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• Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington - Part 3 review

• ozzit 23/04/2013

  Just need the PS3 season pass to be discounted to something less than £24(!) and I'll bite. Reply +1

• This is what top-level COD competition ****ing looks like

• ozzit 21/03/2013

  So that's where James Corden got to... Reply +43

• Flower developer thatgamecompany was bankrupt when Journey shipped

• ozzit 08/02/2013

  The main thing I love about Journey now having finished it some time ago, is that whenever I read someone else's reminiscences about the game where they describe their adventures with their "partner" I stop and think, "wait, could that have been me?" and have no way of finding the answer. Reply +3

• UK government fines Sony for 2011 PlayStation hack

• ozzit 24/01/2013

  Unusual to see the words "UK Government" and "serious breach of the Data Protection Act" where they aren't the culprits themselves actually... Reply +73

• First Lego Lord of the Rings trailer, artwork

• ozzit 01/06/2012

  Did anyone else hear Sean Bean at the end and immediately think "LEGO Game of Thrones!"
  
  No?
  
  Just me then... Reply +1

• Assassin's Creed, Might and Magic, Settlers unplayable during Ubisoft server switch

• ozzit 02/02/2012

  @neilka well punned sir Reply +4

• Guess what percentage finished ACII

• ozzit 20/10/2010

  Call me mister cynical, but I smell pre-emptive justification for a very short campaign in AC 2.5 - "We only made it short so that more people could finish it, honest!"
  Reply +6

• Relic dev died saving wife and child

• ozzit 07/09/2010

  @Goodfella
  
  As far as I'm concerned I have 2 little buttons here that let me express whether I agree or disagree with the sentiment of anyone elses' post - I use them as I see fit, and expect others to do likewise.
  
  I disagree that removing some of the thoughtless and unpleasant posts from the top of the thread to be "heavy handed", sorry. Reply +1

• Valve once worked on "flying fairy game"

• ozzit 29/08/2010

  iirc didn't Narbacular Drop involve flying fairies? Was this a sequel? :D Reply 0

• Portal 2 coming to PlayStation 3

• ozzit 15/06/2010

  Who was that imposter? And what has he done with the real Gabe?
  
  Seriously though, did he say what I thought he did? Steam for PS3? :D Reply +6

• Newell lays into "closed" PS3

• ozzit 21/05/2010

  Don't get it, sorry.
  
  The mac IS more open than a PS3 granted - you can run any program you like, it doesn't have to be signed by Apple, and there are multiple content suppliers that are able to provide you with what you want with no pricing structure decreed by Apple (and no cut going to them either).
  
  But if a PS3 can be compared to a Gamecube in how 'closed' it is, how does the 360 escape the exact same comparison? There is no option but to buy your digital downloads from MS, who get a cut every time. If anything the PS3 is MORE open (if only very slightly) in that I can open up the web browser, head over to PopCap and play games there. Admittedly we won't be seeing Steam on the PS3 any time soon, but we sure as heck won't see it on the 360 either, particularly as MS's GfW Live is attempting (very poorly) to compete with Steam on its home turf.
  
  The topic of the architecture underpinning these devices becoming similar is an interesting one, as Valve have typically been quite contradictory. Back when the Mac was based on the PowerPC processors Valve wouldn't touch them with a bargepole, and now they use Intel chips all is well and they have been welcomed into the fold. The current Xbox uses... a derivative of the PowerPC architecture (the original 360 devkits were Apple Powermac G5s), so surely the the previous complaints of the architecture being too much work to code for don't stand up (Apple actually had a rather good API for games at the time - bring back sprockets! - plus the obligatory OpenGL).
  
  Essentially Valve does (and always has done) things the way they want to, if they 'can't be bothered' to do something, they won't, and no amount of bleating will force their hand into, for instance, developing for the PS3 I'm afraid. Reply +7

• Win tickets to glitzy MW2 launch!

• ozzit 02/11/2009

  Surely they can throw in a copy of the game too? Reply +1

• New races rumoured for WOW expansion

• ozzit 11/08/2009

  Guess that means they'll finally be opening up the Greymane wall and adding Gilneas in :D Reply 0

• Spinal Tap leads PSN refresher

• ozzit 18/06/2009

  No LBP Druid costume?
  
  http://www.mediamolecule.com/2009/06/17/... Reply 0

• E3: Square Enix unveils Nier

• ozzit 01/06/2009

  Sounds like a game from a school playground:
  
  "Now you've got the Lurgy, so Nier!" :P Reply 0

• FFXIII Japanese voices unlikely for 360

• ozzit 13/05/2009

  I read it as meaning that the european ps3 version will be missing the original dialogue as well simply to keep it in line with the gimped xbox version:
  
  "With PS3 being on Blu-ray there would be enough memory, but on Xbox probably not."
  
  "At the moment we're thinking of releasing the voice in English only."
  
  No mention of it being specific to the 360 version...
  
  or is that just me being paranoid? :) Reply 0

• EA loses Lord of the Rings licence

• ozzit 13/03/2009

  How careless, it'll be in the last place they look! Reply 0

• Chinese govt. rejects WOW: Lich King?

• ozzit 11/03/2009

  "So... what do the undead race look like in the chinese version then? :P"
  
  Like someone has used polyfilla on them:
  
  [link url=http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/07/03/the9-changes-wow-in-china-to-appease-censors/
  ]http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/07/03/the...[/link]
  Reply 0

• Uphill Struggle

• ozzit 17/01/2009

  @byron
  
  "anyone with all the consoles wouldn't need to ask that."
  
  Quite right, hence the question :)
  
  Cheers for the answer by the way, I'm glad there is more to it than being made to pay to play online.
  
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• ozzit 17/01/2009

  "Microsoft's superior software"
  Written with no irony whatsoever?
  
  As an aside: can someone please explain to me what is so vastly "superior" about MS's online services such that they would actually be worth paying for? its been nagging at me for ages.
  
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• Halo 3 expansion gets renamed

• ozzit 26/11/2008

  If i remember rightly from the Halo books (what? I'm a geek) ODSTs are affectionately known as "Helljumpers".
  
  Though i suppose having that as the subtitle might have made it sound like a game about an item of knitwear with demonic tendencies...
  Reply 0

• Suicide game developer tackles Telegraph

• ozzit 18/11/2008

  I assumed this would be about Karoshi, a far superior (and at times fiendishly difficult) game where the aim is to kill yourself in new and interesting ways. Karoshi translates to "Death from overwork".
  
  I and some workmates got completely addicted during a particularly boring weekend shift.
  
  [link url=http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=362308
  ]http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showt...[/link]
  
  and
  
  [link url=http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=369491
  ]http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showt...[/link]
  
  Enjoy! Reply 0

• Mirror's Edge - Helicopter chase

• ozzit 08/10/2008

  It looks amazing, but the fact that the route taken was not at all obvious bothered me too.
  
  It occured to me that the context sensitive actions (from previews there appears to be a "high" action and a "low" one, and what move you actually perform depends purely on the obstacle) extends to which direction you head in... making this little more than an "on rails" button matching game :(
  
  Will reserve judgement til I play it though. Reply 0

• Exclusive: Sony Conference - MMO announcements

• ozzit 21/08/2008

  I was excited about Free Realms until i heard him drone on about it...
  
  wake me up when hes finished Reply 0

• Warhammer Online - Epic trailer

• ozzit 20/08/2008

  Ooh me likey, and another epic cgi trailer to look forward to tomorrow as well :D
  
  *Does a happy dance* Reply 0