Dec 24, 2014 | Game ON news

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

News::The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot Ubisoft annoys with new event

Its very fashionable to bash them but Ubisoft havent been having a very relaxing end of year overall. Not to go into what issues have gone before with other Ubisoft titles which are already well documented elsewhere, but their Mysterious 15 event for the free to play MMO/RPG/RTS title The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot has raised a number of negative comments from the community, accusing it of being very ill thought out, badly constructed and poorly implemented (not to mention profiteering).

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News::Best of 2014: Gamings biggest surprises

GamesBeat: We look back at the years biggest gaming surprises.

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News::Take a look at the character designs in One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 with these new artworks

Check out the character designs in One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 with these new artworks.

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News::All I Want For Christmas Is This Digimon Game For North America

News::Club Nintendo's new 3DS game cases are stylish

Club Nintendo has new physical rewards available: two 3DS game cases sporting some cool (and varied!) artwork, and an NES Remix 2 t-shirt featuring Samus in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Nintendo 3DS Game Card Case - Pikmin / Super Mario Bros. (400 Coins)

Nintendo 3DS Game Card Case - The Legend of Zelda (400 Coins)

NES Remix 2 T-Shirt (700 Coins)

Just slide those Coins over here, nice and easy. Thhhhat's it. No one has to die today.

Club Nintendo's new 3DS game cases are stylish screenshot

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News::How To Celebrate Christmas The GTA Way

How To Celebrate Christmas The GTA Way

In a word: murder.

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News::10 Story Decisions Scifi And Fantasy Writers Ended Up Regretting

News::Game of the Year 2014: Industry Picks

GodisaGeek: "We asked ten key players in the UK games industry to tell us their top three games of 2014, and why. They are not allowed to pick any game they worked on, or have serious involvement with."

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News::Star Wars: Battlefront Could Be Using Battlelog Service

Much like Battlefield 4 which is made from DICE and EA, next years Star Wars: Battlefront game is also set to be using the Battlelog service.

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News::Dead State developer tries to get a critical review off Steam

The Eccentric Gamer writes: "Developer of Dead State, DoubleBear, is trying to get a critical review of their game pulled from Steam. Here is the review and why this really should not be happening."

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News::Review: Elite Dangerous - Connected Digital World

Connected Digital World writes: Theres something oh so addictive about any game like Elite. Its difficult to explain why but for some reason I just cant stay away. Just one more trip, just one more delivery, just one more bounty. At the peek of this addiction you will hardly care that youve now been doing the same thing for countless hours. Every time I had to request landing permission with a few satisfying button presses on my keyboard I felt totally immersed. The spectacular mundanity of it all is invitingly engrossing. Just going about youre daily space life delivering space cargo is cool, and Elite is cool enough to understate things and just let it be cool.

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News::Destiny Glitch Tells An Unexpected Story

Destiny Glitch Tells An Unexpected Story

It's not too often that a glitch plays out as more than just a funny moment or even an exploitable trick. But this Destiny glitch is...exceptional.

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News::First look at Harebrained Schemes' return to Shadowrun and Kickstarter

So long as Harebrained Schemes has financially supportive fans, the company isn't done making Shadowrun games. In fact, there's going to be another Kickstarter in January. This concept art represents the "look and feel" of the new setting, which is believed to be Hong Kong.

Harebrained says it's sticking with the isometric gameplay view as seen in Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun: Dragonfall because of course it will. Otherwise, we'll have to wait for more info.

Despite how many times I tell myself otherwise, January is nearly here.

First look at Harebrained Schemes' return to Shadowrun and Kickstarter screenshot

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News::Learning To Like (Some) Video Game Chores

News::Assassin's Creed Initiates, the semi-reliable web-based service used to track players' progress in A

News::A Very Skyrim Christmas, Part 1

Let's skip the requisite preamble paragraph and get right to it. Here's the plan: in Skyrim, I'm going to use mods and console commands to transform my character into Santa Claus. Then I'm going to deliver gifts to every single NPC household in Skyrim. And I'm going to do it in a single night.

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News::The Original Gaming PC Celebrates Its 35th Birthday

35 years ago, a video game revolution was sweeping through American culture. Shopping mall arcades were crammed with teenagers blasting menacing Space Invaders and lethal Asteroids to fading phosphorous particles. Cartridge-based home gaming consoles were beginning to catch on, bringing interactive entertainment into living rooms. University computer labs intended for scientific research were overrun with students programming their own electronic versions of Dungeons & Dragons. And with the coming of the 1979 Christmas shopping season, two revolutionary new home computers from Atari appeared on store shelves, machines which would forever change our perceptions of what PCs were capable of.

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News::Hitman Is The Official Worst Host Of A Christmas Party

You probably don't want to attend a Hitman-hosted Christmas party. Unless you like tons of murder and awkward physics, of course. Then I guess you do.

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News::The Crew: Region Video - Mountain States

Here is yet another Region video to come from Ubisoft for their open-world racing game The Crew. This is the turn of the Mountain states region. The one and a bit minute trailer tells of the local faction The Snakes. The trailer recommends Raid Spec cars for this region to deal with the desert terrain.

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News::Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes PC Review | IncGamers

IncGamers' Peter Parrish and Tim McDonald return to base to give an in-depth debriefing on the PC release of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.

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News::Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Secret Santa 2014: The Great Gift

News::Star Trek: Alien Domains Setting and Main Characters Revealed

With the first closed beta test for Star Trek: Alien Domain now complete, GameSamba is revealing more details about the setting and main characters of the new free-to-play Star Trek game.

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News::Kamui Review | Attack On Gaming

"Kamui is the first developed title in the ALLTYNEX storyline of top-down/2.5d shooters from Siter Skain and published by Nyu Media. It is also the third game in the series. The game has the player taking on the role of a specialised drone that fights against wave after wave of enemies in a bullet-hell shooter in order to take out a base running the ALLTYNEX Operation System." - Attack On Gaming

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News::Warlords of Draenor Review Segue: WoW's 10th Anniversary

Coinciding with the theme and motif of Warlords of Draenor, the MMO titan hurls us back to how and when all the magic began. The 10th Anniversary event is an ode to the old; a nostalgic replication of what was popular in WoWs early days and things that made them so iconic in the eyes of the gaming world.

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News::Video graphics, the facts

Resolution, FPS and refresh rate. All explained for gamers to decide what's best.

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News::First concept art for new Shadowrun game revealed

The Eccentric Gamer writes: "Harebrained Schemes has unveiled the first piece of concept art for the next Shadowrun game. Here is everything we know so far."

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News::How To Bring More Holiday Cheer To The Sims 4

How To Bring More Holiday Cheer To The Sims 4

Well, it's about that time of year when you get to see a lot of your family. Your virtual family, that is. Despite The Sims 4's many warm and fuzzy qualities, though, the game doesn't come with a ton of stuff to help put you in the mood for the holidays. Modders to the rescue!

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News::Game of the Year 2014 The Podcast

GodisaGeek: "This here podcast clocks in at 3 hours and 45 minutes, and will reveal exactly how we decided on that top ten, but not before a load more categories that we awarded exclusively on the pod!"

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News::Faceted Flight Gets New Trailer

Earlier this week indie developer The Dept of Silly Stuff launched a new Steam Greenlight campaign for its upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible flight-based videogame, Faceted Flight. The campaign is looking to secure enough positive votes to launch on Valves digital PC store early next year with full support for the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). Now a new trailer for the experience has arrived, which can be seen below.

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News::Far Cry 4 Review | MONG

A MONG editor spent some quality time with Far Cry 4 recently. He was pretty impressed! Check out his full thoughts on it!

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News::GOG's Next Free Game Is Akalabeth, The Grandfather of RPGs

Get Richard Garriott's Ultima predecessor free today from The Witcher developer's online store, GOG.com.

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News::SOE Responds to Criticism Regarding Landmark's Combat

Recently, Landmark released its long awaited combat update. Communities tend to be very vocal about games they enjoy (or dont enjoy for that matter) .The new patch was met was some harsh criticisms from the community. Yesterday, one of the developers made a much needed and well thought out statement via the official forums.

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