Terahawks Corner

So the votes are in and the choices are made. Below is the current games list for my Cancer Research Gaming Marathon, taking place from 1000 BST Sunday 22nd October 2017. Timings are included but these are definitely indicative. The plan is for this to be livestreamed on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5AnixeDvk4 1000 - Assassins Creed 4 - Xbox One 1030 - Batman: Arkham Knight - Xbox One 1100 - Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger - PS3 1130 - Destiny 2 - Xbox One 1200 - Enslaved: Odyessey to the West (was Entwined) - PS3 1230 - Flower - PS3 1300 - GTA V - Xbox One 1330 - Halo 5 Guardians - Xbox One 1400 - Ico - PS3 1430 - Journey - PS3 1500 - Kameo: Elements of Power (was 'Kinect') - Xbox 360 1530 - Lego Marvel Super Heroes - PS3 1600 - Minecraft - Xbox One 1630 - Need for speed: Most Wanted - PS3 1700 - Overlord - PS3 1730 - Playstation All Stars: Battle Royale - PS3 1800 - Quantum Break - Xbox One 1830 - Resident Evil 4 - PS3 1900 - S...

So below is the shortlist of titles for the alphabet gaming marathon I've scheduled for Sunday 22nd October 2017.  tinyurl.com/y9u8ho4j   Whilst my aim was to have one big title, one indie and one other, it's been largely influenced by what I have available to me, and by how well it would be portrayed, seeing as I'm no expert for any of these games. And, in some cases, it's limited by the starting letter (and I was fairly ruthless in using the official title - a lot more 'The' titles than i was expecting) My twitter feed  https://twitter.com/ReprobateGamer  has live polls for the next few days with all of those listed, along with an option to add your own. Do feel free to comment below if there is something you particularly would like to see - not much time left! Still struggling on Y as well ... Assassins Creed 4 / abyss odyessey  / asura's wrath Batman Knight / Blur / badlands Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger / Crysis 3 / chariot /  ...

When I saw the post from Cancer Research UK, calling for a games marathon, it didn't then sink in just how much this would require. My thoughts at the time of writing are actually quite long. For those who are looking for the page to donate, this is the link:   https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/toms-giving-page-34 I pondered it vaguely for a couple of days not really wanting to go down the route of seeing just how long I could sit in a game for, wanting to do something for this that felt like it was a little more meaningful than just an extra long gaming session. After all, I wasn't getting ready to run an actual marathon. The idea just kind of popped in there I guess. If I wanted to avoid a single game, then that necessitated multiple games. How does one go about picking? I think the 26 miles of a marathon race must have crept into my brain somewhere. When the conscious thought of picking an alphabet of games, the 26 letters clicked. I still had then to ...

I put up a video on the PS3 game Alien Rage : and made some throwaway comment about a search for what Sony thinks of PS+ What was about to follow was a lambasting of the PS+ service for PS3 owners - largely written in fact - but I started actually looking into it. Whilst Live Gold offers more value to me, I do owe both an Xbox 360 and an Xbox One, the later which I use for online gaming. So a lot of that I need to actually forget as without a PS4 I'm already missing out on a good chunk of available features. PS+ is 3 years or so older than the Games with Gold program and they were originally different beasts - PS+ was a follow-up to Sony's apology for the hacking issues when they offered Burnout: Paradise and a choice of 1 from 5 other games as an offering for the lack of service and lack of support at that point. It worked very well and Sony decided to offer a few games per month for an annual subscription. Multiplayer was still available for free on PS3. Meanwhile...

Based on a feature on Kotaku from last year, I've started tracking which games I play over a year. The full list is below but in total I've played 93 different games in 2016. Looking at the breakdown of games, I only completed the story mode on 9 games (10 if you count Destiny's vanilla campaign) but played 12 games that had already been completed in 2015 (or earlier). There were 9 beta's and tests (including one that I'm under an NDA for) and 8 trials and free weekends. This raises a slight question as to whether a beta counts as separate to the main game if the progress doesn't save across - I've taken it as not as it is the same game after all My Xbox Live and PS+ subscriptions do seem to be playing for themselves as those two schemes accounted for 40 of my 2016 games, and there are a number more that could be played. The remainder have all been paid for, other than Overcooked which was a gift from a Guardian Event (so thanks!) but this year I...