Just a quick reminder that Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 is underway! The seven day marathon benefits Prevent Cancer Foundation and will see people racing to beat games quick while raising money.
900 games are on deck this year, and you can see the full schedule right here. Otherwise the stream is embedded below, and here's the donation page.
A source has teased a new clue to Siliconera that the new Ultra Street Fighter IV character has been seen before in the comics. So either she's been in the Street Fighter II manga, or the UDON series.
Shoryuken speculates that it's Sarai Kurosawa, a friend of Ibuki who's made an appearance in an UDON comic, plus she's made cameos in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Street Fighter X Tekken. Other potential ladies could be the Dolls, Gouken's daughter, and well a ton of other potential ladies.
My favorite theory at the moment comes from reader Reinhold Hoffmann who suggests it's just Yoshinori Ono dressed up as Chun Li.
So after exploring the empty backstage area of gaming to find something weird for you guys to watch, I found this gem of a game called Age of Time. I mean this is not the normal Lucha game by any means. It's pretty strange. I don't understand it one bit. But, it's like 32 Mg and I figured we could all play it like some dumb community thing get frustrated and be stupid.
So you can download this gem here.
Hey remember that Throne Together trademark that was filed by Microsoft? Yeah turns out it's a block-based puzzle game for Windows 8.
It's a game where you have to place blocks down to build castles. You have to be careful with how you place down the blocks, as uneven weight distribution will make your castle fall. It's free to play so long as you have Windows 8.1.
Sorry Brett, your dream of a Game of Thrones and Drawn Together crossover are DEAD.
Continue?9
The game stars a dead and failed videogame character left wandering the recesses of the Random Access Memory. You're trying to find peace in your final moments before being deleted forever, and doubles as an existential metaphor of life and how we live it.
Jason shared the inspiration behind the game, from road trips to nowhere, Peruvian jungle drugs, and "a brush with death while hopelessly lost in the mountains of New Mexico."
Continue? is available on Steam as of this past Friday for $9.99 on Windows, Linux, and Mac, but you can pick it up for $7.99 with the launch sale discount.
Resident Evil: Outbreak and the sequel File #2 can both be played online with other players once again. Capcom had shutdown the servers long ago, but dedicated fans were able to reverse-engineer custom made servers. The catch is that this will only work with the Japanese version of the game as there are no known packet captures of the American and European versions of Outbreak.
So there you go. If you're a diehard Outbreak fan that owns the Japanese version still, have fun. For everyone else, let us reminisce the part with the zombie zoo animals.
10 years later - Resident Evil Outbreak 1 & 2 are back online! [NeoGAF, via Rely on Horror]
Simon Boudreault is the 23-year-old CEO of the Quantic Gaming eSports team, and he owes a lot of people some money The Daily Dot reports. For starters, pro StarCraft II player Ko Hyun has been owed $23,000 in salary and prize money for months now. What's more, numerous people on the Quantic Gaming staff are owed thousands of dollars as well. Upwards to $40,000 is owed to numerous employees.
Simon has dropped off the map since December 17, and no one knows where he is. Shortly before disappearing Simon told people he was going for a biopsy on a lump on his lung. Simon has disappeared for weeks at a time before with no explanation, but this time people aren't expecting him back at all.
The entire situation is downright sad, and Daily Dot's report sheds a lot of light on how things work behind the scenes with the ever growing field of eSports.
ESports star hunts for his missing CEO—so he can sue for $23,000 [The Daily Dot]
This review was first published in E10, July 1994.
Anyone who’s loaded a 3DO game before will know the procedure: 1. Insert disc. 2. Marvel at beautiful rendered images. 3. Gasp at wonderful sound. 4. Notice complete lack of gameplay and switch off in disgust. Super Wing Commander is exactly the same – except for the last step.
Wing Commander has enjoyed considerable success on a variety of formats, but this 3DO version is without doubt the best of the lot. Developers Origin could have chosen the easy option and simply ported the already excellent PC version, but that’s not their style. Instead, they’ve isolated the rougher aspects – including the scaling of the in-game fighters and the substandard Star Cruisers – and smoothed them out, while leaving the rest of the game intact.
One part of the game that hasn’t changed is the storyline. As in every other version of Wing Commander, you play the part of a rookie wingman, enlisted to help in the Confederation’s battle against the evil Dralthi. To begin with, you’re given simple missions – fly to a certain location, take out a few enemy fighters, and then fly back to the safety of your mothership, the Tiger Claw. But once you’ve got a few kills to your name, things get a lot more interesting: sorties become more intricate, the atmosphere intensifies and the plot starts to unfold.
As in the PC version, each mission is self-contained, with its own plot and conclusion, but they’re all an integral part of the main story. Every mission you tackle – whether you’re victorious or not – affects the confederations chances of success, and with 72 potential missions, Super Wing Commander’s plot has more twists and turns than an Alton Towers rollercoaster.
Elsewhere in E10, we asked 3DO CEO Trip Hawkins: “Is it all over before it’s even started?” It was.
To describe Super Wing Commander as satisfying to play would be a grotesque understatement. Pursuing the enemy at close range, letting ‘em have it right up their exhaust port with your missiles and then watching them explode in a shower of twisted metal is disturbingly gratifying stuff. The controls, despite their complexity, have been successfully crammed onto the 3DO’s five-button control pad; although the 22 different commands seem daunting at first, after you’ve chased a few fleets of Dralthi fighters they become second nature.
Then there’s the atmosphere: Super Wing Commander is absolutely dripping with the stuff. This is largely thanks to some brilliantly rendered cut scenes (many of which don’t appear on the PC version, incidentally), but the stirring music makes a significant contribution as well.
Origin’s improvements to the in-game graphics also help: the alien craft now scale more smoothly, are more detailed and move around the screen faster than ever before – with no evidence of slowdown. The aesthetic improvements to the game are most apparent when you face a Star Cruiser for the first time: not only are they now absolutely enormous, but they’re also incredibly detailed and impressively shaded. In fact, the more you play, the more you realise how much ‘tweaking’ of the original game has been undertaken by Origin.
For those of you unfortunate enough not to have played Wing Commander before, you should be prepared to put in a few late nights to get into the game properly. But be warned: once Super Wing Commander gets a grip of your senses, you’ll have to prise it off with a crowbar. So far, most 3DO software has been completely unworthy of attention; happily, Super Wing Commander avoids falling into the same category.
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