Weekend Roundup XI

So here we are at the end of another week; they seem to just be accelerating in the lead up to the end of the year.

Of course the big news this week, regardless of your platform preference, is the long-awaited release of PlayStation Home. The virtual world that likely needs no introduction is now available to everyone, simply go along to the new Home icon under the PlayStation Network category on the XMB to commence downloaditations. The Wanderer has already had a bit of a moan about the lack of new stuff for us beta-ers but for everyone else its all new, so enjoy. Apparently there's also a stream of new content coming starting this week.

Aside from Home, this week has been remarkably mixed playing-wise. I realised I had too many games going at the same time and stuck Battlefield and GTA on my 'to play over the Christmas holidays' pile, and instead focused on Bioshock and Mirror's Edge. Bioshock just gets more awesome as it goes on, and prettier too, and just this week I restored the forests of Arcadia and completed Sander Cohen's masterpiece! My progress in Mirror's Edge is noticeably slower due to the requirement of actual intelligence whilst playing, although I am now well over halfway through the game now, somewhere in Level 6.

The Wanderer hasn't been as tied to his gaming as me, but has stuck in some time with LittleBigPlanet and reports that Astro Tripper is incredibly fun, something I too can correlate after stealing it from his download list. The Farmer is now back with us after quite a serious bout of illness, and playing FIFA, I guess he'll probably want his copies of FarCry and Fallout back at some point now. Newbie Armadillo has been playing some SimCity 4 (hey, it's a step up from last weeks game about the American Civil War), in which he made me a black man and then sent a tornado my way. I also hear that he's off to get his buy-now, recieve-at-Xmas PS3 bundle this weekend too. For those of you after a good offer, Game currently has an 80GB PS3 with Resistance 2 (yay!), Fallout 3 (sorta-yay!), LBP (uberyay!) and the Lost game (maybe good for a trade-in?) for just £289.99. That's roughly £120 off.

Here on the blog, I left most of the work to the others this week whilst instead working through some essays in order to get a decent parents evening report. Elsewhere on the internet:

• Rockstar announced some free and paid DLC is coming early next year to expand Midnight Club LA.
• Some crazy Americans decided they would quite fancy having a Halo-themed wedding.
• Apple goes nuts and claims the iPhone is a worthy competitor to the DS.
• But then again, a 3D desktop would be pretty cool.
• And Wired discovered an awesomely intimidating-looking computer filled with cooling oil.

And just so you know, Team Fortress 2 is down to £6.99/$9.99 on Steam for this weekend only!