Monday, May 10, 2010

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

  • QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/17j4ko

  • QTE Blog: Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/17j5lJ

  • Its reported that Zynga is planning to leave Facebook and start Zynga Live, Not happy with the cut Facebook get http://ht.ly/1Ixxg

  • PS3: Little Big Planet 2 details, New tools to create puzzle/racing/RPG games, create/edit films, LBP stuff carried over http://ht.ly/1IxzG

  • 360: The ESRB has rated Duke Nuken: Manhattan Project for the Xbox 360 http://ht.ly/1IxA6

  • Screenshots from the new XCOM game have been leaked. 50's America style. http://ht.ly/1IxAT

  • its reported Crytek have filed a trademark for TimeSplitters: Future Perfect http://ht.ly/1IxBb

  • GTTV tease they have a trailer for a new game in a classic franchise coming in the show next week. http://ht.ly/1IxBR

  • Shigeru Miyamoto denies Nintendo have taken small steps online, Nintendo debating free or subscription online service http://ht.ly/1IxDg

  • QTE Blog: New Zero Punctuation - Splinter Cell: Conviction http://ow.ly/17j97i

  • QTE Blog: Silhouettes of the Starting Pokémon From Pokémon Black And Pokémon White Have Been Released http://ow.ly/17jAjl

  • QTE Blog: What Have You Played This Week? http://ow.ly/17jI4G

  • QTE Blog: QTE Tweets Of The Week http://ow.ly/17jLxn



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Sunday, May 9, 2010

QTE Tweets Of The Week

Here are this weeks most clicked tweets from the QTE Gamers News In Brief. Like last week, many of these stories had the same amount of hits. Two interesting, or strange, inclusions in this weeks top 10 are 3 and 1. both of these are fairly old stories that got a lot of attention in one day. There was a few re-tweets from followers of QTE Gamers, but the one that got the most traction was the story at 2 which initially got re-tweeted by @randy_wrecked.

10 QTE Blog: UK PSN Update 05/05/2010 http://ow.ly/17hclH

9 Bethesda's Pete Hines says Doom 4 will "show the world id's true potential" when its released. http://ht.ly/1IeVe

8 iPad: out 28th May16 in UK WiFi £429 32GB WiFi £499 64GB WiFi £599 16GB WiFi+3G £529 32GB WiFi+3G £599 64GB WiFi+3G £699 http://ht.ly/1IbhR

7 360: 8 page Gears Of War 3 feature from Russian mag leaked, art + more http://ht.ly/1Hdn6 Translation here, big spoilers! http://ht.ly/1Hdni

6 Activison reveal Bungie will have 200 hundred people, they are funding Bungies new game, its unlike anything else http://ht.ly/1IcD3

5 iPhone: Apple have been granted the design patent for the iPhone 3G and 3GS http://ht.ly/1GJyO

4 360: Microsofts Natal E3 press conference will not be live streamed. Microsoft are banning all technology from the show http://ht.ly/1Hi27

3 Its rumoured that Silent HIll Shattered Memories may have been delayed a month after retailers change its release date. http://ow.ly/u1X0

2 Its reported Sony have approached director, David O. Russell, to direct the Uncharted movie. Summer 2011 release + more http://ht.ly/1GQBI

1 PS3: kotaku has pictures of the Final Fantasy XIII PS3 and the Box http://ow.ly/LfkS


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What Have You Played This Week?

Managed to play a lot more this week. I even got back the game that killed my old PlayStation 3, for those who are new my launch PlayStation 3 died when I tried to play IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. This is a rented game which also means i've not played much recently as i've been waiting to get it back from Sony. It got to me when Sony said it would, and I'm determined to finish it quickly as my rent games list on Swapgame just keeps getting longer.

Football Manager 10 – PC – well finished 2nd in my second season in the premiership. Again my team is getting stronger, but with Annan its taking time as I still can't offer high wages, but thankfully a new stadium and improved training/youth stuff is making it a bit easier.

Uncharted 2– PS3 – I only played the online part of the game. Its plenty of fun, and the maps have soo much to offer. Thankfully there are loads of people playing the game, but I have come across a few with dodgy connections and in some games people just seemed to be dropped.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey – PS3 – Yep, I got the game back that killed my last PlayStation 3. I got much further this time, getting through the tutorial fine. Graphically its fairly impressive and it makes great use of vibration in the Dual Shock 3. there appears to be no one playing it online, so i've focused on the single player stuff. The campaign is straightforward, complete tasks to continue and unlock sutff. Ai for the most part is decent in campaign, but there are times when the Ai is either too good or not good enough. It's fun to play and educational, for those unfamiliar with air warfare in World War II. It'll take a while to complete, but the trophies are unlocking regularly and the unlocked stuff in game has some incentive to continue.

Halo Reach – Beta – Xbox 360 – I played a fair bit of the Beta, playing slayer matches, and ultimately it feels a lot like Halo. Some of the control changes took an age to get used to, like using the RB to melee and not B, but ultimately it does control well. Graphically there is a noticeable improvement, but not perhaps as big as an improvement as it needs, especially when you compare it to games like Killzone 2. the new loadouts do make it interesting, but only when you get used to using them. I use the jet pack a lot to shoot from above and land on top of them where I melee the opponent. This usually kills them. Others are using the cloak great in sniping positions. The defensive one is pretty hit and miss I find with people either using it or coming across someone using it. I have no idea what its like to talk to people with this game. Like most online games, I do not use a headset...especially on the 360, but from what people are saying on podcasts and such...ot certainly doesn't sound like things have improved.

Bookworm Adventures – PC – my parents had a cleanup and found this game. I had played Bookworm a long time ago and thought i'd give it a try. I think this is a brilliant game. It is shown up by its age, in terms of graphics, but the gameplay is simply addictive and fun. Its a great RPG and you can see how games like this spawned bigger games like Puzzle Quest.

what have you been playing this week? feel free to add your weeks gaming selection in the comments, or you can comment on the game i played this week.


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Silhouettes of the Starting Pokémon From Pokémon Black And Pokémon White Have Been Released


Pokémon Sunday, a TV show in Japan, have revealed silhouettes of the Starting Pokémon from the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Videogames and TV Series. The full reveal of these starters will come in both the CoroCoro magazine, which is expected to leak during the week, and next Sundays Pokémon Sunday. I Speculate that the pokemon types will be, from left to right, Grass, Fire, Water. You can click on the picture to see it bigger.

From Pokébeach
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

New Zero Punctuation - Splinter Cell: Conviction

Here is this weeks Zero Punctuation. apologises for this going up late, i kinda forgot to do this post on Wednesday when the new one went live over on The Escapist. Well this weeks is on Splitner Cell: Conviction and could it be a game that Yahtzee enjoys seeing as he enjoys stealth games like Thief...watch and find out.
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Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest)

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Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest)

  • QTE Blog: Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/17iqAz

  • QTE Blog: Audio Re-Cap of Yesterdays News (oldest to newest) http://ow.ly/17is1r

  • iPad: out 28th May16 in UK WiFi £429 32GB WiFi £499 64GB WiFi £599 16GB WiFi+3G £529 32GB WiFi+3G £599 64GB WiFi+3G £699 http://ht.ly/1IbhR

  • Wii: its rumoured that PokéPark Wii Pikachu's Adventure is coming out in PAL territories on 30th July http://ht.ly/1Ibq7

  • Activision Blizzard Financials, profit doubled over 09 to $381M, $1.3B revenue in 1st 1/4, expects $4.2B revenue for 2010 http://ht.ly/1Ic5q

  • Activision are not going to close Infinity Ward, they are working on DLC and An unannounced game, will have more staff http://ht.ly/1IczP

  • Activison reveal Bungie will have 200 hundred people, they are funding Bungies new game, its unlike anything else http://ht.ly/1IcD3

  • QTE Blog: Nintendo Reveal Wii Party, A New Marquee Party Game For The Wii http://ow.ly/17iw1c

  • Activision have confirmed that Guitar Hero 6 is coming out this fall with DJ Hero 2 coming out shortly after http://ht.ly/1IeCX

  • Call Of Duty Map Sales for the series are around 17M, 1.75B hours have been played online, Continued success via retail http://ht.ly/1IeGx

  • Acitivison are looking to China and Korean markets for Call Of Duty series sales, will use Blizzard expertise http://ht.ly/1IeI9

  • Ubisoft have announced that they are looking for Dance talent to be included in Just Dance 2 http://ht.ly/1IeJ9

  • 360: Remedy reveal Alan Wake facial animations will improve with DLC http://ht.ly/1IeLb

  • PS3: Zen Studios reveal Planet MiniGolf will have Youtube Video Uploading support, send replays of matches to youtube http://ht.ly/1IeNp

  • Capcom Financials, new sales down 27.3% to ¥66.8 Billion, Profit down 73.1% to ¥2.17 Billion. Japan sales strong http://ht.ly/1IeRo

  • 2 Epic Mickey books are being planned, 1 is a the games story whilst the other is part of game universe. http://ht.ly/1IeTf

  • Bethesda's Pete Hines says Doom 4 will "show the world id's true potential" when its released. http://ht.ly/1IeVe

  • EA have filed 3 trademarks for DarkSpore, speculation is its a Spore spin-off or sequel to Spore http://ht.ly/1IeWY

  • QTE Blog: This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ow.ly/17iCDw

  • PSP: Its been found that you can recruit Hideo Kojima into your Mother Base Staff in Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker http://ht.ly/1IizV

  • JP Consoles, PSP 59.315, PS3 32.874, Wii 30.757, DSiLL 25.569, DSi 15.628, 360 4.943, DS 4.068, PSPgo 1.890, PS2 1.577 http://ht.ly/1IiBP

  • Latest GameInformer cover revealed to feature Gears of War 3. Little Big Planet 2 revealed, article in June Issue http://ht.ly/1Ilcc

  • Satoru Iwata says the battle with Sony is a "victory already won," Apple is the "enemy of the future." http://ht.ly/1Ilek

  • 3DS: Satoru Iwata reveals the 3D game be turned on or off and they're working on anti piracy measures http://ht.ly/1IlfN

  • 360: GameStop and Amazon have listings for Call Of Duty War Collection, it has CoD 2,3, and World At War for $60. http://ht.ly/1IlhF

  • Square Enix have confirmed that Final Fantasy IX is coming out in the USA soon http://ht.ly/1IliB

  • 360: Halo Reach Beta should receive Invasion mode and boneyard map by now http://ht.ly/1IlkG

  • PS3: Its rumoured that Valkyrie Profile 3 is no longer a multi platform release and will come exclusively to the PS3 http://ht.ly/1Ilm7



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