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• Former THQ frontman Danny Bilson announces ambitious new game-and-film idea

• PenguinJim 09/05/2013

  "No one has ever been able to literally move the story from linear to interactive-ish-linear and back to linear..."
  
  Wot, like from cutscene to game to cutscene? Reply +1

• Samsung Galaxy S4 has an Xbox 360-like gaming controller with an extendable clamp that holds phone

• PenguinJim 16/03/2013

  "It's battery powered (2xAAA), connects via Bluetooth and is able to clamp-on a Note 2 and even a Note 8.0, reported Engadget."
  
  Actually, they said "the phone [is] held in place by an expanding clamp up top that looks plenty big enough to support a Note II (we tried, it fit fine) and maybe even something like the Note 8.0!"
  
  The spec says that it supports devices up to 6.3", which suggests the Note 3 (;)). Reply 0

• Plague Inc. review

• PenguinJim 04/03/2013

  Lovely little time-waster, this, and it works great even on lower-end Android devices. After having no joy for nearly a month (damn you Greenland and Iceland) I finally beat Fungus yesterday during a long car drive. (Nearly crashed a few times, but it was worth it) Reply -7

• The Witcher 3: no QTEs, a 50-hour quest, no XP for killing, only for quests

• PenguinJim 01/03/2013

  Groin, please. Reply 0

• Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag confirmed by Ubisoft, has 60 minutes exclusive gameplay on PS3

• PenguinJim 28/02/2013

  If it's anything like AC3, I'll be picking up any version that's an hour shorter, cheers. Reply +4

• Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games

• PenguinJim 21/02/2013

  "Confirm" is not the same as "claim". They are claiming that it will play used games. We will be able to confirm this at launch. Reply +1

• Castlevania: Mirror of Fate will get a demo later this month

• PenguinJim 16/02/2013

  A DIGITAL download? Has that been verified? I absolutely need it to be a DIGITAL download. An analogue download will be useless to me. I can't find any more sources on this. Has it been confirmed that the download will DIGITAL? Reply +4

• Dual Shock 4 leak "genuine"

• PenguinJim 15/02/2013

  Just a shame rumble had to go to fit everything else in. Still, it always was a bit of a last-gen feature... :P Reply +16

• Unreal Engine 4 superhero game Project Awakened takes to Kickstarter

• PenguinJim 15/02/2013

  "Project Awakened has an extremely ambitious hook where you create your own superhero. The closest we've seen to this was probably the lackluster X-Men: Destiny, but this looks far more open-ended with a staggering amount of customisation options."
  
  Freedom Force and its sequel spring to mind. Or City of Heroes. Or Champions Online. Reply +1

• Aliens: Colonial Marines "primary development" outsourced to Section 8 developer TimeGate Studios - report

• PenguinJim 12/02/2013

  @SuperSoupy To be fair, every gameplay trailer released during the past six months made it look like an awful game. Reply +6

• Fox shamelessly steals Still Alive composer's song for Glee

• PenguinJim 26/01/2013

  As terrible as all this is, that Fox "quote" in the subheading isn't actually a quote - Coulton even says in his blog that he's paraphrasing. Unless quoting like that is acceptable in the Magical World of Nevermind? Reply +10

• Dragon's Dogma expansion Dark Arisen out on 26th April

• PenguinJim 24/01/2013

  @Marrrfooo it's been ~£15 numerous times on 360 during the past few months, but it did manage to hold its price impressively until October. :) Reply +1

• THQ is no more. This is where its assets went

• PenguinJim 24/01/2013

  Prediction time! I think Ubisoft will delay the PC version of South Park: TSOT for four months so that Uplay can be cancerously applied. Reply +7

• Free XCOM: Enemy Unknown Second Wave DLC makes it even harder

• PenguinJim 08/01/2013

  All looks good, except...
  "Marathon: The game takes considerably longer to complete."
  
  The game already dragged out too long towards the end, IMO (on Classic), and put me off what would otherwise have been an immediate second playthrough on Impossible.'
  
  It's not that making the game longer would make it more difficult per se... just more boring! Reply -8

• Steam Holiday sale is nicer than Christmas cake

• PenguinJim 21/12/2012

  @dogmanstaruk I think you misread my post. I'm happy there's a Steam sale. It's not an exciting sale, and it's not a fantastic event like Steam had in 2011, but it's not a bad sale.
  
  It's just not a newsworthy sa... hang on, why am I replying to one of those poor people who throws around "self-entitled" without quite understanding what that means. :D
  
  Edit: maybe I should be a little kinder to people of your category. What I'm suggesting is a helpful EG news story that actually points out the cheapest new prices, instead of seducing people to pay more than they need to just because it's on Steam (like an advert, coincidentally enough I'M SURE). Or perhaps a news story with ten top tips for surviving Steam sales, as Robert's apparently failed to find any decent prices. Or perhaps a news story examining the Rise and Fall of the Steam Holiday Event, analysing why Steam sales got better and better over several years, peaking with the massive events last year, and then dropping down to being the adequate, decent-enough sales we see today. The ticket tattling, the coal abuse, the repeat of the poorly-received Flash sales. Y'know, all that obvious stuff.
  
  That's just off the top of my head. But as I haven't used the phrase "I love Steam", I'm sure you'll fail to understand. Reply -1

• PenguinJim 21/12/2012

  @Lirnath We get offered great games at great prices almost every day from plenty of retailers, and it makes me happy every day to play such wonderful games and to have so many at such fantastic prices. :D
  
  A Steam sale rehash non-event with plenty of repeated prices is A Good Thing, because I'm sure a few people will have missed them before, and I'm pleased to see that Valve are doing another sale. It's better than nothing. :)
  
  BUT IT'S NOT NEWS. There's nothing great, surprising or interesting in this sale!
  
  Hmmm... just noticed that Robert Purchese wrote this advert. Give up on the PC "articles", OK? Give them to somebody with PC experience, please! ;) Reply -14

• PenguinJim 21/12/2012

  "Borderlands 2 is down to £15" - it's been £13-odd for a month from Simply Games.
  
  "ArmA 2 and ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead - the two games you need to play DayZ Mod - are bundled up and discounted for £15." It's been a fiver before, and is currently US$18 from Amazon.com.
  
  "Some of the lowest prices today are Price of Persia (2008) for £2.49, Deus Ex: Human Revolution for £3.74 and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for only £1.74." - you're missing a key word here: AGAIN.
  
  None of these are new or exciting prices. Could you share with us any decent deals they have that aren't repeats or more expensive than the competition? That would certainly make this a worthwhile news piece!
  
  Or has Valve paid you for this advert? :(
  
  We want Steam EVENTS with fun activities and achievements, please! Not half-assed Steam sale repeats. Reply -21

• 3DS has surpassed PS3 lifetime sales in Japan

• PenguinJim 14/12/2012

  Every time Matulef says "whopping", everybody takes 1 drink. Reply +2

• Assassin's Creed 3 sells over 7 million units

• PenguinJim 14/12/2012

  Every time Matulef says "whopping", everybody takes 1 drink. Reply 0

• PenguinJim 13/12/2012

  @FatsoJetson I don't think English is his first language. Either that, or Eurogamer forgot to give him a "preview" button. Another mistake-ridden article. Cheers Jeff. Reply -2

• Earth Defense Force 2025 announced for Xbox 360 and PS3 next year

• PenguinJim 14/12/2012

  My favourite part in 2017 is still when the aliens show up but don't attack... so naturally we name them "Ravagers". And THEN they attack.
  
  Also, it's "Earth Defense Force 4", Matulef. Not "Forces". And don't forget EG's EDF 2017 Retrospective! Reply 0

• Humble THQ Bundle raised over $5 million in two weeks

• PenguinJim 14/12/2012

  Every time Matulef says "whopping", everybody takes 1 drink. Reply +1

• Neverwinter Nights retrospective

• PenguinJim 09/12/2012

  I was expecting to click through to this article and weigh in with my wonderfully controversial viewpoint that the campaign was 35 hours of dull, dry tedium. But that's pretty much covered in the first two paragraphs. :/
  
  So let me make everyone gasp over my even-lower-impression of Dragon Age (didn't even complete it, it was so uninteresting!). Yes, my opinion will make you gasp... oh, the suicidal penguins already beat me to it.
  
  ....
  
  Pass the noose, would you, chaps? Reply +1

• Face-Off: Darksiders 2 on Wii U

• PenguinJim 09/12/2012

  "...in another Digital Foundry multi-platform comparison".
  
  How many DF comparisons have been single-platform?
  
  /nitpicking ;)
  
  (I think there have been a couple of single-platform analyses, of course. But not COMPARISONS :P ) Reply +3

• Microsoft re-selling Kinect Sports 2 mini-games at £2 a pop

• PenguinJim 13/11/2012

  "Other upcoming content also includes a full digital version of X-Men: Destiny..."
  
  Thank Christ. The bits where the disc version waited for you to roll the real-life dice were cumbersome and annoying.
  
  Wait a second...
  
  The disc version was digital too! Stop trying to trick us, Tom, with your tricksy illiteracy! Reply +4