This Week In Games

27 responses to “This Week In Games”

1. 

   Batguy

   May 2, 2011 at 10:04 am

   Missed opportunity?

   Trainz Simulator 12 (PC)
   What is it? Choo choo!
   Should you care? I definitely don’t choo-choo-choose you.

   Also, zumba = http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zumba&aq=f . You obviously don’t watch enough late night TV!

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2. 

   Dean

   May 2, 2011 at 10:04 am

   I am ashamed that I know Zumba is a music based dance your way to fitness program. I knw this becasue I get to teach the Zumba class at my school for sport.

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      Nate

      May 2, 2011 at 8:43 pm

      I hope you’re not teaching english as well.

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3. 

   Jamie What?

   May 2, 2011 at 10:06 am

   Can’t remember the last time I heard/read someone use mince as an insult. Cheers for that at least.

   As for Zumba, well, apparently the first rule of Zumba is you don’t talk about Zumba.

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   Effluvium Boy

   May 2, 2011 at 10:07 am

   What an awful, awful week in games…

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5. 

   oggob

   May 2, 2011 at 10:11 am

   Money saved for another week or two…

   Actually think the next game to purchase is LEGO Pirates and LA Noire.

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6. 

   N0NEoftheAB0VE

   May 2, 2011 at 10:11 am

   Two games with a Z in the title – that can’t be a good thing

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   Trjn

   May 2, 2011 at 10:16 am

   The twelfth game in a series with “z” in the title? Surely we’re on to a winner there.

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8. 

   TvZ

   May 2, 2011 at 10:17 am

   I’ll pass on all of the above, thanks.
   Waiting for my Move and sharpshooter. Then online gaming again on PS3…sometime in the near future.

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9. 

   Powalen

   May 2, 2011 at 10:21 am

   Is it just me, or does calling something ‘mince’ sound more like a compliment than an insult? 😛

   Also: Murray winning a Grand Slam? That’ll be the virtual day. lol

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10. 

    Choc

    May 2, 2011 at 10:23 am

    In other news, Mark it might be worth investigating why the heck LA Noir is not appearing as classified on classification.gov.au 10 days before release!

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    1. 

       Mark Serrels

       May 2, 2011 at 10:24 am

       http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/d853f429dd038ae1ca25759b0003557c/80bf681cd6e065e3ca2578540057f304?OpenDocument

       Sorry dude! No story here!

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       1. 

          Choc

          May 2, 2011 at 10:26 am

          why does it not come up in search

          oh well, at least it is classified

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    2. 

       The Insufferable Señor Steengo

       May 2, 2011 at 12:41 pm

       More like 15-18 days, sadly. 🙁

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    ndroste

    May 2, 2011 at 10:30 am

    That biggy smalls mashup keeps popping up in my day one way or another, still not sick of it.

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12. 

    Zumba Fitness and Train Simulator fan

    May 2, 2011 at 10:38 am

    This is possibly the best week of my life ever.
    I would literally explode with joy if there was a stage in Zumba Fitness that took place on a train!

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    1. 

       Mark Serrels

       May 2, 2011 at 10:39 am

       lolololol

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       Effluvium Boy

       May 2, 2011 at 11:07 am

       GOLD!

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13. 

    Qumulys

    May 2, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Is there something wrong with me? I’m actually wondering what the whole train gameZ are about? If its like a build a whole toy trainset, with painted old ladies with bingo arms and cute little tree’s and tunnels and stuffs, then I may be interested! But not interested enough to actually go and check…

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       Zumba Fitness and Train Simulator fan

       May 2, 2011 at 11:18 am

       WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
       I AM SO FILLED WIT RAGE AT YOUR TRAINZ ASSUMPTIONS THAT I ACCIDENTALLY SPELT “WITH” AS “WIT” AND “SPELLED” AS “SPELT”. ALSO I AM TYPING CAPS SO IF YOU COULD IMAGINE ME SHOUTING, THAT WOULD REALLY BE GREAY. MAN, I SWEAR THESE TYPOS ARE ALL UNINTENTIONAL. STUPID FINGERS.

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    2. 

       Mad Danny

       May 2, 2011 at 12:00 pm

       The Trainz series is one of the leading rail sim series, which is why it’s up to such a high number now (in addition to usually having separate driver/builder/engineer editions depending on the toolset you’re after – I think there are two editions of 12) – it goes through almost annual updates and has a huge modding community much like MS Flight Sim used to and most sports games do (the release schedule for the latter, not the community content support).

       If you’d like to be able to build model railways without the restrictions of games like Railroad Tycoon then Trainz is a decent one to go for (though DLC for most rail sims tends to be stupidly expensive)

       A little while back they did release a My First Trainz game though that does have you setting up model railways around a house; more of a budget option for people happy to tinker Trackmania-style who don’t care about using accurate topographical information to recreate famous European rail lines down to the ballast scatter and carriage paint jobs. (MFT has a RRP of $20 I think but can usually be had for $9 or $10 in various sales)

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14. 

    Denaz

    May 2, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Yeah Mark, your probably better off not knowing about Zumba 😛

    Looks like I’ll just stick with GoW3 beta this week then… until my MK arrives at least!

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    Mad Danny

    May 2, 2011 at 11:48 am

    It looks like the coming week/week and a half or so has some good stuff on the way in terms of online PC releases – a couple of decent indie titles popping up on Steam as well as some of the bigger games like the new Mount & Blade and Section 8: Prejudice (I think they’re meant to release on the 3rd and 4th respectively) – but yeah, retail looks a bit lame for now… at least the new M&B and S8 are stupidly cheap and thus make for some good impulse-buy distractions.

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16. 

    The Insufferable Señor Steengo

    May 2, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    Trainz is definitely no RailWorks.

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17. 

    lame3190

    May 2, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    I would have thought Black Ops DLC would rate a mention…

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    1. 

       James Mac

       May 2, 2011 at 1:38 pm

       Not a retail release… like how XBLA and PSN games don’t get listed.

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18. 

    Korwin

    May 2, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    Hopefully my copy of MK gets in this week…

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