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You’ve just opened and set up your shiny new Xbox One. You’ve been waiting for this moment ever since the next gen announcement and now that you have effectively blown off your rent and dropped an entire paycheck on this beautiful black box, you can hardly contain yourself. It is gorgeous, and perfect in every…
The absurdity of GUIs, is fairly easy to overlook during the challenge of the game. For example, have you ever actually built a slingshot to launch birds at pigs, or bounced an ugly bird between pipes? GUIs often feature activities we don’t engage in during our normal routine. It’s kind of like Inception, when we’re…
Way back in 2000, the game system of choice was the Nintendo 64. One of the games that was a major hit was the sequel to Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie. Coming out on November 20, 2000, it was instantly a big hit. Set two years after the first game, where Banjo and his bird companion Kazooie rescued…
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, the statue of David – all of these are considered art. Wonderful works of art, to be more precise. Stories, scripts, films, compositions/songs, paintings, architectures, and more are commonly considered art. But technically, so is graffiti and that finger painting of a turkey you made in kindergarten. So for the…
The following is an announcement from the YouTube imperial forces. Attention! Loyal subscribers, We understand that there may be some concern over our recent purchase of Twitch.tv. We are here to assuage those concerns. Many of our users enjoy streaming videos on Twitch, and we have no intention of stopping them. Everything will proceed normally,…
This post has been sponsored by Zynga, but concerns our own opinions. You know it, you love it; there really is nothing else out there quite like Zynga’s Farmville. Growing from casual Facebook app game into an obsession that has spanned generations, Farmville is now evolving at the hands of Zynga into a more complex…
Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a Kinect-less Xbox One to hit stores June 9th for only $399. Xbox One’s with Kinect will still be available in stores at the original price of $499 and we’re expected to see a standalone Kinect peripheral for sale for the Xbox One this coming fall. This…
Zombies Aren’t Always the Most Dangerous Enemy Clementine and her new group of survivors have been captured. The maniacal Carver has them within their grasp and he’s looking for blood and there will be blood. Just how much will be split in the middle episode of Season two of The Walking Dead? In Captivity Leaving…
In the words of the core from Portal 2, That’s right. Space. To The Moon To The Moon by Freebird Games is an Indie Adventure RPG. Yeah, it’s one of those ‘point-and-click’ type of stories. Normally, I’m not the biggest fan of those sorts of games. Not because they’re bad – far from it –…
Gaming, like everything, has trends in it. Two of the trends that I noticed recently is the rise of episodic gaming and games with microtransactions in them. This is something that has been on the rise for years but seems to be really coming into fashion now. Episodic Gaming The company that has been criticised…
In the Anime Sword Art Online the players used a device called a nerve gear to play the game. The nerve gear puts the player into a virtual world that they become trapped in within the game until the game is finished. I loved this anime but the part that interested me the most was…
Valve has released The International Compendium 2014, allowing DOTA 2 players to take part in the experience of The International 4. The Compendium allows players to make predictions about the matches, as well as serve as an in-game program to track the progress of the tournament. The Compendium is for sale on the Steam Marketplace…
Recently a new kind of gaming has come into popularity. This genre of games is called MOBA or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. The game starts out being pretty simple, you start as one of a number of champions and fight your way through one of three lanes, past a series of towers and waves of…
Over the years there have been a bunch of video game movies, like Far Cry, Super Mario Brothers, and Mortal Kombat. And boy have they sucked. They never managed to live up to what the games were. Enter Machinima, a way to make movies within games. It actually got it’s start with Disney Interactive Studios’…
Pokémon is one of the most profitable franchises on the planet. I love it, you love it, the little two-year-old who can barely talk loves it, and that middle aged virgin who lives down the street loves it too. It’s a perpetual money machine, constantly churning out more and more lovable monsters with their own…