Monday, June 28, 2010

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June

This is all the news from Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June.

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Re-Cap of The Weekends News (oldest to newest)


  • QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ht.ly/17TxQD
  • Interplay is releasing MDK 2 on WiiWare and MDK 2 HD on PC http://ht.ly/23Cew
  • DSi: The OFLC has rated Face Pilot: Fly With Your DSi Camera for DSi Ware http://ht.ly/23CfD
  • QTE Blog: Sony Announce Marvel Costume Packs Are Coming To Little Big Planet From 7th July http://ht.ly/17TDDv
  • QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 25th June http://ht.ly/17TDDw
  • Its reported that MGS: Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama said Kojima is working on a new Metal Gear Solid Game http://ht.ly/23CgG
  • PS3: Shinji Hashimoto announces that Legend of Mana is coming out in Japan as a PS1 Classic http://ht.ly/23Chz
  • Peter Molyneux has said that pairing Black & White with Kinect would be cool, but doesn't have the time http://ht.ly/23CiU
  • DS: its reported that a kid was prescribed Mario Kart DS to overcome "lazy eye syndrome", he had a 250% improvement http://ht.ly/23CjM
  • 3DS: Reggie Fils-Aime confirms The 3DS Is coming out in 2011 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon http://ht.ly/23EiY
  • Raven Software are currently hiring for "an exciting, currently unannounced title" with the Unreal engine http://ht.ly/23EnE
  • 360: Its reported that Gears Of War 3 will have dedicated servers. if there was a Beta, it'd be in January http://ht.ly/23Etm
  • QTE Blog: What Have You Played This Week? http://ht.ly/17Um3v
  • QTE Blog: QTE Tweets Of The Week http://ht.ly/17Um3u


QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. Even though it was a fairly quiet week after E3, there still was alot of interest in some things. the Wii Update got alot of clicks putting it comfortably ahead of the rest of the top 10, but there was interest in several posts from QTE Gamers which is always good to see.

10 PS3: Sony's Shuhei Yoshida says Gran Turismo 5 does have a track editor, tracks can be shared, go-Kart racing + more http://ht.ly/21Cfr

9 QTE Blog: EA Have Released New Medal of Honor Screenshots http://ht.ly/17Qh9P

8 QTE Blog: Microsoft Reveal The Xbox Live Gold Family Pack And Future Family Settings http://ht.ly/17QpS1

7 iPhone: You won't be able to buy a iPhone 4 from an AT&T store without a pre-order until 29th June http://ht.ly/21Vyg

6 3DS: Satoru Iwata says the 3DS could do Video Voice Chat and that the release date and price could be announced soon http://ht.ly/21X01

5 PSP: Sony are touting God Of War Ghost Of Sparta as the best looking PSP game Ever http://ht.ly/23dan

4 QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Monday 21st June http://ht.ly/17Q6cS

3 PS3: BBC iPlayer is getting updated later in year when PS3 gets firmware update. PSN+iPlayer sign in may be integrated http://ht.ly/21ChF

2 QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ht.ly/17Q4gr

1 Wii: System update 4.3 is out now, Wii checks for illegal channels/firmware and removes them, Existing channels updated http://ht.ly/21C8A


Sunday, June 27, 2010

What Have You Played This Week?

I haven't played much at all this week. Work on the site kept me busy but so has other things that need to be done...and the world cup. Whilst the world cup is on I doubt i'll get much more gaming in, especially as Tuesday is my birthday, but I have enjoyed what I managed to play so far.

Football Manager 10 – PC – I Got Havant & Waterlooville out of the conference south, and i'm comfortably top of the Conference and look set to jump to league 2.

Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 – Xbox 360 – I played the first game and enjoyed it, its defiantly a guilty pleasure. I was curious to see what improvements would be made to the game with the sequel. It looks better, the gundams handle better, and the achievements are better also. I'm finding it a bit more difficult than the first, you can't go in guns blasting for the first few levels that's for sure, but overall its still good. But much like the first game there is a lot of gameplay left to get through.

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.


Saturday, June 26, 2010

Sony Announce Marvel Costume Packs Are Coming To Little Big Planet From 7th July


Sony have announced that from 7th July, Marvel costume packs for Marvel Super Herpes and Super Villains are coming out n the PSN for Little Big Planet. Every other week there will be a selection of 5 costumes to download, or you can download all 5. The Following Marvel Characters will have Little Big Planet Costumes:
  • Captain America
  • Daredevil
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Elektra
  • Ghost Rider
  • Green Goblin
  • Hulk
  • Invisible Woman
  • Iron Man
  • The Human Torch
  • Magneto
  • Mystique
  • The Punisher
  • Rogue
  • Spider-Man
  • Storm
  • The Thing
  • Thor
  • Venom
  • Wolverine

Its also been announced that a Marvel level Kit is coming out. it'll have 4 levels to play through as well as a large assortment of marvel themed music, objects, materials, stickers, and backgrounds that you can use to create levels with.

From USA Playstation Blog


Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 25th June

This is all the news from Friday 25th June.

You can subscribe to the Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast on iTunes and if you do or are already a subscriber, it would be very helpful for me if you can rate and review the podcast.

A podcast is available on iTunes from:
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Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest)


  • QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ht.ly/17SMFw
  • QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Thursday 24th June http://ht.ly/17SOv4
  • PS3: Bloomberg is reporting that Hulu is coming to the PSN soon. it'll be a paid service http://ht.ly/23cjd
  • PS3: Last.FM's Orlena Yeung reveals they have a 1 year exclusive contract with 360, Speculation its coming to PS3 http://ht.ly/23cny
  • PC: Civ 5 will be able to play Civ 4 maps, upload them into Civ 5 world builder and convert them to Civ 5 http://ht.ly/23cpQ
  • 3DS: Yoot Saito has teased the possibility that Seaman is coming to the 3DS http://ht.ly/23csz
  • PSP: Sony are touting God Of War Ghost Of Sparta as the best looking PSP game Ever http://ht.ly/23dan
  • Its claimed that scrapping the UK Videogame Developer tax break has saved the UK Government £190M http://ht.ly/23eAD
  • PS3: Namco Bandai say there are currently no plans to localise Tales Of Vesperia, but there could be in the future http://ht.ly/23eCC
  • iPhone: Apple repsonds to comments about iPhone 4 signal issues, says if you have them, hold your phone differently http://ht.ly/23eF5
  • PSP: Konami's CEO Fumiaki Tanaka says they expect worldwide sales of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker to be 3M http://ht.ly/23eHi
  • Ubisoft reveal Beyond Good & Evil 2 is being made by just a handfull of developers and they have alot of work to do http://ht.ly/23fVn
  • JP Consoles, DSiLL 30.183, PSP 20.929, Wii 19.045, DSi 18.214, PS3 17.175, DS 5.126, 360 2.060, PS2 1.568, PSPgo 837 http://ht.ly/23fYj
  • Keiji Inafune's Dead Rising Movie is getting a EU/USA release as Zombrex Dead Rising Sun. it'll be online and free http://ht.ly/23iQd
  • 360: Microsoft say there are currently no plans for the BBC iPlayer to come to the 360, they're happy with Sky http://ht.ly/23jj5
  • QTE Blog: EA Have Released A New Developer Diary For Need For Speed World http://ht.ly/17SY51
  • QTE Blog: Namco Bandai Have Released A Developer Interview Video For Dragon Ball Origins 2 http://ht.ly/17T1qV
  • RT @chrisgrant: RT @Tim_Stevens For two days at E3 I wore a camera that took photos every 30 seconds. The vid is here: http://bit.ly/9hAub5
  • 360: Microsoft announce Kinect will be demoed in HMV and GAME in the UK http://ht.ly/23mY8
  • QTE Blog: This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ht.ly/17T3rU
  • Sam Raimi says the Warcraft movie is "still a long ways away," they're still working on the story http://ht.ly/23n0e
  • QTE Blog: Sony Announce Fat Princess Patch 1.06 And DLC Is Coming Out On 29th June http://ht.ly/17T5KS