Worth Buying Again: ‘Alan Wake’ Humble Bundle Is Up!
Eh, so maybe the game part isn’t terribly fun, but name your own price? Worth it!
The gods are shining down on Remedy this week. After a big unveiling of their newest game during Microsoft’s Xbox One conference, Quantum Break, the legendary bullet-friendly developer is now presenting their entire Alan Wake anthology for whatever amount you want to pay for it. Sam Lake, the company’s creative director, also gives us a heads up on where the franchise is going. Spoilers: nowhere any time soon.
Xbox One Eliminates XBLA/Indie Games Ghetto, Still Makes It Hard to Submit Games
My beloved Marble Blast Ultra is why I gave Microsoft so much indie credit.
Well, that’s a bummer. When the Xbox 360 launched nearly eight years ago, games came in two flavors: a retail title that usually sold for $59.99 or was an Xbox Live Arcade title capped at 50MB in size. While it was originally just a download harbor for retro titles like Pac-Man or Galaga that didn’t require a full retail release, Microsoft eventually used the platform to woo indie developers who maybe didn’t have the resources to build a game, market it and ship it to retail. Eight years later, Microsoft’s old-fashioned, limited approach to downloadable games is getting a change with their new Xbox One console, but probably not for the better.
First Impressions: PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One – Who Fared Better?
Epic Console Battles In History!
Now that the stage is set, it’s time to rate the players. Three months ago, Sony spent 124 minutes showing off their new console, the PlayStation 4. Today, Microsoft spent half that time unveiling their third Xbox console, the Xbox One. So now that we’ve seen them both and still have an incredibly large amount of questions regarding them, how well do they fare?
Activision Reveals ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ For Xbox One, Includes Reveal Trailer
Does Activision care about gamers? They say so!
This morning we sat down and watched the Microsoft reveal for the new Xbox, which they’re calling Xbox One. We even took the opportunity to live-blog about it as the heads of a few different companies took the stage and made announcements about their upcoming titles.
While some of the stuff they talked about was interesting, for me, the most interesting part of the whole thing was when Activision talked about the new direction for the Call of Duty franchise.
How Will A Cable Box Work With An Xbox One?
Lots of ports! Photo credit, obviously, to Wired.
During Microsoft’s big Xbox One presser today, they unveiled a lot of TV functionality, perhaps too much TV functionality, but little about how it will work. With Wired’s new piece, we get pieces. Of course, I worked for a cable company, so everything will come together. Here’s some hints on how it works:
Next Xbox Unveiled: The FleshEatingZipper Live Blog To End Them All Starts At 930AM PST
Everything will make much more sense in a few hours!
It’s been nearly a decade since the last Xbox was unveiled in a sweeping rebrand and expansion of Microsoft’s dreams to own the living room. Join N (and whoever else shows up!) as he live blogs the Xbox event right here. The stream automatically updates itself, no need to refresh! The action starts at 930AM PST!
FleshEatingZipper Opens A Second Minecraft Shard Featuring “Feed The Beast”
Feed that beast…FEED IT NOW!!!
That’s right. We’ve been running a vanilla Minecraft server for quite some time, but we had some issues with it because Kelly didn’t update it (N, slap him please. (Done! -N (Ow! -Kels))), but we have the updates installed and it is accepting connections again. For a while, we’ve looked a number of mods and thought about the possibility of installing a mod or two, but there’s one in particular that we got a huge push for last night so we decided to go ahead and install it. So now, we’ve opened up a second Minecraft shard and we’re bringing people on.
Thunder Wolves (PC) Review: Death From Above
I found the game’s winch mechanic to be entirely underwhelming. I’m also kidding.
It’s been a while since we’ve had an arcade-style helicopter shooter, hasn’t it? Casting you as a variety of choppa’-flyin’, testosterone junkies in a story that spans from Iran-Contra and Gulf War I (although having little to do with either conflict), you blast your way through 13 levels of… well, bad dudes.
Denis Dyack’s Response Can’t Save ‘Shadow Of The Eternals’ Now
About half a year too late.
It looks like Precursor Games was made and doomed the moment they brought on Denis Dyack, the former head of troubled Canadian studio Silicon Knights. They may have enlisted his expertise, but they also inherited all of his unresolved allegations and misjudgments. Make no mistake, though: Denis is being put on-stage to clear the air not because he wanted to, otherwise he would’ve done it on a more timely basis, but because Precursor’s Shadow of the Eternals Kickstarter is doing terribly.
FEZ PLAY: Syndicate (Xbox 360) – Cyberpunk You Missed Out On
He’s not dead! I didn’t kill him yet!
Rob and N sit in for some cyberpunk-themed, Skrilex-powered action in Starbreeze’s Syndicate, the best game that no one played last year. When not ogling lens flares and dramatic bloom effects, Rob questions N’s love for Michael Wincott.
