Monday, March 17, 2014

News::Game vs. Film Podcast Ep. 2: Tomb Raider

Leviathyn.com | Tomb Raider is actually...good? In this episode of Game vs. Film, Cassidee, Chris, and Eric discuss the 2001 film starring Angelina Jolie and how it compares to the video games.



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News::10 Scary Games That Aren't Slender or Outlast

Here are the top ten scariest games that don't include Slenderman or Outlast.



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News::Former THQ Boss Dishes On The Games They Left Behind

News::Get Even Will Offer 7-8 Hours Of Story, More With Exploration

OnlySP: Get Even, the upcoming single player/multiplayer hybrid FPS from The Farm 51, will be 7-8 hours long, according to information weve received.



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News::Releases: Week of March 18th, 2014

Critically Sane gives its thoughts on this week's releases, and Don complains that he still doesn't have Titanfall.



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News::Random Battle: Titanfall Midnight Launch

SideQuesting gets a chance to attend a Titanfall midnight launch, interviews the store manager, and discusses the fan response.



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News::10 Second Ninja review






Publisher: Mastertronic Developer: Dan Pearce Format: PC Release: Out now



10 Second Ninja’s hook is making success feel a lot like failure. Each of its stages places a number of static robots on platforms and tasks your diminutive ninja with destroying them within ten seconds – and should you need further encouragement, they’re Nazi robots. Finish a level within the time limit and the physical barrier to progression is removed, but not the psychological one. The game taunts you with those missing stars, and by telling you how little you need to shave off your best time to obtain one of them. So you repeat the process until you’ve discovered the optimal route, and then set about trimming away those last few hundredths of a second. At which point the three-star times raise the bar still higher.


Each new world introduces a new type of environmental hazard alongside the traditional spiked pits. Collapsing floors and falling icicles can be used to destroy enemies, too, while the fourth world’s portals allow for more elaborate stage designs, though simplicity is always the watchword. These are all self-contained puzzles where the answer presents itself much more quickly than the successful execution of it: you have three shuriken and a ninja sword to slice up every robot, which helps determine your path through a level.



Though the stage design is carefully plotted to the last pixel, there’s little room for deviation – and none for the ultimate three-star prize. As such, it’s a case of brute-forcing the solution over dozens of repeated attempts, a process that feels less engaging here than in some of its peers. The titular ninja is nimble and responsive, but the controls aren’t quite best-in-class standard, lacking the wonderful precision of, say, Super Meat Boy, while art is flat and characterless and interstitial story scenes are more indulgent than amusing. In short, the rewards are rarely commensurate with the effort: you’ll feel a strong compulsion to keep playing once you’ve started, but returning for another bout of punishment is surprisingly easy to resist.




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News::Watch Angry Birds get their Final Fantasy on in new trailer


Angry Birds Epic is coming, and it's going to be a turn-based RPG. Wait what?


It has crafting, turn-based battles, magic, and of course, microtransactions. It also stands to reason that given the mass appeal of Angry Birds, it probably won't be too taxing strategically -- but then again, how else are you going to push people into those micro-payments?


It's actually out now in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the rest of the world will get it shortly.


Watch Angry Birds get their Final Fantasy on in new trailer screenshot






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News::Elder Scrolls Online Crafting System Gemstones From Wolf Pelts

In an interesting development in Elder Scrolls Online, the games crafting system has resulted in players gaining certain items from the most unexpected of raw materials.



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News::Fondling Obscure 2

Survive the horror. Jae tries to keep his pants clean for this one. Our Fondling video series lets editors play the games for your entertainment purposes. They come in many flavors, but all taste equally sweet.



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News::Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures Review (Invision Game Community)

Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures is a game in which you step into the tottering shoes of a 90s raver with serotonin syndrome, munching pills and turning to darker and darker drugs to fulfil your bizarre cravings throughout a twisted, cartoony hallucination.



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News::Gauntlet Remake Coming in Summer to PC

Gamer Headlines writes: Warner Bros. Interactive have just announced a remake of the retro classic, Gauntlet. The game will be released this summer through Steam and will also be available on the range of upcoming Steam machine platforms. Development is being handled by Arrowhead Game Studios.



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News::Pac-Man Museum Review (Invision Game Community)

Since 1980, Pac-Man has been a global phenomenon of the gaming industry. You would be hard pressed, and in fact it may even be an impossibility, to find someone who does not know of the game, and it is more than likely that they will have played it at some stage too. From its humble, simple and highly addictively fun beginnings, Pac-Man has lasted the test of time and still remains an arcade favourite amongst gamers of almost any generation.



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News::How The Turn-Based Angry Birds RPG Works

News::VGS Interview: Titanfall Game Director Explains Why This Blockbuster is the Best Shooter Ever Made

Respawn Game Director Steve Fukuda joins the show this week to talk Titanfall. For some this multiplayer maven will determine whether or not gamers support Microsofts next generation console, The Xbox One. Steve answers the tough questions, like why this big budget game.doesnt really have a traditional campaign and what theyre planning on doing to ensure the game runs smoothly past launch.



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News::9 More Great World of Warcraft Battle Pets

AIPT writes: "Now Im back. And Ive brought some more little friends with me; cute, cuddly little friends that could tear your face off just for looking at another Azerothian the wrong way:"



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News::One Hit Pixel Review: Titanfall - Prepare for Wonder

One Hit Pixel: "A hallmark shooter that, despite a quantity hit, delivers an exceptional first-person shooter experience."



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News::Warner Bros. Has Sold 1.6 Million LEGO Games since 2013

Spencer Crossley, sales and marketing director at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment in the UK, has pitched the LEGO franchise as a huge success, revealing that the entire LEGO games franchise has moved over a million units since 2013.



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News::Underground Throne is a Dungeon-based RTS Inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Code Geass and... Death Note?

DSOGaming writes: "Nathan Hurde, founder of PawByte, has informed us about a Kickstarter for their latest game called Underground Throne. Underground Throne is described as a dungeon-based real-time strategy game that is inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Code Geass and Death Note."



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News::From lowly sprite in 1985, to a fearsome beast in 2014.

News::N4G Radio 03/17/2014

So much death. Lots of new games to discuss this week featuring eggs, robots, and death. Hosts: Ken McKown Jason Gambrel Ryan Wombold Drew Leachman Games Covered: Dark Souls II Titanfall Yoshis New Island Thief Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD And more



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News::Chaos Reborn Interview (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "There cant be more than a handful of former ZX Spectrum gamers who arent familiar with a wonderful little 8 player turn-based strategy game called Chaos. The initial release with Games Workshop in the 80s passed by almost unnoticed, as the man who created it notes, ...they only wanted to sell it in their own stores and refused to deal with other distributors. Something I could never fully understand. However, Julian Gollop persevered with a game he thankfully thought deserved a little more attention and managed to get it republished with Mirrorsoft. It was later featured on Your Sinclair cover tapes twice, which is most likely where its popularity really swelled. Thats where I first encountered the game. ".



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News::Horizon Review | GameGrin

Horizon is a game with a split personality. On one side of the coin you have an interesting, well-crafted space strategy game that makes some great advances in a genre thats becoming rather niche. On the other side, Horizon is a sluggish, boring and almost broken game. There are moments when you can happily play along without those negatives having much of an effect, but its difficult to get through much of the game without them rearing their ugly heads. Its a shame, really, as the elements that make this game good are often impressive and well thought through.



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News::Happy 5th Birthday Doodle Jump!

Grab It Magazine has done a retrospective on the legendary Doodle Jump to celebrate its 5th birthday. What are you memories of it?



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News::The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode Two Review (Invision Game Community)

The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.



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News::Just The WIP: Frozen Synapse (Early Access) - Pixels for Breakfast

Pixels for Breakfast writes: Futuristic turn-based robot football is not what I expected from Mode 7 as a follow-up the award-winning Frozen Synapse, but it certainly is a welcome one. Frozen Endzone harkens back to the days of Mutant League Hockey and Hyperblade as a fantasy sport game that captures your imagination. Making use of the tactical prowess that Frozen Synapse provided, Frozen Endzone also happens to be one of the most addictive games Ive played in yonks.



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News::Chaos Reborn hits Kickstarter

Julian Gollop - the creator of X-COM - has just launched his next project on Kickstarter.



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News::Meet Ivy, your companion in scifi RPG After Reset

Black Cloud Studios have issued a fresh set of images showcasing a new character who appears in their scifi post-apocalyptic RPG After Reset, as well as the associated 32-page graphic novel The Fall of Gyes.



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News::OXCGNs South Park: The Stick of Truth Review

Ive been excited about this game ever since it was announced back in 2012 by THQ, who announced the first delay and set the release date for April, 2013. Shortly after than, THQ had declared chapter 11 bankruptcy and Ubisoft had then bought the publishing rights, which caused the game to be delayed yet again, and to be scheduled for release in December, 2013, in time for the holidays, only for the game to be delayed again in late October, 2013 that it would be released in March, 2014. Well, there are no more delays, South Park: The Stick of Truth is finally out.



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News::Ultra Street Fighter 4 Gets A New Trailer That Reveals Its 5th Character + New Screenshots

Capcom has just released a new trailer for Ultra Street Fighter 4 that reveals its secret 5th character.



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News::Intel Extreme Masters results for League of Legends, StarCraft II, and Hearthstone finals

A complete recap of all 3 IEM finals: League of Legends, Hearthstone and StarCraft II. Prize money and winners are listed by name, so beware of spoilers!



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News::Amazon: XBox One Console With Forza 5 Bundle Now Listed For $499 And Other Console Specials

Another Xbox One Bundle is listed for $499 that comes with Forza 5. Call of Duty: Ghosts is on sale for $36.89 for the PS4 and check out other specials at Amazon.



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News::The FPS Puzzle Game "Attractio" Will Be Available on Early Access Mode

Millons of inhabitants of the Solar System look forward to the new season of the controversial reality show: Attractio. In this reality show, the contestants solve deadly puzzles knowing there is a high probability of not leaving alive. However, the winner will choose the Grand Prize: money, technology or even their freedom.



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News::Everyone Has An Origin Story

An opinion column via EGMR in which the author talks about gamers reacting the wrong way to opinions that don't agree with their own when those opinions only exist out of love for gaming and a willingness to see it grow and prosper, while also providing his personal origin story and asking users to do the same. Quote: "In recent weeks Ive thrown some strong opinions onto the internet and been criticised, in isolated cases, as someone who either hates gaming, loves gaming too much, hates Xbox, hates Sony, is jealous of next-gen gamers, so on and so forth. I think a few people actually referred to me as a pathetic excuse for a journalist during one of those articles. Taken in my stride though they were, it being the internet and all, I was forced to really think about how people can react in such ways to opinions that disagree with their own. "



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News::GameFly offering 50% off Call of Duty: Ghosts, 60% off Batman: Arkham Origins and more

There is a huge sale going on right now that has seen the prices of some marquee titles cut to pieces. There is also a coupon code that can be used to lower the price even further.



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News::Infested Planet Review | The Indie Mine

Infested Planet is a mixed-genre game that allows players to slaughter thousands of aliens using a wide variety of units and weapons. Available for PC and Mac.



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News::Titanfall Beats Dark Souls II For The Top Spot In Latest UK Charts

Titanfall pips Dark Souls II to the top spot, Yoshi's New Island ends up at 12



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News::How Popeye Inspired Pac-Man, And Other Interesting Pac-Man Facts

News::Talented illustrator Hyung-Tae Kim, who previously worked at NCSoft, is setting up his own studio in

News::Chaos Reborn: Hands-On | Gamereactor UK

GR-UK writes: "The original game - Chaos: The Battle of Wizards - pre-dates X-COM by nearly a decade. Chaos Reborn is a faithful reworking of that original concept, leaping from ZX Spectrum to the modern PC, slipping quietly past thirty years of progress in the process. It's impressive then, that given the game's reverence to older gameplay systems, it still feels fresh. Our hands-on time with an early build was proof enough that bringing Chaos to a contemporary audience should prove to be a wise move."



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News::What really happened to THQs unfinished games?

The true stories behind Dark Millennium Online, Red Faction: Armageddon, 1666: Amsterdam, South Park and other mysteries from the closing days of THQ, courtesy of former core games boss Danny Bilson.



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News::Pinball FX 2: Plants vs Zombies Pinball Review [Capsule Computers]

Andrew Day of Capsule Computers wrote: Plants vs Zombies are everywhere at the moment, from their triumphant conquering of mobile devices with their tower defense gameplay to the recently successful outing into the world of third-person shooters. Well now Crazy Daves garden grown guardians have taken their fight with their eternal brain-eating enemies to a whole new battleground a Pinball table. Pea Shooters, zombie hordes and a whole lot of fun have come to Pinball FX 2 and Zen Pinball 2 owners everywhere in this latest DLC. While Plants vs Zombies Pinball doesnt bring too much to the world of digital pinball games, it is still a fun new table to play on filled with bright colours and those wacky characters you have come to know and love from PopCaps Plants vs Zombies franchise.



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News::Early Sonic Boom Designs Caused "Discomfort" to Original Sonic Team

News::Titanfall Review | El33tonline

Oliver at El33tonline writes: "Its not worth buying a new console or PC just to play it, but if youve been looking for an exciting evolution on the well-worn Call of Duty multiplayer formula that rewards you for skill and strategy, or you want a unique, fast-paced alternative to the sandbox action of Battlefield, then I can highly recommend Titanfall."



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News::F2P Sandbox ArcheAge Demo Ready for GDC 2014 with a Western Beta Following

ArcheAge's new Community Manager Evan "Scapes" Berman has announced that Trion has prepared a compact press demo that fits inside fifteen minutes for GDC 2014 and will also share it on March 21 during the Friday Livestream on their official Twitch channel. The new Community Manager also revealed that they will expand ArcheAge's western beta in the coming weeks following GDC this month as XLGames has been providing tremendous engineering effort toward making ArcheAge go live in the west as rapidly as possible after the ArcheAge's Russian launch. ArcheAge is currently in an initial Friends and Family Alpha in the west.



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News::Titanfall Review | Quarter to Three

"Even with all the distractions surrounding its release, like Microsofts cloud power, platform exclusivity, always-online servers, and the drama of Respawns split with Activision, Titanfall has managed to deliver. It may not be the next-gen benchmark that marketing execs would have you believe, but its something better: a tight and engrossing multiplayer shooter that offers fresh experiences in an increasingly tired genre. Press E to embark."



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News::Review: The Walking Dead: A House Divided I Expansive

Episode two takes players knee-deep in Clementines adventure. Players have watched this young girl grow into a determined, strong woman as Telltale continue to put her through one traumatic event after another, but this episode is as much about her fellow travellers as her. In fact, Telltale have created a multi-layered, complex piece of narrative that sets the bar incredibly high for the rest of the season and everything else that has come before it.



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News::Infested Planet Review | Gamecrastinate

Infested Planet, much like the evolving bug aliens that you fight off in the game, has transformed itself from a Steam Early Access title to a full release on Steam. I had the chance to sit down with Infested Planet a number of times over the past few weeks leading up to the release and Ive struggled quite a bit with what to say about this genre-bending game. As youll come to read, thats not at all a bad thing.



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News::Titanfall Review MECHnificent Multiplayer I The Koalition

Richard Bailey Jr. of The Koalition writes: On June 10th of last year, Respawn Entertainment made history by unveiling their first IP worldwide during Microsofts annual E3 2013 press conference. Titanfall proved to wow both gamers and critics alike quickly, while also taking home over 75 prestigious awards throughout the rest of that year.



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News::Nerd-dom Weekly Rap-up Episode 38 Powerleveled

This weeks episode does Sonys shots at Microsoft come off as funny or just low blows now? ESO lets beta players try their hand at playing the Imperial race, and the Wii U out sells the PS4? All this and much more so tune sit back and enjoy the ride into all things that is Nerd-dom.



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