The recent festive season brought another chance for Microsoft developer Turn 10 to have a stab at taking the prize of creating the best driving simulator with the release of Forza Motorsport 3. The game’s biggest challenge is the same that faces every entry into the genre, how to bring to life the feeling of driving to more than just petrol heads while trying to avoid the simple procession of events that has characterised previous entrants over the years, and subsequently bored the socks off the players that have had to plod through them. 

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xib’s recovering from the Man flu. You can hear him fading from it in this episode…

As per the usual Wee Shorty, we talk about what we’ve been playing. Jay’s had a go at the Bad Company 2 demo while maintaining his love affair with Mass Effect 2. Leon’s been playing Splosion Man online co-op, Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, Chime and Zelda: Spirit Tracks. xib talks very candidly about Second Life.

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Your at-a-glance rundown of the games released on the console digital download sevices on Tuesday 2nd February & Wednesday 3rd February (Microsoft), Thursday 4th February (Sony) and Friday 5th February (Nintendo).

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This week we’re talking about cooking! No seriously. We are. Apart from that Jay’s giving us his first impressions of Mass Effect 2 without giving away any spoilers. Leon’s still in love with Bayonetta and Neil’s still wading through Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless frontier.

Then we talk about the need to buy games on day one. What makes us so excitable about new games? Do we just have a poor attention span? All this and more on this week’s episode.

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Your at-a-glance rundown of the games released on the console digital download sevices on Tuesday 26th January & Wednesday 27th January (Microsoft), Thursday 28th January (Sony) and Friday 29th January (Nintendo).

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So, you may have heard a little bit about Darksiders by this point in your life. You already know it’s that game that’s a bit like God of War. Perhaps a little bit Zelda-ish in places, you might say. Oh, and there’s also a bit ripped clean out of Panzer Dragoon in there somewhere isn’t there? The main guy looks quite a lot like a World of Warcraft character, specifically Arthas Menethil – or at least some sort of Paladin from the game world. The combat kind of brings to mind both Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry, there’s a section later on that’s clearly taken from Portal… and those are just some of the games you’ll recognise offhand. There are, quite literally, enough professional ‘tributes’ towards other more well known games to choke a camel with. A big, manly camel at that.

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Re-launching the mid-week show under a new name, we bring you The Wee Shorty! It’s all about what we’ve been playing this episode along with Leon means-testing our new binary review system. Try it, you might like it!

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Your at-a-glance rundown of the games released on the console digital download sevices on Tuesday 19th January & Wednesday 20th January (Microsoft), Thursday 21st January (Sony) and Friday 22nd January (Nintendo).

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Hitting the PSN on the 28th January at a cost of £3.99/€4.99 is the PlayStation Heroes skin pack for Uncharted 2’s multiplayer. The pack consists of a selection of character skins from those other PlayStation 3 exclusives, Killzone 2 (yay!) Infamous and Resistance 2.
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With rumours going around that Microsoft Natal isn’t going to deliver on all of the promises made since E3 2009, we talk about whether it’ll end up being any good. Leon gushes all over Bayonetta and then we talk about buying games digitally and what the picture looks like now as well as in the very near future.

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