It’s nearly Christmas! Sort of. Well, it’s near enough that loads of very big games are starting to trickle into the FirstPlay office, making it much harder to concentrate on work and telling you important stuff like…
…the fact that episode 24 will be on the Store this Wednesday, and comes with an exclusive Top Gun theme as well as a review of genre-twisting RPG sequel Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP. We also have not one but two huge studio visits this week, the first to EA Sports‘ Vancouver lair to check up on FIFA 11, and the second to see Enslaved: Odyssey to the West at Ninja Theory, and a review of slacker superhero hit Kick-Ass on Blu-ray.
We’ve also got a packed Network Highlights section this week, including a review of side-scrolling slasher Shank, a look at the latest minis and a round-up of the best user-created ModNation Racers, and plenty more games stuffed like hi-res corpses into the trunk of our screenshot galleries, including sandy shooter Spec Ops: The Line, robo-suited blockbuster Vanquish, The Force Unleashed II and ‘The Modern Warfare Of The Skies’ (their words not ours) Ace Combat: Assault Horizons
Which, for just 99p, is loads – over half an hour’s HD game coverage and a pretty picture of a plane for your XMB. And if you subscribe it’s even cheaper – around 75p an episode if you take out a 90-day sub for £8.99.
As usual we’d love to hear all your feedback, suggestions for content, and excuses for spending large periods of time alone at Christmas to trophy whore Black Ops, and you can get in touch with us on Twitter at @firstplay_uk, FirstPlay@futurenet.com, or the official EU forums And don’t forget you can sign up for the FirstPlay newsletter at firstplay.co.uk/register to have regular news and content updates delivered directly.
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Looks good, but one thing, FIFA 11 is 1 October ;)
I know. I saw it when we reviewed the episode. I’m hoping that’s a still taken from the wrong version and the right one is in the episode itself, but I’m too scared to look.
Looks like its another good one! :)
‘a pretty picture of a plane for your XMB’. I’m sold XD
You better have given KH a good review >.>
or i come and get you!
Think we’ll be OK :)
does wayne rooney cheat with a prostitute in career mode on fifa 11 if so im buying it. he he
Nice, Enslaved and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.
I’ll pick this up.
hope this theme as good as last weeks :D still think 1stplay should be part of PS+ tho :s
keep up the great work :D
7 positive comments … Nathan, quick, break out the emergency bubbly lol
As always guys, LOVE IT!!
Dragon
We’ve had a celebratory biscuit. One I stole from producer Dave.
“a pretty picture of a plane for your XMB”. Which translates to “The Exclusive Top Gun theme is nothing more than the default FirstPlay theme with a Top Gun picture behind it”
;-)
This isn’t one we’ve made, but one the developer made for us.
No negative words this time but still not happy :(
Sorry MrLopes – hopefully we’ll get there one day.
Hey, Im wondering whether Lucy Porter will still be the voice of Firstplay? Curious because it was a different woman’s voice for the Firstplay Ep 24 trailer.
YEPEEEEEEE
Yeah, i’m wondering about the voice too. The first one was irritating but this new one is even worse! sounds like something you found selling weed in a council estate. How hard is it to get a normal sounding guy to do the voice! jeez…