Monday, June 30, 2014

News::A Doraemon game is coming to the 3DS and Wii U


Doraemon is a Japanese manga series that had its humble beginnings in 1969, and has since become an anime, as well as one of the best selling manga series in the world. The titular robotic cat has since become an icon adorned on buses and other means of transportation, and now he's getting a new game for the Wii U and 3DS.


By way of an announcement trailer from publisher Bandai Namco, it appears as if the game will see a release on both platforms, but no differences have been cited yet. The odds of this getting out of Japan are slim (there is hope though, since Viz Media just licensed the series to air in the US this year), so count on importing it.


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News::'Moms Against Gaming' Is My New Favorite Twitter Account

'Moms Against Gaming' Is My New Favorite Twitter Account


Meet @MomsAgainstGam, a noble crusader in the fight to keep our children away from the menace that is video gaming. With powerful tweets like "disease and poverty are a direct result of Gaming," @MomsAgainstGam is helping expose the painful truth that video games must be stopped.


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News::​What Happened to the Lost Thundercats Games

​What Happened to the Lost Thundercats Games


Thunder, thunder, Thundercats… no! Come with us, children of the 1980s and journey through a twisted tale about why there was only one terrible game based on the mega-popular fightin' cat-people cartoon.


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News::Steam Summer Sale Day 11 29/06/2014

Steam 11th day and probably the second last day of the summer sale is just online now, featuring almost the great games, which are also available in the past 10 days, if you missed your favorite game early grab it now. Its your last chance to have it, tomorrow steam summer sale will be end.



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News::Recent big changes in World of Warships will make the game more accessible [SideQuesting Preview]

Dali Dimovski of SideQuesting writes: "The changes that Wargaming has employed in Warships look like they could turn out to be extremely welcome, allowing for new players to jump in and strategy veterans to still be able to manage to their hearts desires."



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News::Paywalled Demo? Indie Western RPG 'The Black Star' Demo Build Released

You can now pick up the demo build of The Black Star for £0.99! Developer Cameron Moore stated: 'Before you jump to conclusions on a paywalled demo please understand that this is simply a test. Due to having put 100s of hours into developing the game so far I have cut out lots of the areas for this build but don't think this doesn't equate to poor value. Give my game a try, I guarantee you'll be captivated by the mysterious slowly unwinding story of Eric Johnson as he ventures the west in a genre combination that is very rarely done. I have put particular effort into the gameplay mechanics and story to assure you'll be left wanting more. Enjoy, and if this test sees enough interest I'll most definitely push on to finish the project by Christmas 2014! For now this is just a PC exclusive but who knows, if I see a strong response this could make its way on to PlayStation systems before you know it due to the accessibility available. '



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News::Planetside 2's Huge World Expands With a New Continent in Today's Update

Sony Online Entertainment today released a huge update for its free-to-play MMO shooter, Planetside 2, the most significant aspect of which is a whole new continent for players to explore and fight over.



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News::A history of videogame hardware: Nintendo DS


Year: 2004 Manufacturer: Nintendo Original Cost: ¥15,000



For a while it appeared as though Japan’s booming video game business was immune to the country’s drawn-out economic bust. As Japan slumped into a deep recession, the industry flew an inverse trajectory, reaching a dizzying peak in 1997 thanks to the invigorating success of Sony’s PlayStation. But soon enough the long winding lines of consumers that greeted each new high-profile game release in Akihabara also began to shrink as the nation’s previously insatiable appetite for electronic entertainment waned. In 2002, America overtook Japan as the world’s biggest consumer of video games and in 2003 Europe nudged into second place.


Of all the video game console manufacturers, Nintendo had the most to fear from this decline. Just as game sales were in dramatic regression in the company’s key home territory, so Sony’s PlayStation 2 had cast a long shadow over the GameCube, with Microsoft’s newcomer selling 2 million more units of its Xbox than the one-time Japanese leader of the home console market. Moreover, for both Sony and Microsoft, video games were just one component of a sprawling empire. If their respective game divisions performed poorly for a time, other areas of the business could take up the slack. For Nintendo, as with Sega before it, there was no fallback. If the company couldn’t turn its speeding decline around, it would have little choice but to follow Sega in turning its back on the console hardware business to focus exclusively on publishing.


It was into this tumultuous landscape that Nintendo’s new president, Satoru Iwata stepped in 2002, replacing Hiroshi Yamauchi at the helm of a company headed for disaster. In November 2003, for the first time in the company’s history, Nintendo announced a loss for the beginning half of the fiscal year. In the same breath, Iwata-san proclaimed that the company was developing a new system, neither a successor to the GameCube nor the Game Boy Advance, but a system that would “go back to basics” in the hope of attracting gamers of all ages, and players with no prior experience of games.



This feature is an extract from Simon Parkin’s book, An Illustrated History of 151 Videogames.



With the growing success of adult-focused games and online connectivity, the direction made little sense. While the desire to widen the boundaries of the games industry to encompass a broader mass market appeared logical, Iwata’s statement that “you can’t open up a new market of customers if you can’t surprise them” seemed cavalier in Nintendo’s immediate context. A year later, when the Nintendo DS was unveiled, method still seemed to have been overtaken by madness. The silvery, somewhat bulky handheld system – decidedly not, as Nintendo was only too keen to emphasize, a successor to the GBA – opened like a book to reveal two screens, one of which was a touch screen that could be interacted with using a stylus. Despite the in-built microphone and wireless connectivity there seemed no way that this Game & Watch style throwback could be anything other than a side-project for the company. Sony dismissed the system as a gimmick, ‘a knee-jerk reaction’ to its futuristic, widescreen PSP handheld system, while many developers seemed equally sceptical and confused as to how to employ the system’s idiosyncratic capabilities.


Within 12 months, Nintendo had not only proven its detractors wrong, but had turned around the company’s fortunes. In the space of just one year the Nintendo DS sold 13 million units while the handheld accounted for 45 per cent of all software sold in Japan in 2005, enabling Nintendo to leapfrog Sony’s control of the software market. As with the Game Boy, Nintendo began to iterate on the hardware, releasing the DS Lite and then the DSi in various incarnations, and by 2010 over 135 million units had been sold globally.


Most significantly, the Nintendo DS had proven Iwata’s assertion that chasing innovation rather than technological superiority was the key to Nintendo’s future, a simple ideological shift that would have a profound effect.


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News::Mounts in ESO

This blog post will tell you more about the different mounts in ESO and what the benefits are between them. Mounts play an important role in the game and will help you to level fast!



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News::Alien: Isolation Apparently Comes in Three Editions

A new trailer has been released of Alien: Isolation which shows off their nominations from E3 and also includes pre-release footage of the game that is work in progress. At the same time, listings of different editions of Alien: Isolation have been spotted on Amazon Germanys website.



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News::Awesomenauts: Comparison to Other MOBAs

Awesomenauts, the 2D, side-scrolling MOBA from Ronimo Games, is different to many games in the genre. It is definitely one of the more unique games in the genre. With other MOBAs busy following League of Legends and DOTA 2s success, Awesomenauts defines itself by its differences. But is it worth spending more time on, especially when compared to other MOBAs?



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News::Wolfenstein: The New Order Review | Word of the Nerd

WOTN writes: Wolfenstein: The New Order succeeds as one of my favorite games this year simply because it doesnt hide what it is.



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News::Big Bang Entertainment gets top rider feedback for MX vs ATV Supercross

Going to the source to improve your game and gather opinions from the people who matter most is the best way to get the most out of your game. Big Bang Entertainment has done exactly this with MX vs ATV Supercross, according to President and CEO Ken George.



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News::The Golf Club Devs: Procedural Generation Will Only Be Seen More; "Loved" Unity Engine

"Learn everything about The Golf Club in our interview with HB Studios. How does "procedural course generation" sound? You can also share the courses and perhaps even play against PS4/XB1 players!"



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News::Woolfe: The Redhood Diaries confirmed to be playable at Gamescom

Off to Gamecom this August? Then you'll be glad to see the Xbox One, PS4 and PC dark fairy tale platformer, Woolfe: The Redhood Diaries will be there and publicly playable.



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News::Team17 signs on Unicube's Strategy Survival Game Sheltered

Team17 announced this afternoon that it has signed on a post-apocalyptic strategy game called Sheltered, which is in development by newly formed indie developer Unicube based in Shrewsbury, to its third-party publishing program. "We've been long-time fans of the Worms franchise. They were some of the first games we played on our PCs when we were younger. To think we're now working alongside them is a bit surreal. We're really excited about working with Team17 over the next year, and think we have a bright future ahead!" said Sonny Meek and Dean Foster, co-owners, at Unicube.



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News::Homefront: The Revolution Interview with Adam Duckett at E3

Connected Digital World writes: At E3 I sat down with Adam Duckett to talk all things Homefront: The Revolution.



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News::Which Video Game Genre Is Your City?

Which Video Game Genre Is Your City?


From the survival horror streets of Chicago to massively multiplayer Los Angeles, Dorkly has taken a handful of U.S. cities and described them — with uncanny accuracy — in terms of video game genres.


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News::N4G Radio 06/30/2014

Can you dig it? This week is all about Kit Kats, shovels, and the boredom of Watch Dogs. Hosts: Ken McKown Ryan Wombold Justin Testa Drew Leachman John Whitehouse Games Covered Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Killzone: Shadow Fall Intercept Valiant Hearts Blue Estate Shovel Knight and more



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News::Democracy 3 Extremism DLC Review | 3rd-strike

Veflow from 3rd-strike writes: "If you didnt like Democracy before, you probably wont like it now. It does however give a reason for Democracy-players to return to the game once more and try out the new policies and deal with the new problems. If you werent quite sure, you should definitely consider getting the game because its just something different."



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News::Valiant Hearts: The Great War Review - GameRevolution

GR - Ubisoft have gone to great lengths to ensure a new core of gamers dont go without some truly unique experiences to enjoy in the first year of next-gen console ownership, which is typically plagued with a lot of unoriginal ideas. Where past hardware has launched with a litany of sports titles, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 began life with a cadre of shooters and options at retail didnt get any better as the months went on. Thankfully, experimental and downloadable games have maintained pressure on the development community to continue pushing the industry forward despite a lull in the next-generation of software. Im speaking of Child of Light and Ubisofts latest, Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Role-playing games have seemingly stagnated in their attempts to move mechanics forward, but Child of Light presented an engrossing way of doing battle. While that game focused on forcing players to pay careful attention in combat, Valiant Hearts aims to present unique twists on the ad...



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News::UK Charts: Sniper Elite 3 Enter On First Place

Sniper Elite 3 is the best selling game in the UK for the previous week, according to the latest charts.



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News::Shadow of Mordor Screenshot Teases New Location, Will Face New Uruk Captains on Every Playthrough

OnlySP: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor had a fantastic showing at E3 this year and we cant wait to get our hands on it come October. For now though, well continue to keep sharing all the latest details with you, starting with a brand new screenshot posted on the games official Twitter account which teases a new, darker location of Mordor.



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News::Amazon Video Game Deals of the Week: 6/29 Edition

Gamerdeals: "This morning, Amazon refreshed their cheap PS Vita, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, 3DS, PC and Xbox One video game deals of the week with sales and deep discounts! Here is the rundown of their top video game deal promotions!"



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News::356 weapons, 19 boss trophies, and 4 fishing trophies make for one hell of a display room in Terrari


356 weapons, 19 boss trophies, and 4 fishing trophies make for one hell of a display room in Terraria. According to the owner/builder, redditor critcodedtuna, every item save for the Space Dolphin Machine Gun, which cannot be crafted or found in-game, was gathered by hand.


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News::Rollers of the Realm Puts the RPG Genre on Full Tilt | gamrReview Preview

gamrReview's Brent Galietti: "Each year, lesser known games pop up that are true gems and deserve similar attention and adoration to the AAA titles that dominate the gaming news cycles. For me, the game that most fits that description so far this year is Rollers of the Realm. I got to play through the first chapter of this addictive pinball RPG and was surprised at just how compelling it was."



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News::Naruto Storm Revolution: New Screenshots

Bandai Namco Games has released new screenshots from the game.



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News::A Quick Look at Civilization Revolution 2

A Quick Look at Civilization Revolution 2


JFK, stealth bombers and Silicon Valley are coming to the next Civilization game. Oh and lasers, too. It's about get all modern up in here.


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News::In Tokyo, There's a Second-Hand Shop for Booze

In Tokyo, There's a Second-Hand Shop for Booze


Across Japan, there is a chain of second-hand shops called Hard Off. There is also a used book retailer known as Book Off. And now, there's also a store specializing in second-hand alcohol called Liquor Off.


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