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Friday, January 10, 2014
News::The DeanBeat: Does Valve know what its doing with Steam Machines?
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News::5 Reasons To Be Excited For Alien: Isolation
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News::Cross-Play For War Thunder Still Planned; PS4 Version Only Getting Prettier Over Time
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News::NASCAR '14 Gets Some New Screenshots, Pre-order Bonuses and a Release Date
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News::CES 2014: Rampage Jackson Doesn't Like CoD: Ghosts: Messed Up
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News::Ultimate Naruto Review (DotMMO)
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News::Konami Confirms Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's Always-Online Bug, Working On A Fix
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News::MXGP: The Official Motocross Videogame Receives UK Release Date
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News::Thief Is Making A Muted And Stealthy Comeback | eGamer
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News::Even Joe Rogan Thinks the Oculus Rift is Going to Change Everything
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News::Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 Update Details
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News::Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us among GDC Award Nominees
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News::Battlefield 4- Paracel Storm Map Tips
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News::Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey Gameplay Footage Is Here
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News::Dune II Review: The Grandfather of RTS In Your Browser
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News::Razer's Project Christine // CES 2014 // Modular PC with a subscription plan [video]
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News::Snapshot Still in Development Despite Long Hibernation
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News::Techland: Dying Lights Movement Makes Going Back To Other Games Very Difficult
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News::Project CARS Interview: How Slightly Mad Studios Are Taking Racing Games To An All New Level
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News::Maia Preview | The Indie Mine
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News::Dungeon Of The Endless Video Preview: A Hardcore Sci-Fi Stunner [Dealspwn]
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News::First Titanfall gameplay had 7v7 battles, player cap "isn't a tech limitation"
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News::Heroes of the Storm - 16 Characters Confirmed
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News::Hitman: Cancelled Or Delayed, IO Interactive Still Handling the Project
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News::Phoenix Down 21.0 - Binary Domain
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News::Get Even becomes the first game to use real-world scanning tech to create lifelike environments
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News::ChristCenteredGamer Mionix Naos 7000 review
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News::[GameSkinny] 2013 Mod of the Year Picks
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News::That Robocop mobile game is out now on iOS, for free
A mobile tie-in for the new Robocop movie is happening, and it launched today on the iOS App Store. It's free-to-play, but Android users will have to wait until January 15th to pick it up. The funny thing is, as much as you'd expect it to be terrible, it's actually a decent cover shooter in the same style as Virtua Cop.
It's very simplistic and basically consists of touch the right side of the screen to "pop out" of cover and aim, but it gets the job done. It's just loaded with currency based IAP (in-app-purchases) and an energy system. In other words -- if all of the microtransactions were stripped, I would probably buy it for a dollar.
Robocop [Apple]
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News::Steam Machines unlikely to make “any impact at all” in 2014 – is Valve playing the long game?
Overpriced, underwhelming to look at and destined to cater for a small niche, the Steam Machines unveiled at CES are unlikely to make any impact on the current console race when they launch later this year.
That was the message from industry analysts this week after Valve unveiled the first wave of custom PCs built for SteamOS and its unorthodox controller. These Steam Machines’ pricing and the multitude of hardware models and configurations will make Valve’s plan to bring Steam into the living room rather difficult, says Games Investor co-founder Nick Gibson. “Despite making a big noise unveiling 13 Steam Machines at CES, Valve has yet to shed any significant light on what their strategy is or provide any compelling reasons for consumers to consider these devices over a console or a Windows PC,” Gibson tells us. “At this stage it is difficult to see Steam Machines having any impact at all on either console or Windows-based PC sales.”
IHS Technology’s director and head of games Piers Harding-Rolls agreed, saying: “While the ambition of Valve is to broaden the audience for its Steam community and games distribution platform, the high cost of the current collection of Steam machine prototypes means that this ambition is likely to be significantly undermined.
“We do not currently see Steam machines as a significant competitor to the latest games consoles or a viable alternative for the mainstream consumer.”
Perhaps Valve is playing a different game entirely, then. Always keen to paint itself as a company which places players at its heart, its intention is not to take on PS4 and Xbox One – it is to carve out its own niche, says Newzoo CEO Peter Warman. “Valve is a completely different company to Sony and Microsoft – they do not think about unit sales,” says Warman. “They focus on making games, services and now hardware that they, as game enthusiasts, would love to see in the market. Analysts will criticize the price of their hardware and initial sales but Valve will not care. As long as the gamers that go for their box get everything they want – most importantly freedom.”
CEO of GamesAnalytics Chris Wright echoes these thoughts. “The Steam Machines target the niche player and are aimed at the ultra high end,” he says. “The winner will be the company that builds the best ecosystem that gives players access to the games they want in the simplest way.”
And yet it’s difficult to picture who might be interested in actually buying one of these boxes, says IHS’ Piers Harding-Rolls, who outlined that proposed player base as “a very small sub-segment of existing Steam users.” He’s more positive on the subject of Valve Steam controller, expecting sales of the pad to be “robust.”
It’s unlikely Valve will kickstart a console revolution when these Steam Machines arrive later this year, then, but over a longer timespan, their prospects could improve, adds Harding-Rolls. “As components become cheaper and console-graphic beating devices reach pricing parity with the PS4 and Xbox One, IHS expects the value proposition of Steam machines to increase.
“Steam machines could be a greater challenge to consoles by 2016 – much will depend on the commitment of PC manufacturers at this stage and the impact of relatively entrenched console platforms. Other industry disruptions may also occur, specifically within the streaming sector, which may strengthen the proposition of Steam OS machines still further during the next three years.”
Ultimately, Harding-Rolls suggests, this first flurry of hardware could be little more than a testbed for Valve’s own Steambox. “A Valve-designed and branded Steam OS PC could arrive at a later date, once the market is established and its hardware partners have done their work,” he tells us. “We expect Valve to build a much stronger commercial understanding of its proposition using user data from the first generation of third-party Steam machines. With this deeper understanding, the greater brand pull of Valve, its ability to develop exclusives for its own platform and its ability to offset narrow hardware margins with content sales could make the company a more formidable competitor to the incumbent consoles than the currently announced PC hardware partners.”
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News::Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - New Screenshots
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News::Stardock and Oxide Give a Peek at Stunning New Engine
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News::Aura Kingdom Review (MMOGoer)
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News::Project CARS Visuals Put Every Other Racing Game To Shame, New Screenshots
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News::MAGFest = WIN is chiptuney goodness for your ears
This past weekend in Maryland's National Harbor, around 1,500 like-minded individuals gathered for the 12th annual Music and Gaming Festival, AKA MAGFest. This was only my second year attending, but man it was a blast. Tons of games, events, panels, and of course, videogame music.
This year, there was a huge chiptune representation at the festival, and to commemorate it, Chiptunes = WIN released an exclusive compilation featuring the artists performing at MAGfest 12. The album, MAGFest = WIN , released at a listening party at MAGfest, features exclusive mixes from some of my favorite artists such as Danimal Cannon, RobotSexMusic, and fellow Baltimorean Inverse Phase.
As always, it's an excellent representation of some of the best artists in the scene, and worth your ear time, especially as it's expertly mastered by DJ Cutman. If you weren't able to make it to the 'fest this year, just Colossus scream while listening to this awesome compilation.
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News::Is The Evil Within Resident Evils Biggest Nightmare?
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News::Supergiants Transistor Shaping Up to Be Unforgettable Experience | Interview
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News::Dungeons of the Endless Preview - Doors of Doom | Gamer Horizon
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News::Today on Steam: Torchlight II Free Weekend, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and more
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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Multiplayer Update For PC and Console
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News::Philosophy of Video Games - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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News::Bigger Is Not Always Better; Why Titanfalls 6v6 Player Cap Is Actually A Good Thing
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News::New Years resolutions for the games industry
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News::Fallout 4: Fact and Fiction
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News::Konami's Cox talks Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, next-gen possibilities
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