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• Gears of War: The Board Game review

• CaptCastle 10/01/2013

  Gears of War the boardgame was very much a gateway drug for me. Since buying it I have gone on to also buy:
  
  Arkham Horror
  Zombicide
  Mansions of Madness
  Mage Knight
  Descent
  Claustrophobia
  Netrunner
  Lord of the Rings LCG
  
  And I'm very tempted with the X-Wing miniatures game too! Reply +3

• Is Need for Speed: Most Wanted better with Kinect?

• CaptCastle 22/10/2012

  @CaptCastle replying to myself as I see this was explained already. Feel free to ignore me as I sulk in the corner. Reply +3

• CaptCastle 22/10/2012

  Not defending the Kinnect at all as I have I one and it's a waste of time. But to those saying this could be done with a PS3/Xbox headset there's some you are missing.
  
  The Kinnect hardware/firmware is processing the voice commands and relaying data to the game. The developers have not had to program their software to understand your speech, they just use the existing Kinnect API.
  
  Just like the controller, they just need to decide what they want the buttons to do, not write driver software each and every time.
  
  I have a feeling that made no sense, it's been a long day! Reply +3

• Jim Ross interviews CM Punk and Stone Cold about WWE 13

• CaptCastle 16/10/2012

  INDEED!
  
  (Can you tell it's a while since I watched WWF/E?)
  
  
  (/goes to look in attic for DX football jersey) Reply +3

• Co-op the key to Dead Island's success, 6500 years of playtime logged online

• CaptCastle 13/08/2012

  Definately one of my favourite co-op games (well, the first two thirds or so, it starts to go downhill after the city). Reply +5

• Board Games Are Back

• CaptCastle 02/08/2012

  I recently bought the Gears of War board game. It is genuinely damn good (and bloody hard to win!). The best bit is that it is for one to four players (it really does work with only one person although, like most things, is best with mates).
  
  Edit: There's a link above, but it is worth mentioning again, http://boardgamegeek.com/ is a really good site with forums and reviews for most games. Reply +1

• From GT5 Champ to Racing Pro

• CaptCastle 31/07/2012

  None of this is a new idea:
  
  GT5 "Play our game and you could be driving real cars at Silverstone"
  
  America's Army "Play our game and you could be shooting poorly armed militia in oil rich nations"
  
  See, all done before ;) Reply +4

• Retrospective: Spy vs Spy

• CaptCastle 29/07/2012

  I quite liked the sequel too. Racing around an island digging pit traps and trying to get all the stuff for a submarine ride out of there. Good times. Reply +2

• PlanetSide 2 Preview: Tomorrow's Shooter, Today

• CaptCastle 17/07/2012

  @Machetazo Thanks. Loved the first one but could only play as Terran. May get to try out the others this time :) Reply +2

• CaptCastle 17/07/2012

  Please please please use different colours for the sides this time. There was no way I could distinguish the purple and blue last time :(
  
  /colourblindsadface Reply +4

• Sony: New racing wheel peripheral has "double the accuracy of a DualShock"

• CaptCastle 30/06/2012

  Referring to the lack of a central pivot, I grabbed the wireless Xbox racing wheel when it was half price in my local supermarket.
  
  It's actually rather good and very useable. If you have Move already I would suggest this would not be a bad addition. Reply +5

• GAME launches trade-in price checker tool

• CaptCastle 28/05/2012

  HMV have an app that that lets you scan the barcode with your phone and pops the price up straight away. I tend to use it in GAME to get them to match the price. Reply 0

• Game of the Week: Ghost Recon Future Soldier

• CaptCastle 26/05/2012

  GRFS, another game with red/green multiplayer HUD. Way to naff off 10% of your audience. You would think with that many employees at a company, at least one would be colourblind and point out the problem.
  
  DD is my game of the week by far. Reply +7

• GeForce GRID: Can Cloud Gaming Match Console Performance?

• CaptCastle 26/05/2012

  @munki83 The UK infrastructure really does suck. Leaky water pipes, holey roads, crappy broadband etc etc. You wouldn't think we were in the G8. Reply +7

• CaptCastle 26/05/2012

  Whilst being very interesting, articles like this make me depressed by reminding how terrible rural broadband is in the UK. Reply +25

• DayZ: The Best Zombie Game Ever Made?

• CaptCastle 25/05/2012

  I have the Arma 2 DVD knocking about somewhere. What else would I need to buy/download to play this? Reply 0

• Dragon's Dogma Review

• CaptCastle 23/05/2012

  @TRUTH Thanks for that. Quite excited about playing it now.
  
  Hopefully mine will turn up in the post tomorrow. Reply +1

• Max Payne 3 Review

• CaptCastle 22/05/2012

  Just ejected the thing. It's horrible and I wish I hadn't bought it.
  
  Ho hum, glad some of you like it though, horses for courses and all that, Reply -2

• Diablo 3 Review

• CaptCastle 22/05/2012

  @HurbleBurble Zero chance, the servers will disappear as soon as there's no profit in it. Reply +5

• CaptCastle 21/05/2012

  Still having massive lag issues here (1600ms lag spikes in large fights). Love it whem it works, but naffed off when I die (regularly!) due to network issues. Reply +3

• Always Online: What Diablo 3's Battle.net Does Wrong

• CaptCastle 17/05/2012

  @AidyD I don't like what they've done with the front end on this year's new Ford Focus so I'll vote with my wallet by stealing one instead. Reply -2

• CaptCastle 17/05/2012

  I have yet to die in D3 through a mistake on my part. However I regularly die due to 1600ms lag spikes that occur in combat. 6 sec skill delay and unresponsive potions/red orbs is guaranteed death. Reply +68

• Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition incoming - report

• CaptCastle 06/05/2012

  LOVED the game in multiplayer. Hopefully some more people will be brave and pick it up. Reply +1

• Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition trailer

• CaptCastle 04/05/2012

  Ok, so I can have 4 players on one xbox and 4 players on another and get 8 people into one world. But can I have 8 people on 8 seperate boxes connected together? I can't seem to find clarification either way. Reply +1

• Risen 2: Dark Waters Review

• CaptCastle 03/05/2012

  Tyre, not tire. - I see it's been fixed now :)
  
  /pendant mode off
  
  Just finished the Witcher and looking forward to Dragon's Dogma. Otherwise I might have found time to squeeze this one in. I'll maybe pick it up later if there's a dry spell. Reply -2