Oh and, by the way, Dan from Zombie Cow has just been featured in a story on tiny British indie game devs by the BBC

Toby, are you using FO3 mods at all? There are some insanely good/tough ones, I've hardly scratched the surface of the regular game.

After all the advice I bought Arkham Asylum, but I can't recall where I downloaded it to...

It's the 360 version, delicatemoth, so no. Only options are to increase the difficulty of the combat (which increases XP, at least), but even with that the fighting on OA was pitiful. My character's not even that high a level, either.

Haha! I shall have to wind Ben up.

Glad it turned up, I had to address it to 'Ginger Yellow' and was worried it might have gone astray.

If any other OTFfer needs an Xbox hard drive transfer cable, perhaps it can do the rounds.

Has anyone played Braid? Is it worth 1200 MS points?

It's worth 2400 MS points. It's fucking brilliant.

I picked up the new Ace Attorney game for the DS the other day. I was a bit anxious about the change in gameplay, but it's actually brilliant. The crime scene investigation is far, far better than before, and the core of the game is still cross-examining witnesses/suspects. It's just not done in a courtroom. The writing hasn't quite been up to the standard of the previous games (I've nearly completed the second case), but there's still plenty of laugh out loud moments.

I've queued it up via the Xbox site. Hopefully it will be downloaded and ready to go by the time I get in later....

Good god. World 4 is causing me major headaches. Quality game though, would recommend it to anyone who likes their brain done in by some awkward puzzles. Like the presentation too.

Which one's world 4? Is that the one where the arrow of time depends on which way you're walking? That's such an awesome mechanic.

If you liked Braid, you should check out the newly released Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, which has an equally gorgeous art style and plays like a mix of Braid and one of those many-concurrent-lives games I've linked to.

Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is this: Portal 2 and/or HL2:Ep3 inbound?. I'm quivering with anticipation.

That's the one, yeah. Maddening and astounding in equal measure.

For those of you with iphones, apart from the of course awesome Tiger Woods there are a few cool little games worth a go.

iblast Moki is very simple, but fist-gnawingly frustrating. But oh-so satisfying when you pull it off.
You have, ropes, bars, time-fused bombs and wheels. You need to get the mokis from where they're stranded to their portal. That's it.
However, in later levels, this involves loads of trial and error, inventive solutions and much hair-pulling.
By the time you get to the later levels, you are so adept at lateral thinking that you can go back to the early ones and double or triple your scores easily.
The physics and mechanics are superb.

Angry Birds: Fire birds from catapults to kill green pigs. that's it.
Only it's not because you have to get to the pigs through wood, glass etc. And you have birds with different skills. This game ate up 3 hours yesterday. I could not put it down.
N.O.V.A: Like Halo on the iphone. It's not brilliant, but it's pretty good fun
LGR2: A wipeout rip-off. Again, good fun (although the controls take a while to master. Uses the interface really well.

I should like Angry Birds but I can't quite bring myself to. It's a bit too arbitrary, it seems (eg whether the pigs burst or not when something hits them, the fact that you can only see your last shot's trajectory). Boom Blox did that sort of gameplay a lot better, although I haven't tried the iPhone version. Most of my iPhone gaming at the moment is split between Cake Mania 3 (sad, I know, but those games are fiercely addictive) and Rogue Touch.

So. Once I've completed Braid (which may take me a while, the way it's confusing me) I'm rather looking forward to Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The online demo was great fun, and got rather more play time than a demo strictly should.

Oh, and Fallout.

GY, how many different gaming platforms are you currently operating?

Depends on what you count, but at a minimum: PC (XP and Windows 7), Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, PSP, DS, iPod Touch, Nokia N95.

Wow. We have Wii. It's the first and only system I've ever owned.

I think it's a bit of an overreaction thing. I've always been a gamer (well, since Elite on the BBC, anyway) but until this generation I've only ever had one machine at a time, and maybe a handheld, and it usually seemed to be the wrong one. Atari St instead of Amiga or PC. Atari Lynx instead of a Gameboy. Megadrive instead of SNES (not a terrible choice, but still, most of the genres I like were better represented on the SNES). Gamecube instead of PS2. I was always looking forlornly at the amazing games I wasn't able to play because they weren't released on the system I owned. About the only one I got right was the PS1. So as soon as I had the disposable income, I seem to have decided not to be caught out again and got the lot. And, to be honest, apart from the PSP, which is pretty much gathering dust, I don't think that was a bad move. All the machines offer something different.

We fit neatly into that Wii demographic of 'game system for non-gaming people'.

And it's nice that we can play games with our kids and be on very equal footing. It's...interesting...to have your ass handed to you by a four year-old Mario Kart whiz.

Party like it's 1999: Y2K bug strikes PS3