DayZ – Worth The Hype?
With the recent explosion in popularity of the mod DayZ for Arma 2: Combined Ops, Seb and I decided to dive in and see what all the fuss was about. Note that I have played approximately 15 minutes in total of Arma 2 before installing and playing this mod. So without further ado, to our deaths!
Endweek News
You will have, obviously noticed that last week we had no news on Sunday and that this week we actually had no news on Wednesday either. And there are very good reasons for both of these things. As you might be aware I am in the middle of my exam period and I'm finding it a little more difficult to make the time to do the news. But don't worry, after next week things ought to return to pretty much normal as both me and Tim will be finished.
And so we'll need to come up with an excuse other than "We are lazy sons-of-bitches!"
Also, we are still playing around with our new "4 posts per week" system and have decided to only have one session of news on most weeks. While you might still see some Midweek News at some point in the future, for now we are going to be doing two reviews a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays. Anyway, "reasons" over! Let's see what's been happening in the world of video games for the last two weeks.
Endweek News – Gods and Kings, Mass Effect 3 gets some delicious DLC, Assassins Creed 3 shenanigans and Relationships are Tricky…
I write this news post in the early hours of the morning as it was meant to be up yesterday. I do promise that I will try and be more punctual about these but the end of lectures and classes at University have put me in a holiday/lazy mood. Which when combined with my inherent laziness is difficult to overcome. However, let's crack on and do the news from the last couple of days.
What is going on in the gaming world?
Midweek News – 0 x 10^c, SimCity, Halo Stats and some Demon Hunting
If you noticed Tim's post yesterday you'll know that we've been making a few plans to change the way we do things here. Most of it comes down to we will be posting less often but will try and make each post count more. As part of this I won't be posting News every day now, instead I will be combining all the cool news stories of each week into two separate posts. One on Wednesdays and one on Sundays. The Midweek and the Endweek News posts. This is the first post of that layout, so let's hope it goes well! As always make sure to comment here or via Twitter or Facebook to let us know of your opinions on the change!
So, what's been in the news since Sunday? Well we've got a whole lot of interesting stuff that you can check out after the jump! We've got some stats from Bungie about Halo now that they are no longer making the games, gameplay footage of Diablo 3 featuring the Demon Hunter, some game announcements and some trailers. There's even some stuff about GAME as well!
Bioshock Infinite – Life amongst the clouds is troublesome
2K Games and Infinity Ward have spent the last month or so slowly revealing some of the tougher fights you can expect in Bioshock Infinite. Whilst admiring the view and killing the ordinary splicers (are they still splicers?) you will occasionally come across some people that will just put a crimp in your day. You know the sort, folk who just can't mind their own damn business while you try to save the world. The sort of grumpy bastards that clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed and then proceeded to fall into a massive pile of armour and massive weapons...
And magic... Let's not forget the magic...
Another Far Cry 3 trailer
Like the title says folks, I have here another trailer for Far Cry 3 featuring cinematic and gameplay sequences. And drugs... let's not forget that the new game will feature taking lots of lovely drugs...
Mmmm shrooooooooms... Wait... Woah man... Everything is so colourful and slowed down. It's totally like, you know...
A Tale of 2 FPS’s
The past couple of weeks I have been trying my dab hand at 2 popular FPS games that are currently in beta stage. Counter-strike: Global Offensive and Blacklight Retribution.