Hello! We know it's been a while since our last weekly playlist of joy, but it's been really busy lately. The good news is that we're back and playing more games than ever before. Matt has been gushing over Portal 2 and the Steam Workshop. Rob's currently batting for the other team, but we don't mind if it's for The Last of Us. Steve has been getting cosy with Genghis Khan in Civilization V. Finally our overlord Tim has been playing Crysis 3, but getting rather frustrated with it.
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This edition of The Weekly Playlist is a special issue, rather than bring you a smorgasboard of gaming stories, Rob and Jeremy argue the case for which of them is playing Dishonored "right". Should Dunwall be delivered from its corrupt overlords by way of the knife or the sleeping dart? Is Rob's violence playing into the hands of those being disposed of? Or, is Jeremy's nonlethality simply an exercise in moral self-deception?
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This week's playlist has death, intrigue, and cuddly little villagers. Rob's returned to League of Legends where he finds the reward for training hard and honing your skills. Jeremy taken to the streets and rooftops of Dunwall to enact his voyeuristic desires. Matt's discovering the problems of injecting the 80s into a tactical island shooter. And Julian plays the puppet master in indie god game Reus. He also has a problem with his stoats.
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This week's playlist sees Nick prove he's a savant at collectible card games, Steve introduces the team to the most ridiculously addictive game on the internet, Jeremy stares at kids in Bioshock Infinite, and Tim's been dabbling with the mods in Portal 2.
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This weekend begins with the unpleasant realisation that it isn’t the weekend at all, but in fact Monday. Please accept our apologies for that, along with our assurances that normal service will resume next week.
Now, onto the list, where Rob realises that a lifetime of RTS micro-management isn’t enough to prepare him for the numb terror of the Company of Heroes 2 beta, and a nostalgic brain override sees Tim playing the Xbox sequel to Motocross Madness. He doesn’t like it. Obviously.
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This week's playlist has Steve reveal how it's important to set yourself goals in sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program; Paul discusses Elizabeth's role in Bioshock Infinite, likening her to a Doctor Who sidekick; Jeremy returns to Valve's seminal shooter, Half-Life, to examine how they handle death, seeing that, even there, the developer was breaking from the herd; and Julian? Julian's forgotten the purpose of the playlist and has provided a cocktail recipe.
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It's been a quiet weekend, but that's because the team have been stuffing themselves with chocolate. Everyone is winding down from PAX and GDC, our poor, event-ridden Rob goes back into hibernation. It's Easter though, and that means chocolate and time to play games. Here's what the teams been playing this week:
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We all had a whip round this week and manage to book some more time in our local game booths, bringing this week's playlist to a whopping four entries. That's not all, we cover a broad spectrum of life issues this week with Tim's conflicts of parenthood and gaming, Jeremy has travelled back in time for some reason, Paul slows down time in World War 2 to beat Jerry, and Nick's invested his life with newfound purpose.
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Due to recent budget cuts this week's playlist runs a little short at just two entries, we just couldn't afford the rental of any extra gaming booths at the local gamatorium. As you can imagine, Tim wasn't best pleased to learn that Julian used his limited time in the game booth to play Valkyria Chronicles, a PS3 game.
He was somewhat happier to find that Rob had at least played a PC game, Anno 2070, a game Rob's calling the "Alpha Centauri to SimCity’s Civilization".
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This week's playlist sees Paul suffer the wrath of the Roman Catholic church, Jeremy fall in love with an adventure game, and Jules & Tim sidestep SimCity's launch issues to see what they make of Maxis' return to the city building genre. Fire and death ensue.
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This week's playlist has accounts of two of the PCGamesN staff standing up for what they believe in - their right to flee at a moments notice, leaving the dangerous work of gaming to their heavily armed NPCs/teammates - and the other find that there is a little place in his idyllic homelife for WarFace.
See what we've been up to this past week in the latest edition of The Weekly Playlist.Read and Comment
It's Sunday, trying to capitalise on the vestiges of last nights drugs you turn to games for something to spark your brain's few remaining synapses. Gash darn it, though, you seem to have lost the ability to choose what to play. Luckily for you, we're here to help. This is what we've been using to artificially stimulate our brains for the past week.Read and Comment
It's the first Sunday of Lent, hunger scrapes at your fasting body. Scrabbling around for games to distract you find that your mind can't concentrate without sustenance. Thankfully you don't need to think for yourself, you just need to point randomly at one of the games in the list below and copy what we've been enjoying playing this past week.Read and Comment
This Sunday may well find you much like the writers of PCGamesN, burnt out, tired, and feeling the effects of 5AM clubbing. Having not crawled out of bed till well past 12, there is no question of being a productive worker. Instead the only form of activity our wasted bodies can manage is to spend many long hours in front of a computer game or two. These are the ones we've chosen, join us in their rejuvenating qualities.Read and Comment
It's the first weekend of February and the snow has finally gone. Without the excuse to stay in doors all week, the playlist this week is a little sparse, but an interesting read nonetheless.
Here are some of the games we've been playing this past week:Read and Comment
Sunday's come around again, you've been in and out of trains and snow all weekend to meet newly born family members. Taken aback by quite how small they are you feel the need to hop on the computer and reflect while playing a game or two. Here are some that we've been playing this past week.Read and Comment
It's Sunday, having tired yourself out making snowmen, failing to dodge snowballs, and generally using the snow for all its worth, you've found yourself pooped and needing to just sit back and relax with a good game or two. You could stop at two but here we have five that you can throw yourself into. Actually, in Rob's case you need to really throw yourself in, can't slip a disc without a little bit of effort.Read and Comment
It's Sunday. There are fewer than 20 hours until your final exam. You've spent the week strung out on modafinil sleeping in two hour shifts to maximise studying time. Yet, with the end in sight you can start planning your victory game. If your sleep deprived brain is lacking game ideas this is what we've been up to this week.
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It's the first Sunday of 2013, the first end of weekend of the New Year. We experience it every week, that panic as we know Monday brings work/school/deadlines/commitments; you need to make the most of these last few hours of empty time.
Here's how we've spent it:Read and Comment
It's the Sunday before Christmas and so, sensibly, drank until becoming insensible last night. Now as you grab for distractions to try and repress images of swapping clothes, dangerous drinking games, and the mess that was left in the bathroom (and the shower) you fall upon your old friend computer games. Well, this is what we've been using to draw our attention this week.Read and Comment
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