Thursday Next

It's like they speeded up original Mario. But with some more fancy jumping. Ninty fans are gonna gobble this up.

It does look like Destiny.

Jedi that are trying to be a bit dark to seem cool are technically Jedgy, or Jedgelords depending on their rank.

Yeah, alright nerds.

So are they Bothan's then? Are we gonna retcon a Bothan into a sort of Ronin...

Zero Time Dilemma, Uncharted 4, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, No Man's Sky. It's been a pretty good year for games for me.

It's not even that bad of a review. He pretty much says "there's not a lot more to do than explore a fairly desolate galaxy at a pretty slowish pace". I would completely agree with that but with the caveat that it was exactly what I wanted from the game. I love exploring these new planets, the crafting, the mining, the discovering and I love that it goes at it's own pace. Why can't people just accept that not everyone likes the same things?

You can feed animals on the planet, and then they become your friend and drop resources for you. I am quitting law to be a space farmer.

I think "tuppence" is still accepted as being "fuck all" though. Mostly as an abbreviation of pre-decimalisation 2p.

Beat Stealth Inc. 2. Fun little indie puzzle platformer from Curve.

Who are you calling a moron!

Unless it's effectively doubling their server traffic cos everyone is using phone to access and PC?

Could not care any less how long it takes someone else to grind to a finish in this game. I just want to get a piece of junk ship and explore a galaxy.

I don't get why the controllers have to come off. If it's comfortable to hold as is, then just beam it to the TV. If it's not comfortable, it's gonna suck as a handheld. Only sensible reason is that the controllers detach and each person has one for some basic 2 player games. *shrug* I think this is gonna be the virtual boy of this generation based on the limited info so far.

Oh my, this episode! These people *love* hills.

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/07/26/time-commanders-is-coming-back-and-its-looking-for-contestants Awesome.

I want to believe!

Thank fuck for that. https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/756889227095318528

The patent is for the application of the formula, not the formula itself. Patent law is indeed ridiculous, no idea if this has legs or not. Hope it doesn't.

Sounds like a last minute bump in the road. http://www.pcgamer.com/company-claims-no-mans-sky-uses-its-patented-equation-without-permission/ Seems like a legit complaint prima facie, but my cynical side says that the timing is done to cause max damage and get an unfairly high payout.

Pretty sure it has a record of your time. But not the same as the dashes et al.

Did the story of Mirror's Edge Catalyst. Now to grind through all the delivery etc. missions. Oh, Ethan, you can replay missions, just go all the way to the right on the options menu.

I get that people who paid may feel put out, but they will still get more than the free to players and they did have exclusive access to the game for a long time. I think they got their money's worth.

slightly annoying that next season is delayed while they wait for actual winter to film some scenes. Means the final series will be a couple of months late. http://www.slashfilm.com/game-of-thrones-season-7-delayed/

Yup. David was electable. Ed is a tit. I get that Corbyn was chosen by the membership of the Labour party, but the bottom line is that if he doesn't have the support of his MPs then he can't effectively lead the party. There's no point in "having a mandate" if everything you try to do with that mandate is voted down because you don't have the respect of your peers. If he's chosen to lead again by the membership (which seems inevitable) then he'll continue to be woefully ineffective. He's pretty much going to gift wrap the next election for May when she eventually calls it (in 2020). Even when he had the support of the party (leading up to the referendum) his leadership was piss poor. Rather than leading labour voters (and his followers in particular) to come out strongly in favour of Remain, he was absent from all the major rallying points, and when questioned directly was wishy washy to the point of saying he was "about 70% in favour of remain". Being a leader means you pick a direction and strike out on it. Not waver around just off from the middle while you mull over what might be. He's supposed to be in charge of the party, not auditioning for bloody Hamlet.