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Across the northern hemisphere the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and families are making cross-country treks by car and plane to visit relatives. The dark and the cold are held at bay by lights and warm food and gifts as we all wait for the solstice to pass, the new year…
I’ve spoken at length on here before of the traditional forms of multiplayer online gaming, but what if you’re more armchair general than infantry leader? Because there’s one area of online gaming I have been tangentially involved with for a few years now, and that’s sports management. Blackout Rugby is a freemium rugby management game,…
There are hundreds of car games out there with a few franchises dominating the market, clocking up as many big bucks as they do playing time along the way. How many women can proclaim to be ‘GTA widows’? I have barely seen or spoke to my fiance since Grand Theft Auto 5 landed on my…
Video games are, in essence, fantasy worlds. They allow us to leave reality for a little while and do impossible things with our avatar (flying, beating up giant armored turtles, racing $200,000 cars at 200 mph) with no fear of being hurt. To defend ourselves in said fantasy worlds, we need something equally fantastical. Some…
We all love Mario, Sonic and Lara Croft, but are they truly Generation Y’s heroes? If you were born between 1981 and 2000, you’re in Generation Y and odds are you inherited your older sibling’s video game characters. If you take a year squarely in Gen Y, like 1988, and imagine that most kids in…
This week, we’re going to look back a little, at what may well be one of the finest (and undoubtedly the most terrifying) Half Life mods ever made. It’s received numerous accolades on both ModDB and IndieDB, it’s been downloaded over five hundred thousand times, and it actually ended up collapsing the ModDB page on…
“All right, Gordon,” the researcher drones over the test chamber’s intercom. “Your suit should keep you comfortable through all this. The specimen will be delivered to you in a few moments. Now, if you would be so good as to climb up and start the rotors…” I already know what’s coming. When the specimen – …
It’s finally here! Both consoles are out and we can accurately gauge how they stack up against one another. From the controller to the games, from the hardware to the appearance, there is a lot of vast differences between the PS4 and Xbox One. But just how different, you ask? The infographic below chronicles all…
If Stephen King were to make a video game, I’d imagine it’d look a lot like Alan Wake. This lovely yarn has all the trademarks of the father of modern horror, with some X Files mixed in for good measure. Set in the town of Bright Falls, Washington, Alan Wake pits the titular character against…
The Big Bad Wolf’s really cleaned himself up since his days of blowing down houses and attacking red-coated young women. Since he and his fellow fairy tale characters fled from The Heartlands to New York (it’s a long story; read Bill Willingham’s Fables comic books.), he’s taken on the role of sheriff in the district…
For anyone who’s claimed two dimensional games aren’t terribly frightening, I submit Lone Survivor. The premise of this one’s pretty simple… at first glance. You’re one of the only survivors of a mysterious outbreak that’s turned an entire city into a ravaged, barren wasteland. You’ve been trying to take care of yourself since everything went…
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bob. Bob works at an intergalactic call center. Now, most people wouldn’t really be at all pleased with such a position, seeing it as more a means to an end than anything else. Bob, though? He loves it. He gets to lounge around all day, wear whatever he wants, and talk…
Got plans to pick up next Gen PlayStation 4 on Friday? Some PS4 titles have already released AND have discounts. Target is running a “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” sale which includes some PS4 games, and GameStop has a 15% off coupon code that works on in-stock PS4 games. At GameStop use coupon code RMN15HOLIDAY…
Welcome back potential teammates–glad to see some of you are still in one piece. Last week we took a brief look at CC in League of Legends. Are you paying closer attention to the stuns, slows, and silences at play in your games? No, you bought a banshees so you’re covered? It’s a start then, so this week…
Recent weeks have seen a lot of talk about upcoming Steam products, and particularly the prototype touch-centered Steam controller. It’s easy to understand why. Valve, the creator, has earned a lot of goodwill with its well-received software and steady sense of humor in an industry so frequently prone to publicity problems. Furthermore, the concept manages…