst the 3 story once again shows the interest in the PS Jailbreak which always charts when there’s news on it.

10 THQ CEO Brian Farrell reveals an announcement regarding an Saints Row movie is coming next month http://ht.ly/397qy

9 Wii: High Voltage Software head Eric Nofsinger reportedly says Nintendo told them not to use Wii Speak in Conduit 2 http://ht.ly/397qV

8 BioWare will reveal a new game at the Video Game Awards on 11th December and released a teaser image for it http://ht.ly/3be1o

7 QTE Blog: D3Publisher Have Released New Screenshots For The Wii And DS Versions Of Despicable Me: The Videogame http://ht.ly/19XnYl

6 Rumoured list of fighters in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has been leaked, fighters include Frank West, War Machine + more http://ht.ly/3aJPh

5 Wii: Nintendo looking into why Metroid: Other M failed to sell the 1 Million units they thought it would http://ht.ly/397sn

4 QTE Blog: What Have You Played This Week? http://ht.ly/19Yhas

3 PS3: PS Jailbreak team announce they have broken Firmware 3.42 and 3.50 and future firmwares http://ht.ly/39ThF

2 PS3: PlayTV update 2.01 available to download through PlayTV, needed to use PlayTV Live Chat update available from PSN http://ht.ly/3bsvd

1 EU PSN down for maintenance on 18th November from 16:00 GMT to 1:00 GMT 19th November, Store/Accounts inaccessible http://ht.ly/3byyj


What Have You Played This Week?

I stuck to my goal in playing more games and not only did I play more I also managed to play them for longer. Lets hope I can do the same next week.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 – PS3 – I put some time into multiplayer to see if the lag issues are widespread, and to get some trophies. Personally it I found it isn't that bad and the online fights can be really great to play and watch. I'm not the best online but because of the games simple controls I can still get in a few punches and be engaged in the fight. I also played some more single player to finish off the side quests after the game has ended.

Star Trek Online – Demo – PC – I was in the beta for this game but hadn't returned since then. I was interested to see how it was doing and whether it would be worth subscribing to it. So far it plays well and the beta experience has come in handy. Some things have changed, for the better, and i'm starting to get in to it. I'll keep playing as its a 30 day demo before I decide whether to subscribe.

Who's That Flying – Minis – PSP – I'm a big fan of Mediatonics Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess and I was eagerly awaiting this games release. It has the same great artstyle and use of colours as their first game and the game is nice and simple to play. But much like the first game, its easy to play but hard to master. The story is already longer in this game and it has some great jokes and powerups which make me chuckle. I've not played many Mini's, but this is so far the best i've played and well worth getting.

Darksiders – PS3 - this is my newest rented game. I'm only a few hours in but i'm enjoying myself a lot. The gameplay is nice and simple, the graphics look great, and the story is interesting and I want to see what happens. I have only 1 complaint so far in the game and that's blocking and rushing are the same button and i'm finding that blocking isn't working great, but that could be down to my skill.

Angry Birds – Android – i've played some Android games before and not put them on here. The reason I mention Angry Birds is that it works soo well. I'm lucky in that my Hero is able to keep up with the game fine and the play is soo simple and soo much fun. The graphics are good and the look of the birds fits very well. I do recommend people with Android phones give this a go...it is free after all.

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.