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Am I the only one that feels CoD needs less not more? The only thing that would spark my interest is a return to its roots. A time where guns actually had sway and recoil. Does anyone even know what sway is anymore? A time when you chose between Stopping Power or UAV Jammer instead of all the ridiculous things they've done since to try and balance stealth perks. A time when killstreaks weren't ridiculously over the top and games were won with bullets. How about memorable maps? I remember District, Chinatown, Broadcast, Pipeline, Showdown, Strike, Bog, Backlot, Crash, Vacant, Downpour, Ambush, Shipment, Creek, like yesterday (fuck Overgrown, never liked it and Bloc made me want to stab myself in the eye with a spoon) but I REMEMBER them. I don't think I could name a single map from MW2 or Black Ops 2. Gah. I want a retro shooter that includes an M60 and an AK47!

The enemies ripped both of them off and formed them into one, then collectively presented it to us.

Nah not for me, done it once, online just got boring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29168676 The Advanced Ligo instrument, a laser "ruler" built to measure the traces of gravitational waves, is progressing at amazing speed, scientists say. The first generation of Ligo, which ran between 2001 and 2010, saw nothing. Over the last four years scientists have designed a more sensitive detector that achieved "full lock" in June this year, earlier than planned. Researchers reported that the new one is already 30% more precise and will start scanning the sky in summer 2015. Ligo (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) operates in two sites in the US, one in Livingston, Louisiana, and another one in Hanford, Washington. Space ripples "In June we reached this state that we call 'locking', where the entire system is switched on and behaves for a short time, 10 minutes or so, as predicted it should do in science mode," said Prof Andreas Freise from the school of physics and astronomy of the University of Birmingham during the British Science Festival. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate across the Universe like sound waves do after an earthquake. But in this case, the sources of the "tremors" are very energetic events such as supernovas (the explosion of a dying star), fast spinning neutron stars (very dense and compact stars), or the collision of black holes and neutron stars orbiting close to each other. With Ligo's current precision, the interferometer should be able to detect gravitational waves coming from neutron star and black hole binary systems 27 megaparsecs (about 88 million light-years) away from us. Researchers are still working on the intricate optical system and detectors within Advanced Ligo to gradually increase the precision. "The target is to reach [a distance of] 200 megaparsecs… which is a factor of 10 better than the old detector," explained Prof Freise. Gravitational waves are thought to emerge from energetic events such as the collision of two neutron stars Augmenting the distance by a factor of 10 means that Ligo will scan a volume of space 1,000 times larger than before. "Advanced Ligo will be sensitive to a factor of 1,000 in the volume that we were observing with initial Ligo, and that is the sphere of volume where we expect to see a few gravitational waves," added Prof Alberto Vecchio also from the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Birmingham. Ligo observatories operate by beaming a high power laser into a splitter that divides the beam into two parts. Each part is then directed towards two 4km tunnels perpendicular to each other. A mirror at the end of the tunnels reflects the rays back into a detector where they are recombined. Since both tunnels are equally long, when the two halves meet in the detector the signal shows no pattern. But this is not the case if a gravitational wave were passing through the Earth. "When [the gravitational waves] reach Earth they distort space and time. In particular, they will change the separation of the mirrors," explained Prof Vecchio. "Over 4km, a decent gravitational wave that we can detect creates a change of less than a thousandth of the size of the nucleus of an atom." This minuscule variation in the space between the mirrors will produce a distinct pattern from which the properties of the gravitational waves can be inferred. Profound observation The team at the University of Birmingham has been involved in Ligo since 2000, leading the development of technology and hardware, and the tools for the analysis of the scientific data. The main improvements in Advanced Ligo included an upgraded suspension system of the mirrors to make them as stable as possible, a more powerful laser, and a change in the optical elements to accommodate the laser's extra power. Although the former Ligo instruments did not detect any signature in its 10 years of observation, researchers think that with the upgrade, Advanced Ligo will be able to detect at least one gravitational wave in its lifetime. Prof Vecchio said that the most pessimistic prediction is that "Ligo will deliver one detection over five years". "Reasonable predictions tell you many events per year and there are optimistic ones that tell you a hundred or a thousand. We just don't know." Ligo will complement rather than compete with the results of the Bicep2 and Planck experiments, as it is tuned to look at much shorter wavelengths. The implications of detecting gravity waves are profound from a scientific point of view. Prof Freise said: "There are two aspects. One is testing the theory of gravity, but I think the more interesting for me is for astronomy. "We are tapping into the unknown here, so we will get a new signal that may tell a lot of people in astronomy that they were wrong. And that's what I am after. Red text is my highlighting Call me cynical but most builders struggle to build a house to exactly the dimensions shown on a plan and these guys have built two 4km (2.4855 miles give or take ) perpendicular tunnels so that both are exactly the same length??

Really pleased they've addedd more stuff to do already. A good mix of PvP, storyline lore, raids and general events in the areas. I'll be very happy if they continue to update things this often and listen to the community feedback and act on it

Bungie has revealed some upcoming events and changes: http://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=12133 Use this thread to discuss events!

Middlesex goes from Hayes all the way round west and north London over to Enfield in north east London. I won the Middlesex cup with my school football team when I was 16 and we always used to have to travel all over the gaff for away fixtures. I always lump Wembley in with West London, like I always say Brixton is more north London and doesn't belong south of the river. Just feelings I get

Chris and I just got our ass handed to us on the moon strike mission. Definitely gonna need a 3rd person who communicates.

I remember doing that earth one with a random in the beta it took a while.

I believe they will run from a week. Tuesday-Tuesday

Steams running this: (clicky) Anyone have any experience with Lost Planet 3? The reviews say its buggy as fuck and plays differently but I like 1 and 2. Thinking about picking it up with RE6 but I don't want to buy a dog. Thanks.

The strike zone missions can be fucking brutal. Better put your big boy pants on

The woman or the place? Lots of takeover rumours at Spurs - could be interesting. Be weird to see Spurs at Portman Road but at least Dave will get to see some decent football for a change

I finally should get to have a good go at Destiny this weekend, have only played the first mission so far, but should get some hours in now. Do you have to reach a certain level before you can leave the story and party up a bit?

I agree 100% I think people are giving up on this game to quickly. It's made to play in a party not so much solo.

Send out some friends invites. I'm on at different times.

Luckily Euan was asleep at his keyboard when you posted that!

That should have been 22.

Up to level 10 now. Played 3 matches in the Crucible and it became quickly apparent that I've had it with competitive multiplayer. I would say I endured 3 matches as opposed to enjoyed. I'll endure a few more to try and finish my play 5 multiplayer matches and win 3 games of Control bounties. After that, it's unlikely I ever direct my ship in the direction of the Crucible again. I've done the first three story missions on the moon and already grow weary of fighting the same enemies using the same character over and over. This sucks. I really wanted to love this game. Now I find it doesn't scratch my itch in the slightest.

I'm liking it but not loving it. It's a serious borderland (as noted by our resident owl) without as much of a storyline. The graphics and gameplay are outstanding. I haven't had a connection issue and you can solo the missions easy enough. I've just completed the earth missions and will be moving onto the moon. I have had fun in co-op missions. The world is much too small in my opinion. The missions much are too repetitive

Not played a lot of PS3 since BLOPS2. Lemme get my aim back and I'll jump in....(on my new PS4 !!)

Surely you mean Brent is an area of massive cultural diversity sited in an area of urban decay which could be the next area to become a property hot spot?........no, you're right, it's a bit of a hell hole Plumbers Crack (ex NW10)

That game looks ridiculously fun. I'm hoping we'll have full parties playing this game, I can't wait for it!

How about no? I'm not getting this. Looks like Halo gave CoD a proper fuck and ended up with this 9 months later. And the cloaking? Killzone did this, all it resulted in was people would use it to sit in corners and just stab when you ran past, I've no doubt it wont take long until the little shitkids that love their camping ways will start doing this. And the whole lazer thing seems utterly useless. The only thing I can think of using it for would be to troll my team mates by shooting them in the face with it and hopefully blinding them. Hell I'd take another ww2 or even a ww1 game over this any day. And just putting this out there since BO1 used the Vietnam war, why not use the Korean war? Anything but this futuristic little jizz stain. #rant #2cents.

I had to make a new account to say this but NO! But maybe yes... I just miss the banter and rage

I've never been so uninterested in a game before. It's all the same things with different names and different skins. The things that are new... I'm just not interested in. Spike drones, tracking drones, a frag grenade that probably does no damage... Oh Call of Duty, I feel that the end is here for me.