Author Archives: Patrick Garratt

Pat and Dave catch up on the weekend’s news, talking through Black Ops 2′s season pass, 360 price-cutting in the US, the UK charts and plenty more.

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Let’s try chatting on the internet again! Check out me, Brenna and Dave talking through this week’s news in the first of an informal series. Unsurprisingly, our current thoughts our primarily focused on Dishonored.

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It’s Dishonored Day. Head in to watch the full first mission of Arkane’s critical smash being played live by Sam Clay.

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EG Expo head Rupert Loman yesterday followed PAX bosses in outright banning the use of booth babes at his event. E3 and gamescom must follow his lead on this offensive anachronism, says Patrick Garratt.

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Eurogamer Expo has grown into Britain’s largest and most prestigious games event, with this year’s show being an indisputable knock-out. Patrick Garratt gives his impressions of the first two days.

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Borderlands 2′s managed a number one debut in the UK, beating out PES 2013 and the latest F1. Patrick Garratt’s been playing the PC version over the weekend. Get his impressions below.

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Wii U was always going to get unwarranted flack among gamers for being a casual console. VG247′s Dave Cook plays the punishing ZombiU to find out why they’re dead wrong.

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Nintendo has confirmed EU Wii U launch titles, as well as detailing those that will be available in the “launch window,” ending March 2013.

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Bayonetta 2 is exclusive to Wii U, and will be published by Nintendo. Atsushi Inaba will be producing, with Hashimoto directing.

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Wii U will launch on November 30 in the EU, Nintendo said today.

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter’s dev boss talks to Patrick Garratt about tomahawks, the Battlefield 4 beta and taking FPS authenticity on a global mission against the bad guys.

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If some are to be believed, Valve’s imminent Steam Big Picture beta is the company taking a pop at the console space. Patrick Garratt begs to differ.

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NCsoft’s Cat Channon and seven other games trade bods cycled from gamescom to Brighton last month, covering over 500km. You can watch a PlayStation Access documentary of it below. The gruelling charity effort raised over £10,000 for GamesAid, leaving a broken, happy team on Brighton beach after three days in the saddle. You can donate here, if you haven’t already.

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Some WarZ footage popped out of PAX, showing the DayZ competitor looking a bit like a slower take on the whole survive-in-the-zombie-apocalypse-again thing. There’s little more to say. You walk round a wood trying not to die. If you haven’t completely, totally and utterly had enough of zombies at this point, you can look forward to an autumn launch.

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MMO add-on Monster Hunter Frontier G has been announced for an April 2013 in Japan. According to Andriasang (via Joystiq), the add-on’s to feature 10 new monsters, more than 300 G-class weapons and armor sets, new skills and four new elementals. Further expansions also planned for autumn 2013 and spring 2014. The original Monster Hunter Frontier was released for 360 and PC in 2007.

GaymerCon has been fully funded through Kickstarter and will happen in San Francisco on August 3-4 next year. The all-inclusive event started out a month ago to attract $25,000 in investment and eventually pulled in $91,389. Watch people saying GaymerCon is a good idea below.

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DoubleFine’s Greg Rice said at PAX this weekend that Ron Gilbert platforming adventure The Cave will be released on the the Wii U eShop. The game’s also coming to PC, PSN and XBLA in early 2013. Watch a trailer below.

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IO’s confirmed that Hitman: Absolution’s Purist mode is going to be playable from start of play, with no unlocking necessary.

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Here’s more Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, this time looking at Lake, a new map made specifically for Demolition. There’s lots of open space and flanking opportunities here, and the bomb point’s in the building, meaning windows and snipe-spots. Tricky. Watch as Sam and I fail to exploit any of it and get the shit shot out of us.

This is part of our CS: GO Super-Grind, the intention of which is to talk through all modes and maps in the just-released Valve shooter. Get the first episode here.

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Here’s something new. We play a game for ages, show off everything we can find in it, video it, put it on the internet. We’ll call it “Super-Grind” because it’s late and I can’t think of anything better.

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