Sponz • Comments

• GeoGuessr is a brilliant, educational Google Maps-based game

• Sponz 12/05/2013

  When are EG going to give a nod to Ingress? Another fantastic Geo-locating-Augmented-reality Google game? I've been playing it now for 4 months, and its great! Reply 0

• Save Homeworld campaign fails to secure the rights to the space RTS series

• Sponz 18/04/2013

  Whoever has it, please don't destroy one of the best PC gaming franchises with greedy executives seeing £££ signs with fucking micro-transactions and DLC. Reply +5

• Facebook's 10-game plan to win core gamers in 2013

• Sponz 04/02/2013

  No thanks Mr Mark Z. I am not interesting in you elaborate system for farming all my personal information.
  
  Want to attract core-gamers? Create a smashing stand-alone game (without the need for ever logging in using Facebook.) Reply +2

• Eurogamer Christmas update plans

• Sponz 21/12/2012

  Thanks EG, Merry Chrimbo! Reply 0

• Xbox Live 10 Year Anniversary console offer not coming to the UK

• Sponz 15/11/2012

  ..and to add insult to injury here is the amazing "thanks" for being a 10 year vet email that I just literally got in my mailbox.
  
  Wow, a free copy of Wreckateer for the Kinect that I never fucking use.
  
  An amazing 50% off of Arcade games that I don't want or already have.
  
  And to top it off, a Thank You message from Marc Whitten, that when you actually click on it, gives you a fucking 404 error.
  
  Nice. Reply +3

• Sponz 15/11/2012

  Heh, I phoned up Xbox support this morning to confirm that I was indeed a 10 year vet. In fact I was one the first wave of EU (UK) testers, connecting my original brick up I think in the middle of October 2002. I've still got the silver zip case, disc and orange memory card. I never missed a payment. The bloke on the other end of the phone was genuinely surprised and gave me three free games. Shit games mind, but free nonetheless. Reply 0

• Borderlands Legends iOS shooter revealed, out this month

• Sponz 22/10/2012

  Wheres the bloody Android love? My trusty HTC one X runs rings around the new iphone, and me TF700T Tablet blows chunks out of the ipad.
  
  I mean, Claptrap IS a robot, it's only fair for an Android port..
  
  Reply +29

• Off-screen video of Sony's Gran Turismo at 4K resolution demo

• Sponz 18/10/2012

  If I can drive Delboys Reliant at that res, then I'm sold.
  
  :) Reply +2

• Night and the City

• Sponz 17/10/2012

  Thanks for the great article Christian. Reply +3

• Wing Commander creator returns to melt your PC with new space sim Star Citizen

• Sponz 10/10/2012

  Holy shit, I think I just messed myself. Reply 0

• Where to find your Borderlands 2 pre-order Top Trumps

• Sponz 01/09/2012

  "wait - there's nowhere offering the deal in Brighton?! For shame. "
  
  No, but there are apparently 2 offerings in HOVE! Like, right next door. :)
  
  
  Tomorrows World Home Entertainment Ltd
  18 Boundary Road
  Hove
  East Sussex
  BN3 4EF Reply 0

• Archos GamePad: an Android gaming tablet that looks like PlayStation Vita

• Sponz 29/08/2012

  Until Archos significantly improve their customer service reputation, and the build quality of their products then they can shove it. Once bitten... and never again. They're a bunch of charlatans, and not an early 90's indie group.
  
  http://www.customerservicescoreboard.com/Archos
  
  Google Search for Archos Poor Customer Service. Reply +3

• Planetside 2 beta begins Monday night

• Sponz 05/08/2012

  @dogmanstaruk - Priority access you say? I played PS for nearly 4 years straight without ever cancelling my subscription. I signed up for the beta as soon as it was announced, and I havent had an invite.. :( Reply +1

• Is cloud gaming the future?

• Sponz 26/07/2012

  Quite happy with streaming tv and radio etc.
  
  Gaming, where i'm reliant on someone elses infrastructure?
  
  Fuck right off. I want to play games without the reliance of some money grabbing, pen pushing, budget approving corporate cunt (who more than likely doesn't even play games) deciding what i can do.
  
  Cloud gaming? No thanks. Reply +3

• Rambo video game for PC, consoles named

• Sponz 06/07/2012

  I am the law! ....oh hang on.
  
  As long as the special edition comes with a free hunting knife with sewing kit and compass in the top, I'm sold. Reply +1

• Mmm! This PC and indie games show is nearly ready!

• Sponz 05/07/2012

  I miss Brighton :(
  
  Best thing I ever went to in the Brighton Centre was a rave back in 1990 around Christmas time called Dance '90. Huge night out that ended at 7am. There were many people off their trollies including me.
  
  That and of course Run DMC and The Beastie Boys in 1986.
  
  Have fun everyone who's going! Reply +3

• Arma 3 in-engine footage shows off lighting tech

• Sponz 25/05/2012

  Excellent, I can't wait. But lets just hope that this time round the game is actually at least playable from the get go. Arma 2 for me, would not run correctly either through graphical glitches or poor scripting or one of a million other bugs that were in the game at release time. It's only now (some 3 years later)following the DayZ release, and actually re-installing and patching it again, does it seem to run pretty damn good.
  
  DayZ 2 oh yes indeedy! Reply +1

• Fake Angry Birds developer fined £50,000

• Sponz 24/05/2012

  @randompanda Surely within project management it would be "Cost Projection" or "Cost Forecast."
  
  You're on detention Sunny Jim, with a letter to your parents. Reply 0

• Sponz 24/05/2012

  "I downloaded every app that I could see on the Android market which had good reviews....."
  
  Then
  
  "I'm always quite careful with my phone,"
  
  
  Feck me, if thats his "being careful" - Then i'd hate to see his "carefree" side.
  
  In other news, British citizen John Gladstone kidnapped in Nigeria.
  
  "I was just trying to help this nice chap out who emailed me saying that his father had left him a $15,000,000 inheritence" - John was quoted from the ransom video given over to the British Embassy. Reply +17

• Payday The Heist blending with Left 4 Dead

• Sponz 21/05/2012

  I work in a bank. I feel like a zombie most of the time. Perhaps I'd better keep an eye out for any shifty looking types intent on "doing us over."
  
  Oh, hang on, that's already the share dealers upstairs. Reply +3

• Xbox 360 dashboard will track your Kinect exercise

• Sponz 08/05/2012

  If you get one of these for gaming, joule surely regret it. Reply +27

• EA trademarks SimOcean

• Sponz 27/04/2012

  Todays fish is Trout à la Creme. Reply 0

• Battlefield 3: the state of play

• Sponz 27/04/2012

  @JamesPwnd - Am I not allowed to enjoy a game? Am I not allowed to voice an opinion?
  
  Maybe I am at an advantage because I am able to play it fully maxed out, and at ~100fps online with little to no lag.
  
  I like it. I miss commander mode from BF2, but thats about it. Reply +3

• Sponz 27/04/2012

  Haters will hate on this game until it's long buried. If you know how to play and don't blame the devs, other gamers, and pre-teen rage, then it's a great game. It's in a different league to COD imo.
  
  I'm just about to hit 100 hours played, and its the damn finest BF game I have played (and i've played them all) - Bring on the expansions!! Reply +5

• Why the Magic of Independent Stores Should Never Be Lost

• Sponz 22/04/2012

  @AceGrace - I was trying to remember the name of that shop in the old "Dirty Concrete" Churchill Square. Thats where I remember buying my copy of Mercenary for the C64 from. Reply 0