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Saturday, December 27, 2014

News::Dragon Age: Inquisition Review Spectacular | Power Up Gaming

Amber Colyer writes: "Dragon Age: Inquisition has got so much going for it. Its beautiful, it sounds great, the story is epic, and the characters are relatable and fun. Everything you do feels like it makes a difference and as if you can play however you wish. The massive amount of detail, thought and effort that went into this game feels as triumphant as the Inquisition itself after Haven."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645365/dragon-age-inquisition-review-spectacular-power-up-gaming

News::Valkyria Chronicles Review (Invision Game Community)

Valkyria Chronicles is a strategy role playing game based in a fictitious, manga-drawn land reminiscent of 1930s Europe during the Second World War. Two warring powers, the Federation and Empire, clash on the battlefield of one small and previously peaceful nation on the continent, where the Empire have discovered a wealth of valuable natural resources.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645286/valkyria-chronicles-review-invision-game-community

News::Transistor Review | The Empty Set The Game Fanatics

There's not a single area in which Transistor doesn't shine beautifully. It is objectively short and very linear, which many will see as a negative, but it really works to make a tight package in Transistor's case.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645324/transistor-review-the-empty-set-the-game-fanatics

News::Elite: Dangerous Review | Entertainment Buddha

Nick Horry of Entertainment Buddha writes: "Has Frontier Developments delivered what they promised to eager fans that have been waiting over two decades for their dream space sim? I believe so, however, even though the game is now in full release, I do believe it still has a fair way to go before it can crown itself as the dream space sim everyone was hoping for."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645269/elite-dangerous-review-entertainment-buddha

News::PSN Seems To Be Coming Back Online

PSN Seems To Be Coming Back Online

After days of problems connecting to the PlayStation Network and corresponding services on the PlayStation 4, two of Kotaku's systems have booted up and connected immediately. Are things looking up?

via Kotaku http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/kDkZX8mn-W0/story01.htm

News::Jurassic Park: Aftermath - New Screenshots Released

The creator of Jurassic Park: Aftermath has been releasing lots of new images from his upcoming freeware project these past few days, and today the modder released three new, showing off the road from the Helicopter and Waterfall area to the Visitor's Center.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645354/jurassic-park-aftermath-new-screenshots-released

News::Bungie Extends Destiny's Weekend Vendor In The Face Of Network Issues

Bungie Extends Destiny's Weekend Vendor In The Face Of Network Issues

Destiny players worried the ongoing PlayStation Network problems would rob them of a chance to visit the game's weekend-only Strange Coin vendor should worry no more — Bungie's gooing to let him keep his shop open until Monday.

via Kotaku http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/tfz0yXrifzk/story01.htm

News::Best Video Game Graphics of 2014

One of the most controversial years in the games industry is now coming to an end, but which game had the best graphics?

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News::The Xbox Live Status page currently indicates some users having issues logging into Xbox Live on the

News::Japanese Developers Select their Game of The Year for 2014

Japanese game developers have some definitely interesting taste in games, and about 140 of them named the games that most impressed them in 2004.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645343/japanese-developers-select-their-game-of-the-year-for-2014

News::EventHubs Street Fighter V character poll reveals a terrible crime

Fighting game mega-site EventHubs is running a poll to see which Street Fighter characters fans want to see return the most in SFV. Considering SFV is still pretty early on in development, there is the slim, outside chance that polls like these might have a little more sway on Capcom's roster choices than usual, so I'm a bit more interested in the results than I normally would be.

By which I mean, I want to make sure that my favorite characters make the cut.

EventHubs Street Fighter V character poll reveals a terrible crime screenshot

News::We Interrupt This Program For The Best News Bloopers Of 2014

News::Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PC) Review | Hardcore Gamer

Hardcore Gamer: "Metal Gear Solid is one of the most revered franchises in gaming, containing some of the deepest and complex stories to have ever been told. Following the iconic Sold Snake, the series has maintained a strong consistency of quality and diversity, bringing us to a variety of different beautiful locations and establishing some of the best stealth action mechanics available. While we are waiting ever so patiently for the official release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Kojima Productions have yet to cease development on Ground Zeroes, bringing the short prologue to the dynamic PC platform. Considering how long it has been since weve seen a Metal Gear title on PC, one would be skeptical going in, but thankfully, things couldnt have gone any better."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645295/metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes-pc-review-hardcore-gamer

News::Zero1gaming: Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - Iron From Ice

Despite his lack of knowledge about the books, JBH stoically reviews 'Iron From Ice' the first episode of Telltale's adaptation of 'Game of Thrones'.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645247/zero1gaming-game-of-thrones-episode-1-iron-from-ice

News::Always Been There Honoring Gamings Transgender Roots

As the video game industry continues to grow, more transgender developers are working in gaming than ever before. However, many gamers and industry workers alike forget the industrys pioneering transgender developers, who helped build the industry across the 1970s onwards. As 2014 comes to a close, we discuss the gamer identity, and explore the legacy of two prominent transgender women developers who vastly influenced the industry.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645318/always-been-there-honoring-gamings-transgender-roots

News::The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Modded - Best Screenshots Of 2014

DSOGaming writes: "Weve covering Skyrim modded this past year, so time now to take a look at the best screenshots that were captured from ENBSeries members. Weve included below screenshots that made us question whether were looking at posters or real photos (hint: weve used some of those images as a test to non-gamers, and the results surprised us as they thought they were real images captured from a smartphone). Weve also included images that show how amazing Skyrim can look with mods."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645242/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-modded-best-screenshots-of-2014

News::What Would A Ride In The Millennium Falcon Actually Do To Your Body?

What Would A Ride In The Millennium Falcon Actually Do To Your Body?

The Millennium Falcon pulls some pretty crazy stunts in the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And while we recognize Star Wars takes place in a fictional universe, we couldn't help but get pedantic about the physics of the scene, and the effects it might have on the human body.

News::Review: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

The visual novel has been ubiquitous in Japan since the early ‘90s, but in the West they've never truly caught on. Whether it was the U.S.’s love for its own home-grown adventure games like Sierra’s King’s Quest, the SCUMM games by LucasArts, or the absolute pain it is to translate games from Japanese that can be over 450 English pages long, it's never been clear as to why that is. In fact, it wasn't really until the early 2000s that they finally started catching on. The Nintendo DS was the platform many English-speaking gamers experienced their first visual novel on, through none other than Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Review: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy screenshot

News::Massive Smash Bros. Fan Album Adds 27 New "Final Smash" Tracks

News::An Assortment Of Lesser-Known No Man's Sky Facts

Gameinformer writes:"As we near the end of our month of No Man's Sky coverage, it's time to focus on the smaller details. This game is huge and has many elements that inspire questions about space, gameplay, science, and more. Read on for excerpts from our extensive interviews with Hello Games' managing director Sean Murray about things you may be curious about, but never got a straight answer on."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645136/an-assortment-of-lesser-known-no-mans-sky-facts

News::Fault Milestone One Reads Like the First Act of a Good Yarn | Siliconera Review

Siliconera: "One of the tricky things about writing playtests is when I know that parts of the audience are going to know more than me about the genre, series, or creators. Now, nobody can be an expert on everything and most people understand that so its not the end of the world when I get something wrong, but nobody likes making mistakes. I feel like my coverage of visual novels so far for this site has been mistake riddled. Every genre of video game has certain tendencies, and people learn which genres they tend to prefer. What this means is that it makes no sense for a writer to knock a game for traits that are shared by every entry in the genre because those complaints arent going to be relevant to the audience the game is targeting. It doesnt make sense to complain about wanton killing in a shooter, needing to invest 60+ hours to finish an RPG, or bizarre and unintuitive controls in a fighting game."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645189/fault-milestone-one-reads-like-the-first-act-of-a-good-yarn-siliconera-review

News::Carpe Fulgurs Andrew Dice Apologizes for Trails in the Sky Delays

Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC is one of the most promising JRPGs on the horizon, but its been there for a while, and whenever someone asks XSEED or Carpe Fulgur about it the response is either itll be done when its done or, more commonly silence. Today Andrew Dice, Carpe Fulgurs lead editor, broke that silence.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645264/carpe-fulgurs-andrew-dice-apologizes-for-trails-in-the-sky-delays

News::The Best Way To Recycle Your Old Gadgets

The Best Way To Recycle Your Old Gadgets

'Tis the season to get gadgets but what are you going to do with the one you've got? Folks will pay good money (or at least good karma) for your second-hand electronics. Here's how to hawk your legacy hardware online—or just give it away responsibly—and get an early start on next years Nice list.

News::PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage

PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage

Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3.

via Kotaku http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/IgRjKsw_7v8/story01.htm

News::Man Buys PlayStation 4 From Walmart, Gets Two Bags Of Rocks

Man Buys PlayStation 4 From Walmart, Gets Two Bags Of Rocks

A Denver man who purchased a PlayStation 4 bundle from a Stapleton, Colorado Walmart was reportedly surprised to discover two taped sacks of rocks instead of the game console.

via Kotaku http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/KWSxmCUY_j4/story01.htm

News::Games of 2014: Alien: Isolation - You're Newt going to believe this

Eurogamer: "It's been a long time since I played a horror game where I needed someone else present in the room just to give me a little bit of reassurance. I couldn't play Silent Hill 2 on my own, couldn't play the early Resident Evils, and certainly couldn't play Slender: The Eight Pages without another unfortunate soul beside me, sharing my misery. Then, this year, two titles made me force my flatmates into staying on the sofa, lights off, for long stretches. The first was P.T, the free demo that turned out to be a taster for Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro's Silent Hills. It won't be on many Game of the Year lists, though perhaps it deserves to be. The second was Alien: Isolation, a game that defied expectations and turned out to be something really quite original. Here's my take on it, in video form."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645193/games-of-2014-alien-isolation-youre-newt-going-to-believe-this

News::Elegy For A Dead World review - ChristCenteredGamer

The premise of the game is exceedingly simple. You control a character that seems to be some sort of space explorer. You can land on one of three planets and write about what you see. Once your explorations are finished, you can submit your report and others can offer commendations on it.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645232/elegy-for-a-dead-world-review-christcenteredgamer

News::Top 5 Steam Winter Sale Games You Havent Heard Of For Under £1

Joseph Dwan writes: Every year the winter sale comes around and the front page is filled with great deals for some of the top games of the year, and then some, but there are over 6000 specials on Steam right now. Going through these games reveals some absolute rubbish, arguably not even worth their miniscule price tag. So, here are my top 5 games you probably havent thought of getting, which you could probably buy just by selling those Steam trading cards off, in no particular order.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645183/top-5-steam-winter-sale-games-you-havent-heard-of-for-under-1

News::2014 PUG Game of the Year Awards: Day Two

Jonathan Nielson writes: "When I sit down every December to think about the game I will hold up as the best of that year, generally there are one or two that have been occupying that space in my mind beforehand. 2014 has been no different. Thinking back to this summer, I remember hearing people in the games industry talking about many unique and fun games, but Yacht Club's masterful Shovel Night and Ubisoft's enchanting Child of Light were by far the most interesting to me. I surprised even myself at first when I realised that here, at the end of the year, I wasn't even considering a AAA title as the best I'd played in the last 12 months."

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645229/2014-pug-game-of-the-year-awards-day-two

News::UK Weekly Charts, 13th December 2014

UK Hardware by Platform: XOne 63,489 (-15%) 1,324,757 PS4 62,538 (-15%) 1,662,298 3DS 31,772 (+1%) 2,647,482 WiiU 11,107 (+5%) 384,633 X360 9,320 (+15%) 8,989,973 PS3 6,866 (+11%) 5,996,680 PSV 2,693 (-4%) 510,895 Wii 434 (-4%) 8,646,104 UK Software: 1 Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) 2 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XOne) 3 FIFA 15 (PS4) 4 FIFA 15 (X360) 5 Grand Theft Auto V (XOne)

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645228/uk-weekly-charts-13th-december-2014

News::USA Weekly Charts, 13th December 2014

USA Hardware by Platform: XOne 288,469 (-10%) 5,591,126 PS4 230,525 (-4%) 6,239,286 3DS 181,317 (+6%) 13,973,544 WiiU 100,793 (+20%) 3,397,459 X360 83,057 (+32%) 44,155,849 PS3 27,465 (+32%) 26,467,106 PSV 10,243 (+2%) 1,918,322 Wii 7,693 (-4%) 41,617,728 USA Software: 1 Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (3DS) 2 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (WiiU) 3 Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (3DS) 4 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XOne) 5 Assassin's Creed: Unity (XOne)

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645227/usa-weekly-charts-13th-december-2014

News::Review: Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - Gaming Boulevard

The guys of Gaming Boulevard wrote: They did it again, Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is the perfect twin stick shooter at the moment. The innovation comes in 3D worlds and the new Adventure mode, both are just perfect to kill some of your time.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645181/review-geometry-wars-3-dimensions-gaming-boulevard

News::12 Days of VR Gaming Day 6: Ethereon

The holiday season is upon us and many of VRFocus readers will be eager to spend much of their time travelling to worlds beyond their own daily grind. To that end, over the next 12 days VRFocus will be bringing some top picks of the virtual reality (VR) scene that you can download and play right now on either the Oculus Rift development kits or the Gear VR.

via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1645214/12-days-of-vr-gaming-day-6-ethereon

News::This Year In The Business: The Best Quotes Of 2014

This Year In The Business: The Best Quotes Of 2014

QUOTE | "You ever feel like what we're doing is too much like pornography?" - Trip Hawkins, EA and Digital Chocolate founder, asking an odd question while talking about the difficulty of monetizing games.

via Kotaku http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/xJxoxJtcgE8/story01.htm