Monday, August 2, 2010

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August

This is all the news from Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August.

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A RSS Feed from Podbean:
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The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August


  • QTE Blog: The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Friday 30th July http://ht.ly/18n5jq
  • QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 30th July http://ht.ly/18n7ax
  • Wii: Capcom have confirmed that Marvel vs Capcom 3 is not coming to the Wii. http://ht.ly/2jdam
  • PC: EA say Battlefield 1943 is still in development, but it currently has no release date http://ht.ly/2jdel
  • 360: Virtual-On Force is coming out in Japan on 22nd December. regular edition costs ¥6,090, collectors ¥10,290 http://ht.ly/2jdf3
  • PS3: Insomniac announce they are revealing their upcoming PS3 exclusive game between now and PAX. Resistance 3 speculated http://ht.ly/2jdgs
  • PC: Zynga have announced they're shutting down Street Racing on 2nd August. Refunds for money spent in game offered http://ht.ly/2jdHq
  • Square Enix have trademarked Gun Loco in Europe. its not known what it is http://ht.ly/2jf11
  • Arcade: Sega is releasing a updated version of Pengo. 8 player co-op added, will look same as original 1982 version http://ht.ly/2jf2F
  • Playlogic are suing Koch Media, saying they are owed €1.7M. Koch Media deny this and say no legal action has been taken http://ht.ly/2jf5f
  • QTE Blog: What Have You Played This Week? http://ht.ly/18nYAS
  • QTE Blog: QTE Tweets Of The Week http://ht.ly/18o3X8


Sunday, August 1, 2010


QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. For the second week running there was alot of interest in the recent Apple Announcements. also popular this week was the PS3 Firmware 3.41 and some of the issues people had with it.

10 360: Pack shots for the new 4GB 360 Slim reveal that Microsoft will sell 250GB HDD's separately http://ht.ly/2iP4y

9 Mac: Apple reveal a 27inch Cinema Display with 16? aspect ratio for $999 http://ht.ly/2hbu6 and Magic Trackpad for $69 http://ht.ly/2hbwk

8 The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Wednesday 28th July http://ht.ly/18li6a

7 The Michael Jackson esque Zombie in Plants vs Zombies is being replaced with a new Disco styled Zombie http://ht.ly/2iPaz

6 PS3: Sony announce that only Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition will get the Playstation Move Patch, via the PSN http://ht.ly/2hc5z

5 Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Wednesday 28th July http://ht.ly/18lkPB

4 Rare says they're sorry to hear that fansite MundoRare has closed but do not respond to MundoRare criticisms http://ht.ly/2iPOk

3 iPhone: Apple announce they are looking into issues with upgrading iPhone 3G handsets to iOS4 http://ht.ly/2iiYM

2 PS3: Sony responds to PS3 issues since Firmware 3.41, says its not the Firmware, offers some advice http://ht.ly/2iZsL

1 Sony Reveal PS3 Firmware Update 3.41 And PSP Firmware Update 6.31. PS3 Firmware Is Out Now http://ht.ly/18jt3A


What Have You Played This Week?

I tried to play a lot this week, but a couple of nights not feeling to good put an end to that, and when the Transformers: War For Cybertron double XP weekend started I just seem to be busy with other things. In all i've not played a lot this week, which is a shame as I had high hopes I would.

Football Manager 10 – PC – My season in the Championship with Havant & Waterlooville is going fine. I'm sure I won't get relegated but its looking very apparent that I won't finish higher than mid-table.

3D Dot Game Heroes – PS3 – I got a bit further into the game and can now say that its getting hard. The charm of the graphics has not worn off and i'm thinking that it won't. Traversing the world is fairly easy and so far its not been to hard to work out how to get from 1 place to another. I do recommend buying some wind wings as the world is large and you can use just 1 to go from either an inn or dungeon to another. Trophies for the game, so far, appear to be done right. I'm earning them as the game progress very well, but there are several hidden ones. Its fun and enjoyable so far, but i'm not too sure how long that'll last as the difficulty appears to be ramping up with every dungeon.

Transformers: War For Cybertron – PS3 – just about to hit level 25 with a character and earn an trophy. I've tried to take advantage of the double XP weekend, but it's not quite gone as I planned. I'll return to the single player and pick up the last few trophies I missed the first time round once i've earned more multiplayer trophies. My big issue with the game is that since the DLC came out, the game doesn’t look for games without DLC. The multiplayer search function does not differentiate between those who bought the DLC and those who haven't, so many times i've tried to join a game, it's kicked me out back to the main menu. This is very frustrating as it appears a fair few people bought the DLC and I haven't.

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, July 31, 2010

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 30th July

This is all the news from Friday 30th July.

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:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=328547861

A RSS Feed from Podbean:
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And on qtegamers.blogspot.com:
http://qtegamers.blogspot.com/search/label/Audio Re-Cap


The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Friday 30th July


  • QTE Blog: The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Thursday 29th July http://ht.ly/18mfEC
  • QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Thursday 29th July http://ht.ly/18migu
  • Wii: When you beat Metroid Other M, a Theater mode unlocks letting you watch all the cutcenes as a 2 hour movie http://ht.ly/2iOEt
  • 360: Pack shots for the new 4GB 360 Slim reveal that Microsoft will sell 250GB HDD's separately http://ht.ly/2iP4y
  • PS3: Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese version of Killzone 3 and Spanish version of inFamous 2 coming to Latin America http://ht.ly/2iP7o
  • A list of rumoured fighters in Marvel vs Capcom 3 is making rounds on the internet. http://ht.ly/2iP8W
  • The Michael Jackson esque Zombie in Plants vs Zombies is being replaced with a new Disco styled Zombie http://ht.ly/2iPaz
  • QTE Blog: Activision Announce Tiesto is A DJ In DJ Hero 2 http://ht.ly/18mnqY
  • Rare says they're sorry to hear that fansite MundoRare has closed but do not respond to MundoRare criticisms http://ht.ly/2iPOk
  • Sega Financials, lost $7.4M between April-June, better than last year. Alpha Protocol not met sales expectations http://ht.ly/2iPSx
  • QTE Blog: A New Trailer For Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Has Been Released http://ht.ly/18mqdC
  • Bethesda's Todd Howard says there are no iPhone, Wii, Or Facebook games coming out from them http://ht.ly/2iQEk
  • Its reported the PS3 outsold the 360 in the 12 months ending June 30th. only 3.6M consoles between them. http://ht.ly/2iQK8
  • QTE Blog: Endgame Studios And N3V Games Release A New Trailer For Fractured Soul On The Nintendo DS http://ht.ly/18mt72
  • PS3: Naughty Dog admit they are looking at releasing a Uncharted 2 Game Of The Year Edition. http://ht.ly/2iRmC
  • PS3: there are reports that since Firmware 3.41, some users have had issues upgrading their HDD's and system crashes http://ht.ly/2iRog
  • QTE Blog: Capcom Have Released New Screenshots For Street Figher IV 3D Version On The 3DS http://ht.ly/18mwQy
  • Fallout: New Vegas has been rated 18 in the UK. the game has 5 hours of cutscenes. http://ht.ly/2iVo7
  • Richard Garriott has won his lawsuit against NCSoft and won $28M. http://ht.ly/2iVrj
  • QTE Blog: Destineer Announce They Are Bringing Dragon's Lair Trilogy To The Nintendo Wii http://ht.ly/18mzet
  • JP Consoles, PSP 28.747, DSi LL 24.189, Wii 21.092, PS3 19.420, DSi 18.202, 360 6.056, DS 5.059, PS2 1.475, PSPgo 831 http://ht.ly/2iVtX
  • PS3: Sony responds to PS3 issues since Firmware 3.41, says its not the Firmware, offers some advice http://ht.ly/2iZsL
  • Buy.com have listings for Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige, $149.99, And Hardened, $79.99 Editions. http://ht.ly/2iZuW
  • QTE Blog: This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ht.ly/18mBo7
  • Curve Studios say current focus is on the PS3 version of Explodemon. they'll evaluate other versions once its shipped http://ht.ly/2iZx5
  • A Lovefilm and Widevine tie-up means Lovefilm is now looking to come to UK PS3, Wii, iPad, Mac, PC, and Android http://ht.ly/2iZAz
  • Team 17's Martyn Brown Praises Digital Distribution. says PSPgo issues are hardware+software prices and Game library http://ht.ly/2iZFU


Friday, July 30, 2010

This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases

Nintendo UK has revealed the games coming out today on the WiiWare and DSiWare stores. there are no virtual console releases this week, but in all there are 5 games coming out, 2 on WiiWare and 3 on DSiWare. i have added screenshots for the games that i have, but Nintendo UK have provided a trailer on their website, at the link below, showing gameplay of all the games coming out this week.

WiIWare
Dive: The Medes Islands Secret


Family Pirate Party

DSiWare
Crystal Monsters


Mega Words


Puffins: Let's Race!


From Nintendo UK