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In Other News – 7 June 2016

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Flaky

As many of you know, I spent much of my time in Taipei last week looking for the perfect bowl of Niu Rou Mian or Beef Noodle soup, Taiwan’s quintessential comfort food. I’m not completely convinced I did – but I sure did try, and they were all sure as hell delicious. But we’re not going to talk about that.

Stuffed after one of my noodle expeditions, I stumbled upon a stall that had a queue of people standing waiting – so I had to just had to a) find out what it was and b) see if it was any good. It ended up being flaky scallion pancake, something I’ve had before – but this time, stuffed with fried egg and basil leaves, then finished off with a chilli soybean sauce. It’s the perfect sort of street food. Cheap (the one with egg and basil works out to about R16), crispy delicious (my god was it delicious) and absolutely worth queuing for.

Scallion

In Other News : Diablo’s Director leaves Blizzard, Xbox One gets a personal assistant, not all games should be eSports and here’s UnchARTed.

Here’s the news we didn’t post because we were too busy oh god I want to eat all the Taiwanese food again.

News

GTA Online: Finance and Felony update is live
Hitman’s third Elusive Target goes live tomorrow
Xbox One update gives the storefront an overhaul and adds Cortana
Diablo 3 director leaves Blizzard after ten years
Myst artist, BioShock Infinite writer team up for a new adventure called Zed
Battleborn is a cautionary tale for developers jumping on the esports bandwagon
Colorful motherboard wields integrated GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
Yooka-Laylee delayed to 2017; Playtonic internally handling Wii U and PC versions

Stuff

Jamie Lee Curtis dressed up for the Warcraft premiere
The art of Uncharted 4
Digital Foundry vs Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One
The creator of Settlers of Catan has some important gameplay advice for you

Videos

What’s on at The Movies

Win 1 of 5 hampers in our CONJURING 2 competition!
And the winners of our NICE GUYS competition are…
Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum to direct adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ THE SHINING GIRLS
Here’s a timeline leading up to INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
Have they found the actor to play Pennywise in the new IT reboot?

Last Updated: June 7, 2016

36 Comments

  1. Admiral Chief Maximum Effort

    June 7, 2016 at 16:02

    HUNGRY!

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    • Captain JJ of the desert

      June 7, 2016 at 16:26

      You’re always hungry!

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

        June 7, 2016 at 16:26

        No, that would be me

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        • Captain JJ of the desert

          June 7, 2016 at 16:27

          You’re always hungry!!

          Reply

          • Pariah

            June 7, 2016 at 16:29

            *2

    • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

      June 7, 2016 at 16:27

      Co-Worker bought me the new Big Tasty burger from McDonalds. It was neither of those things

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      • Pariah

        June 7, 2016 at 16:27

        XD

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      • Captain JJ of the desert

        June 7, 2016 at 16:28

        Haha.

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      • Greylingad[He Charges!]

        June 7, 2016 at 17:22

        The new and improved small and tasteless burger from McDonald’s will leave you empty and wanting for more… McDonald’s… Now proudly working in collaboration with EA…

        Reply

        • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

          June 8, 2016 at 07:47

          The taste and nutrition must be DLC

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          • Greylingad[He Charges!]

            June 8, 2016 at 08:04

            “Downright Lacking Consistency”?

      • Darren Peach

        June 8, 2016 at 01:40

        Lol. I vow never to ear Mcd’s ever again. Not eaten their food for some time now. A few years at least.

        Reply

  2. Ottokie

    June 7, 2016 at 16:05

  3. Alien Emperor Trevor

    June 7, 2016 at 16:11

    And now the real story of how Geoff “missed” his flight comes out. 😉

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    • Pariah

      June 7, 2016 at 16:11

      Beef noodle #worth

      Reply

  4. Ottokie

    June 7, 2016 at 16:11

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      June 7, 2016 at 16:12

      Het jou katvis!

      Reply

    • Pariah

      June 7, 2016 at 16:19

      And this is why cats kill for fun. Not their fault.

      Reply

    • Captain JJ of the desert

      June 7, 2016 at 16:20

      REGRET

      Reply

    • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

      June 7, 2016 at 16:34

      I Tawt I Taw a Pud………O SHIT!

      Reply

    • Darren Peach

      June 8, 2016 at 01:41

      That backfired quickly.

      Reply

    • Sageville

      June 8, 2016 at 10:26

      Tracer vs Winston…

      Reply

  5. DragonSpirit009

    June 7, 2016 at 16:19

    Well my flatbread pizza concoction looks very dim compared to that!!

    Reply

  6. Captain JJ of the desert

    June 7, 2016 at 16:19

    Welcome back Geoff!

    Reply

  7. Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

    June 7, 2016 at 16:25

    OH SNAP

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    • Pariah

      June 7, 2016 at 16:26

      Honest Trailers.

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      • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

        June 7, 2016 at 16:26

        Sounds like him XD

        Reply

        • Pariah

          June 7, 2016 at 16:27

  8. Dresden

    June 7, 2016 at 17:22

    • Greylingad[He Charges!]

      June 7, 2016 at 17:33

      WeeeoooweeeoooWHACK!

      Reply

  9. Greylingad[He Charges!]

    June 7, 2016 at 17:32

    I sincerely hope that WatchunderscoreDogs 2 has a better protagonist than 1, because my coathanger had more character than that damned Aiden Farce guy… And surely you have to have amazing eyes to see that script running on your phone? I mean, imagine troubleshooting on a 5 or 6 inch screen with multiple open windows…

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    • Geoffrey Tim

      June 7, 2016 at 18:41

      Here’s Aiden Pearce when he’s not hacking stuff

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      • Greylingad[He Charges!]

        June 7, 2016 at 19:21

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Gawd, that’s funny!! Properly blew coffee out of my nostrils now… Well done!

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      • Darren Peach

        June 8, 2016 at 01:42

        Jordie would be a cool character to play.

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      • Sageville

        June 8, 2016 at 10:29

        I submit: A graphical representation of Aiden’s role in Watch Dogs…

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    • Darren Peach

      June 8, 2016 at 01:47

      One part of Watchdogs that proved to be epic was the club scene and the DJ. Loved that whole sequence. Aiden may have been boring as hell, but they nailed that section. Although, I must admit I am partial to the whole electro thing.

      Reply

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