Sunday, August 8, 2010


QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. There was a verity of news making it into the top 10. there was no clear run away story this week with the top 10 being very close in the amount of tweets that were clicked.

10 iPhone: The Latest iOS4 beta removes Game Center Support For 2nd Gen iPod Touch and iPhone 3g. http://ht.ly/2l5xy

9 360: Mediatonic's Playstation Mini, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, is coming to Xbox Indie Games http://ht.ly/2kiEb

8 QTE Blog: National Geographic Announce National Geographic Animal Jam Is Now Online http://ht.ly/18pOdn

7 360: MTV/Harmonix says Kinect can achieve 1:1 tracking, Dance Central achieves it. http://ht.ly/2jVsY

6 PC: Fable 3 is no longer coming out on 26th October. no new release date has been announced. http://ht.ly/2kiGC

5 UK Game Charts, StarCraft II, Toy Story 3, Red Dead Redemption, Dance On Broadway, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 top 5 http://ht.ly/2jRa8

4 360: Ubisoft's internal "Kinect expert" Frederic Blais says Kinect uses less than 1% of the 360's CPU http://ht.ly/2kn6j

3 QTE Blog: Sony Have Released An Updated Firmware 3.41 For Those Having HDD Issues http://ht.ly/18py4j

2 WP7: Microsoft's Kevin Turner reveals Windows Phone 7 is coming to EU in October, November in USA http://ht.ly/2jJnZ


1 PS3: its rumoured that a new feature for Playstation Plus will be the ability to chance your Username http://ht.ly/2jLXy


What Have You Played This Week?

Another week where I had hopes of playing more than I managed. Its a shame i'm not playing more than I do, but with the amount of work I have to put into the site, I don't leave myself a lot of spare time to put much gaming in.

Football Manager 10 – PC – My season in the Championship with Havant & Waterlooville is going fine. I'm past Christmas now and into the end of season. I still think I won't get relegated and a mi-table position should be achievable.

3D Dot Game Heroes – PS3 – The third dungeon is done and i've already found the forth dungeon. Its safe to say the game is hard, but its not taken away any fun. There is a fair amount of try and die in not just getting through a dungeon but also trying to navigate the landscape. I can see and understand if and why people would find this annoying, but for me i'm getting further each time, i'm not failing at the same point. What's also fun is that I have the bestiality, which means I have a book to attack enemies with to put them in the book. From this I can see i'll need to battle the bosses again, but with the improvements you can do to swords and the fact you know what to do, it shouldn't be that difficult.

Transformers: War For Cybertron – PS3 – Still playing, trying to get some multiplayer trophies, but without a double XP weekend it will take some time. Also, still annoyed with the lack of separation between those trying to game with and without the DLC maps.

Monsters (probably) Stole My Princess – Mini – PSP – I've finished the games story mode, and whilst it is very short, it is still fun. There is a nice twist at the end, the animation is great and so is the script. There is a Score Attack mode and trophies still to get in the game and I can see myself playing it a few times as yet. If your interested in trying out a Minis, this has everything you'd expect from a Mini and more.

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, August 7, 2010

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 6th August

This is all the news from Friday 6th August.

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The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Friday 6th August


  • QTE Blog: The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Thursday 5th August http://ht.ly/18sk7B
  • QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Thursday 5th August http://ht.ly/18smXk
  • United Front Games announce True Crime: Hong Kong has been delayed until 2011 http://ht.ly/2lXhk
  • QTE Blog: D3 Announce Jillian Michaels: Fitness Ultimatum 2011 Exclusively For The Nintendo Wii http://ht.ly/18sph4
  • 360: The OFLC has rated Avatar Superstars Poker from Microsoft. Speculation is its an XBLA game http://ht.ly/2lXiA
  • Bungie reveal that Halo Reach has gone gold and the Halo Team has moved onto the next Bungie game http://ht.ly/2lXk6
  • QTE Blog: Konami Reveal More Tracks In Def Jam Rapstar http://ht.ly/18ssoN
  • QTE Blog: Codemasters Announce Operation Flashpoint: Red River And That Its Coming To The PS3, Xbox 360, And PC In 2... http://ht.ly/18ssoM
  • Activision have said that they're increasing the importance of DLC to limit pre-owned games, looking at other initiatives http://ht.ly/2lXmj
  • 360: Patents for Kinect have emerged. the patent was filed on 23rd Feb 2009. shows depth camera based gesture reading http://ht.ly/2lXoR
  • QTE Blog: Black Bean Have Released New WRC 2010 Screenshots http://ht.ly/18svrq
  • QTE Blog: Nintendo Have Released New Screenshots For Metroid: Other M http://ht.ly/18svrp
  • Activision reveal they had over 5K applications for positions at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games, 60 were selected http://ht.ly/2lXqN
  • PS3: Square Have Tweeted that they're considering releasing Parasite Eve 1+2 as a PS1 Classic due to fan support http://ht.ly/2lXtc
  • QTE Blog: Atlus Have Released A New Video For Etrian Odyssey III Showing Map Making http://ht.ly/18sypV
  • QTE Blog: Sega Have Released New Screenshots And A Trailer For Vanquish http://ht.ly/18sypW
  • Borderlands was recently updated on Steam. it revealed new DLC for the game, the focus is on Claptraps http://ht.ly/2lXwy
  • Activision's Bobby Kotick reveals Blizzards upcoming MMO is a new IP, ground up original idea. http://ht.ly/2lXzt
  • Square’s Tetsuya Nomura says any sequel to 3rd birthday would be in HD. a demo for 3rd Birthday is being considered http://ht.ly/2lXB7
  • Warren Spector admits that Epic Mickey could come to the PS3 and 360 because of Move and Kinect. not his decision to make http://ht.ly/2lXDe
  • PS3: There are reports Sony has added a new notification system. you get a message from PSN regarding fixes and such http://ht.ly/2lXFG
  • PC: its rumoured that a trailer for Doom 4 is coming soon, possibly at Quakecon http://ht.ly/2lXHG
  • QTE Blog: This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ht.ly/18sF78
  • QTE Blog: Sony Have Released The First Screenshots For Heavy Rain Move Edition http://ht.ly/18sF77
  • Its reported Google have bought Slide, a casual developer, for $187M http://ht.ly/2lXJ1
  • Zynga have bought Japanese developer Unoh. Unoh are a social game developer founded in 2001. http://ht.ly/2lXN1
  • QTE Blog: Sega Have Released A New Trailer For Sonic Colours http://ht.ly/18sHFN
  • JP Consoles, PSP 48.603, PS3 45.224, DSiLL 23.120, Wii 20.038, DSi 17.950, 360 6.929, DS 4.058, PS2 1.444, PSPgo 777 http://ht.ly/2lXP8
  • 360: the 4GB Kinect Bundle has been spotted with reference to a Xbox 360 Slim 250GB Kinect Bundle http://ht.ly/2md00
  • PC: Puzzle Quest II is coming to Steam on 12th August for $19.99 http://ht.ly/2md51
  • 360:Online Co-op, leaderboards, + voice chat will be patched into Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on1 8th September http://ht.ly/2md7R
  • Namco Bandai clear confusion regarding Tekken at GamesCom, only Street Fighter X Tekken will make an appearance http://ht.ly/2mdbb
  • Namco Bandai announce Tekken 6 has sold over 3 Million units world wide http://ht.ly/2mdcl
  • People Can Fly reveal it was difficult porting Bulletstorm to 360+PS3 from PC due to their lack of memory. Graphics fine http://ht.ly/2mde7
  • Nippon Ichi reveal they've cancelled 3 games even though they've already spent ¥21M on them. http://ht.ly/2mdfN
  • PS3: Voice actor David Kaye says he's working on more Ratchet & Clank, suggests Insomniac are working on it to http://ht.ly/2mdj0


Friday, August 6, 2010

Sega Have Released A New Trailer For Sonic Colours

Sega has released a new trailer for Sonic Colours. this trailer is from the Nintendo Wii version of the game and it mixes in-game cutscenes with in-game action. The In-Game Action shows the familiar Sonic Gameplay, running and bouncing on enemies, as well as the new mechanics, that have been introduced by using the aliens in the game. Several locations and different level design are also shown in the trailer.




Sony Have Released The First Screenshots For Heavy Rain Move Edition

Sony have released the first in-game screenshots for Heavy Rain Move Edition. These screenshots show 3 different scenarios in the game, and what actions you have to do with the Playstation Move Controller. Sony have said that this game can use the Playstation Move with either the Navigation Controller or a Dual Shock 3. Heavy Rain Move Edition will be available for pre-order before Christmas, but if you already have the game a patch will be released that will add Playstation Move controllers to the game.

Screenshots


From EU Playstation Blog


This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases

Nintendo UK have revealed the games coming out today on the Virtual Console, WiiWare, And DSiWare stores. in all there are 6 games being released, 1 on Virtual Console, 2 on WiiWare, and 3 on DSiWare. i have added screenshots for the games where i could, but Nintendo does have a trailer at the link below feature gameplay footage from most of the games coming out today.

Virtual Console

Aero the Acrobat 2 – Super Nintendo

WiiWare

Sandy Beach

Chess Challenge!


DSiWare

Link 'n' Launch


Animal Puzzle Adventure


Chess Challenge!


From Nintendo UK