Telegraph: STUFF about GAMES

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:19 pm

Pure director Jason Avent Q&A- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/ma ... ame116.xml

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Captain Kinopio** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:51 pm

How come the Force Unleashed review is so short?

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:13 pm

Herb wrote:How come the Force Unleashed review is so short?

Mainly because it's going in Saturday's paper and that's the size of the review slot.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Captain Kinopio** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:13 pm

CrashHornet wrote:
Herb wrote:How come the Force Unleashed review is so short?

Mainly because it's going in Saturday's paper and that's the size of the review slot.

Ah! Good stuff, I really liked what was there.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Hero of Canton** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:38 pm

That Fable II piece is exceptional, Tom. Probably your best work to date. Well done.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Skippy** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:40 pm

I live near Guilford, if I strut into the EA building like I own the place and say I have a blog people actually read would they give me a playtest of Fable 2? :lol:

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Eighthours** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:30 am

CrashHornet wrote:Pure director Jason Avent Q&A- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/ma ... ame116.xml

You've got an "it's" in there, Tom. In the last answer! Nooooooo!

Your Fable 2 preview is awesome, by the way. Really, really good.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:10 pm

Eighthours wrote:
You've got an "it's" in there, Tom. In the last answer! Nooooooo!

Two in the space of a week. :fp:

It was an e-mail Q&A, curses for expecting a game director to be literate! I'm still blaming the subs though.

Thanks for the Fable II love guys. I must admit, I am rather proud of that one and I'd agree it's my best work. It was a bit of a watershed moment for me in a way too. Going to interview the designers, play the game, writing the big piece- I felt like a proper journo. :mrgreen:

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:45 pm

PsychoPriest wrote:I live near Guilford, if I strut into the EA building like I own the place and say I have a blog people actually read would they give me a playtest of Fable 2?

I wouldn't have thought so, you'd probably get kicked out for being a nutter, seeing as Fable II has nish to do with EA.

I've just posted a new blog, in a possibly vain attempt to build a community for the Telegraph site (something in which the Guardian beats us hands down) I'm going to start a weekly-ish Currently Playing blog. If you get a moment to sign up and join in, please do.

This week- Geometry Wars 2. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tom_hoggin ... try_wars_2

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:00 pm

Freak Out Requiem IV wrote:
Currently I prop up my friend's leaderboards in no less than four out of the six modes.

haha lol

(Although nice article. Just be better at GW2.)

I know. I'm shite.

Sometimes I genuinely have no idea how some people get the scores they do. Mentalists, I tells ya.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Hero of Canton** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:21 pm

CrashHornet wrote:
Freak Out Requiem IV wrote:
Currently I prop up my friend's leaderboards in no less than four out of the six modes.

haha lol

(Although nice article. Just be better at GW2.)

I know. I'm shite.

Sometimes I genuinely have no idea how some people get the scores they do. Mentalists, I tells ya.

We're busy writing while they're busy practising. That's how it works (well, that's my excuse, anyway). I'm really not looking forward to Friday's Gears event, as I'm going to get my awful 'skillz' totally shown up by everyone else there.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:55 pm

Aren't I a busy bee.

Plain Sight Q&A- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tom_hoggin ... n_sight_qa

UK indie developed, slash 'em up type thing. Looks pretty decent. Just a short Q&A with the designers.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Skippy** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:27 pm

CrashHornet wrote:
PsychoPriest wrote:I live near Guilford, if I strut into the EA building like I own the place and say I have a blog people actually read would they give me a playtest of Fable 2?

I wouldn't have thought so, you'd probably get kicked out for being a nutter, seeing as Fable II has nish to do with EA.

I got Will Wright and Peter Moylenusexxeseueuuexx confused

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Skippy** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:36 pm

Hero of Canton wrote:We're busy writing while they're busy practising. That's how it works (well, that's my excuse, anyway). I'm really not looking forward to Friday's Gears event, as I'm going to get my awful 'skillz' totally shown up by everyone else there.

I'll take your place?

No?

Okay.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:28 pm

Just a lil' blog about de Blob and a moan at release scheduling.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tom_hoggin ... et_de_blob

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Eighthours** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:30 pm

CrashHornet wrote:Just a lil' blog about de Blob and a moan at release scheduling.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tom_hoggin ... et_de_blob

Crazy, innit?

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Hero of Canton** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:58 pm

You should really have titled it 'de Blog'.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:34 am

Hero of Canton wrote:You should really have titled it 'de Blog'.

I originally had it has Blog de Blob. :mrgreen:

Then I had to change it to something slightly less obscure.

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Thongings** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:32 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/ma ... iew126.xml

Pure review. I can only apologise for the dreadful paragraphing, which is nothing to do with me. I'm having a meeting today to try and sort out how this stuff looks online, as it's a bit shite at the moment.

Ruining my beautiful prose. :cry:

There's also a Dead Space hands-on, written by my colleague, who says it's aces. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/ma ... ame126.xml

Blog on the Spore DRM stuff- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tom_hoggin ... of_the_drm

PostRe: Telegraph Video Games by **Bigerich** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:20 pm

CrashHornet wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/09/26/dlgamereview126.xml

Pure review. I can only apologise for the dreadful paragraphing, which is nothing to do with me. I'm having a meeting today to try and sort out how this stuff looks online, as it's a bit shite at the moment.

Ruining my beautiful prose.

Nice.

However, no mention of the online mode at all? Why? Is this because you played it on servers dedicated to journos? You could at least have mentioned the number of players supported (I think it's 16), and possibly the game modes as well.

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