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Okay, so this time I’m only one day late with the Weekend Whammy. ‘S close enough, right? Anyway, it was a busy week full of nieces and excitement and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep. For some reason I’ve been tired, and the allure of bed has been hard to resis…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Before I start rambling, would you like a copy of Mordhau on PC? You can read my quick thoughts on the game a few paragraphs below, but essentially it’s a medieval multiplayer mayhem and is a lot of fun. To win a PC code for the game just leave a comment below saying, ” GIMME MORDHAU!” and I’ll pick a random winner on Saturday, JUne 22nd. I’ll contact you via the Email address you provide when leaving a comment, so make sure it’s correct! Right, so this week I vomited up a review for Void Bastards. It was a fun little rogue-like shooter set in space with a nice sense of humour. It just suffered from repetitive gameplay. With more enemy and ship variety it could have been truly great. I may ...

Hello, and welcome back to Patch Notes! As always I grab a few bits of news from the past week and discuss them. This week we’ve got Borderlands 3, a mini-meltdown from Randy Pitchford and Valve’s brand new VR unit that will not just break your bank, but also leave it crying in a small heap. Borderlands 3 Is Real! Borderlands 3 officially exists! The gameplay event reveal happened this week and so we got our first official look at third game in one of my favourite franchises. To be honest, not much as actually changed but I feel like that’s a good thing. Its keeping true to its roots by focusing on the glorious, juicy loot! Normally I’d want a little more change and innovation, but quite frankly I’m happy with a visual upgrade, new classes and loads more guns. Still, there are some tweaks to the formula. Alternate fire modes for weapons, for example, opens up a bunch of fun possibilities. And now in co-op everyone will get their own loot, finally stopping arguments over who gets th...

In case you missed the past couple of Patch Notes this is a mid-week article where we cover a couple of pieces of news from the past week and I ramble about them, because rambling is what I do. This week has been pretty busy, but I’ve grabbed three things in particular that grabbed my limited attention span. So lets tackle the problems over at BioWare, the announcement of Borderlands 3 and the decline of pre-owned sales in the UK. Anthem’s Development & BioWare’s Problems Anthem continues to stagger from one bad situation to another, it seems. Thanks to Jason Schreier over at Kotaku we now seem to have a better understanding of Anthem’s long development and the current state of developer BioWare. Jason penned a truly mammoth 11,000+ word article in which he interviews no less than 19 BioWare employees who tell the story of a studio that doesn’t seem to know what its doing anymore. This account of Anthem’s development, based on interviews with 19 people who either worked on th...

Why, hello there fine people! Come in, come! Fancy a cuppa? I hope you guys are keeping well and playing hard. There’s a fair few games out at the moment, so we aren’t lacking in choice. Anyway, let’s chat about what I’ve been playing, and please do let me know what you’ve been playing and what you think of it. So, this week I put out a pretty long review of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 which I ultimately gave a 4 out of 5 too. I was really impressed by how much of an improvement it is over the first game, and how thoroughly it kicked Anthem’s backside. A satisfying swathe of main missions, great loot system and solid end-game all create a game that actually feels good at launch rather than trying to persuade people it’ll be good in the future. The Division 2 is good now, and will hopefully only grow and get better with time. I’m still playing The Division 2 as well, which says something about the strength of its combat and looting. At the moment I’m gearing myself up for the release...

Welcome back to patch notes where I selectively chat about random bits of gaming news from the past week or so. This time there’s a lot of Sony stuff, plus Borderlands looks like its making a comeback. The big game announcement, or rather tease, of the week came from Gearbox who put out a short teaser trailer for some Borderlands related announcement coming March 28th. The trailer shows a lot of the franchise’s history which ties in with rumours of a Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, but there’s also plenty of interesting new things which indicate this could be a true Borderlands 3. Let’s hope so BECAUSE I AM SO READY FOR MORE BORDERLANDS! Some random Sony news came in the form of them announcing that they will no longer be providing full game download codes to physical retailers. I’ve got mixed feelings here because while very few shops actually sold these little plastic cards it was still nice to have the option in case you wanted to gift a game to a friend or perhaps simply...

Platforms: PSVR Reviewed On: PS4 Pro Developer: Gearbox Publisher: 2K Games Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No While we all wait for Borderlands 3 to finally happen it seems Gearbox want to give virtual reality some love with the release of Borderlands 2 for the Playstation VR,  a timed exclusive that Sony gets for a whole year before it arrives anywhere else. So, is it worth jumping back into Gearbox’s looter shooter? Considering the game came out six years ago I’m not going to spend too much time on its story or basic gameplay, but we’ll go through it all briefly. As one of four Vault Hunters you land on Pandora with the aim being to find and defeat Handsome Jack, a likeable dick who has taken over the planet following the events of the firs game which the game will quickly recap for you. That’s pretty much it for the plot, but what makes it so much fun is the cast of mad-cap characters you meet along the way, from the love/hate antics of Claptrap the robot to the consistently hila...