TheFlyingGerbil

Nintnendo finally announced details of its first mobile game and... their stock dropped 10%. I say game, it is some sort of weird messaging app for "introverted people" to find out info about their friends they wouldn't normally share/ask. So kind of creepy? And while they've been saying all along it will be released this year it has been pushed back to March 2016. Seems like the core functionality is free and all you'd pay for is things like outfits for your Mii so easy not to spend money, but tempting if you want to. I doubt I'd be spending money unless they were cheap. E.g. I like some of the 3DS themes, and I'd buy them if they were, say 50p, but as they are nearer to £2 they are eating into game-buying money.

You may like that programme, "Humans" that Dean mentioned in the TV shows thread as it is basically the exact same premise and is only 6 episodes long.

Did it end up being too actiony? I think I read it took a strange turn to end up almost like a cover shooter or am I mixing that up with something else?

Optimistic? Turns out that old PS4 tech demo is going to be a game. Though what sort isn't clear from the trailer. I enjoyed Heavy Rain, haven't got around to beyond two souls yet. I guess quantic get pretty mixed reviews but they appeal to me as gameplay needn't always be the main appeal of a game, though if they nailed that too obviously so much the better.

Have you heard of the programme Doc Martin over in the states? I ask because it just had a guest appearance by Sigourney Weaver, which was quite frankly a bit of a surprise.

I don't like most special editions but I think that one looks nice, and I don't even have any nostalgia for the original controller.

The only time it bothers me is when you're singing the alphabet (which admittedly isn't as much an issue as it used to be) as zed totally doesn't rhyme with vee, cee or me.

That's a traditional pasty. I guess hand pie must be a regional term then. What would you call that?

I'm sure we've bought up pasties before, but I don't remember anyone mentioning the US term, "hand pies". That's really cute.

Yay we're on a new page so don't have to see my bartender joke. You remember, the "two what" joke that drove everyone mad thinking about it. That one. Just one the last page, a riddle waiting to be solved. Anyway, this one is simpler.

Just from trying different options straight away a lot of the decisions don't make any difference. The first response after changes and then the rest up to the next decision are the same so I wouldn't get your hopes up for a radically different outcome.

it would be useful if they had a countdown to release timer next to it so it was more obvious how close the embargo was to release, but it's interesting to hear the positive side of embargoes, as I've only ever hear negative reasons for them. Can anyone here think of any good games that had severe embargoes.

I have a tea question for any of you that are a bit knowledgeable. How much difference to taste will these leaf sizes make? Obviously the bigger leaves are dearer, and I'm not sure I'd appreciate the difference if it's subtle

I didn't recognise quite a bit of that, but it all sounded good. The conductor was milking it for all it was worth at the end there, lol

According to Americans, Glaswegian is the sexiest uk accent, followed by cockney. Geordie was seen as the most intelligent. This is not how the survey would pan out if carried out over here. In the opposite direction Brits* found New Yorkers to have the sexiest accent, Chicagoans the least. *hate that term, as I can't help but associate it with vaguely racist red top headlines.

China has topped a list of the world's biggest markets for video games, beating America into second place. The worldwide games industry accounts for £59bn in revenue, with £53bn of that - roughly 90 per cent - coming from the top 20 countries. 1 China £14.4bn 2 US £14.2bn 3 Japan £7.9bn 4 South Korea £2.6bn 5 Germany £2.3bn 6 UK £2.2bn 7 France £1.5bn 8 Canada £1.1bn 9 Spain £1bn 10 Italy £0.9bn 11 Brazil £0.9bn 12 Russia £0.8bn 13 Mexico £0.7bn 14 Australia £0.7bn 15 Taiwan £0.4bn 16 Turkey £0.3bn 17 Netherlands £0.3bn 18 India £0.2bn 19 Poland £0.2bn 20 Switzerland £0.2bn Not sure what I excepted from this list but I'm guessing how China spends that money is very different than the rest of the list. Would be interesting to see how each country splits that money between mobile, online subscriptions, boxed retail and digital console/pc downloads etc. What I do wonder is if Japan's market was ever bigger than usa's as people are always going on about its decline - is that from an export point of view or domestic sales. Since USA has nearly 3x the population but less than 2x the spend then proportionally Japanese still spend significantly more on vgs. Also, I know Germany is a larger country than uk (80m vs 64m) but I still kind of expected us to spend more, I just don't really imagine Europeans being that into video games.

Looks interesting and definitely not at all like Shadow of the Colossus. Even that big chain was used in the team Ico third project Teaser. . Hopefully as we hear more about it it will show something more though the website doesn't fill me with confidence We can but hope. Also not sure if it's the bit with the wolves but there's a bit of the new tomb raider about it. Mind you, even if it is a rip off doesn't mean it won't be good.

Ooh. I haven't killed him at all yet... Nice to know that's looming over my choices. That will definitely help with my dislike of making decisions.

I bought this after you posted about it and have been playing it, and it' smacking me feel like I wouldn't cope very well with a telltale game.

Most watched programme of the year so far I think - 14m people. It's exactly what you'd expect from daily mail. I hated it when it first blew up on the Internet and people in the usaa thought it was a respectable British paper. Glad it's become abundantly clear to everyone that it is a steaming pile.

So that would make a total of one reasons?

I guess none of you watch The Great British Bake Off, but it was the final today and I got a bit teary at the end of it. Was pretty surprised to see Mary Berry holding back a tear too. She knows they've changed a deserving person's life which may sound strange to say about a baking competition, but is absolutely true.

Dean could you shove it in the members only area?

oh my god

yeah, as I was looking through them for the names, I noted they all had some sort of twist but still vague theme in the same way we had WWII shooters for a bit, and sci fi shooters. They do all look different enough that you could be interested in all of them not just choose one of the lot.