Alternative Nation - Gaming

Gamers' Voice

Bobzilla — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:56:21 GMT

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Watson - Labour MP for West Bromwich East

This week I set up a group in response to a tabloid story. Gamers' Voice is a platform for gamers to vent their spleen at the way they are portrayed in the media. More than 12,000 people have already joined. Gamers are sick of being treated like idiots and determined to get heard.

It's time to elevate the games industry to the same status as the music and film industries. The government should consider a UK Games Council, along similar lines to the UK Film Council. It will give industry and government a platform to discuss the strategic opportunities that have to be grasped if we're to get the export-led growth the chancellor, and the country, so badly needs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ay-a-videogame

Thought you guys might be interested.

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/g...4734041&ref=mf

Twitter - http://twitter.com/GamersVoice

anyone who doesnt have COD4-2

Burrows — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:05:30 GMT

Fancy playing ODST Firefight!?

/ness by the boogie

Beat the bump

Akira ^_^ — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:51:41 GMT

So.......

COD has finally been released <3

I'm sure I won't be the only one here that pre-ordered it through Game or an equivalent and feel raging that morrisons are selling it for roughly �36 :argh:

My plan is to play the copy I got sent until I can get a hold of a cheaper copy, return the more expensive copy to Game and be quids in.

My question is.....
Will this plan work? I mean, obviously I have opened the box but can I not just lie and say I already got it from my girlfriend or something. Plus will they check if I've took the 48 hour trial from the box? :p

Why the fuck should Game be able to charge that? I even got bumped from the word go because they were doing it cheaper instore for pre-orders than their site

Japan gets new "Large Screen" Nintendo DSi

Radiohead — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:13:48 GMT

To be released in Japan in November, and shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, here's a pic showing the upcoming Nintendo DSi LL, and how the screen compares to the DSi's screen (the colour is a bit vomit-inducing)...

And here's a site stacking the DS Lite and DSi against the new DS LL...

http://kotaku.com/5392444/how-does-t...si-and-ds-lite

I'd love some kind of Photoshop/Painter app for this.

Trading in Games

adrenalize — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:29:58 GMT

Right, thought I would throw this up here.

If you are planning on trading in any games on the near future, then HMV seems the place to do it.

Went to Gamestation yesterday with:

Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero World Tour
Street Fighter 4
MK vs DC Universe.

They offered me �29 for the lot. With �16 coming from GH5

Went to HMV and they offered my �54 for all 4 of them, which I thought was fair, and would have been what I got if I tried to sell them myself on ebay.

[360] 2100 Xbox Points - �7

karbon14 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:33:12 GMT

Head over to littlewoods.com and order their 2100 points for �22.00. Then apply the code ZG753 at the checkout for �15.00 off. This has to be your first order with them. You can also get 8% quidco too

[360] Borderland

Ghostsuit — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:27:52 GMT

Anyone else picked this up? Just played a little bit there and it's cracking fun. Kind of like a Fallout though more arcadeish feel you can also play with 4 players online or split screen. Gain exp for kills and can buy weapons.

Anyway I'm liking it so far and any game that has Mutant Pigmy Psychos has something going for it.

[Games] International Superstar Soccer Professional Evolution 2010 [PES2010]

Jaemi — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:13:58 GMT

Anyone got it yet?
Any thoughts?

After having to buy a new Xbox, I've finally got to play PES.
I've been a PES man for years and for the first time in ages I bought FIFA too, so I'm in a good place to compare..

If someone brought out a game that looked like FIFA but played like PES, they'd be onto a winner.

XboX Graphics Fucked.

Jaemi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:50:30 GMT

So, Ive turned my XboX on for the first time in a few weeks..
Things start off fairly well, then after about 1 or so minutes, the graphics go all strange and the screen become unwatchable.
I've switched the cables around, so it does appear to be a problem with the box..

..I assume that it's tea's oot?

[Games] Metro 2033

Shannow — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:47:12 GMT

This looks like the bastard lovechild of stalker and Fallout 3, and thus, fucking awesome.

trailer here
http://www.metro2033game.com/en

Quote:

Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth�s surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.

The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.

You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.

http://ow.ly/vSfX