Computer games.

[Jxg]

Didn't know Twitter was a video game, like

 

[Dylan]

Didn't know Twitter was a video game, like

Bloody good point though! Who on twitter actually acts like their real life selves?

 

[ijjysmith]

Just been playing 'Don't Starve' on the PS4.

It's free with PS Plus this month so thought if give it a whirl.

What a little gem.

I think PC gamers might know of it.

Great little game.

 

[neil999]

Ha! Gotta love Charlie brooker, still can't decide about ps4....

 

[RFUS]

Love Brooker.

And how ace is PS plus, Ijjy? Got Contrast and Resogun in the first month and I was going to buy Resogun anyway, total of 25 quid's worth of free* games. And unlike MS's mirroring promotion they give you current, good games and not 6 year old titles you own already.

*Obviously there's the subscription fee, but I've paid one £40 fee for the year and collected like 30 odd quids worth of games already, and I was going to buy Don't Starve and Resogun anyway! It's an incredible service, and I'm actually envious of PS3 owners as they get 5x more free games!

 

[ijjysmith]

Love Brooker.

And how ace is PS plus, Ijjy? Got Contrast and Resogun in the first month and I was going to buy Resogun anyway, total of 25 quid's worth of free* games. And unlike MS's mirroring promotion they give you current, good games and not 6 year old titles you own already.

*Obviously there's the subscription fee, but I've paid one £40 fee for the year and collected like 30 odd quids worth of games already, and I was going to buy Don't Starve and Resogun anyway! It's an incredible service, and I'm actually envious of PS3 owners as they get 5x more free games!

Ah mate I've been a PS Plus member for years and years. They used to give away Guitar Hero songs beards ago and I've been addicted since.

Great service.

 

[Furey1878]

Always wanted to try the Professor Layton games out, despite the fact I'm not 7 years old any more.

Bought The Lost Future today and then my DS touch screen stops working. Anyway, I'll let Sgt. Elias convey my emotions:

 

[DualityNSNO]

Finished my placements matches today in League of Legends. Silver 2 after 7 wins/3 losses. Not too bad I suppose!

 

[Jxg]

Finished my placements matches today in League of Legends. Silver 2 after 7 wins/3 losses. Not too bad I suppose!

Oh God, how I envy you.

Bronze is terrible.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Oh God, how I envy you.

Bronze is terrible.

Silver 2 is exactly where I left off last season anyway, so in a way no progress has been made or lost lol.

Are you below Bronze 2? How did your placements go?

 

[Jxg]

Silver 2 is exactly where I left off last season anyway, so in a way no progress has been made or lost lol.

Are you below Bronze 2? How did your placements go?

Was Silver in S3. Won 8/10 placements. Placed in B1 and just got demoted to B2 due to throws and feeders.

 

[dholliday]

The 30 greatest video games that time forgot

Which ones have you played?


3D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983)
Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios/Electric Dreams Software, C64/Spectrum, 1986)
Alter Ego (Activision, C64/PC/Apple II, 1986)
Astal (Sega, Sega Saturn, 1995)
Bioforge (EA/Origin, PC, 1995)
Bust A Groove (Enix/Metro Graphics, PlayStation, 1998)
ChuChu Rocket (Sega/Sonic Team, Dreamcast, 1999)
Devil Dice (Sony/Shift, PlayStation, 1998)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Nntendo/Silicon Knights, GameCube, 2002)
Freedom Fighters (EA/IO Interactive, GameCube/PS2/Xbox, 2003)
FreQuency (Sony, PS2, 2001)
Gitaroo Man (Koei/Inis, PS2/PSP, 2001)
Hellfire (Toaplan, arcade/Mega Drive/PC Engine, 1989)
Herzog Zwei (Sega/Technosoft, Mega Drive, 1989)
Interstate 76 (Activision, PC, 1997)
Little Big Adventure (EA, PC/PlayStation, 1994)
Meridian 59 (The 3DO Company, PC, 1995)
Mischief Makers (Nintendo/Treasure, N64, 1997)
Nato Commander (Microprose, Apple II/Atari/C64, 1983)
The Neverhood (Neverhood, Inc/Dreamworks, PC/PlayStation, 1996)
Oids (FTL Games, Atari ST/Mac, 1987)
Oni (Rockstar/Bungie, Mac/PC/PS3, 2001)
Pyjamarama (Mikrogen, Amstrad/C64/Sectrum, 1984)
Return Fire (Silent Software/Prolific, 3DO/PC/PlayStation, 1995)
Runabout (ASCII/Climax Entertainment, PlayStation, 1997)
Sacrifice (Shiny/Avalon, PC, 2000)
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (Acquire/Activision, PlayStation, 1998)
Vib-Ribbon (Sony/NanaOn-Sha, PlayStation, 1999)
The Warriors (Rockstar, PS2/Xbox, 2005)
Zillion (Sega/Tatsunoko Production, Master System, 1987)


I only remember Aliens on the C64. Proper jumpy moments in that! Expert use of sound as a horror device.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

[video=youtube;-FLVjfFKy58]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLVjfFKy58[/video]

Jon Snow had to be trolling there wouldn't accept the fact that women actually play video games. It's either that or his passive sexism was off the charts..

In seriousness though this clip goes a long way in proving that, as a medium, there's a certain generation that will just never "get" video games. If you told a group of 50/60+ year olds that the video games industry was bigger than the film industry these days and that the core age demographic has been 18-34 for years now they simply wouldn't believe you (either that or they will automatically come to some daft reasoning behind it, as Snow did a few times in that clip). The ignorance, by and large, comes from the fact that these people still view video games as a thing for "kids"... but then you get this other ignorance over the more violent games and these same people will then turn around and argue 'til they're blue in the face that they contribute to the downfall of society and shouldn't exist at all, as if they're now automatically to blame for any mass killing that goes on.

I applaud Brooker for at least trying to fight the corner and counter the misconceptions, but in the end it won't make much difference I reckon.
.

 

[Furey1878]

The 30 greatest video games that time forgot

Which ones have you played?


3D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983)
Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios/Electric Dreams Software, C64/Spectrum, 1986)
Alter Ego (Activision, C64/PC/Apple II, 1986)
Astal (Sega, Sega Saturn, 1995)
Bioforge (EA/Origin, PC, 1995)
Bust A Groove (Enix/Metro Graphics, PlayStation, 1998)
ChuChu Rocket (Sega/Sonic Team, Dreamcast, 1999)
Devil Dice (Sony/Shift, PlayStation, 1998)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Nntendo/Silicon Knights, GameCube, 2002)
Freedom Fighters (EA/IO Interactive, GameCube/PS2/Xbox, 2003)
FreQuency (Sony, PS2, 2001)
Gitaroo Man (Koei/Inis, PS2/PSP, 2001)
Hellfire (Toaplan, arcade/Mega Drive/PC Engine, 1989)
Herzog Zwei (Sega/Technosoft, Mega Drive, 1989)
Interstate 76 (Activision, PC, 1997)
Little Big Adventure (EA, PC/PlayStation, 1994)
Meridian 59 (The 3DO Company, PC, 1995)
Mischief Makers (Nintendo/Treasure, N64, 1997)
Nato Commander (Microprose, Apple II/Atari/C64, 1983)
The Neverhood (Neverhood, Inc/Dreamworks, PC/PlayStation, 1996)
Oids (FTL Games, Atari ST/Mac, 1987)
Oni (Rockstar/Bungie, Mac/PC/PS3, 2001)
Pyjamarama (Mikrogen, Amstrad/C64/Sectrum, 1984)
Return Fire (Silent Software/Prolific, 3DO/PC/PlayStation, 1995)
Runabout (ASCII/Climax Entertainment, PlayStation, 1997)
Sacrifice (Shiny/Avalon, PC, 2000)
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (Acquire/Activision, PlayStation, 1998)
Vib-Ribbon (Sony/NanaOn-Sha, PlayStation, 1999)
The Warriors (Rockstar, PS2/Xbox, 2005)
Zillion (Sega/Tatsunoko Production, Master System, 1987)


I only remember Aliens on the C64. Proper jumpy moments in that! Expert use of sound as a horror device.

Eternal Darkness is on ym 'to play' list. As I've been playing a lot of gamecube lately.

Freedom Fighters was an awesome game. Might have to get it for PC.

Oni; briefly played. Can't remember too much about it though.

And Tenchu is another boss game, solid, but boss.

 

[BlueLlama]

Everything looks ace on PS4. Even started playing CoD again