Shindig

Gordon Freeman. He's a theoretical physicist who also happens to be great with every type of firearm. He will never tell us how he got there.

TELL US YOUR SECRETS, GORDON. HOW DO YOU JUMP SO WELL!? WHY DO YOU NEVER SCREAM WHEN YOU'RE IN PAIN!?

I really wish the PC had better legacy support. I don't want to have to make a weird XP machine to play GTR in 2019. And then trick it into thinking my graphics card is circa 2005.

Here is your annual 'How are they doing?' Le Mans check-in.

• Kamui Kobayashi leads
• Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima are second
• Sergey Sirotkin and Stephane Sarrazin are OUT
• Stoffel van Dorne and Vitaly Petrov are 3rd
• Bruno Senna's car has recovered to 4th after miscalculating fuel on the first stint.
• Jean-Eric Vergne's running 12th
• Pastor Maldonado and Anthony Davidson are OUT.
• Paul di Resta's car is 10th
• Will Stevens is 13th
• Geido van der Garde is 15th
• Jan Magnussen is 23rd
• Gianmaria Bruni is 25th
• Sebastien Bourdais is 28th
• Giancarlo Fisichella is 44th
• Olivier Berreta is 47th
• Pedro Lamy is OUT.

Updated as of 10am BST.

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Brad's a Terminator now?

Konami's going weird. Like, after being moaned at for not preserving their classics, it appears that's THE THING they're building their (gaming-ish) business on.

That was pretty packed and there's plenty to look forward to between now and November. Bit of a shame how Metroid Prime and Bayonetta are AWOL for another year, mind.

Yeah, the stewarding system is odd, like a guest judge in a reality TV show. I do wonder what former drivers would follow the circus around for 21 weekends, though. Also, these decisions are considered using all available technology. So there's telemetry as well as slow motion footage. I can see the decision being reversed but the dangerous precedent was already set when Verstappen was penalised for a similar incident. If they're showing consistency, it's right there.

Maybe they clear it all up next season?

Well, that definitely felt like an 'in between generations' thing. I even feel they bottled Watch Dogs 3 by taking it super future instead of the comical brexit clusterfuck we inhabit.

It's fine solo. I had a player drop out through mine and it didn't phase me. It adds to it but playing solo doesn't lessen things.