DrDark's Lair

#videogamepornos [SFW]

2011-09-02T12:59:00.001+01:00

Yes, readers, I know the title seems somewhat dubious, but it was just some light-hearted fun...

Just over a year ago, on a wet and windy boring day on the Twitterverse, I was reminded of a "Top 5" list in a multi-platform gaming magazine called Arcade (which has since gone to the big pile of paper in the sky). This list feature was a comical take on "what if porn movies were made based on video game characters?".
I recalled a couple of the more amusing ones and decided to post them on Twitter, and added the hashtag #videogamepornos
I'm aware it's resurfaced twice since (and indeed may have been used before) but I assure you in this instance it was my idea!

As usual I've babbled for a bit longer than I'd intended before getting to the main point of the post (I'm not sure if the babbling actually interests anyone or not, given that only about 3 people regularly read this blog :P).

I've got 5 images captured from the Twitter timeline. Given the way posts are displayed (and my lack of knowledge at the time to arrange them differently), the chronological sequence would be to read each image bottom to top.

Have some LOLs.

Adios!

P.S. Yes, I know my blog template is crap and too narrow, but I never intended on all this displaying of imagery and I haven't the time to change it at the moment :P. Soon though; soon...

P.P.S. See: changed now! :P

My Wii is NOT Dusty!

2011-06-28T23:31:00.003+01:00

[Note: since I've started receiving suggestions, further updates will be added in this colour.]

A couple of months ago I observed a typical online exchange relating to the Wii, complaining once again about a lack of games. Specifically "good" games. A number was thrown to the fore, indicating perhaps only around 7 existed. I scoffed at this (I do that about a lot of things) and exclaimed there were easily 100 good games for the Wii. Not great ones; not system-sellers; not killer apps or GOTRs. Just GOOD games. Games which have given someone, somewhere, some enjoyment for a while.

So I started on a list. I decided to include games I haven't even played but am very aware of and do know have garnered a favourable review here or there. Even if said review was by close friends. I also decided to start at 100 and count down, so I had a goal and knew I'd failed if I had to resort to listing "Petz" games before I reached #1...

The impatient will have noticed I'm currently on # -39*.

Yes, I've managed to find 139 decent Wii games. Whodathunkit? As I recall someone somewhere saying at some point. I will continue to add to the list as games are released, and receive reasonably good reviews. Feel free to point any missing favourites out in the comments so I can add them, or indeed any duplicates where I've been absent-minded.

Also, as you may have noticed, the title of this post is reference to the ridiculous line about the Wii "gathering dust", which is up there with the silliness of "the PSP is a PS2 in your pocket". The fact so many people -including journalists- use those lines is disgraceful, and testament to the power of hype; or anti-hype as the case may be. I have vowed many a time to physically punish anyone who uses such phrases again. Unfortunately, some of them are nice people, so I may just end up furrowing my brow at them instead.

I shall delay no more: on to the list!

100. Super Mario Galaxy 2
99. Metroid Prime Trilogy
98. Super Mario Galaxy
97. Metroid: Other M
96. Super Paper Mario
95. Donkey Kong Country Returns
94. Super Mario Strikers Charged
93. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
92. Battalion Wars ii
91. Kirby's Epic Yarn
90. Goldeneye
89. Call of Duty: Black Ops
88. Call of Duty: Reflex
87. Red Steel 2
86. The Conduit
85. The Conduit 2
84. Speed Racer
83. Sonic & The Secret Rings
82. Sonic Colours
81. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
80. We Love Golf!
79. NBA Jam
78. Punch-Out!!
77. Tenchu: Shadow Assassins
76. Little King's Story
75. Pikmin 2
74. Resident Evil 4
73. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
72. Ghost Squad
71. Dead Space: Extraction
70. Madworld
69. Sin & Punishment 2
68. Mario Party 8
67. Wii Party
66. Disaster: Day of Crisis
65. Dewy's Adventure
64. A Boy and His Blob
63. Mario Kart Wii
62. Wii Fit
61. Wii Sports Resort
60. New Super Mario Brothers Wii
59. Monster Hunter Tri
58. Tatsunoko VS Capcom
57. No More Heroes
56. No More Heroes 2
55. Bully: Scholarship Edition
54. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
53. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
52. Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City
51. Wii Music
50. Guitar Hero III
49. Rock Band 2
48. The Beatles: Rock Band
47. Muramasa: The Demon Blade
46. Rogue Trooper
45. Fragile
44. Deadly Creatures
43. Excite Truck
42. Epic Mickey
41. Boom Blox Party
40. Tetris Party
39. Lego Star Wars III
38. Art of Balance
37. Lost Winds
36. Lost Winds 2
35. NyxQuest
34. Batman: The Brave and The Bold
33. Fluidity
32. Cave Story
31. World of Goo
30. Art Style: Pentatentacles
29. Bit.Trip Runner
28. Bit.Trip Beat
27. Lit
26. FFCC: My Life as a King
25. Sonic 4: Ep 1
24. De Blob
23. Warioware: Smooth Moves
22. Castlevania: Rebirth
21. Contra: Rebirth
20. Anno: Create a New World
19. Zack & Wiki
18. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus
17. Castlevania Judgement
16. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
15. Megaman 9
14. Toki Tori
13. Rage of the Gladiator
12. Bomberman Blast
11. MaBoShi
10. Space Invaders Get Even
9. Strong Bad (series)
8. Pokemon Rumble
7. Cursed Mountain
6. Pearl Harbour Trilogy
5. Chick Chick Boom
4. Neves Plus
3. ThruSpace
2. Okami
1. Trauma Team
0. The House of the Dead: Overkill
-1. Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics
-2. Virtua Tennis 2009
-3. Grand Slam Tennis
-4. Tiger Woods 10
-5. Sakura Wars: So Long My Love
-6. Opoona
-7. Eledees
-8. Endless Ocean
-9. Endless Ocean 2
-10. Trackmania
-11. Rabbids Go Home
-12. SEGA Superstars Tennis
-13. SSX Blur
-14. Wario Land: Shake It!
-15. Mini Ninjas
-16. Geometry Wars Galaxies
-17. Broken Sword: Director's Cut
-18. Rune Factory Frontier
-19. Sky Crawlers
-20. The Godfather
-21. Mushroom Men
-22. PoP: The Forgotten Sands
-23. FFCC: Echoes of Time
-24. Another Code R
-25. Overlord: Dark Legend
-26. Just Dance 2
-27. Big Brain Academy
-28. Mortal Kombat Armageddon
-29. Geometry Wars Galaxies
-30. DJ Hero 2
-31. Art Style: Light Trax
-32. Monkey Ball
-33. Tomb Raider Anniversary
-34. Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant
-35. Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
-36. F1 2009
-37. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
-38. Xenoblade Chronicles
-39. MotoHeroz

P.S. I've decided to also keep updating the list with links to YouTube trailers/clips of the titles too, in case some out there have no recollection of said game.

P.P.S. This is not a competition to prove the Wii is "better" than the PS3 or XBox360. I firmly believe each of these platforms has at least 100 decent games to play, and anyone not "happy" with their chosen platform is simply a whiny baby (and not a cute one at that!)

*[Update: 29/06/2011] Removed some duplicates; added some YouTube links.

The Final PC Zone Chat

2011-06-27T19:09:00.002+01:00

PC Zone was my favourite magazine. It was somehow more "personal" than other mags; that is, I felt I personally knew everyone who wrote for it. Anyway, I tend to get carried away, so I'll leave my Zone story for another day. This blog post is mainly to dump the whole record of the final Zone Chat (conducted over the Steam client). I thought I'd save it for later and only just remembered to post it now (around a year later).
It isn't edited to protect the innocent or faint of heart. To some it will mean nothing. To others it'll seem like the ramblings of "those strange gamer types".
Of course it is. But PC Zone belonged to these gamer types as much as it did the writers who featured on its pages. And though we may deny it now, many of us really were driven to tears back then...

Never tell your password to anyone.

Prezzer entered chat.

03 August 2010

16:58 - Furohman: From the top secret PCZ space station which has orbitted earth since the dawn of time?

16:58 - apophis_dd: haha

16:58 - Batsphinx: That, BrawnyFanta is a very good point

16:58 - Mad_Al: you can put a bid in on Ebay for Dave's chair, sadly Dave is still attached.

16:58 - seregrail7: *faints again*

16:58 - apophis_dd: wow drdarks here

16:58 - Liquid: i thought everyone was in some corporate hell of an open plan office?

16:58 - Prezzer: Evening all

16:58 - G_Man_007: PREZZER IN LEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

16:58 - Batsphinx: When CVG magazine died I magically gained a new Xbox

16:58 - drdark: Sssh,

16:58 - [PCZ]plughead: EULOGY magazine

16:58 - Ed Zed: Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber Bieber

16:58 - drdark: I'm at *looks over shoulder*

16:58 - [GSI]Leeroy: evenin prezzer!

16:58 - Batsphinx: AND three industrial sized tubs of coffee

16:58 - drdark: At work!

shirtwearer entered chat.

Fnerk entered chat.

16:58 - Batsphinx: And a Dennis mug

||VM|| Wyvern left chat.

16:58 - Batsphinx: FOUR Dennis mugs

16:58 - shirtwearer: howdy

16:58 - JoWoo: DSZone

16:58 - [PCZ]plughead: I took the Dennis mug

16:58 - Jahogg |Iced|: it makes me sick

16:58 - BrawnyFanta: Dennis the menace?

16:58 - G_Man_007: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to day to get through this thing called lfe....

16:59 - JoWoo: It's like PCZone except for in every single way.

16:59 - Jahogg |Iced|: i know a guy in finland who gets ur mag from the airport 3 months late

16:59 - |VoiD| eVade: So what are the plans for all the staff then, starting a new magazine or... should we keep an eye out for you guys on the streets?

Darth_Careful entered chat.

16:59 - [GSI]Leeroy: I'm just going to say it now: I officially hate future

16:59 - apophis_dd: 3 months late? it must say the right month on it

16:59 - [PCZ]plughead: on the streets

16:59 - Prezzer: I think I'm here to celebrate another successful year of PC Zone. Here's to ten more years!

16:59 - Prezzer: (too soon?)

16:59 - G_Man_007: I've always hated Future

16:59 - drdark: Yay!.

16:59 - drdark: wait...

16:59 - G_Man_007: Dennis FTW

16:59 - Darth_Careful: Hello Ladies! Ding Dong!

16:59 - [PCZ]plughead: I've already got a Tesco's doorstep ready

16:59 - JoWoo: because housewives who just discovered brain training are more lucrative than gamers who have been reading the mag for 17 years.

Woodsmaster entered chat.

16:59 - Jahogg |Iced|: the PCzone flute band busking on the dust streets

misterbrilliant entered chat.

16:59 - Darth_Careful: Oops, sorry, wrong chat :z

16:59 - Furohman: Wthout PC Zone there will be nothing to make me laugh like an idiot on the train

16:59 - Fnerk: Bonjourno, lads

17:00 - Mad_Al: dave donpt forgetthe chalet...

17:00 - Batsphinx: Misterbrilliant!

17:00 - -[WS]- Halrick: i'll give you writers a good home. how do you feel about wardrobes?

17:00 - Batsphinx: Wowsers. This is some turn-out

17:00 - [PCZ]plughead: Furohman, just trip over people in suits and pretend they're Future executives

17:00 - G_Man_007: who's taking the group photo then?

17:00 - Woodsmaster: Can't believe this is the end :(

17:00 - lemmy101: :(

17:00 - misterbrilliant: allo!

17:00 - Woodsmaster: What game are we going into? Spose I ought to download it

17:00 - [GSI]Leeroy: it would be awful if noone had turned up for the last zonechat

17:00 - JoWoo: All good things must come to an end.

17:00 - Useful Dave: CSS I think

17:00 - Darth_Careful: It 's piss poor, that's what it is

17:00 - [PCZ]plughead: the Fight Club is tomorrow

17:00 - Woodsmaster: oh good

17:00 - Batsphinx: Yet, somehow fitting

17:00 - G_Man_007: Will, you never gushed over me like that :(

17:00 - JoWoo: Unlike Gamer, which is shit and therefore will go on forever

17:00 - [PCZ]plughead: as I can't be fucked to play tonight

17:00 - Batsphinx: What's the game Dave?

17:00 - JoWoo: like the beige turd in the toilet.

17:00 - [PCZ]plughead: Counter Strike Source

17:00 - Liquid: There's always PC Gamer... if it was any good

17:00 - Jahogg |Iced|: im making a CSS map based on Die hard, any ideas?

17:01 - Woodsmaster: if i start downloading now I might actually get it loaded in time

17:01 - JoWoo: that just won't fucking go away

17:01 - Furohman: Oh and I went and quit Shores of Hazeron (Which is incredible by the way)

17:01 - Batsphinx: We're going out on CSS?

17:01 - Glix: ahhh steam spam

17:01 - [GSI]Leeroy: PCG will never stand tall with PCZ

17:01 - Glix: xD

17:01 - Darth_Careful: Nothing can make me read gamer

Phil Ken Sebben entered chat.

Walrus entered chat.

17:01 - Batsphinx: I suppose it's fitting

17:01 - Woodsmaster: fucking 3mbps connection at best

17:01 - Ed Zed: So who wants to hear some secrets about pc zone

17:01 - +[SP]+NightGaze: how many petitions would it take to get you guys back publishing zone ? heh

17:01 - Prezzer: gosh, this is... faster than i remember

|FP|Sky entered chat.

17:01 - [PCZ]plughead: yeah, I think so

17:01 - Glix: yes

The AdmiraI entered chat.

17:01 - Glix: I want to know

17:01 - Ed Zed: secret 1: will porter shouted at me at least once a month for singing

17:01 - [GSI]Leeroy: spill ed!

17:01 - ro-jo-co: Let's turn this group into a campaign! If facebook can save the Whisper, Steam can save PC ZONE!

17:01 - -[WS]- Halrick: can't we do something radical like destroy the trucks carting PCG issues off to the shops?

17:01 - Glix: what is living under your desk!!!!

17:01 - [GSI]Leeroy: lol

17:01 - Woodsmaster: fuck that, singing's good

Sakey entered chat.

17:01 - Batsphinx: Ed's singing is not good

17:01 - Woodsmaster: ah

17:01 - Mad_Al: Ed secrets are great, spill dude.

17:01 - [GSI]Leeroy: depends on what he sings

17:01 - Batsphinx: And I was very stressed at the time

17:01 - Ed Zed: will porter i swear to god i will karaoke you to death

|HSF|Jake entered chat.

17:01 - [PCZ]plughead: Trucks don't cart Gamer around, browbeaten slaves do

17:01 - Prezzer: Ed's here?

Lord Asriel` entered chat.

[MKA]Flask entered chat.

17:01 - +[SP]+NightGaze: im off, cya babes. love you and miss you :'( xx

17:01 - apophis_dd: what did Ed sing?

+[SP]+NightGaze left chat.

17:01 - [PCZ]plughead: in turnip carts

17:02 - Batsphinx: He's the one called Ed Z

17:02 - Woodsmaster: why don't we continue PCZ in our own blog? fuck it, i'll gladly do my own neverquest

17:02 - drdark: ooh, Ed's here.

17:02 - Useful Dave: PCG Smells of turnips? Ick

17:02 - Ed Zed: secret 2: will porter looks like this while editing http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/images/2006/10/19/dmu_head_in_hands_315x420.jpg

foshjedi2004 entered chat.

17:02 - [GSI]Leeroy: logs carrying on the flames of PCZ I hear lol

17:02 - Jahogg |Iced|: so who exactly is the man to blame for the closure of the mag, i think a mob of 37 angry gamers could ...... make him change his mind

17:02 - [GSI]Leeroy: making his own magazine

Julian Callan entered chat.

Ly entered chat.

Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4 entered chat.

17:02 - Julian Callan: :(

17:02 - foshjedi2004: So what happens to us who still have subscriptions?

17:02 - drdark: Should be working... hold on, I'll put a bug in and come back. Errrr... don't say anything while I'm gone...

17:02 - ^0earl^7of^0sandwich: Buy a new random mag every month instead - "Equestrian monthly" or "Amateur gardener" - everyone could learn new exciting skillz

17:02 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: Dammit why

17:02 - Batsphinx: I like 'Dogs Monthly'

17:03 - Furohman: I'm going to take up knitting.

17:03 - Lord Asriel`: rofl

17:03 - [GSI]Leeroy: now subscribed to "Guns & Ammo"

17:03 - |VoiD| eVade: I guess its time to go burn my PCZ magazines, Star Wars style

17:03 - Liquid: someone find the culky tank and we'll storm Future

17:03 - seregrail7: I saw someones mum in dogs monthly

17:03 - Lord Asriel`: figures

17:03 - [PCZ]plughead: Marzipan Dildo?

17:03 - [PCZ]plughead: interesting...

17:03 - G_Man_007: lol at Spaced ref

17:03 - Julian Callan: Anyone get a stack of games from PCZ today?

17:03 - Useful Dave: Fireworks at dawn, Liquid?>

17:03 - Darth_Careful: "Pregnancy and Babies" for me

17:03 - Ed Zed: secret 3: steve hogarty gets very angry over trials 2

17:03 - JoWoo: for all your almondy fantasies.

17:03 - Jahogg |Iced|: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.guzer.com/pictures/funny-mag-cover.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.guzer.com/pictures/funny-mag-cover.php&h=467&w=350&sz=41&tbnid=CLy-0055wcw42M:&tbnh=128&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfunny%2Bmagazine&usg=__hZK7NAb9BXjs-n9Uibsovy-Ka2k=&sa=X&ei=xj1YTMC9AYH60wTFnJzgCA&ved=0CDsQ9QEwBQ

17:03 - lemmy101: Such a shame... but PC Zone is all about the writers and they've not been euthanized happily. It will live on thru my twitter feed ;D

17:03 - Jahogg |Iced|: howz bout that^

17:03 - Furohman: Large link ahoy

17:03 - Batsphinx: " I saw someones mum in dogs monthly" I could totally be rude about that

17:03 - -[WS]- Halrick: i got some the other day, Julian ;)

17:03 - Jahogg |Iced|: sorry

17:03 - Ed Zed: secret 4: i spent too much time at work playing WoW

17:03 - seregrail7: Steve Hogarty gets angry at most games

17:03 - Batsphinx: Like that's a fucking secret

17:03 - Lord Asriel`: i had a sneaking suspision future plc were evil, buy every games magazine and all

17:04 - Batsphinx: Mr Ed 'ALT TAB' ZITRON

17:04 - Prezzer: actually lemmy - we're sad to announce that all Zone's twitter feeds are closing too :(

17:04 - [GSI]Leeroy: tingler should be here too

17:04 - Sakey: I came in here hoping to say something profound on the end of the mag. Can't come up with anything. Just so shocked :(

17:04 - [GSI]Leeroy: ah ffs

17:04 - Ed Zed: yet my production was good, will

|FP|Sky left chat.

17:04 - Prezzer: including anyone ever associated withb it

17:04 - apophis_dd: haha

[BMS Dev] Jenn0_Bing entered chat.

17:04 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: I'll miss PC Zone

17:04 - Ed Zed: i am 'the machine'

17:04 - [GSI]Leeroy: prezzer why is the website going too :(

17:04 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: D:

Lard entered chat.

17:04 - ^0earl^7of^0sandwich: They need to make space on the shelves for another 15 xbox mags

17:04 - [GSI]Leeroy: why cant it just be kept online

17:04 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: This sucks on ice

17:04 - -[WS]- Halrick: woooooooah woah woah - you CAN'T close the tw@tter feeds!

17:04 - drdark: "We do not support Alt-Tab bugs" - CA, every TW game.

17:04 - Ly: still keeping the irc channel on qnet open?

17:04 - G_Man_007: i remember when Log sent me a party goodie bag for giving him a shit load of Pery saves, will have to take pics for the mag, if you like, I own THE Little Britain game that was reviewed

Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass entered chat.

17:04 - Darth_Careful: So it's like you never existed? This is a travesty.

17:04 - Furohman: Wait, all of Zone is going? What no... Anything?

17:04 - seregrail7: I remember you leveling to 70 in under 2 weeks, Ed

17:04 - Batsphinx: To be honest, PSW has been dead for a whole year - and the site and forums is still up on CVG

17:04 - seregrail7: I was in awe

17:04 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: I HEART LOG

17:04 - Woodsmaster: would've helped if half the bloody retailers stocked zone... if future even sent them any

17:04 - Liquid: can i touch you gman? ... again?

17:04 - Prezzer: actually, PC gamimg is shutting down

17:04 - [PCZ]plughead: nobody ever emails us via Compuserver any more

17:04 - Fnerk: i knew Zone was doomed the minute i was accepted for work experience back in 2001 :(

17:05 - [GSI]Leeroy: log ftw

17:05 - [PCZ]plughead: Compuserve

michaelkelleherthename is now playing Team Fortress 2. Click here to join.

michaelkelleherthename entered chat.

17:05 - drdark: Um, anyone know what's going to happen to the forums yet?

17:05 - michaelkelleherthename: hiyas

17:05 - Batsphinx: Retailers decide what they stock and what they dont. If something isnt selling enough, they cut off the oxygen

17:05 - Ed Zed: One time we all drank kronenbergs at work and got a bit pissed and then log and will went to get a kitkat and there was a woman and they were giggling and SHE KNEW WE WERE PISSED

17:05 - lemmy101: You, Plug, Steve, Log, Ed, Will etc are being banned from twitter? :| YIKES Future really do clean up after themselves...

17:05 - [PCZ]plughead: not yet, drdark

17:05 - Julian Callan: I always dreamed of one day getting work experience in PCZ

17:05 - G_Man_007: awlasy liquid

17:05 - Julian Callan: :'(

17:05 - -[WS]- Halrick: i know the twitter feed is going a bit senile now but you can't just shoot in quietly in the woods!

17:05 - Useful Dave: Fnerk, that's a VERY drawn out death.

17:05 - G_Man_007: always

17:05 - shirtwearer: will the dearwandy forums stay up ?

17:05 - [PCZ]plughead: they'll be there for a while, at least

17:05 - Ed Zed: I would never be banned from twitter

17:05 - [GSI]Leeroy: roflcapcopter ed

17:05 - Furohman: From the sounds of it a grim man in a suit is going to come and erase it from the internet

wollop entered chat.

17:05 - [PCZ]plughead: and I can at last bring back a jiggling breasts avatar

17:05 - Prezzer: we're all being recalled into the clone vats

17:05 - Batsphinx: DearWandy is run separately

17:05 - Fnerk: That's how i kill things, Useful Dave,

17:05 - Mad_Al: fucking hell is this a chat room or some sort of sick experiment at how fast you can read

17:05 - shirtwearer: fair enough

17:05 - Woodsmaster: Wandy still needs somewhere to rant surely :P

17:05 - Darth_Careful: DW is Wandy's own sweet child, I believe

17:05 - Useful Dave: Both Al

17:06 - Batsphinx: That'll be there until Wandy wakes up one day feeling murderous

[MKA]Flask left chat.

=GIMP= Dick_Sum entered chat.

17:06 - Darth_Careful: that's veery day, surely?

17:06 - Jahogg |Iced|: hmmm i remember writing in about gmod and it was printed but mysteriously it appeard as steves pick or something, i must know now, that wasnt just a coincidence was it?

17:06 - foshjedi2004: This chat currently feels like 4chan on acid

17:06 - shirtwearer: lol

CK-iller entered chat.

17:06 - Lord Asriel`: dear god...

17:06 - Batsphinx: Mad Al - in the old IRQ days we used to have up to 150 people if i recall correctly

Disc10 entered chat.

17:06 - Glix: I don't see any /b/tards yet

17:06 - Mad_Al: its going so fast its lie a strobe light

17:06 - Furohman: Except with less mental illnesses

17:06 - Furohman: Well, different mental illnesses

17:06 - [GSI]Leeroy: wat

17:06 - Batsphinx: that was crazy to read

17:06 - Liquid: there is no beasiality or dead babies so this cant be 4chan

17:06 - Woodsmaster: will: all going "comp?" if i remember

17:06 - Prezzer: what is it normally like in here, a couple of old timers posting msgs once every five mins? or is it always liek this?

17:06 - Batsphinx: lol

17:07 - Batsphinx: yeah

17:07 - Useful Dave: There was almost beastiality earlier Liquid.

17:07 - Batsphinx: COMP?

17:07 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: Holy crap - 1st time joining in here... and now it's the bloody last.

17:07 - Batsphinx: Have I missed the Compo?

17:07 - seregrail7: when's the comp?

17:07 - Batsphinx: COMPZ?

17:07 - [GSI]Leeroy: prezzer its not usually as busy

17:07 - Julian Callan: Got a bag of games from PCZ today. Farming Simulator 2009, for that I thank you PCZ

17:07 - Ed Zed: I met Will when I was fat. I was working at CVG. He comes up to me, as I'm playing Zone of the Enders 2 and he says "you're work experience. I can tell because you clearly have no idea what you're doing."

17:07 - Furohman: What COMP?

17:07 - Ly: it's never usually quite so busy

17:07 - Woodsmaster: oh fuck, what have i started

17:07 - Furohman: And why is it in CAPS?

17:07 - Lord Asriel`: so main thing i wanted to ask is do u guy know what prjects yr going on to next?

17:07 - foshjedi2004: PC Gaming is not a mental illness... well quite yet

17:07 - Lord Asriel`: guys*

17:07 - Darth_Careful: bah, I wanted farming simulator

17:07 - Disc10: Well, I've walked in at an interesting time

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17:07 - Glix: Steam Font too smalll *struggling to read*

17:07 - -[WS]- Halrick: ouch Julian :P

17:07 - Julian Callan: @Darth Careful :smug:

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17:07 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: Well, we'll be sorry to no longer have a decent mag to read

17:07 - Julian Callan: I also got Transport Giant (Gold Edition!)

17:07 - [GSI]Leeroy: well, sad day. Future might think you're all shit, but you're all the dogs bollocks to me

17:07 - Woodsmaster: ive still got some of the games zone sent me about 3 years ago in a drawer

17:07 - Ly: guess a lot of peope have come to pay their respects so to speak

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17:08 - apophis_dd: earlier this year i got alan hansen's football quiz game from pczone, but inside the box was cheggers pub quiz game instead

17:08 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: WHAT WAS ALISON LIKE AS EDITOR I BET SHE WAS A BITCH

17:08 - shirtwearer: aye will miss the zone

17:08 - Ed Zed: I once had to do an in-person tour of a FFXI expansion while drunk and full of stromboli. Let me tell you, this is the hardest day I ever had at work.

17:08 - drdark: Right *Hugs* be back in 5

17:08 - Woodsmaster: mainly because gamestation wouldve given me about 20p

17:08 - Mad_Al: I wonder if people may leave if prezzer offer more Microsoft points.

17:08 - Darth_Careful: I'm sure i can talk log into giving me Woodcutter simulator. Unless he's chopped it up in a frenzied rage

17:08 - [PCZ]plughead: I can't believe Adam Glick hasn't turned up

17:08 - -[WS]- Halrick: i got SW: Battlefront and haven't stopped playing it for about 4 hours

17:08 - Ed Zed: Adam's busy mate

17:08 - Furohman: Holzfaller Simulator for game of the year 2010.

17:08 - [PCZ]plughead: the pig-fucking bastard

17:08 - Ed Zed: He called me earlier

17:08 - G_Man_007: I really don't know what mag to read now, especially since Total PC Gaming went suddenly too

17:08 - [PCZ]plughead: oh right

17:08 - Batsphinx: Bloody Glick. Liability.

17:08 - [PCZ]plughead: I withdraw that

17:08 - Julian Callan: @Darth_Careful I got a few Dark Age of Camelot expansions as well, I don't even own that game

17:08 - JoWoo: I met Glick once

17:08 - Lord Asriel`: well at least i we still have Pc Gamer, a mag i can unashamedly wipe my ass with

17:08 - Woodsmaster: might as well just read on the web

17:08 - Prezzer: ed: you're forgetting about your official "interview" ahem

17:08 - Batsphinx: Eurogamer. Everyone should read Eurogamer.

17:08 - foshjedi2004: PCgaming is not dead while there are those of us who still game hard into the night

17:08 - JoWoo: when I was doing work experience.

17:08 - Darth_Careful: I'm giving up reading. it all seems pointless now.

17:08 - Ed Zed: Prezzer: what you talking about

17:08 - G_Man_007: lick a glick

17:08 - [PCZ]plughead: and Custom PC

17:08 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: may as well not bother with pc gamer

17:09 - JoWoo: He always faced away from me.

17:09 - [GSI]Leeroy: custom pc is cool

17:09 - Furohman: When I got Your Shout once... You guys gave me Hellgate London. This was last year. I will not forget this.

17:09 - Batsphinx: RPS is fun enough too

17:09 - [PCZ]plughead: and Total PC Gaming, if it still existed

17:09 - Mad_Al: Adam Glick is the love child of Richard Kiel I'm certain, I've seen th eproof

17:09 - JoWoo: even when he was talking to me.

17:09 - Prezzer: Ed: the lotion, tubing and pledging allegiance

17:09 - G_Man_007: then I'm bookmarking Eurogamer

17:09 - Sakey: Are you going to let Steve be the actual editor for the final issue insted of acting editor?

17:09 - G_Man_007: strange that I havent

17:09 - Ed Zed: Prezzer: Oh you mean "Deliverance Zone"

17:09 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: but none will have the one-liner image captions

17:09 - Ed Zed: Eurogamer is wicked

17:09 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: blame it on ali, it got shit after she joined

17:09 - Lord Asriel`: might as well buy Pc Format but now i dont feel like buying any magazine owned by Future

17:09 - Prezzer:

17:09 - Ed Zed: you should all read that

17:09 - Darth_Careful: Can I be editor next, please?

17:09 - Liquid: so is steve hill going to keep posting neverquests to the Future building because no one told him the mag closed?

17:09 - [PCZ]plughead: Steve jumped ship, he gets NOTHING

17:09 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: the rip it to shreds Pants reviews

17:09 - Jahogg |Iced|: SQUEAL PIGGY

17:09 - Julian Callan: I had my picture printed when Steam Friends first came out... :'(

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17:09 - Ed Zed: Steve Hill wouldn't fart if he wasn't paid to do so

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17:09 - shirtwearer: lol

17:10 - Lord Asriel`: if so please forward them to here pls XD

17:10 - Useful Dave: So. Steve Hill smells like broken collars and elderberries?

17:10 - Woodsmaster: get brooker to send in naked pics of konnie huq

17:10 - Prezzer: Hill's mantra was always "Nothing less than America or operating heavy machinery" as i recall

17:10 - BrawnyFanta: professional farter, now thats a job title!

17:10 - -[WS]- Halrick: will there be any trace of PCZ left anywhere online after the closure?

17:10 - Batsphinx: only in our hearts

17:10 - Lord Asriel`: only the google cache

17:10 - Ed Zed: @Prezzer yep.

17:10 - Julian Callan: lol

17:10 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: lol

17:10 - Sakey: :S

17:10 - Lord Asriel`: before Future wipe it

17:10 - G_Man_007: life's always throwing me new curveballs, got new girlfriend, and then mag dies :(

17:10 - Furohman: I Got Your Shout two months in a row... I regret using a pseudonym for some wild reason.

17:10 - Mad_Al: proffesional fart smeller would be a far worse job

17:10 - Ly: and maybe irc halrick

17:10 - Prezzer: (from Peachfuzz) "Cake rape and monkey circumcision"

17:10 - Useful Dave: I know G-Man

17:10 - Jahogg |Iced|: what time is fight club tommorow?

17:10 - Liquid: a gif of a Future exec stabbing a knife into a PCZone issue

17:10 - Woodsmaster: and some of us on DW

17:11 - Ed Zed: The best gift i got from PCZone was bringing cupcakes and giving everyone diabetes

17:11 - Useful Dave: Aunt/Cousins were coming up to visit

17:11 - Julian Callan: OK everyone : Best issue of PCZONE?

17:11 - Useful Dave: They stayed half an hour and went back

17:11 - Ed Zed: Or that time that I made Richard honk so hard that the stratosphere cracked

17:11 - michaelkelleherthename: all good

17:11 - Ed Zed: HHHHHOONKKK!!!!

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17:11 - apophis_dd: the best issues of PCZ are the ones i won stuff

17:11 - G_Man_007: seen A Team today, maybe they could help

17:11 - G_Man_007: if you can find them

17:11 - [PCZ]plughead: honk?

17:11 - Ly: i always liked that "Daikatana: Best game ever?" frontpage

17:11 - Ed Zed: HONK!!!!

17:11 - Useful Dave: 114, the Dungeon Siege review issue if I remember correctly

17:11 - Useful Dave: Either that or the HL2 Review

17:11 - Ed Zed: YOU LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA? HONK!!!!

17:11 - Darth_Careful: 68 was a good one

17:11 - Julian Callan: lol The Half Life 2 review issue gets it for me

17:11 - Ly: open the mag... "NO"

17:11 - Woodsmaster: hl2 reveal, or "porter's a good boy really", those two were good

17:11 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: well adios amigos - gotta go. enjoy reminiscing!

17:11 - G_Man_007: best 'Zone was when I was in it more than twice

17:11 - Lord Asriel`: god knows that one: well i do, its the one where charie brook said fk all to TMR and drawed a monkey killling zoo

17:11 - Ed Zed: The best Zone was when I got my bum out in it

17:11 - G_Man_007: that was a collectors item

17:11 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: zitron you a re a twat lol

17:12 - [GSI]Leeroy: best zone, gah

17:12 - Ed Zed: I am one of two men to have their arsecheeks in that magazine

17:12 - =GIMP= Dick_Sum: (GTA III review issue, or HL2 reveal.)

17:12 - [GSI]Leeroy: they were all tops

17:12 - Useful Dave: Just trying to remember which reality test ended in a broken bone

17:12 - misterbrilliant: i liked the one with ed's bum too

17:12 - Glix: Quake 2 issue, all brown and muddy

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17:12 - Useful Dave: Issue 117 for GTA III review, was it?

17:12 - shirtwearer: i used to love brookers and domonic diamonds articles

17:12 - Lord Asriel`: think i saw it on beay for

17:12 - Julian Callan: The "april fool prank" with Dave Wood's defamation lawsuit was genius

17:12 - Batsphinx: Every day, for us, starred Ed's bum.

17:12 - G_Man_007: going to treasure my 'Zone stash

17:12 - foshjedi2004: Best zone was when they released a couple of EAW mods I made on the disk :)

17:12 - [PCZ]plughead: quick, someone liked Diamond's work! get the net!

17:12 - apophis_dd: nah dominic diamond is a bit of a dickhead

17:12 - misterbrilliant: i don't work for pc zone any more, by the way, i quit and then they closed it, as if i was HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER, OR SOMETHING

17:12 - Ed Zed: Dominic "Costly" Diamond

17:12 - apophis_dd: he never talked about games at all

17:12 - Julian Callan: I liked his comments

17:12 - shirtwearer: he was cool before his breakdown

17:12 - Lord Asriel`: like the prn stash acrossfrm it

17:12 - Ed Zed: Oh fuck hogarty is here

17:12 - Julian Callan: But he was no Hill

17:12 - G_Man_007: i remember Culkus and the Greek embassy with findness

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17:13 - Useful Dave: Also, PCZ going to Playboy due to the game they made

17:13 - Batsphinx: Most fun I ever had was the Priest protest in Second Life

17:13 - Julian Callan: Oh yeah

17:13 - Woodsmaster: that video of sefton losing at PES was pretty good

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17:13 - Ed Zed: "Easy Now"

17:13 - Mad_Al: Dominic Diamond was only in a few months it was just a con to blag a new PC.

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17:13 - -[WS]- Halrick: i found Future's offices on google street view - I SHALL SEEK VENGEANCE!

17:13 - Darth_Careful: I was jealous for a month after that Playboy feature

17:13 - Lord Asriel`: lies.. mr brilliant.. lies XD

17:13 - Ly: so i guess now someone could say for definite... whats the worst game pcz ever reviewed?

17:13 - Julian Callan: Oh god the E3 writeups were always hilarious

17:13 - [GSI]Leeroy: where is culky these days

17:13 - Useful Dave: Prawn

17:13 - misterbrilliant: oh man, the second life protest

17:13 - Ed Zed: The worst game PCZ ever reviewed was probably Roma Victor

17:13 - Useful Dave: Who ate the Prawn?

17:13 - Ed Zed: or Deal or No Deal

17:13 - Liquid: BiA

17:13 - Batsphinx: Apparently he works in a grocers in Malmesbury or something

17:13 - misterbrilliant: the one that technically broket he law

17:13 - Ly: ... and the best obviously, not to focus on the negative.. :D

17:13 - Julian Callan: Surely Virtually Jenna!

17:13 - Useful Dave: Not Euroweek Globocop?

17:13 - Woodsmaster: down with this sort of thing

17:14 - apophis_dd: or "The Sims"

17:14 - [GSI]Leeroy: lol batsphinx rofl

17:14 - Prezzer: Ly: there's a good (bad) one in the last issue but don't know if i can say more than that

17:14 - Furohman: Worst game ever: Company of Heroes

17:14 - G_Man_007: BIA FTL

17:14 - Julian Callan: :|

17:14 - Glix: oh noes

17:14 - Ed Zed: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/dealornodeal

17:14 - Batsphinx: Euroweek and a Big Brother game are both bottom of the review spreadsheet iirc

17:14 - Lord Asriel`: yes i agree about the e3 articles they were G8

17:14 - JoWoo: I liked the Sims 3 H & M stuff review.

17:14 - foshjedi2004: Worst Game Ever : World of Warcrack ;)

17:14 - Ly: haha i'll be checking that out then

17:14 - JoWoo: or sims 2 even

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17:14 - Darth_Careful: Not Little Britain?

17:14 - Woodsmaster: i fucking bought that Deal or no Deal game a week before the review for a fiver

17:14 - Ed Zed: i wish zone would have let me review darkfall

17:14 - Ed Zed: :(

17:14 - Furohman: Soldiers: Heroes of WW2 did it better :|

17:14 - Woodsmaster: instantly regretted it

17:14 - Julian Callan: H & M stuff review is the funniest thing ever written

17:14 - Pistol Star: I remember Euroweek...americans police the world....it was suggested as a drinks coaster

17:14 - Mad_Al: ooo Virtual Jenna one of my fave 3D games.

17:14 - Julian Callan: @Mad_Al it is pure art

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17:15 - Useful Dave: I still have the two demo disks from when I subsribed

17:15 - apophis_dd: what was the name of that game Ed reviewed and got in a ton of trouble for?

17:15 - [PCZ]plughead: well, Prezzer launched a late bid for the worst game with Towing Simulator

17:15 - Jahogg |Iced|: Whos the black private dick whos a sex machine to all the chicks? SHAFT yer dam right!

17:15 - apophis_dd: i dont think it was for PCZ though

17:15 - Darth_Careful: @mad_al? optimised for your 3d screen, eh?

17:15 - Liquid: ironicly with all the work shes had done she really is virtual jenna now

17:15 - Useful Dave: My first Subscriber Issue was the HL2 Reveal

17:15 - Ed Zed: i liked the review that steve hogarty did of the EA expansion where he litereally listed everything in the expansion with no actual commentary

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17:15 - shirtwearer: off topic: the planes is just cause 2 handle like shit

17:15 - Julian Callan: Oh yeah the Ikea stuff pack

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17:15 - Ed Zed: and darkfall was the game, apophis

17:15 - -[WS]- Halrick: i was given Deal or No Deal for the DS as a present. needless to say i didn't speak to the person for quite some time

17:15 - apophis_dd: oh oh

17:15 - apophis_dd: yeah

17:15 - Batsphinx: And that was because EA were on our arse

17:15 - [PCZ]plughead: worst game I reviewed was Grey's Anatomy

17:15 - Ed Zed: yep

17:15 - Ed Zed: that was brilliant

17:15 - michaelkelleherthename: ha

17:15 - Jahogg |Iced|: im just going to but in with random comments which every1 ignores

17:15 - Julian Callan: "28% of this games content is in this screenshot" lol

17:15 - Woodsmaster: what happened ed?

17:15 - drdark: @Plugs: My wife loves the series...

17:15 - Furohman: High Five Jahogg!

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17:15 - Batsphinx: The head of the Sims brand went mental as he'd seen our reviews on metacritic

17:15 - [GSI]Leeroy: lollll

17:15 - apophis_dd: how much time did you REALLY spend playing it though?

17:15 - Ed Zed: what was even better was steve tried to slip in an insult and will edited it out

17:15 - G_Man_007: wonder if Ram Raider will have anything to say about all this

17:15 - Ed Zed: 15 hours+ apophis

17:16 - Ed Zed: and let me tell you

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17:16 - Ed Zed: it was some of the worst gaming of my life

17:16 - [GSI]Leeroy: sims is shite

17:16 - Batsphinx: So Steve did a review that was simply a list of its contents, for the Ikea pack

17:16 - apophis_dd: haha

17:16 - marzy: Hi everyone

17:16 - marzy: sob

17:16 - Lord Asriel`: and the awful thing that was actually true

17:16 - Batsphinx: So they couldn't complain one iota

17:16 - apophis_dd: was 15 hours a generous contribution?

17:16 - misterbrilliant: ikea stuff review: http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/the-sims-2-ikea-home-stuff/review/the-sims-2-ikea-home-stuff/a-20080724155415347017/g-2008051915941696026

17:16 - Ed Zed: Apophis by the end of that time i wanted to die

17:16 - apophis_dd: never to be gotten back

17:16 - Ed Zed: literally wanted to die

17:16 - Julian Callan: Steve's Sims reviews were always great

17:16 - G_Man_007: hey, I remember the HL2 reveal, was a true great one that one

17:16 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: BEST review of the SIMS was steve's on for on of the explansions about aa story of the guy who made it, PLEASE put it in the last isuse

17:16 - Prezzer: oh god, just remember the Miami Vice game from a few years back - that was terrible

17:16 - Ed Zed: i considered drinking

17:16 - [PCZ]plughead: @drdark yeah, but the game just involves cutting hair and clicking and holding to simulate an injection

17:16 - Brinkman: ythat witch suzie loved the sims, then the mag freefalled

17:16 - apophis_dd: hmm, sounds like i should try that shit out

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17:16 - Darth_Careful: @ed have they removed the fatwa on you yet?

17:16 - apophis_dd: oh yeah i wonder where suzy is

17:17 - Lord Asriel`: god i rly love steam overlay

17:17 - Mad_Al: there was a thing in PCgamer were a guy moaned he had to review 3 games in a day, is that possible?

17:17 - Liquid: swimming in money

17:17 - Ed Zed: @darth_careful no

17:17 - Brinkman: back @ the sink hopefully

17:17 - [PCZ]plughead: Prezzer ----- so Towing Simulator was pretty good then?

17:17 - Julian Callan: Seconding that request for the Sims 2 H&M stuff review in final issue

17:17 - G_Man_007: boozey suzy

17:17 - Jahogg |Iced|: You'll love

* FREDRIK workstation lol

17:17 - drdark: Oh I'm certain the game is shit :P. Although that has reminded me to get Trauma Team for the Wii at some point.

17:17 - Ed Zed: Also: BTW: You guys should watch this youtube about me/darkfall - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2-3IiOPA8 - if you have not

17:17 - Useful Dave: Freespace 2 D:

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17:17 - [GSI]Leeroy: great review steve

17:17 - Batsphinx: Suzy is the producer on Need For Speed: Shift

17:17 - Batsphinx: well, was

17:17 - Julian Callan: Just gonan throw this out there : STEVE HILL NEVERQUEST DILDO

17:17 - drdark: Argh, hold on, I've been ignoring Twitter... Which to follow!

17:17 - apophis_dd: oh really?

17:17 - Darth_Careful: suzy wnet to design racing games, no?

17:17 - Batsphinx: still at the company though

17:17 - drdark: How is suze?

17:17 - Useful Dave: Also, where's that Black/Red cardboard Sathanas?

17:17 - Lord Asriel`: one second..... was that a real game (the ikea thing)

17:17 - apophis_dd: she must be rich

17:17 - Sakey: was shift any good?

17:17 - apophis_dd: arent you guys rich yet?

17:17 - Ed Zed: need for speed fish

17:17 - Brinkman: pink cars and furry dice, no douby

17:17 - Prezzer: Plughead: of all the Tow truck simulations out there, it's definitely in the top three

17:17 - [GSI]Leeroy: ahah the ed haters

17:17 - G_Man_007: hah, i remember the hoohah about that game ED

17:18 - [GSI]Leeroy: they really didn't like you, did they Ed

17:18 - Lord Asriel`: hahahahaha... journalist rich.. aahaa

17:18 - Ed Zed: i am the terror of uson and i am an elite hardcore gamer

17:18 - Woodsmaster: i went into pc world earlier (dont ask me why), fuck all pc gaming there

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17:18 - Liquid: and yet the game is still shite

17:18 - drdark: Shift came out sandwiched between several other racers. none of them sold well. In fact, I don't think Blur or split-second sold that well either.

17:18 - Woodsmaster: except a 3 screen setup of NFS Shift

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17:18 - Woodsmaster: is blur any good?

17:18 - [GSI]Leeroy: the most wanted player on Darkfall lol

17:18 - Julian Callan: I prefer Oasisi

17:18 - seregrail7: all these memories are making me sad now :(

17:18 - Ant: what did they call that feature again which was like a transcription of a pub conversation about a certain gaming topic? memory fails me

17:18 - seregrail7: but don't stop

17:18 - JoWoo: 90% classic Glick gave it.

17:18 - Woodsmaster: quite tempted to get a new game, since ive pretty much finished grid now

17:18 - Ed Zed: pubcast? supertrest?

17:18 - Julian Callan: Supertest

17:18 - Woodsmaster: supertest

17:18 - misterbrilliant: supertest

17:18 - Ed Zed: ahha supertrest

17:18 - Lord Asriel`: theres more console gameing in pc world lol

17:18 - Batsphinx: Shift did a lot better than both of them tbh

17:18 - G_Man_007: this a wake after all

17:18 - Darth_Careful: I enjoyed the booze test

17:18 - Ant: pubcast, aye

17:18 - Ed Zed: SuperTryst

17:18 - [GSI]Leeroy: blurs good

17:18 - misterbrilliant: say it ten times and it'll happen

17:18 - [PCZ]plughead: Split Second was only available on Direct2Drive for 40 quid

17:18 - Ly: anyone notice the similarity between the logo of Blur (game) and Blur (band)?

17:18 - Woodsmaster: asriel: there wasnt even that much

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17:19 - Sakey: Starcraft 2 proves that PC gaming is not dead imo

17:19 - Ed Zed: anyone ever notice the similarity between my bum and your face

17:19 - Julian Callan: meh

17:19 - Jahogg |Iced|: smells like kfc

17:19 - Furohman: Wait, why did they hate Eurogamer so much?

17:19 - Woodsmaster: about 10 360 games at most

17:19 - ^0earl^7of^0sandwich: You'll be able to look up the review on the PC Gamer site ;)

17:19 - Brinkman: did she have anything to do with mirrors edge too?

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17:19 - [GSI]Leeroy: sc2 is great!

17:19 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: Whats so good about Starcraft 2?

17:19 - [GSI]Leeroy: ED ZEETRON

17:19 - Batsphinx: That was Rhianna

17:19 - Lord Asriel`: oh dear :(

17:19 - Woodsmaster: fucking over priced though, is sc2

17:19 - Sakey: just Activision are gready twats with the price

17:19 - Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4: Looks pretty shit

17:19 - Furohman: Generic RTSes are boooring.

17:19 - apophis_dd: i never fancied starcraft

17:19 - Prezzer: SmashingTests

17:19 - shirtwearer: steam proves pc gaming is not dead

17:19 - apophis_dd: im waiting for diablo3

17:19 - foshjedi2004: I wanted an End of Nations Feature in PCZone :(

17:19 - Useful Dave: Agreed Woods

17:19 - apophis_dd: any one lse?

17:19 - Jahogg |Iced|: anyone else want to troll the starshipm troopers gmod roleplay?

17:19 - Liquid: i hope everyone is going to dress up in silly outfits for the last issue

17:19 - Julian Callan: Also it's sad to see PCZone will never review Half Life 2 Episode 3

17:19 - Useful Dave: I considered getting it, but £35 for a game where the MP will just stomp on me?

17:19 - Prezzer: aaargh, can't keep up

17:19 - Darth_Careful: I'm dressed up in a silly outfit just for this chat

17:19 - Ed Zed: Prezzer you are getting old

17:19 - Useful Dave: DAMNIT JULIAN

17:19 - Sakey: @Julian Callan that's because HL2 Ep3 will never happen

17:19 - Liquid: older

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17:20 - Ant: diablo 3 looks like a warcraft 3 mod from the pics, I hope it plays better than that

17:20 - Lord Asriel`: it also proves valve has a sense of humor deeply hidden somewhere

17:20 - Ed Zed: you play an MMO you should be able to follow this amount of spam

17:20 - Julian Callan: Or will any magazien at this rate

17:20 - Brinkman: yI hope for once theres no damn pics of the writers in the mag

17:20 - Useful Dave: Why'd you have to remind us all?!

17:20 - MeLoveYouLongTime: Does anyone know what's going to happen to our subscriptions?

17:20 - Woodsmaster: i doubt anyone will ever review hl2:3

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17:20 - Jahogg |Iced|: wibbles wobble but they dont fall down ?

17:20 - Batsphinx: I'm listening to The End by The Doors. It helps.

17:20 - Furohman: Don't worry Dave, you can buy it again another 2 times!

17:20 - Julian Callan: @Useful Dave Sorry :(

17:20 - G_Man_007: TYPE SLOWER

17:20 - Darth_Careful: SC2 is overpriced, but fun, even in SP

17:20 - [GSI]Leeroy: we need to launch the roflcopter and boycott these piece of shit (future)

17:20 - Ed Zed: i'm listening to the spanish flea

17:20 - MeLoveYouLongTime: Future can suck my dong if they are sending PCGamer

17:20 - Brinkman: like theres hundreds each issue

17:20 - Woodsmaster: i think that's their plan

17:20 - Jahogg |Iced|: theres a snake in my boot

17:20 - Woodsmaster: gamer or refund

17:20 - Useful Dave: Refund

17:20 - Sakey: refund please

17:20 - MeLoveYouLongTime: refund it is

17:20 - Ed Zed: PC ZONE OFFICIAL ENDING ANTHEM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcAzR2QyPCI

17:20 - [GSI]Leeroy: refund

17:20 - Sakey: if I wanted PC Gamer, I would have bought it

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17:20 - Darth_Careful: refund, obv

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17:20 - Mad_Al: phew just had some sort of seizure from the stroboscopic effect of the text speed

17:20 - Sakey: I however wanted my sanity

17:20 - Batsphinx: Can everyone rip up the first copy of PCG they're sent, if that happens, and then send it to the editor?

17:20 - Prezzer: ah, what happened?

17:20 - Liquid: RTS multiplayer is what i assume hell is like, except the people are slightly nastier

17:20 - Ed Zed: Future asked me for a refund of my salary

17:20 - ^0earl^7of^0sandwich: I'm having to work while reading this and trying to not type balls into my code

17:20 - Ly: death is preferable to gamer

17:20 - Woodsmaster: i bought one copy of gamer years ago and just thought it was full of pretentiousness

17:20 - Ed Zed: :(

17:20 - Batsphinx: Only that would be funny

17:21 - |VoiD| eVade: Theres music in that link? I just see titties D:

17:21 - G_Man_007: REFUIND FTW!!!!!!!!

17:21 - Mutant ANDY: Sniff im gonna mis PC ZONE

17:21 - foshjedi2004: Aren't we all Mutant ANDY

17:21 - Ed Zed: i am going to miss Adam Glick a premiere writer for the magazine

17:21 - Brinkman: theres more to read in gamer, I can have 2 poos with the gamer, only 1 with zone

17:21 - Mutant ANDY: Sniff,sob,..... Whimper

17:21 - Useful Dave: I've still got that 10th Anniversary issue and disk

17:21 - Darth_Careful: @woodmaster nail hit on the head there

17:21 - Julian Callan: You guys sent me a copy of SpiderMan 3 as a prize but it doesn't work :(

17:21 - Ed Zed: let's be fair though

17:21 - Useful Dave: There won't be a 20th :(

17:21 - Ed Zed: gamer isn't bad

17:21 - Pistol Star: lol Brinkman

17:21 - seregrail7: Want to buy gold? We sell gold at very reasonable rates, only £10 for 6000 Pieces of Eight, or £18 for 12000 Pieces of Eight. www . monkeyisland gold . com

17:21 - Liquid: gamer has no soul though

17:21 - seregrail7: Want to buy gold? We sell gold at very reasonable rates, only £10 for 6000 Pieces of Eight, or £18 for 12000 Pieces of Eight. www . monkeyisland gold . com

17:21 - -[WS]- Halrick: @ed duck and run!

17:21 - seregrail7: Want to buy gold? We sell gold at very reasonable rates, only £10 for 6000 Pieces of Eight, or £18 for 12000 Pieces of Eight. www . monkeyisland gold . com

17:21 - Furohman: Julian, they sent me Hellgate London long after the servers shut down

17:21 - Lord Asriel`: its a fair magazine.. but it just doesnt have any soul

17:21 - [5punk]Anery: to be fair you can still get your fix of log on PCG but its not the same

17:21 - Jahogg |Iced|: so we get gamer instead of refund?

17:21 - Ed Zed: hey look seregrail sucks

17:21 - Julian Callan: LOL

17:21 - Mutant ANDY: what the fuck man all we have now is PC gamer

17:21 - [GSI]Leeroy: oh great lol

17:21 - Mutant ANDY: it kinda sucks

17:21 - Brinkman: gamer is good, pcz lost its way about 2 years ago

seregrail7 was kicked by Ed Zed.

17:22 - Prezzer: PC Gamer or, you know, the internet and its billions of gaming sites

17:22 - Ed Zed: Honk

17:22 - Darth_Careful: @ed it's pretentious prittle-prattle

17:22 - MeLoveYouLongTime: they need a new approach, even PCGamer sales are done

Gorlack entered chat.

17:22 - |VoiD| eVade: Pwned!

17:22 - Jahogg |Iced|: gamer and pczone even had the same artivles

17:22 - [GSI]Leeroy: pcz didnt lose its way

17:22 - Lord Asriel`: hahaa, its that just halirous

17:22 - [PCZ]plughead: cheers Brinkman

17:22 - Woodsmaster: what's with loads of PCZ writers in OXM by the way?

17:22 - MeLoveYouLongTime: done for*

17:22 - Jahogg |Iced|: i saw 2 identical articles in both zone and gamer

17:22 - G_Man_007: I used to buy both, but it's true, gamer is generic, no soul, pretensious

17:22 - Woodsmaster: was quite surprised at that

17:22 - Ed Zed: Woodsmaster: same office

17:22 - [GSI]Leeroy: pcg became the US stalwart :(

17:22 - Liquid: £££$$$£££

17:22 - Mutant ANDY: Good Bye to PCZ ann all its Editors and journalits

17:22 - Woodsmaster: fair point

17:22 - Batsphinx: Hardware was shared though, yes

17:22 - Lord Asriel`: oxm?

17:22 - Batsphinx: in latter years

17:22 - Mutant ANDY: GOOD BYE

17:22 - Ed Zed: official sexbox magazine

17:22 - Prezzer: Bye Andy

17:22 - Disc10: Hmmm, Getting copies of PCGamer might not be so bad... I could use it to make a pape mache effigy of Future, and burn it

17:22 - Jahogg |Iced|: something bout TF2

17:22 - Lord Asriel`: rofl

17:22 - Batsphinx: sadly that started under my reign I think

Excession left chat.

17:22 - shirtwearer: I mostly just use rock, paper, shotgun for my pc gaming news now

17:22 - Julian Callan: I think we can all agree that the American version of PCGamer is the worst thing ever amde

Mutant ANDY left chat.

17:22 - Julian Callan: *made

17:22 - shirtwearer: agreed

17:23 - Ed Zed: PC gamer is not a bad magazine animosity or not

17:23 - [GSI]Leeroy: donate all PCG issues to Culky

17:23 - Lord Asriel`: xbox.. xbox

17:23 - Furohman: So will PCZ not being being continued in some minor internet form at all at all?

17:23 - Disc10: then dump on the remains.

17:23 - shirtwearer: USA is console country though

17:23 - Sakey: I'm sure you will get loads of praise and shit, but thank you guys for the years of work that made that mag. It was by far the best PC mag.

BrawnyFanta entered chat.

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17:23 - Useful Dave: Culky needs paper mache armour for his tank?

17:23 - Ed Zed: PCZ will now exist purely from my twitter account @edzitron

17:23 - Brinkman: any of you guys moving to PCG then?

17:23 - Lord Asriel`: oh dear, u mean the evil hatechild of the pc

17:23 - Julian Callan: That's where valve live though

17:23 - drdark: I haven't "tried" PC Gamer in years...

17:23 - JoWoo: I just finished Gears of War 2 on the box of x's, was the most painful experience of my life. HOW did it ever become the norm to play FPS' on a CONSOLE?!

17:23 - Julian Callan: Gears of War...FPS?

17:23 - Woodsmaster: fps on console sucks

17:23 - G_Man_007: gamer might be alright, but it's nothing comparedto 'Zone

17:23 - Useful Dave: GoW 2 is a Third Person Shooter

17:23 - Ant: I moved to the US a year ago but couldnt stand US PC Gamer. Kept up my subscription to Zone, despite every issue taking 3 weeks longer to arrive. Was so worth it

17:23 - apophis_dd: no Ed, PCZ will exist only here on Steam in this group

17:23 - Sakey: @Jpwoo, it didn't

17:23 - JoWoo: sorry, TPS.

17:23 - JoWoo: or whatever.

17:23 - Woodsmaster: having said that, so do racers - grid i just get shoved off the track every race

17:23 - Ed Zed: PCZ exists in my bum

17:23 - ^0earl^7of^0sandwich: Gotta go. Best of luck to all the PCZone guys and thanks for some great years!

17:23 - foshjedi2004: Nice Ed

17:23 - [GSI]Leeroy: hey the steam group will be kept though?>

^0earl^7of^0sandwich left chat.

17:24 - apophis_dd: youre a bum

17:24 - Julian Callan: Cheeky Ed

17:24 - Ed Zed: your mother is a bum

17:24 - Prezzer: cheers earl

17:24 - Ed Zed: <3

17:24 - Mark: At least PCG got published I can't remember the last time I saw PCZ

17:24 - [PCZ]plughead: it will be, Leeroy

17:24 - Liquid: gamer was always staying at home and finishing its homework like a good little boy wil PCZ when out and got wasted at the playboy mansion

17:24 - Mad_Al: Man walks into a pub with a copy of PC Gamer on his head, barman sya's is this some sort of joke.

17:24 - Disc10: Maybe we can keep zone alive by sacrificing virgins

17:24 - G_Man_007: nice to think we can still come here to remember...

17:24 - Furohman: I know right... Clunky aiming and shit...

I played MW2 on an Xbox with people watching, having played for 10 minutes on PC I won every round by far. So. Damned. Easy.

17:24 - [GSI]Leeroy: great,

17:24 - Jahogg |Iced|: cant we continue the fight clubs ina community lead way every month?

17:24 - [GSI]Leeroy: at least it's not all doom and gloom

17:24 - Ed Zed: i am actually maybe going to the playboy mansion at the end of august

17:24 - Disc10: or not, whatevr

17:24 - Ed Zed: i will be sure to scream 'pc zone' at heff

17:24 - Julian Callan: Gospeed Ed

17:24 - Prezzer: Ed, you have to take a piss int he gardens to continue the tradition

17:24 - Julian Callan: Rob the wanking monkey

17:24 - Batsphinx: You PRing another game Ed?

17:24 - Disc10: wooo

17:24 - Ed Zed: goose speed my black emperor

17:24 - Liquid: ill let their security team know ed

17:24 - Lord Asriel`: yes i admit that was a very big problem and the reason i havent bought one issue in the last 12 months was lack of availablity

17:24 - Batsphinx: A playboy one?

17:24 - Julian Callan: Goose speed lol

17:24 - Glix: @Jahogg, and the server comes from?...

17:24 - Ed Zed: @batsphinx nothing to do with PRing games actually

17:25 - [GSI]Leeroy: same here ashiel

17:25 - [GSI]Leeroy: was hard to find

17:25 - Mad_Al: @ Ed you do that pal, he may buy it and have naked ladies reviewing games along side Dave and...well Dave.

17:25 - Batsphinx: Just to do with you being a hunky lump of spunk?

17:25 - |VoiD| eVade: I don't know how many times I loitered round searching for PCZONE magazines, its been hell trying to get a copy the past few years, I would have subscribed but my income has been pretty poor, the bills come first :(

17:25 - Julian Callan: I havn't been able to get Zone in my local in years, had to go into Dublin

17:25 - Lord Asriel`: the only was it seemed pssible to get it is with a sub and sry but im not gna buy 12 not knowing how many of them would be good

17:25 - Woodsmaster: found it once in southampton and once in cornwall but never in croydon

17:25 - Sakey: That's strange.

17:25 - |VoiD| eVade: Its like a sign or something, as soon as I get a decent income, this happens >.>

17:25 - Furohman: it's everywhere in Scotland

17:25 - Lord Asriel`: it was slowly dying for abotu 4 years

17:25 - Liquid: airports across the nation always have copies of PCZ, some even within 4 months of when it came out

17:25 - Julian Callan: Found a copy in my local barbers once :3

17:25 - Useful Dave: 'tis still here in Stockport

17:25 - Sakey: Was never hard to find a copy up in Scotland

17:25 - Furohman: Every little newsgent has it in Scotland.

17:26 - [GSI]Leeroy: yeah good newsagents stock it

17:26 - Sakey: lol Furohman

17:26 - apophis_dd: id have to disagree with you two

17:26 - Julian Callan: V. hard to get in ireland

17:26 - drdark: Message from peachFUZZ: "Cake rape and monkey circumcision"

17:26 - Batsphinx: Depends on which distribution network each place is on

Marzipan Dildo a.k.a Hellborg 4 left chat.

17:26 - apophis_dd: its still tricky to find up here

17:26 - Jahogg |Iced|: @ Glix my arsehole.... i keep a massive stick of RAM in there not too mention to heft crossiferd graphics cards and i even have a in built cooling system which utilises my wee wee

17:26 - shirtwearer: whsmiths is what i always used for my copy

17:26 - [PCZ]plughead: 5 minutes of Zone Chat left!

17:26 - [PCZ]plughead: then we die

17:26 - drdark: Okay...

17:26 - Julian Callan: WHAT!

17:26 - Sakey: :(

17:26 - Darth_Careful: maybe you should have given away more USB lights?

17:26 - -[WS]- Halrick: awww

17:26 - [GSI]Leeroy: whut

17:26 - |VoiD| eVade: NNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

17:26 - Lord Asriel`: apparetly gamers fly alot rofl

17:26 - Useful Dave: No reincarnation?

Prezzer left chat.

17:26 - Furohman: A Newsgent is a well-to-do man with a large curled mustashe who goes door to door delivering magazines

17:26 - Ed Zed: http://eegra.com/userfiles/technicaldifficulties.jpg this is me

Gorlack left chat.

17:26 - seregrail7: no comp???

17:26 - Mad_Al: I heard it was difficult to get hard in Ireland too

17:26 - Useful Dave: Quickly. TO THE LIFEBOATS CHAPS

17:26 - Julian Callan: Yeah very

17:26 - Batsphinx: I think if we'd given away USB lights every issue we'd have been saved

17:26 - [PCZ]plughead: we come back in Fight Club form tomorrow night

17:26 - G_Man_007: i before the lock, lol

17:26 - Liquid: I always find copies in Woolworths

17:26 - [GSI]Leeroy: prezzer left in order to avoid eternal damnation

17:26 - ro-jo-co: is Charlie Brooker contributing anything to the last issue?

17:26 - [PCZ]plughead: I think so, WIll

17:26 - marzy: what's happening with the pcz one on one sessions?

17:26 - [PCZ]plughead: he might be, ro-jo-co

17:27 - Glix: @Jahogg, share the server details, I'm in for the anal xD

17:27 - Julian Callan: Comp please!

17:27 - ro-jo-co: :D

17:27 - Julian Callan: Any old tat

17:27 - Useful Dave: What happens if you lock Brooker and Culky in a Tank?

17:27 - Ed Zed: i will challenge any of you to a pc zone one on one session and by that i mean fight

17:27 - Ant: Did Wandy go into a beserk rage a savage people with a power supply when the news was broken to the team? I like to picture that he did.

17:27 - -[WS]- Halrick: btw, i was going to make you all invidivual cookies once decorated with the logos of your favourite game devs, but only dave replied so i forgot about it lol

17:27 - G_Man_007: I LOVE YOU WILL PORTER!!!!

17:27 - [GSI]Leeroy: oh man I'd pay money to see that dave lol

17:27 - MeLoveYouLongTime: I got two razor diamondback's out of subscribing to Zone! :D

17:27 - Ed Zed: wandy is the nicest man

17:27 - Liquid: thats how Log was born isnt it dave?

17:27 - [PCZ]plughead: I think he just carried on doing his job

17:27 - [PCZ]plughead: yes

17:27 - Useful Dave: I got 2 demo disks full of Strategy/Shooter games

Prezzer entered chat.

17:27 - Mad_Al: that silly USB blew up a decent power supply, I never complained, you donpt complain to a legend like Zone.

17:27 - Batsphinx: I love you too G-Man. But our love must be a secret one, forever.

17:27 - marzy: Ed, if you mean a LAN frag OK :)

17:27 - Prezzer: bloody macs

17:27 - Lord Asriel`: but yeah i will ov buy the last issue out of respect even though the bastrds future will take mostthe money

17:27 - Julian Callan: This makes me very sad

17:27 - Useful Dave: I subscribed before all the awesome subscriber deals

17:27 - drdark: Well, I've been reading you since issue 52 when I was in Egypt, and been subscribing for 5 years ever since I set foot in this country, so I love ye and consider you life long pals. *Group Hug* I will never forget Zone. And er... may end up stalking some of you. So consider yourselves warned. :-*

17:27 - [PCZ]plughead: 3 minutes to go!

17:27 - [PCZ]plughead: :(

17:27 - G_Man_007: I want to shout it from the rooftops Willdreh

17:28 - Julian Callan: Favourite Zone Moment :GO!

17:28 - shirtwearer: sad face is sad

17:28 - Darth_Careful: I got a disk with some patches on it ... maybe I should have resubscribed to get a better freebie...

^5NOTALAMA entered chat.

17:28 - seregrail7: should we sing a song? or have a bit of a pray or something?

Furohman disconnected.

17:28 - Liquid: Will your opinions of FPS games were always suitable to my tatses, except for "you know wha"t

17:28 - Useful Dave: Hill breaking bones

17:28 - Useful Dave: HL2 Preview

17:28 - MeLoveYouLongTime: will this chatroom self destruct after 2 minutes?

17:28 - Useful Dave: HL2 Review

17:28 - Lord Asriel`: lol drdark

17:28 - seregrail7: maybe God will save the mag

17:28 - Batsphinx: Doom 3?

17:28 - Useful Dave: Mr Curson

17:28 - Batsphinx: Oh no, BiA

17:28 - Prezzer: all of it Julian, all of it

17:28 - Useful Dave: *Cursor

17:28 - [GSI]Leeroy: sad face is sad boarding final boat departing for zone island

17:28 - apophis_dd: davd, will, ed and that; you guys arent like, quitting Steam are you? Quitting the group? We can surely all still be friends right? :(

17:28 - G_Man_007: yeah, BiA sucked

17:28 - marzy: Doom 3 \o/

17:28 - Julian Callan: Steve H&M review

17:28 - Woodsmaster: jackass

17:28 - shirtwearer: there is no GOD

17:28 - Useful Dave: Supertests

17:28 - Ed Zed: favourite zone moment: the Lich King issue when i wrote 11 pages

17:28 - Woodsmaster: the co-op thing

17:28 - Sakey: Goodbye old friend....

^5NOTALAMA left chat.

17:28 - Ed Zed: in one day

Furohman entered chat.

17:28 - Julian Callan: wow

17:28 - Disc10: I still say sacrifice is the answer!

17:28 - marzy: Steve Hill's face.

17:28 - |VoiD| eVade: Looks like the gaming gods have failed us once again

17:28 - G_Man_007: UNDYING FTW!!!!!!

17:28 - Lord Asriel`: i wouldnt count on it wowspammer

17:28 - Julian Callan: !!!

17:28 - Useful Dave: Sacrifice PCG?

17:28 - Julian Callan: Yes!

17:28 - -[WS]- Halrick: i refuse to believe that this is the end

17:28 - ro-jo-co: I love you all!

17:28 - [GSI]Leeroy: logs review of GTA IV

17:28 - Furohman: Woah lost connection

17:28 - Mad_Al: best review Lord of the Rings Conquest, but over harsh score ;)

17:28 - Julian Callan: Steve Hill on the nips

17:28 - Fnerk: My favourite Zone moment: only being forced to make the tea once and having the sneaking suspicion Ant Holden didn't love me.

17:28 - BrawnyFanta: random comment

17:28 - Liquid: Undying, its on the tin

17:28 - Disc10: No, that would anger the power that be

17:29 - Darth_Careful: Log's review of Spore

17:29 - Julian Callan: ughgh spore

17:29 - Batsphinx: Holden loved few people

17:29 - -[WS]- Halrick: best review: cities XL - stopped me wasting my money

17:29 - Disc10: Has to be virgins. They told me so

17:29 - Ed Zed: @fnerk how did you make the tea? We didn't have a team aker

17:29 - Useful Dave: Should I gut the Zonecat?

17:29 - Ed Zed: *tea maker

17:29 - marzy: GG BB FAREWELL

17:29 - [PCZ]plughead: not heard anything from Holden, WIll

17:29 - shirtwearer: the far cry review... game came out of nowhere

17:29 - marzy: you will be missed

17:29 - Disc10: Man I'm gonna miss zone :(

17:29 - Furohman: I wasted my money on Cities XL before the review

17:29 - Jahogg |Iced|: aampiajdaoidjaoidjaoidasdijaidapijadiakjdpijaidjapidjapidjapdiajdpiasjdiasjciczxokcnzxoujchsdiuashciuahcauchasuchasuchasucoahcuashcuoachasuohcu my head hurts now from smacking the keyboard in denial..............

17:29 - Liquid: hilariously overhyped games by PCZ number 5629 SPORE

17:29 - Batsphinx: Ed, I made the tea for two whole years

17:29 - [GSI]Leeroy: sad day :(

17:29 - Lord Asriel`: that game angred every lotr fan incuding me though

17:29 - Prezzer: my bad

17:29 - Furohman: It ws actually decent... Until they sodding sht it down. Also pointless subscriptions

17:29 - Darth_Careful: Wasted my money on spore after the review :(

17:29 - Ant: How about the photoshoot about some shooter article (pubwatch?) where the team dressed in fatigues, had fake guns and went to some playground field, and then someone allegedly called the police.

17:29 - [GSI]Leeroy: wb prezzer

17:29 - Batsphinx: I even burnt my hand in my duties

17:29 - ro-jo-co: i'm gonna cry

17:29 - marzy: it's been a good 12 years

17:29 - Julian Callan: oh god I feel so sad

17:30 - Useful Dave: You didn't break anything, unlike Hill.

17:30 - Lord Asriel`: though it was 16

17:30 - Darth_Careful: has it been 12 years? christ, I'm old

17:30 - -[WS]- Halrick: oi, writers! take a screeny of us all saying byesies and put it in the mag. go on, be nice

17:30 - marzy: ive been reading 12 :)

17:30 - Woodsmaster: DON'T LEAVE MEEEEEEEE :'(

17:30 - ro-jo-co: :'(

17:30 - Julian Callan: YES!

17:30 - Batsphinx: 17 years since PCZ began

17:30 - Fnerk: ed, there was a designated area back in the dennis days

17:30 - Julian Callan: Good idea Halrick

17:30 - Disc10: du eet

17:30 - drdark: QUICK! EVERYONE RIP YOUR CLOTHES OFF AND JUMP IN THE HOT SPRINGS!

17:30 - Darth_Careful: 16? I'm even older

17:30 - G_Man_007: you will live in our hearts 'Zoney

17:30 - Lord Asriel`: ah yeah

17:30 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: GOODBYE PZCONE WE WILL ALWAYS MISS YOU!! PUT TOGETHER A POFCAST TO SAY GOODBYE! LOVE YOU!

17:30 - [GSI]Leeroy: lol

17:30 - Prezzer: everybody, on the count of three, get out your hankies and let rip

17:30 - Liquid: way ahead of you dark

17:30 - ro-jo-co: I LOVE YOU GUUYS

17:30 - Disc10: Bye bye zone, you will be missed!

17:30 - Julian Callan: Goodbye Zone! I love you !

17:30 - Darth_Careful: so vaet very sad

17:30 - Useful Dave: BYESIES PCZ D:!

17:30 - Disc10: *SNIFF*

17:30 - shirtwearer: BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

17:30 - -[WS]- Halrick: byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee gods

17:30 - Batsphinx: DONT GO PCZONE. YOURE STILL YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL

17:30 - BrawnyFanta: :(

17:30 - seregrail7: BYE ZONE!

17:30 - Phil Ken Sebben: christ its like the end of Blackadder Goes Forth

17:30 - |HSF|Jake: goodbye PCZone

17:30 - Fnerk: Au revoir Zone, you demented bastard!

17:30 - Furohman: Goodbye :C

17:30 - Disc10: *sobs*

17:30 - [PCZ]plughead: It's 5.30 and there we go, it's the END of Zone Chat forever

17:30 - Ed Zed: bye bye zone

17:30 - Ed Zed: forever

17:30 - [GSI]Leeroy: WE HEART YOU ZONE!! YOU WILL BE MISSED

17:30 - Useful Dave: NEED MOAR PCZ ;_;

17:30 - MeLoveYouLongTime: Goodbye PCZone, it's been a fun 12 years of reading you!

17:30 - Ed Zed: i love you

17:30 - Ghoster: T_T

17:30 - Glix: PCZONE WILL NEVA DIES

17:30 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: bye

17:30 - Liquid: cya zoney

Ed Zed left chat.

17:30 - ro-jo-co: Bai ZONERS

17:30 - foshjedi2004: Au Revoir

17:30 - Darth_Careful: Thanks for the giggle, gentlemen

17:30 - G_Man_007: So long 'Zone, see you in Hell!! It's where we all belong

17:30 - Fnerk: my love, bitches

17:30 - Julian Callan: PCZ for life

17:30 - Prezzer: bye y'all - you were all the real heart of Zone!

17:30 - Woodsmaster: Thanks for the memories, we'll miss you!! :'(

17:30 - shirtwearer applauds

17:30 - apophis_dd: bye bye pczone - we'll all miss you, but not the £6 price

marzy is now playing Team Fortress 2. Click here to join.

17:31 - Jahogg |Iced|: I need a final verdict on these PC games - Commandos beyond the call of duty; Ultima IX; Rollercoaster Tycoon

17:31 - Julian Callan: <3

17:31 - Furohman: Nooooooo

17:31 - Ant: Thanks for all the fish

17:31 - seregrail7: Ed Zitron has left the building

17:31 - Julian Callan: lol at jahoff

17:31 - ro-jo-co: :O

17:31 - seregrail7: now everyone else go too

|HSF|Jake left chat.

17:31 - Batsphinx: I'll ready a jpeg of poppies if someone else plays some birdsong

17:31 - drdark: Fucking hell, I'm almost actually tearing up. Can't do this at work. Love you forever. Bye.

17:31 - Useful Dave: Going out D:

17:31 - Lord Asriel`: "a tear rolls down the faces of pete hogarty and log"

17:31 - Disc10: I'ma jump out a window no, kay?

17:31 - Mad_Al: I love Log, in a sex way

17:31 - Useful Dave: Have fun in Death Chaps!

Useful Dave disconnected.

17:31 - Julian Callan: I love all at Zone

17:31 - michaelkelleherthename: thanks for all the great reads

17:31 - [PCZ]plughead says thanks very much for coming. I'm heading off home to drink myself into a stupor

17:31 - Jahogg |Iced|: im not contributing just shouting in the wind julian

17:31 - Disc10: See you guys, and bye bye zone chat forever and ever

seregrail7 left chat.

17:31 - G_Man_007: see you on the far side

17:31 - Ly: byebye pcz, was nice knowing you...

Disc10 left chat.

17:31 - apophis_dd: they will surely pop by

17:31 - Sakey: bye all

Liquid left chat.

17:31 - Lord Asriel`: ok cya plughead and goodlck with the future (no pun itended LOL)

17:31 - -[WS]- Halrick: i aint jumping ship until the very last seconds

17:31 - shirtwearer: ciao .... for now

17:31 - Furohman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtE0jcAkvjI

17:31 - ro-jo-co: D:

17:31 - MeLoveYouLongTime: wait, the final issue isn't done yet

17:31 - Julian Callan: I haven't felt this bad in years. When my wife ded, I was so sad I could barely finish my lunch

17:32 - Mad_Al: I <3 PCZONE

17:32 - Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass: apophis is a twat btw

17:32 - JoWoo: Bye bye PCZ.

17:32 - MeLoveYouLongTime: you can't leave till then!

JoWoo left chat.

17:32 - Prezzer: /pulls the power off lever

Empire Total War Kicks Yo Ass left chat.

17:32 - G_Man_007: I'm going to stay, watch it burn up in the atmosphere

17:32 - Darth_Careful: This is actually very sad

17:32 - Prezzer: /space station explodes

17:32 - Ly: and let us never forget how lucky we were

17:32 - misterbrilliant: bye bye pc zone

17:32 - [GSI]Leeroy: death of an era :( stalk all former zone writers with a vengeance

17:32 - Furohman: Not the space station!

17:32 - [PCZ]plughead: GOODNIGHT EVERYONE!

17:32 - Julian Callan: BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

17:32 - Sakey: /wave

17:32 - -[WS]- Halrick: adios dave

17:32 - G_Man_007: *salutes*

17:32 - Furohman: Byeee

17:32 - misterbrilliant: keep an eye out for a half-arsed resurrection

Sakey left chat.

17:32 - Darth_Careful: bye

17:32 - Julian Callan: /wave

17:32 - apophis_dd: who was that nobody calling me a twat?

17:32 - Lord Asriel`: BYE AND GD LUK

17:32 - foshjedi2004: That's not a space station... It's a moon

17:32 - Phil Ken Sebben: baii

17:32 - Pistol Star: cya...sniff

[PCZ]plughead left chat.

17:32 - misterbrilliant: several half-arsed resurrections i expect

17:32 - Julian Callan: That's no moon

17:32 - Glix: /chat, universe ceaeses to exist

17:32 - Julian Callan: Wait

17:32 - Batsphinx: This is Porter, last survivor of The PC Zone, signing of

17:32 - Julian Callan: it is

17:32 - Batsphinx: f

17:32 - misterbrilliant: before we finally give up

17:32 - Mad_Al: good bye dear friend dear mag, can a mag be a friend, well fuck off it is.

17:32 - ro-jo-co: oh god no!

17:32 - Julian Callan: bye

17:32 - Ly: cya will o/

17:32 - Julian Callan: :(

17:32 - Jahogg |Iced|: cya

17:32 - Lord Asriel`: /chat cries

17:33 - Jahogg |Iced|: thanks

17:33 - foshjedi2004: Don't go will!!

17:33 - Batsphinx: I'm not going really

17:33 - Julian Callan: someone save this chatlog for future generations

17:33 - Ant: Time to join the hall of ultimate fame on my wall, along with PC ATTACK and Amiga Format

17:33 - -[WS]- Halrick: bye porter, you strange yet wonderful little being

17:33 - foshjedi2004: Going to E3 next year?

Ghoster left chat.

17:33 - Julian Callan: stick it on the last DVD

17:33 - Darth_Careful: thanks very much, folks. good luck. bye!

|VoiD| eVade left chat.

17:33 - Jahogg |Iced|: *opens up a shiny copy of PC gamer* its the dawn of a crap era

17:33 - G_Man_007: *kisses Will*

17:33 - [GSI]Leeroy: my signed copy is framed and still at the IGN offices,

17:33 - Julian Callan: *group hug*

17:33 - shirtwearer: wonder if my old mags will be worth anything on ebay now ?

17:33 - [GSI]Leeroy: need to grab that back asap

17:33 - misterbrilliant: pc zone... i'm just leaving the chat... i might be some time

17:33 - Ly: *wipes away a tear*

17:33 - Jahogg |Iced|: :O

17:33 - Jahogg |Iced|: no chat on CSS tommorow

17:33 - Julian Callan: WHAT!

Darth_Careful left chat.

17:34 - Furohman: Too sad to say anything

17:34 - apophis_dd: WILL

17:34 - apophis_dd: the group can remain, cant it?

17:34 - michaelkelleherthename: all the best

17:34 - apophis_dd: the steam group?

17:34 - apophis_dd: SURELY?????

17:34 - shirtwearer: aye would be nice

17:34 - Mad_Al: by Steve, Will, Dave, paul, love you all, and Log of course and Ed, and Hilly

17:34 - -[WS]- Halrick: Steve, before you go, what the hell is your display pic? i've always wondered

17:34 - Batsphinx: Hey PC Zone, before we enter this climactic gun fight, why don't you tell us about your wife and children?

17:34 - Pistol Star: yeah second that

17:34 - Batsphinx: Course it can

17:34 - [GSI]Leeroy: lol

17:34 - Julian Callan: Go for it

17:34 - apophis_dd: great

17:34 - Batsphinx: It's not Future's or anything

17:34 - G_Man_007: Horsome

17:34 - misterbrilliant: it's pacman

17:34 - Fnerk: Oh man, PC Zone was just ONE ISSUE FROM RETIREMENT

17:34 - Batsphinx: The name is, but they won't notice it on Steam

Mark left chat.

17:35 - Julian Callan: PCzone will live on

17:35 - apophis_dd: dont go and do anything stupid like quitting the group though

17:35 - misterbrilliant: a pacman ghost, at least

17:35 - shirtwearer: hearts and minds man...

17:35 - -[WS]- Halrick: ooooooh i see

17:35 - Prezzer: we'll never really be gone as long as you remember us all in your heart... or colon

17:35 - Jahogg |Iced|: 81.19.217.112:27015 - Starship troopers roleplay, pretend PCZ never existed and join the mobile infantry XD

17:35 - G_Man_007: it's mine now Dave

17:35 - Batsphinx: And they won't care either

17:35 - Ly: you know i wouldn't mind seeing a revival of the irc channel too

17:35 - Fnerk: Issue 226 and it would have got a gold watch

17:35 - Julian Callan: :(

17:35 - ro-jo-co: I'll do my bit to support the group, keep it going 'n that

17:35 - Ly: that seemed to die out a couple of years back

17:35 - -[WS]- Halrick: didn't notice what with it being 3d 'n' eveything

17:35 - Jahogg |Iced|: one last time THANKS guys

17:35 - -[WS]- Halrick: everything*

17:35 - Julian Callan: If I can't find a copy of final issue in Ireland I will cry

17:35 - shirtwearer: whsmiths

17:35 - Julian Callan: In Ireland?

17:35 - -[WS]- Halrick: order it online

[Commentary] GTA: Chinatown Wars sales figures

2010-11-16T18:44:00.000Z

Around a year ago now (I won't bother checking), Geoff Keighley mentioned on his Facebook page that GTA Chinatown Wars would be coming to the PSP. There was much rejoicing and statements alluding to the idea(s) that it should have always been there in the first place or that the DS was poison to IP of an adult nature.

I simply wrote: "Bad idea".

Chinatown Wars was -and still is- one of the best games on the DS, both in terms of looks and gameplay. Many loved the classic, less story-laden action. My statement that it was a bad idea to port it to PSP was due to the fact I didn't think PSP owners would be that interested in it. Partially due to the graphics, but also because a lot of PSP owners at that point had grown bored of it and many pirated the lesser-known games. The fact many would consider this a "port" meant it didn't really have a chance of selling the millions its predecessors did. This move also ran the risk of alienating hardcore Nintendo fanboys who were intending to buy it, but felt "insulted" by it losing its exclusivity (yes, that does happen).

Going back to the DS, the other reason I felt it didn't sell well initially (apart from the "will this work? I'm on the fence" attitude) was due to the story. I just didn't find the whole Chinese gangs storyline or characters that compelling. And I imagine many others didn't either. You could see this from the ads, none of which compelled me to buy the game.

Anyway, I'll wrap this up, because -as usual- I've talked for way longer than I was intending to.

A year ago I said "bad idea", I now get the opportunity to say "I told you so":

So, what should have Rockstar done instead? Released a sequel on the DS within the same 12 months, with a different setting and alternate "gimmick" to the drug collecting. This would have captured the interest of those indifferent to the Chinese gangs storyline and re-ignited sales of the original. I'm somewhat convinced (in the little world in my head where I'm always right) that this would have resulted in total sales for both titles of over 2.5mil.

Till next time (around a year from now if previous updates are anything to go by); adios.

Note: I'm aware VGChartz figures aren't always the most up-to-date or accurate, but I usually find they're missing numbers rather than overestimating them, so in terms of averages rather than exactness, these numbers still justify my point.

2010 belongs to the Nintendo Wii - [#NinTwentyTen hashtag explanation]

2010-06-02T18:06:00.005+01:00

[Update]
Unfortunately Twitter had a major #Fail around June when the World Cup and E3 were both taking place and since then it kind of lost all older tweets. This caused a problem for using the #NinTwentyTen hashtag as a way of keeping an updated list of games which were out and their trailers. So I stopped posting them. I may restart it at some point as blog posts here or elsewhere, or maybe just make another temporary hashtag for the Christmas period.

There are several reasons for the statement I made above. Partly, you could just argue that I'm a Nintendo fanboy. Which in some ways I am. However I have reason to be. I still find them to be both one of the most innovative and yet smartest businesses. They push boundaries; make some of the most memorable games ever created; and turn a good profit for their shareholders.

They deserve our respect.

Another reason 2010 is THE year for the Wii is that it's possibly at its maturest point. By this I mean it's the time for pulling out all the stops. At this point, the SD graphics are looking rather long in the tooth. Sony and Microsoft are both producing their own motion controls. Nintendo has to be ready for a fight.

In anticipation of this fight, I'm expecting big things of E3 [no this isn't my predictions post, that'll come later ;-) ].

However, I'm also fed up of everyone up till this point who utters the aggravating words "There's nothing to play on the Wii" or "Finally, a game that might make me dust off my Wii".

There's a word for such people: retarded.

There are plenty of great games on the Wii. It is just as deserving as any of the HD twins of being in a true gamer's arsenal.

Since listing all those great games would take far too long, I'm simply starting the list with 2010. As a celebration of the Wii and what I believe is already a phenomenal year for it, I'll be posting trailers daily with the hashtag #NinTwentyTen on my Twitter account.

Corny, I know, but I like it :-P.

P.S. The list will also include DS titles, and some games may have been released in 2009 in different regions. They still qualify. Because I'm running this list, not you!

Oi - Ubisoft - No!

2010-02-23T15:42:00.003Z

Ubisoft is punishing PC Gamers after years of support. Their new DRM solution requires you to be online every single second you're playing (even SinglePlayer) otherwise you're kicked out. This is the latest in a long line of insults where piracy is the scapegoat when publishers are actually trying to stamp out second-hand sales.

Please follow this link for a way to fight back.

And if you feel as strongly as I do, don't buy any more Ubisoft games on ANY platform until they stop treating their best customers as criminals.

Thank You.

Testing, testing

2009-06-22T16:47:00.003+01:00

E71+ Shozu + Blogspot = ...

Oh, it did work!

Nintendo E3 2008 Predictions

2008-07-15T10:20:00.005+01:00

My speculation on what Nintendo is about to unveal at E3 2008 is up on The Dark Soul.

Later than expected unfortunately, but still hopefully in time for some to read it.

Click here to view.

It's alive!

2008-07-11T14:15:00.001+01:00

All blogs are now active.

Links in the post below have been updated, but quick links are also posted in the menu to your right.

Please bear in mind I've never run a blog before, so they are still under construction and may change page themes frequently.

Note: Seeing as The Dark Eye shall host reviews, and these take a while to write, it only has a welcome message and some of my favourite things in a nifty slideshow at the moment. These 'Recommendations' will feature in more detail on The Dark Mind at some point in the very near future.

I hope this proves an entertaining and educational venture!

[THANK YOU FOR PLAYING]

Trilogy of 4

2008-07-11T10:46:00.004+01:00

Aaaand... back,

Now I realise I have been away for a while, but much of that was planning stages (with about 85% laziness).

I have always maintained I have many moods or "minds" as I call them. 8, in fact. I could never decide which one to go with when updating this blog, so I decided to give each its own. I couldn't quite bring myself to the major task of managing 8 blogs/sites though, so they've been boiled down to 3, with this one acting as a central hub of sorts. Lest I should start babbling further, I'll start to summarise their general themes or "moods" now:

DrDark's Lair [My Aim is Perfection]
- Will act as a hub, providing updates on progress of other blogs, and preview of new content.
- May contain more personal info about myself, or what I'm up to.
- Details of my prior and future programming concepts, whether they be apps or games.
- Anything else which I don't feel fits within the other blogs.

The Dark Eye [AKA Of Course I'm Always Right]
- Will contain most of my opinions on everything.
- Reviews: Games, Movies, Anime, TV, whatever.
- Lists: You know the drill - top ten this, top ten that.
- Features on overlooked/rare/underappreciated/overhyped games.

The Dark Mind [AKA The Random Internets]
- Will contain everything I find amusing on the internet, whatever the subject.
- Youtube videos of anything imaginable.
- Flash videos.
- Possible rants on anything that's annoying me...

The Dark Soul [ AKA Thou Art Game]
- Will be used to further the argument that games are Art.
- Images of game art or videos that are artistic in my opinion (includes game cutscenes).
- Rumours or features on the state of the gaming industry and where it's going.
- In-depth games features no specific genres, companies or characters etc.

Note: Each will be using a different website for hosting duties.

Okay, so that's the general idea. I will update (shortly this time, I promise) when they're all up and running, and shall provide the appropriate links.

Live Long and Prosper.
DrD

Greetings, fair wanderers

2006-07-23T05:00:00.000+01:00

And welcome to my blog...
Which is pretty empty...
I see this is the fabled point where one's mind draws a blank.

Ok, brief introductions: I am DrDark; the original; the first.

I don't know how personal this blog might get in the future, but for now I aim to review games, movies and anime, on these very pages.

Right, I'll post something else when I think of it.

Adios.