Tuesday, August 19, 2014

News::Brave the Cold Quebec Winter in Survival Adventure Game Kona

In the episodic survival game Kona, players take on the role of a detective who is hired to find the culprits responsible for vandalizing and stealing from his clients estate somewhere in the northern region of Quebec.



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News::Alone In The Dark Is Coming Back, And I Am Afraid

Alone In The Dark Is Coming Back, And I Am Afraid


Alone In The Dark is a series that, long ago, meant something. It was the original 3D survival horror game, and the first two titles weren't just terrifying and a blast to play, but had a gorgeous old-timey art style as well. In later years, though...well, let's just say time and some publisher misdeeds pissed that legacy away.


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News::Extra Punctuation: How Firefall Changed My Mind About MMO Shooters

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw: It's always nice to be persuaded on something. It's one of the great tragedies of the internet age that this grand, international network that was supposed to finally allow conversation between all the world's varied perspectives seems, if anything, to have made people all the more rigid in their beliefs. They construct echo chambers composed of the daily posts on blogs and Twitters that do nothing but support their views, sharing only the most extreme, crackpot writings of the opposing sides in order to assure themselves further of their own righteousness.



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News::Sacred 3 Review | TGH

Leo McCloskey writes for TheGamersHub: "What with all the mentions of butt-cheeks and overwrought Saturday morning kids TV sassiness, taking Sacred 3 seriously isnt always easy. Theres only so much crass humour you can stomach without wondering if the inclusion of a character named Vajra is really just a nod to the weapon-of-choice of the Hindu god Indra. In fact, if you arent twelve, you could be forgiven for hating it. Hating it. But, weirdly, Sacred 3s brand of dumb isnt always to its detriment."



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News::Delve into SteamWorld Dig on Wii U next week

Image & Form started SteamWorld Dig off on the 3DS eShop and has since brought its mining adventure game to Steam, PS4, and PS Vita. It won't be much longer now until the studio comes back around to Nintendo -- the Wii U release is scheduled for August 28 in North America, Europe, and Australia with a price point of $9.99 / €8.99 / £6.99.


As appealing as Off-TV play on the Wii GamePad sounds -- the Pro Controller is also supported -- I'll sit this one out considering I've gone through SteamWorld Dig several times, at this point.


Those of you who have neglected to play any of the prior versions need to give it a look, though. Great game, and it's going to feel right at home on the Wii U eShop.


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News::Poll Results: What's A Sport And What's Not?

Poll Results: What's A Sport And What's Not?


Here, visualized, the results of a poll that are as interesting as they are unscientific. Click expand and commence arguing over what makes something a sport as opposed to a game or an activity.


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News::Will Delay Make 'Hatoful Boyfriend' Pigeonier?

Why did the pigeon cross the road? To pick up some roses and condoms, apparently.



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News::The Morrowind Remake Is Still Happening, Still Looking Fantastic

The Morrowind Remake Is Still Happening, Still Looking Fantastic


Some wonderful people have, for a while now, been dragging The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into the engine used by the series' fifth game, Skyrim. It's a long, tough job, but after loads of trailers and environmental fly-bys, we've got a good look today at some actual walkin' around.


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News::A guide to learning Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Want to get involved in Starcraft II but don't know where to start? TPReview uses their experience in learning Starcraft to help you avoid some common pitfalls and put you on the right path. Learn your micro from your macro and choose a race that fits how you want to play.



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News::Dieselstormers Early Access Review - Cliqist

Julie Morley writes: "Dieselstormers is a sidescrolling platformer run 'n' gun game taking place in a quirky medieval metropolis combo where war is raging between the Orcs and Dieselknights, tall taking place in Ravensdale. Orcs have taken over the city and it's up to the Dieselknights to take back their resources and take out these pesky Orcs."



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News::Blackbay Asylum Review | Hardcore Gamer

You'd think the award for "Ugliest Game I've Ever Enjoyed" would be well secured by now.



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News::Toren Zelda meets ICO meets The Last Guardian - New Screenshots Released

Alongside its new trailer, Swordtales has released a new set of screenshots for Toren. Toren is a dark fantasy adventure game that brings poetry to life in an epic journey about growth, discovery and overcoming great hurdles.



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News::Gneiss: Mountain is now on Steam

I'm still not entirely sure what to make of David O'Reilly's Mountain, but now that it's out on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux, I am that much closer to taking the $0.99 plunge and finding out.


This is an ambient game "designed to run in the periphery of your life," one that'll play itself when you aren't interacting with it. (Hey, we all have certain needs.) In sharing his thoughts on Mountain, Chris likened it to a serene screensaver.


While that won't appeal to everyone, it sounds rather pleasant to me.


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News::Being Bad is Good in Nefarious

Julie Morley writes: "Nefarious brings us a humorous take of the kidnapping process and warding off any heroic individuals determined to take her back. Filled with reverse boss fights, evil minions, and oddball princess, Nefarious is a strange sidescrolling action platformer game that I'm really looking forward to, and it's now on Kickstarter."



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News::Guilty Gear X2: Reload Coming to Steam on September 5

Video game publisher Kiss, Ltd. announced that it and publisher Funbox will release Guilty Gear X2 for PCs via Steam on September 5. When asked about possible mulitplayer ability, Kiss replied, "ARCsys do not officially support Netplay on PC, but of course it can be done."



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News::Latest Habitat Update Includes Major Features And Steam Workshop Support

"4gency recently announced several new features coming in their v0.20 update for Habitat: A Thousand Generations In Orbit."



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News::Red Bull Battle Grounds StarCraft II Tournament Brings Top Competitors to the Motor City

Hardcore Gamer: No longer will Columbus be the epicenter of eSports.



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News::Metro Redux Review - Comrades in Arms | TerminalGamer

TG writes: The Metro series has been remastered for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One and is set to release next week. We have been lurking around Moscow all weekend playing both Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light. The question is: Should you don your gas mask and start playing it, or just let the game breathe its final gasp?



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News::Kingdom Come: Deliverance Alpha Coming to PC Sometime in September or October

OnlySP: Warhorse Studios has confirmed via their Twitter account this week that the Alpha release for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the upcoming medieval open world title, will be released sometime during October or September of this year.



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News::​27 Things You Might Actually Not Know About The Simpsons


I knew that Michael Jackson was involved in "Do The Bartman," but I did not know why The Simpsons movie was banned in Burma.


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News::Maybe A Stone Age Assassin's Creed Wouldn't Be So Bad

Maybe A Stone Age Assassin's Creed Wouldn't Be So Bad


"Me make new thing!" "Me already have stick." "No... Pointy stick."


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News::GTA Online Stunt Turns RPG Into Sniper Rifle

GTA Online Stunt Turns RPG Into Sniper Rifle


"The longest RPG shot ever" in GTA Online is definitely staged, but you gotta give these guys props for composing all the shots in this video. Plus, this is definitely the sort of thing people get obsessed with doing while playing GTA.


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News::The Witcher Adventure Game Makes Complex Politics and Morals Card-Based | Hardcore Gamer

There are few Role-Playing series more hardcore than The Witcher. CD Projekt Red's dark fantasy franchise is built on an intricate web of moral choices supplemented by complex, challenging combat mechanics. The Witcher games are among the most daunting and engrossing RPGs out there. There are plenty of different mediums that the series could be adapted to, but I don't know that it would ever occur to me to turn such a convoluted, story-driven property into a board game. Not even a digital one.



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News::Not too Gnarly

Riot's latest addition to its League roster has Nate scratching his head over the seemingly confused mechanics and itemization problems.



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News::Vagante is a tough, promising 2D action-platformer


Nuke Nine has launched a Kickstarter for its action-platformer with RPG elements Vagante and the best part about the pitch -- well, besides several attention-grabbing .gifs -- is the included demo.


Vagante has permanent death, randomized levels, and a willingness to unceremoniously kill you in the blink of an eye. It reminds me of Catacomb Kids -- but since some of you won't be familiar with that game, think of this as a sort of Spelunky in a dark fantasy world.


For me, the biggest draw here is the mage class because heck yes I want to shoot lightning like a madman and see a bunch of damage indicators pop up. The team has been working on the game full-time for over eight months and is using Kickstarter to fund its remaining development.


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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Day Zero Edition automatic upgrades and limited quantities details

Automatic upgrades and limited quantities details have been announced by Amazon for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Day Zero Edition.



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News::Metro 2033 Redux Review | CheatCC

CCC Says: "When I first started up Metro 2033 Redux, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. The opening cinematics look like something out of a game that is 10 years old. The graphics are grainy, the models were terrible, and the environment felt animated and not at all dark and gritty as the game promised it would be. This is supposed to be the grand remake that changes how I view the Metro series? I thought to myself, as I sighed heavily at the fact that all the opening cinematics could not be skipped. Where was the awesome looking game I saw at this years E3?"



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News::Sony just doesn't know who keeps buying PS4s

Sony has sold over 10 million PlayStation 4s to consumers. It is a lot and more than anyone expected, including the higher ups at Sony, according to this Eurogamer interview with Sony's affable Shuhei Yoshida.


"We are so happy. But I for one am a bit nervous because we do not completely understand what's happening. You need to understand why your products are selling well so you can plan for the future, right?" Yoshida said. He's asking around, including asking press why they think the console is doing so well. "I'm asking marketing people to tell us why. They've been to people who already purchased, and some of the early data was amazing in terms of the number of people who didn't used to own PS3 have already purchased PS4.


"So we want to understand who are these consumers who we do not necessarily consider core gamers, who are purchasing PS4 and why they are doing it and what they are doing with PS4, so we can create a bit more of a positive future, rather than saying, wow, we have sold to every single core gamer."


On the other hand, Sony seems happy enough with the "core gamers" that make up the Vita population. In explaining why the Vita wasn't present at gamescom (or E3), Yoshida explained, "PS Vita gamers are pretty core, dedicated gamers. They seek information, so we trust them to find out about the games coming out on PS Vita."


Tomb Raider, Vita's no-show and the mystery of 10m PS4 sales [Eurogamer]


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