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There may well have been a series of them for different eras. I've found a couple of mentions via google about something called Betsi (possibly a dog character) - a Victorian game and a Tudors game. Edutainment doesn't seem to be very widely recorded.

I'm pretty sure this was the first game I ever played: I was about to have an eye operation and while the anaesthetic kicked in they gave me a Gameboy to play with. Probably 1993 give or take a year. As I remember it, dinosaurs would appear on the screen and you had to select an edge of the screen where a boulder would come out to try and crush the dinosaurs. Another: My primary school had an Acorn computer in around 1997. We had Zool for it, but there was also an educational adventure game about Victorian England which seems oddly sophisticated in my memory of it. I remember an overhead view of a town, you could go into the various buildings (can only remember a clockmaker shop) and you were able to do some kind of time travel.

I've decided not to buy this until it's cheap. The saccharine atmosphere and tone just don't appeal to me. The visuals look lovely but aren't nearly as striking as Rez. I don't mind them doing something different but this isn't for me.

I like how they've only got quotes from the worst websites that exist.

Enjoy http://www.zoonami.com/briefing/2004-09-02.php Further off topic: I don't think the single player of Goldeneye gets enough recognition. It's rubbish to play now, but it did lots of nice stuff that was forgotten when Half Life (or as I like to call it: The Bastard Cancer) stole the show and almost everybody copied that instead and continue to do so to this day. More Goldeneye coolness: -The missions were quite demanding and often quite large and non-linear with lots of little objectives. The difficulty levels made the missions simpler or more complicated rather than the usual methods. Structurally it wasn't much like any of the other fields of first person game at the time that people remember. -The levels felt like actual places, because they were built pseudo-realistically then adapted as levels. It worked well and felt very much unlike the vast majority of other shooters. 4 different heads is better than 1 Goldeneye multiplayer was great at the time because it was so goofy and there were so many options and modes. Nobody will argue that it's particularly well designed. Nobody played it competetively. If you were playing quake online before 1997 then you're well before the Goldeneye generation.

I'm with you, especially the animation. I like hand animation over mocap, but it has to be done right and the NPC who gives the sewer mission in that trailer is animated so very very wrong. It's also a bit sad to notice that all the enemies are 100% clones of one another, wearing identically torn and soiled rags. Funny how advanced Goldeneye still is in some respects in 2011. The enemies in that game also still react to getting shot better than in any FPS since. But then I sit around all day fuming over little things that nobody else cares about.

I'm happy about the HD MGS remakes, I never played MGS3 and I've been waiting for a nice version to come out so that I can try and get into 2 and 4. I had ZoE1 years ago and didn't like it. It's very much one of those mech games where everything feels incredibly cheaply put together, as if the mechs looking cool was enough for them, and with loads of Anime guff. The human characters look terrifying. Transfarring is mindblowing. I had no idea that kind of technology was possible in this age.

UK times aren't as bad as they often are. June 6th Microsoft - 5.30pm June 7th Sony - 1am Nintendo - 5pm

I'm bored out of my fucking mind having finished university seemingly a month before all my incredibly busy friends and having failed to find anything productive to do with myself until at least August. So I'll be up all night watching streams and mashing bullshit in IRC channels like it's 2005.

Looks like it'll be one of the few upressed games that actually looks better for it.

Wait, 2k Games owns a website called boob-tube.eu?

It's fine if you can do it well. Activision games do it with a straight face and a baseball cap on sideways. Guitar Hero, see Brutal Legend. Tony Hawk, see Outrun 2. CoD, see EDF.

I bought crysis in the steam sale recently and closed it down after about 15 minutes. The shitty trailer-like unskippable introduction video seemed to be setting the trashy tone and I quickly realised I had no interest in sitting through hours of soulless shooting and manpunching. Steam causes me forget that demos exist.

Who is Size Five Games? Do they make CoD map packs?

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I'm having a lot of fun with Bangai-O HD, never played the previous ones. It's one of those great, really precise Japanese games that's bastard hard but totally fair. You're incredibly vulnerable and incredibly powerful at the same time, you only die when you screw up and you can always see what went wrong.

That's pretty handy, shame you can't access it in the overlay because Brink doesn't alt-tab very reliably.

I'm referring to this witchcraft: How do I filter out empty servers? In every other game you tick a box which is normally already ticked.

Dota 2: Bellend edition

Can anyone shed any light on how I operate the filters in the server browser? I don't have a clue what to type in the mysterious text field...

Nice one Thompson I've tweaked it in GIMP to suit my requirements.

I want a looping animated gif of his hand gesture at 34 seconds, but I can't be bothered to pirate photoshop again.

Once a year neogaf makes me laugh:

The PSN store, in europe at least, is nuts. They often release games on there that literally don't show up anywhere unless you search. There's no section for demos. Most demos get taken off the store after only a few weeks. You can't browse only downloadable games, you have to sort through all the ones that are just trailers and other shit. It's a total joke.

Get your Kaz http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/14/kazuo-hirai-playstation-network-relaunch-announcement/