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Well Usain Bolt labelled the competition and Glasgow 'a bit shit' allegedly and I think he runs tomorrow and many spectators are supposedly going to turn their back on the race. Should be interesting indeed

Oxford Utd have a Danny Rose but he's a white chap. Equally shit too. Would love to swap I was at the Arsenal game when he came on the scene with that epic goal but he's done sod all but go backwards and become less popular since. Been on loan a few times but is really only a player to fill the team sheet IMO. Spurs can do much better.

Titearse Bumhole as we call him

I forgot COD Ghosts existed. http://mp1st.com/2014/07/31/call-duty-ghosts-nemesis-dlc-first-trailer-launches-august-5/#.U9p-VPldV8E

Haha that's fucking brilliant!

Auto fail I hope for the love of god doesn't get implemented but Bungie seem fixated on 6 players, no more, no less at all times for Raids. If you're even playing in a party of 6 in a Raid started at 6pm let's say and it's going on 9.30pm and it still hasn't ended but you or one of your team needs to get the dinner in the oven, put the kids to bed, phone goes off, an emergency, pick up the wife from work etc..you all end up losing over 3 hours of effort because of natural life occurrences. With no matchmaking; you can't get someone to hop in if such a thing materialises for the final hour+ and by the sounds of it; you can't even invite someone to join mid-game just to cover the person(s) who have unfortunately had to drop out because of certain circumstances. Also if you're playing with a buddy from the other side of the world and someone loses connection; game over too? Firefights on Halo were fine as you could play 1-4 players at any time and players could join via matchmaking but leave of their own accord if they had to opt out and could be replaced by someone else through invite, join or common matchmaking. With Raids being fixed at six and in Bungie's words; an essential and conditional number to play the mode; it seems the flexibility isn't there and they have made a catastrophic error of judgement on players habits, health and availability. Even with Raids planned out to the precise second; you always have to prepare for the unexpected in life and may have to remove yourself from the game but I hope that everyone else doesn't have to suffer hours of lost gameplay because of Bungie's strict and ignorant approach. Raids seem overly ambitious but Bungie haven't considered a host of factors that could impact the experience.

Can't wait for this tomorrow! I'm going for the Platinum trophy

Ravel Morrison remanded in custody http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-28581181 The new Marlon 'do you know who the fuck I am bitch' King?

Supply drops confirmed but we still don't know what they are. It's been confirmed as not a Care Package though. Some people are liking them to BF Battlepacks and others to an Emergency Airdrop.

+1 this is taken from the PS4 manual Avoid prolonged use of the PlayStation® system. Take a 15-minute break during each hour of play. Seems Bungie have other ideas.. I played Halo 3 for four years and after 4pm you'd always have an upward spike in the player count through the evening along with rammed Fireteam matches and it just seems Bungie are building their MMO structure around their classic multiplayer system which doesn't cater in the best interests of many gamers for this genre or potential health implications that it could create.

Oxford just announced their new sponsor Sounds like some adult booty website site I used to visit

Awkward Roma team photo for Ashley Cole

Looks like Ravel Morrison beat up two women in Manchester in the early hours on a night out. What a tosser.

That's the article I already published 6 posts ago I don't like this purely because it's the assumption that randoms cannot work together as a team - the very infrastructure that has made MMO's a very socially satisfying and enjoyable experience over the years. Let's say you have 4 friends online at a specific time but still need two players before you can start a match without fail; I'd rather have a quick matchmaking service to cater for any people that are looking for a game at that time and are willing to join as opposed to manually pissing about and having to search for others online or in the tower trying to club two people together to fill the void through adding them to a friends list or invite - it still destroys Bungie's initial wishes of randoms playing together anyway by having to do this so their assumption that a player will always immediately have 5 friends in sync available at the same time just suggests ignorance from their 4pm peak Halo days when the kids finish school and they have 6 hours straight spare.

Don't the Liverpool players know each other from last year when they were all playing for Southampton?

Far Cry 4 has gone live on Schteem as a pre-purchase for £49.99! Ouch I'll either pick up a physical copy online for £29.99 or just get it on the PS4 to avoid uPlay altogether

I've elaborated

Celtic lost 4-1 at Legia Warsaw in the CL qualifier. Ouch! Lukaku's transfer fee has risen to £28m also

Bungie it seems don't want you to play 'as a disparate group of strangers' so they are under the assumption that everyone will have a bulky friends list from the get-go with available players at that given time and shouldn't need to go fishing for buddies. It's a bad assumption by them IMO but they recognise their risk in doing that. Also, if you have to recruit via the tower precisely the number of players you are short to play; that kinda destroys their wishes in terms of playing with strangers regardless. MMO's are all about making friends in game as you go. If some Raids are 4+ hours straight - fuck that. Who the hell (apart from kids) has that much time on their hands in one session? Not very healthy either if you can't have a break or save midpoint.

Unconfirmed but also posted on NeoGaf earlier in the Raids leak; if one player drops out - the entire team auto-fails. If one person loses connection; insta-fail also. Didn't see this mentioned in the IGN interview but this could be another serious flaw. I cannot believe Bungie have done this - it's like they are still catering to the stereotypical Halo after school gamer. Didn't they think for one minute that this social emphasized MMO needed matchmaking for this aspect? It's like Sledgehammer saying; you can play TDM in Advanced Warfare but you need a team of 5 pals from your friends list in a lobby else you cannot play. I was really looking forward to Raids but this is a massive blow and just takes the conveniance out of playing games when you have a busy schedule and responsibilities. I can't be sitting down trying to club 5 other people together or sending invites to randoms when it's the games responsibility to make it efficient for me to play. Hopefully today's outrage will give Bungie food for thought and they create a system so people can play Raids when they want with as little fuss as possible.

I've modified that for you Rich

Top and bottom paragraphs contain the info from the Destiny dev http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/07/30/destiny-the-endgame-is-only-the-beginning-ign-first ''Bungie isn’t supporting matchmaking for them; the developers don’t want them to be played by disparate groups of strangers''“Raids are a really big bet for us,” he explains. “It's a bit of a risk. Because the activity requires you to have a group of five other friends to play with.” I read about this on NeoGaf earlier but didn't believe it but it seems confirmed from the horses mouth. Halo Firefights had the same restrictions but you only needed 1 extra player to play but now needing 5 fellow players in sync is a bad move and just restricts the mode socially and for convenience particularly for casuals or people who don't have time to try and club together five other players at that time.

£23.7m deal for Lukaku confirmed. Chelsea paid £18m for him 3 years ago. Good deal for Everton that could come back to haunt Jose and Chelsea.

Destiny story is just 20 hours along with a 20lvl cap. Raids begins at lvl25. Also no matchmaking for Raids and you MUST have a 5 other players without fail. Not even 4 people is enough to play. This could be a fucking nightmare getting 5 other players to contribute at the same time and commit to a Raid. Without matchmaking; you can't even get one loose player just to make up a team.

Lukaku off to Everton permanently. Hell of a signing! Surprised Mourinho didn't give him a chance but he turned his back on him after missing the penalty in the Super Cup final against Bayern. They really could have done with him last year and he may have won them the title. Certainly better than Torres, Eto and Ba and more of a presence. I'd probably take him over Costa in all honesty as at least he's proven in the Prem. Costa could easily be another Torres.