NEXT GEN CONSOLES

[windy_miller]

Played a game called Spaceteam with some friends tonight - great game! It's free, try it!

Haha that looks like great fun. iPhone only though

[Purple Monkey]

Haha that looks like great fun. iPhone only though

Created by an ex-Bioware programmer. Such a brilliant use of the platform and a novel concept executed brilliantly.

When you play something like this it really does draw a stark contrast to all the other samey seen-it-before bilge masquerading as innovative titles for £40.

[minute5072]

I know they're working on an Android version but still no word on when it'll be out. I'm sure I read they were hoping it would work cross platform too which would be excellent

[LondonTom]

That looks amazing!!! Looks great fun.

Alas I'm joining the other Android users in waiting

[G-Stud]

Leaving PS Plus in July/August:

31st July: Battlefield 3
31st July: Catherine
31st July: Malicious
31st July: Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus (VITA)
31st July: Unit 13 (VITA)

Entering PS Plus in July/August:

31st July: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
31st July: Mafia 2
31st July: Spec Ops: The Line
31st July: Lego Lord of the Rings (VITA)
31st July: When Vikings Attack! (VITA)

Well chuffed with Need for Speed, LotR, and Spec Ops

[viberunner]

Spec Ops is the best thing to happen to the single-player war shooter since Modern Warfare.

Well, well worth a play.

[WS_Jack_III]

Pes 2014 will not be next gen and F1 won't be either.

[windy_miller]

Leaving PS Plus in July/August:

31st July: Battlefield 3

31st July: Catherine

31st July: Malicious

31st July: Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus (VITA)

31st July: Unit 13 (VITA)

Entering PS Plus in July/August:

31st July: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

31st July: Mafia 2

31st July: Spec Ops: The Line

31st July: Lego Lord of the Rings (VITA)

31st July: When Vikings Attack! (VITA)

Well chuffed with Need for Speed, LotR, and Spec Ops

The vastly inferior "Games on Gold" for XBox has Assassins Creed II.

[Spindles]

My number came up in the Dota 2 install programme. \o/ That will give me something to occupy my evening. All I need now is some Mountain dew code red.

[Jackmypie]

In the end I went for this laptop, just bought it off the dell website:

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15r-se-7520/pd?oc=n0015s30&model_id=inspiron-15r-se-7520

Got it for £491 with discount codes, not bad at all. Full HD too.

1TB HDD

i5 Intel processor

Win 8

8GB RAM

2GB AMD Radeon HDD Video card

[minute5072]

That looks amazing!!! Looks great fun.

Alas I'm joining the other Android users in waiting

Wait no more!

Android Spaceteam - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepingbeastgames.spaceteam

[minute5072]

Had a wee mess around with spaceteam there. Worked perfectly between my android phone and tablet over both wifi and bluetooth. Will see how it works cross platform with my gf later on

[WS_Jack_III]

House sitting for a friend and i decided to take my ps3 round. Found Red Faction in the house which is a game i've been meaning to play for years. It's pretty fun, open world game on Mars where the main objective is to destroy everything!

[luckysalt]

Soul Calibur 2 is getting a HD remake for PS3/360. Will be out in Sept.

I played this game to DEATH on Gamecube, obviously won't have Link in it, but still an amazing game.

Made me think though, the Wii U isn't getting a port, Ninty should one beg Namco to do it with Link included, obviously they think theres no userbase to buy it and after that ask Namco to make a Legend of Zelda fighting game using a Soul Calibur engine. Would be amazing and different to Smash Bros.

[viberunner]

The vastly inferior "Games on Gold" for XBox has Assassins Creed II.

In fairness this is the really good one.

[LondonTom]

Wait no more!

Android Spaceteam - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepingbeastgames.spaceteam

Amazing free to!..Installing now

[windy_miller]

In fairness this is the really good one.

Hmmmm, I bought it ages ago (never bothered with the first one) and got bored with it pretty quickly.

[Purple Monkey]

Pikmin 3! At last!

[Jackmypie]

Anyone know of any trade in deals or any other type of deals for GTA 5 or FIFA 14?

Don't want to spend 80 quid for both of them to be honest!

[LondonTom]

Fancied a racing game, haven't played one in years so I picked up PGR 4 for 6.99 yesterday

Wasn't sure which of the latest ones would suit me, and I loved Metropolis Street Racer on the dreamcast (Now that is years ago!). So when I saw PGR 4 for that, I thought I couldn't go wrong even if online play turns out to be dead

Also tried OnLive to see how the London 2012 game played As you can try games for 30 minutes....bit fat meh, the stream of the game just isn't good enough. The Graphics are far to choppy and lacking in details!

Though I suppose its ok to try out a game if your not sure and there isn't a demo around.

Edited July 31, 2013 by LondonTom

[luckysalt]

New PS+ is today folks, gunna get me Need For Speed Most Wanted on PS3 and LLOTR on Vita

[jump]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/07/31/exactly-how-bad-is-the-nintendo-situation

The Wii U is huge flop, just 10,000 units sold in all of Europe but apparently they have billions in cash and 3DS doing well so they wont go bust anytime soon.

[Spindles]

The Wii U has to be the biggest flop in modern gaming. I don't think I've seen a major player hit the wall so hard since the Atari Jaguar.

[luckysalt]

PS+'s NBA 2K13 has been accidentally made free to whole of EU, so get it now, won't be free come tomorrow when the staff return in

[luckysalt]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/07/31/exactly-how-bad-is-the-nintendo-situation

The Wii U is huge flop, just 10,000 units sold in all of Europe but apparently they have billions in cash and 3DS doing well so they wont go bust anytime soon.

Thanks for posted that, good read, $5 billion in cash and another $5 billlion in bonds, makes you wonder what Nintendo made such a last gen machine and hire so few people to work on their games.

With that financial backing and history in videogames, Ninty should be whacking out the best system and have games ready not 2 years late after launch. They're their own worst enemy.