Author: Padraig Fahy

  • Gaming News – 16th October 2024

    Gaming News – 16th October 2024

    • The release date of Alan Wake 2‘s DLC ‘The Lake House’ has been leaked. It is set to be released next Tuesday (22nd October) alongside the physical edition of the game.
    • Riot Games is cutting 32 employees, with 27 being from its League of Legends team and 5 from publishing. This is in addition to the 530 jobs that were cut in January.
    • Mark Rubin is working on a recovery plan for XDefiant and has admitted that there are no plans to shut down the game after Season 4. There were meetings last year regarding their Year 2 plans.
    • Nobuo Uematsu has stated that Fantasian Neo Dimension is his final game project as a composer but has emphasized that he is not retiring. He is going to be cutting back on the video game music work so he works on other music that he wants to make. He will continue working on jobs for one theme song (Like he did with ‘Dragonsong’ the theme for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward)
    • Activision has released the PC specs requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 which is out next Friday. Preloading will begin on Monday at 5pm. Game Pass players, the game will launch between 12pm on Thursday and 7am on Friday. Steam and Battle.net will have to wait until 5am on Friday.
    • Xbox has announced the following games are coming to Xbox Game Pass.
      • South Park: The Fractured but Whole – Console, Cloud and PC – Released today (October 16th) for Ultimate/PC/Standard Game Pass.
      • Donut Country – Console, Cloud and PC – October 17th for Ultimate/PC/Standard.
      • MechWarrior 5: Clans – Series X|S, Cloud and PC – October 17th for Ultimate/PC.
      • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Console, Cloud and PC – October 25th for Ultimate/PC.
      • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III – Cloud – October 25th for Ultimate.
      • Call of Duty: Warzone – Cloud – October 25th for Ultimate.
      • Ashen – Console, Cloud and PC – October 29th for Ultimate/PC/Standard
      • Dead Island 2 – PC – October 31st for Ultimate/PC
      • Starcraft: Remastered – PC – November 5th Ultimate/PC
      • Starcraft 2: Campaign Collection – PC – November 5th Ultimate/PC
    • Bioware has released the PC specs for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and has confirmed that there is no 3rd party DRM (Such as Denuvo)
    • Sony is going to be holding PlayStation: The Concert in over 200 cities in the next 2 years. The show will feature performances of music originally composed by Gustavo Santaolalla (The Last of Us), Joris De Man (Horizon), Ilan Eshkeri (Ghost of Tsushima), Bear McCreary (God of War) and more. The first show will be in Dublin’s 3Arena on April 19th 2025. Tickets are on sale now.
    • It Takes Two has sold over 20 million units.
    • Resident Evil 4 remake has sold over 8 million units.
    • Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero has sold over 3 million copies within the first 24 hours.
    • Hades II is getting its first major update in a free update today ‘The Olympic Update’ – Trailer – They have also added native support for Mac’s with Apple Silicion.
    • The source code for Rogue Legacy 1 has been made available for free – Github
    • Bandai Namco has cancelled or paused development of several games including an upcoming Naruto and One Piece game. It is not known how many jobs are at risk.

  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 9 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 9 Notes

    • They are still without hot water.
    • Marcello said to Sarah that she smells like teabags and periods.
    • Martha is in the DR – She is more calm, knowing that the nomination was direct and better than the house voting for her.
    • Ali is speaking with Khaled. Ali doesn’t dislike Khaled. Ali was scrutinising Khaled. She wants to “park” the problem.
    • Ali wants to leave the house (before the eviction). She doesn’t want to have arguments with people. She didn’t like how Khaled spoke to Hanah in the store room. Ali is taking responsibility for the situation
    • Ali didn’t like that she was ‘scruitning’ Khaled right after he nominated Martha. She thinks that the wording made it out worse than what it was.
    • Ali could have talked it out privately but decided to do it in front of everyone else as Martha was crying.
    • The discussion seems to be going around in circles. They hug it out and it ends.
    • Ali went into the DR – She is requesting to leave the Big Brother house. BB asked if Ali got much sleep last night, she didn’t.
    • Hanah and Dean are talking about managing the food situation and that they should have a house meeting, but the Head of House Khaled is… kinda busy right now.
    • Ali has been in the DR for over an hour. She is going back into the house.
    • Nathan immediately hugged Ali as soon as she came out. He doesn’t want her to go. She goes to the garden
    • Marcello in the DR – Not a fan of the hot water is off. Many housemates stink, including Ali’s attitude.
    • Khaled has apologised to Ali. Ali is sorry that she picked on him. They hug it out.
    • Daze and Khaled talking about the killer nomination. Daze apologised for immediately scrutinising Khaled after choosing Martha.
    • Today’s task. BB asks a question. 2 names are pulled out of a hat per question, and housemates must stand on A or B in response to the question.
    • Head of House Khaled and Segun are in the DR and have to predict what the majority of housemates will choose.
    • Example: BB asks: “Who is the most loyal?”. Two names are pulled out of the hat are: Marcello and Lily. Everyone else must choose either A for Marcello or B for Lily.
    • Khaled and Segun must choose A or B.
    • Khaled and Segun predicted the questions correctly. They completed the task successfully. They have been rewarded by having the hot water turned back on.
    • Housemates are dropping ‘beats’ in the kitchen area.
    • Lily is in the DR – Missing home. She knows why people nominated her, and has to suck it up. Close with Daze and Ali. Ali means a lot to her. She doesn’t know what Ali and Daze say have the time.
    • Housemates have broken the rules again. Lily said to Sarah that she knows who voted for her. Separately, Martha said that she knows that certain people didn’t vote her for.
    • Lily and Martha have been sent to jail in the garden.
    • The hot water has been turned off again.
    • Daze in the DR – She was also thinking about leaving the Big Brother house, but she didn’t. Doesn’t like people talking about them
    • After 4 hours, Lily and Martha have been released from jail. They have been provided refreshments.
    • Nathan, Dean and Baked Potato are talking in the bathroom. Nathan hasn’t got on with Sarah.
    • Lily and Martha in the DR – They have apologised to BB.
    • Marcello commented on Sarah’s twerking at the door of the storeroom whenever they were provided refreshments. He is being very misogynistic once again towards Sarah. Sarah is not happy
    • Izaaz, Emma and Marcello are talking in the bathroom about it.
    • Sarah walks in and Marcello apologises. Sarah thinks that they have a brother/sister relationship. He thinks it is going to be more. He doesn’t know the boundary.
    • Dean in the DR – Pissed off with the rule breaking. Annoyed that the hot water was turned off. Says that Daze is upset about the nominations, but it is part of the game.


  • Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 8 Notes

    Big Brother UK 2024 – Day 8 Notes

    • Housemates still don’t have hot water
    • Ali in the DR – Doesn’t regret what she said to Khaled.
    • Nominations time. Khaled is immune as he is Head of House.
    • Nathan up first. Votes: Sarah & Izaaz
    • Hanah – Votes: Ali & Lily
    • Daze – Votes: Izaaz & Dean
    • Ali – Votes: Sarah & Segun
    • Martha – Votes: Segun & Nathan
    • Segun – Votes: Daze & Lily
    • Lily – Votes: Emma & Segun
    • So far: Segun 3, Sarah 2, Izaaz 2, Lily 2, Ali 1, Dean 1, Nathan 1, Daze 1, Emma 1
    • Dean – Votes: Sarah & Daze
    • Emma – Votes: Izaaz & Lily
    • Sarah – Votes: Ali & Nathan
    • Izaaz – Votes: Lily & Daze
    • Baked Potato – Votes: Thomas & Ali
    • Thomas – Votes: Daze & Lily
    • Marcello – Votes: Ali & Daze
    • Head of House Khaled – Votes: Lily & Ali
    • Lily 6, Ali 5, Daze 5, Segun 3, Sarah 3, Izaaz 3, Nathan 2, Dean 1, Emma 1, Thomas 1
    • Lily, Ali and Daze are up for eviction.
    • Ali does a cartwheel. Martha attempts a cartwheel… fails
    • Izaaz and Dean are talking about house division. Brings up last night.
    • Khaled in the DR – He has to go into the secret room beside the upstairs room.
    • He manages to sneak into BB’s secret basement.
    • 2 powers “Save and Replace” and “Killer Nomination”
    • BB shares who is up for nomination.
    • “Save and Replace” removes 1 of the 3 that is up for eviction and replaces someone.
    • “Killer Nomination” puts someone up for eviction alongside the 3.
    • Khaled chooses “Killer Nomination”
    • Khaled chooses Martha based on interactions and events since the start.
    • Up for nomination: Daze, Ali, Lily, Martha
    • Heated debate: Ali is angry towards Khaled for choosing to nominate someone and that her nomination was a strategy
    • Nathan and Daze: Daze thinks that Khaled shouldn’t have continued to explain his reasoning and Nathan has already has a point before she finishes her sentences. And that what he was saying was a vicious attack. Neither are listening to each other.
    • Lily in the DR – Lily knew that she was going to be up for nomination and ‘knows’ who
    • Khaled, Hanah, Segun, Izaaz are in the upstrairs room. People have no problem with the decision but its the scruinity afterwards that is the problem.
    • Nathan feels that the words that Daze used were incorrect and that Daze and Ali were nit-picking and targeting Khaled. Daze admits that she used the wrong word.
    • Ali in the DR – Says that she feels that she let her family.


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