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I wish Sony would forget Brack Friday Bunduru and launch Caturday Collection

A PSFurr with Bubsy, Garfield, and a free red dot thing that you can chase. Promoted by VP of Feline Fine, Kevin Katler (Kevin Butler).

It'll sell like catnip! Mee-wow!

Never mind Konami. I want to know Kojima's secret of eternal youth.

Hideo Kojima is 51 years old. 51! He looks 31.

Somewhere in his attic there must be a really rough-looking portrait.

You know, back in the olden days of the ZX Spectrum and Amiga, games used to come in boxes as big as a small family car, and often included a free poster and stickers.

I'll take one collectors edition of The Last of Us with a free bag of mushrooms please.

@themcnoisy - "but papers please - what you gonna get, a decline letter from the passport agency?"

A cavity search glove. Glory to Arstotzka!

And why doesn't Batman dance any more?

Cool. This sounds like a modern version of Rampage.

I hope you get to eat the puny humans to restore your health. Bwahahahaha!

Bah. Playstation exclusive shooters tend to be a bit disappointing anyway.

I really, really wanted to like Resistance when it came out on PS3, but it had cardboard enemies, weak-feeling weapons, and boring levels.

Killzone has been consistently sluggish and underwhelming - albeit pretty - since PS2.

It's been months since I bought a PS4 game, whereas a couple of years ago it felt like there was a must-have PS3 game (or two) coming out every month.

Faster, Sony.

I liked the film version.

@stalepie2 - "Ppl who play a game like this for its story should be neutered."

I didn't even know Mariah Carey was a gamer.

"Playing as the aforementioned character, you and your trusty cat must venture through previously visited arenas in search of treasure."

As I keep telling humans: dead birds are treasure.

This weekend, I am mostly playing Elite: Dangerous, because it's awesome and I can't think of anything I want to play on Playstation right now.

I have some kind of cat flu

I really liked Borderlands. It was a lot of fun.

And I really liked Borderlands 2, till about halfway through the game. At that point, I just got tired of the cel-shaded open-world shenanigans, spending time meticulously comparing lootspawn weapons to the ones in my inventory, and shooting bigger monsters a bajillion times to kill them.

I felt I was all Borderlanded out, so I put down the controller, went through the cat flap and sniffed the fresh air.

And never played it again.

"while another will have you searching for cats"

Silly humans.

http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3498529.ece/alternates/s458/Lost-cat-found-near-lost-cat-poster.jpg

"With its stunning visuals, impressive additions, and less embarrassing opening cutscene"

Booooo! Hissss!

The FMV sequences in the original Resident Evil were perfect. They were like a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 "Best Of" compilation.

http://youtu.be/UWo0Hhx07Pc

I enjoyed Duke Nukem when it first came out in 1996. It was a lot more fun than Quake, which was technically impressive but just miserable to look at. Like being trapped in a caravan on a rainy day in Skegness. With Morrissey.

Mr. Nukem isn't everybody's cup of tea, which is fine. But I think some folks miss the point. He's intentionally crass and silly, because he's a parody of 80's action heroes. That's why he spouts cheesy one-liners nicked from cheesy cult movies like "They Live" and "Army of Darkness".

Duke Nukem 3D is one of those games that knows it's a game and is happy just being a game. It has no pretensions to being a film, or art, or social commentary. Its only purpose is to amuse you with gunplay and aliens and toilet jokes. Its only ambition is to make you smile.

It's a bit like Viz. And wouldn't the world be just that little bit more drab and Quake-like and Skegnessy if there was no room in it for Johnny Fartpants?

And, Alex, what's this?

"This at least allows you to tune out his misogyny"

The Duke isn't a misogynaniac. He loves women, that's why he gives them money and says "shake it baby".

And let me tell you, when I was a young cat in 1996, those blocky spritey ladies shook it for me so many times they nearly melted my SVGA card. I haven't been that excited playing a computer game since I discovered you could fight chickens in Ocarina of Time.

If you really want to find misogynimism in games, I suggest Ms Pacman and its terrible insensitivity towards women with eating disorders and phasmophobia.

Unfortunately it is no longer 1996, and Duke Nukem 3D's low-res graphics and super-simplistic gameplay are about as fresh as a Spice Girls CD or an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine. Nostalgia was better in the olden days.

I loved, loved, LOVED SR:IV

Let me tell you for why.

The following trailer is rated A for Awesome:

In a world... where AAA videogames had gotten a bit po-faced and serious... came one game... that had the courage to be shamelessly silly... gratuitously goofy... and outrageously over the top.

Yes, it was easy. Yes, it got a bit repetitive. Yes, when all's said and done it is a confection of a game: a temporary sugar rush rather than a gourmet meal like TLOU.

Doesn't matter. I had my fun, and that's all that matters.

Anybody who didn't enjoy Nolan North's voice acting, Aerosmith, Keith David, the guest appearance from Rowdy Roddy Piper, the cheeky Mass Effect "romance" parodies, running up buildings, beating up aliens, and singing along to Haddaway's "What Is Love" while flying a spaceship is pure evil.

And I will claw their furniture and poop in their slippers.

@Godsire- one does not own a cat. The kitty will merely graciously permit his human to feed him and provide ear scratches as required.

@mitcHELLspawn - according to Vgchartz YTD numbers ending mid-Dec

XBox One would need to sell 7 million units more than the PS4 this year to catch up.

They sold about 7 million consoles in total during 2014. So even if the PS4 sells zero units this year, XBox one would have to double its sales year-on-year, in order to match the PS4's install base.

Does that seem likely?

I'm not a fancy analyst or anything. I'm just a cat, and even I know XBox One isn't going to catch up to PS4 in 2015. I'd bet a whole carton of Sheba with turkey and white sauce on it.

I saw a badger in my garden once, so I angrily fuzzed up my tail and hissed at it through the conservatory door.

Hmmm... think I'll wait for the Push Square review on this one. The video was nice enough but this is from the guys who made Dead Island and Call of Juarez - not bad games, but not especially good ones either.

I agree with Sammy.

This sort of thing was frustrating in the PS3 era, when the PSN was absolutely free.

Now that they charge you for it, even though I think Playstation Plus is a bargain at the price, it's unforgivable.

I want to find the hackers and scratch them up bad. But I also want to hiss at Sony for continuing to get caught up in network security breaches, unscheduled downtime, and poor communication on PSN issues.

Meowy Christmas!

Every time I see the name "Graham Banas" I think "Graham Bananas?".

And then I have this mental picture of him doing the peanut butter jelly time dance like it's 10 years ago or something.

It makes me happy.

Sony can't afford to sell the PS4 at a loss. After years of making losses they need to turn a profit.

MS has huge cash reserves and are doing what they always do when they have a problem: throw money at it. So, bought exclusives and now subsidised XBoxes.

I still prefer PS4, but if Sony wants to be able to justify the price premium of its product over the competition, it needs to see more high quality exclusives on the platform sooner rather than later.

Mange tout, Xbox.

Mange tout.

This looks great!

But I don't want to study with a Japanese schoolgirl.

I want to study with a cat! Change it to a cat studying sim please Sony. You could learn:

Catching mice
Catching birds
Staring at strange cats
Sleeping

Dear Sony,

Please make Project Morpheus a thing I can give you money for.

I still have the PS Move wands and holsters I bought the day they came out in 2010. I still feel a bit burned by that. Sell me a virtual reality headset to go with those plastic ice cream cones and all will be forgiven.

I approve of this game.

This is stupid.

A cat dating sim would be great, because cats are beautiful and mysterious. But pigeons?!? Manky flying rats who eat garbage. You wouldn't want to kiss a pidgeon because their feathers are full of mites. And their conversation skills are non existent.

More cat dating sims please.

I had a Mario game and watch, and it was my prized possession. I was entranced by the crude LCD graphics and blippy bloopy sounds.

It died after I forgot to take it off before getting into the bath.

I dried it off with a hairdryer, but from then on it only made weird beeping noises and Mario's sprite was in every position on the screen at once.

This weekend I will mostly be playing Call Of Duty again. I just don't seem to get tired of jumping around like a loon and shooting people with akimbo SMG's.

Mrs Cat loves her Dragon Age Inquisition, but it appears to be a sort of dress up game / dating simulator with grindy looking combat and curious frame rate drops in the cut scenes. Pah!

I played 20 minutes of the original Dragon Age once, died of boredom, and my spirit went to Sovngarde. There, Nord warriors upbraided me for the error of my ways, and I made a solemn vow never to dirty my Dualshock playing a Bioware product again.

Far Cry 4 looks good but I haven't installed it yet. I wonder if they'ĺl do a Blood Dragon type spinoff.

Checking Amazon every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, from mid-August hoping for confirmation that I'd snagged a launch day delivery date.

Getting a text from Mrs Cat on November 29th that the PS4 had been delivered.

Rushing home from the cat food factory to lovingly unbox it, marvel at its angular tinyness, turn it on, fiddle around with the settings and... play Resogun for 20 minutes.

Then turned it off, went back to playing GTA V on the PS3, and barely touched it again till Wolfenstein came out.

@Cowboysfan-22 - "I wonder how many people would break into a cold sweat if they went to a job interview and was asked to show their PSN name"

And what, pray tell, is wrong with calling yourself 'ChunkyLover53'?

Anybody else finding their PS4 start to get a bit noisy?

@tenderbeefcake - "How can you give a game with this many problems a 100."

Not only that. This is how they describe what that score means:

"(Platinum) Near Perfect – This is as close to perfect as you can get. This game will go down in history as one of the best games of a generation."

Now, I'm not suggesting someone was invited on a jolly to Ubisoft HQ, shown a bit of the game, wined and dined, and sent off with his pockets full of Doritos and Mountain Dew (TM).

But I'm not suggesting that didn't happen, either.

@Bad-MuthaAdebis "the user scores are half the scores of the critics"

Why, it's almost as if some less reputable web-logs than Push Square are given 'incentives' to produce favourable reviews of certain AAA games...

CoD. I really like the new movement, it's the freshest experience in the franchise since Black Ops. Rabbit punching is fun. Dashing and leaping in a chaotic ballet of virtual violence makes old CoD feel suddenly obsolete.

There are a couple of niggles I hope they patch, like every time someone breathes into their mic you're informed of it in GIANT FONT near the centre of your screen.

But overall a great return to form after the disappointing Ghosts. I'm glad I picked it up.

The best ever Playstation ads were the US ones with Kevin Butler. He was the VP of our hearts.

If they keep this up, I might get me one of those glacier white PS4's for when Mrs Cat is hogging the launch day PS4 I bought. I was going to hold out for a PS4 slim but, damn, that price is tempting.

It's because the Dualshock looks like a boomerang.

Aussies appreciate that.

I'd like to see a proper new Duke Nukem game after the fiasco that was Forever.

@Munkyknuts I liked Dishonoured. But by the time the DLC came out I wasn't interested in playing any more.

It was a good game but not a patch on the first two Thief games IMO. Would buy Dishonoured 2 though. Hopefully they make it feel a bit less like you're being funnelled down corridors to the next objective.

I like the cut of their jib.

The Witcher 3 looks like Dragon Age, but good.

I'm definitely buying this.

No thank you, Rockstar. It's a setup.

I loved GTA V but I'm not going to spend fifty beer tokens on a slightly shinier version. Maybe if the multiplayer turned out to be as awesome as it looked in the trailers... but the MP got tiresome really, really fast.

Make Read Dead Redemption 2 or Bully 2, please!

Share play is one of those cool futuristic features I can't imagine ever using.

I'm so glad they cut down on the singleplayer to save space on the disc for multiplayer goodness!

Really, why bother with campaign mode in a CoD game? CoD is about shotgunning your friends in Nuketown. CoD is about throwing axes at French guys who are always screaming "pootan!" into their mics. CoD is, and always has been, the social network of FPS's.

@Godsire- "this type of thought process is why companies don't give us a great campaign & great multiplayer in the same game."

Yes! It's because of me!

I like a good singleplayer FPS. Wolfenstein is the best game I've played on PS4 this year for example. But CoD campaigns aren't my cup of tea: it's a shooting gallery of big, cinematic set pieces. Diverting, but a bit hollow. Which is fine, but not nearly as fun as sniping a real human player called "Bieberfan69" and hearing him rage.

I was very disappointed with Ghosts: most of the maps were either boring or just too damn big for the number of players - I could run for two minutes trying to find an enemy, only to get sniped. The spawning was broke, and I hated how they nerfed knifing. The killstreaks were poor too: the sat com was like a crap version of the UAV, the guard dog was next to useless, and most of the support strike package was of little value.

The create a soldier gimmick was pants. Not being able to make your own playercard was lame. The sticks and stones game mode from BO was a sad loss. And the graphics weren't appreciably better than previous CoD games, despite all the pre-release promises of "brand new engine, guys!".

Apart from that it was great.

But I'm definitely going to buy Call of Spacey this week. Don't care about the story, it's all about MP for me. The only time I've bothered with singleplayer is when the PSN has been down.

I can't wait for some sweet PS4 CoD action. Let's hope it's more like Black Ops and we can finally lay Ghosts to rest.