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• A list of every confirmed Xbox One game

• Gaiduku 12/06/2013

  @jabberwocky Shit you're right. For some reason I always assumed the original was multiplatform Reply 0

• Gaiduku 12/06/2013

  The only one here that kinda annoys me (because I wont be getting an XBone) is Dead Rising 3.
  
  However its Capcom so no major first party connections involved...can't see it staying exclusive forever Reply +8

• Next Xbox Reveal: live report and live video

• Gaiduku 21/05/2013

  its very tough to get excited about any of this Reply 0

• Gaiduku 21/05/2013

  is it meant to be a play on words... like... Xbox Won Reply 0

• Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy review

• Gaiduku 09/05/2013

  Bought it and it arrived today. Shocked by how much stuff they give you!! As well as all the lovely hexes and other playing pieces they provide nice velvet bagas to store randomised components and plenty of saleable plastic bags to store everything else.
  
  It's still a bit messy and crampt in the box but there really is nothing more satisfying than popping out tokens from a punch sheet. Reply 0

• Register three of eight Nintendo 3DS games to get another free

• Gaiduku 22/04/2013

  Does this work if I purchased these games from the eShop? Obviously with real copies of the game you get a little code in the box.... do I just register with the eShop code? Reply 0

• UK chart: Injustice: Gods Among Us topples BioShock Infinite

• Gaiduku 22/04/2013

  Wahey go Fire emblem. Bought it over the weekend and its absolutely fantastic. Commutes are going to be much more exciting from now on Reply +1

• Nintendo shutting down Wii channels and online services

• Gaiduku 12/04/2013

  NO NOT THE EVERYBODY VOTES CHANNEL!!!! Reply +121

• Jason Rohrer creates a game that will take over 2000 years to complete

• Gaiduku 04/04/2013

  Somebody fetch me my shovel and metal detector!! Reply +10

• The Witcher 3: The Skyrim debate, the game on PS4, nuggets of clarification and a whiff of multiplayer

• Gaiduku 13/03/2013

  A big issue with skyrim and sandbox RPGs in general is a complete lack of urgency. You get told early on to close the gates of oblivion or find out why the world is now full of dragons....but no one makes you do that.
  
  Sure I could go and help everyone in Kvatch but I'm just gonna clear out this cave first.
  
  The witcher 2s smaller locales allowed you to still do side quests but keep the urgency of the main story. Here's hoping cdpr can craft an open world that still has the urgency of a proper story. This is all the more important with the war against nilfgaard. To use Skyrim again as an example the place was meant to be at war....but ony when you took the time out to get involved on that war....again no sense of urgency Reply 0

• Parents refused refund by Apple after son spends £1700 on free iPad game

• Gaiduku 01/03/2013

  There's a 15 minute window where passwords aren't required?! Wow this does change things quite a bit and really should be made more obvious. So technically a parent could enter the password in themselves for a free app and there child has 15 minutes to go crazy without ever needing a password.
  
  That's bloody stupid Apple. Reply +3

• Gaiduku 28/02/2013

  @Spectral Yeah I'm not sure if apple should refund them... that is a tough one. But either way theres still a massive divide between how bad the parents mistake was and how much they suffered for it. Reply 0

• Gaiduku 28/02/2013

  There is some obvious poor parenting here... or at least a bit of unfortunate parenting but I think its hard to have no sympathy at all. There was a similar article a year or so ago where a 12 or 13 year old boy spent hundreds of pounds on Xbox live games and DLC.
  
  Now there I had no sympathy and was also 100% certain the boy knew exactly what he was doing. In the article he claimed he thought he was using in game points but, as anyone who's ever used Xbox live to buy anything Microsoft make it incredibly clear you are about to spend money. This 12 year old would have had to go through several pages which specifically stated a price for the Microsoft points he was about to purchase and then another page asking for a PAYMENT option.
  
  And anyone who's ever purchased anything on an ipad or iphone knows that, despite pointing out a price all you need is a password and that money is spent. Now of course apple has parental controls in place and guides available for parents etc etc but I do feel for parents a teeny tiny bit. Another poster here used the analogy of a kid asking to play with his dads car keys and the dad saying yes only for the child to crash the car 5 minutes later. Sure the analogy holds but practically every parent in the world would see that potential outcome and rightly tell the kid to go away. Yet with the advent of smart phones and tablets and also the rise in microtranscations suddenly its incredibly easy for a 5 year old to spend a tonne of money from your own home. Literally, a few years ago it would have been very very unlikely a 5 year old would have the ability to do this... even if they had they fathers credit card information the complexities involved in spending money on a computer would probably have been too much. The dad made one mistake and yes it was a stupid one giving his son his password but the ramifications of that mistake far outweigh the mistake itself. Reply +4

• Creator of original Xbox slams Microsoft's current Xbox strategy

• Gaiduku 13/02/2013

  What is this guy actually jabbering on about?! Apple putting Angry Birds onto Apple TV will 1) Not make me rush to the stores to buy the device and 2)Not dissuade me from buying big budget games on my Xbox, Ps3 or PC. I honestly don't know what the hell he's going on about Reply +44

• Screenshots of next-gen RPG The Witcher 3

• Gaiduku 07/02/2013

  @Slipstream "in dire need of polish"
  
  Pun intended? Reply +2

• Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar review

• Gaiduku 06/02/2013

  @Quinns I've only played 3 games and am already hooked. Still need to decide what factions to play as though Reply 0

• Gaiduku 06/02/2013

  Review Android Netrunner next. Bought it the other day and its amazing. Slightly let down by being 2 player only but its a fantastic example of asymmetric gameplay. Reply +2

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt announced for 2014

• Gaiduku 05/02/2013

  @unacomn it could be yennifer too right? Reply 0

• UK chart: DmC dumped to fourth as chart returns to normality

• Gaiduku 28/01/2013

  Wow GTA 4 is still in the charts?! Reply +8

• More romance in BioWare games or less? Writer discusses

• Gaiduku 14/01/2013

  The Witcher and The Witcher 2 represent one of the worst and one of the best romance systems respectively.
  
  The sex card game in the first was silly and juvenile turning sex from a 'mature' concept to something the teens will love - something more along the lines of the controversial Hot Coffee. Female characters failed to be as interesting as the male ones becomes 9/10 eventually they would sleep with you. There's an interesting character early on called Abigail who much of the first chapter focusses on and towards its climax she offers herself to you. It's a silly unnecessary scene. There was little romance between Geralt and Abigail up to this point. The whole is made more ridiculous by the fact that a) A lynch mob is just outside the cave waiting for her and b) Theres a young child waiting with you in the cave too!! But of course she's a female character and must obviously have a naked sex card.
  
  Yet the Witcher 2 handled it in what I deem to be a more appropriate way. Sure the sex was by far more graphic in nature but it was less frequent and seemed to make more sense. Gone were the silly peasants who would have sex simply if you game them some roses but now the romance characters were important and actually vital to the storyline... most of them anyway. Plus as already mentioned there were plenty of female characters who simply arent romanceable at all. Geralt may be a stunner ( :/ ) but not everyones gonna fancy him. Reply +5

• What a year Kickstarter had in 2012

• Gaiduku 09/01/2013

  Hey EG - The link to Planetary Annihilation actually goes to the Occulus rift Kickstarter page. Reply +1

• Eurogamer Reader Survey 2012: Thank You!

• Gaiduku 04/01/2013

  Looks like I was the only guy to ask for the return of Reader Reviews then :( Reply +5

• Nintendo Wii Mini review

• Gaiduku 12/12/2012

  @Old_Books I don't think DF has an agenda against Nintendo they're just calling them out on a few rather worrying points. The Wii Mini is an absolutely disaster it seems so I think it's fair enough there to have a go at nintendo here.
  
  The other recent DF articles about Wii U stuff have also been relatively fair I believe. It just seems like DF and by extension Eurogamer are asking the much needed question... is this level of performance really good enough? Current reports seem to suggest that with many of these games the Wii U is on par with the Xbox 360 and PS3. Now for me that isn't good enough. For many the promise of new graphics and better physics might not be there thing but for me its quite important.
  
  I don't think the console will bomb at all but I can see it going very much the way of the Wii. Selling a tonne this christmas and probably the next and then slowly collecting dust whilst I play games on other consoles that simply can't be ported to the Wii U. Reply 0

• Ni No Kuni PS3 demo confirmed for this week

• Gaiduku 03/12/2012

  @Osahi I meant the demo. My expo impressions of this game are poor cos I was in such a rush. I'd like to play the demo to give it another chance. Also how did you get to play 10 hours?! Reply 0

• Gaiduku 03/12/2012

  Really hope they release this for EU. I tried it briefly at this years expo but I was in a bit of a rush - didn't pay much attention and just died a lot. Want to try it again properly and see if this is worth a purchase. Reply +5