Star Trek: Rivals (iOS) Review: Card Game, Meet ‘Star Trek’
Deceptively easy to learn and deceptively easy to master. With your wallet.
I don’t know about you guys, but after reminding myself to back the HEX Collectible Card Game, I’ve been kinda dying for a card game to get into. I’ve never played one before – no, I couldn’t even fall in with the Magic: The Gathering nerds in high school – and I feel I’m overdue. With Star Trek on my mind, it makes sense that this new Star Trek: Rivals CCG would be a good, first stab for me. While it won’t win me over in the mid- to long-term, it’s a decent enough distraction, even when it sails into MOMCOT territory.
Holy Prize Money! ‘DOTA 2’ Tournament Promises Largest Payout EVER
DOTA = Draining Out The Accounts?
So… there’s going to be an international DOTA 2 tournament, right? And we know that DOTA 2 is pretty popular right? Well, apparently it is because the prize money that’s being offered up for this tournament is in the kind of quantity that nearly made me soil my boxer-briefs when I read about it.
We’re talking, like, multinational corporate CEO kinda cash. Yep, it’s like that.
‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Could Learn A Lot More From ‘Chinatown Wars’ Than ‘IV’
A Huang In Trouble.
With just over four months to go before its blockbuster, records-breaking release, I obviously don’t have any sway over Grand Theft Auto V‘s design. Only showed to a small batch of reporters, the word coming out of Rockstar’s gameplay unveiling a few weeks back is promising, but I need more. The Grand Theft Auto games for home consoles have become increasingly impressive on a technical basis, but they’ve always left a lot of the fun out of the equation in favor of more grating realism. Somehow I dream that GTAV adheres more to the lightweight design of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the oft-forgotten and most enjoyable game of the series, rather than the intense drama of its immediate predecessor that also ruined Max Payne 3.
Nintendo’s Secret War Against YouTubers Will Cost Gamers Considerably
With Nintendo submitting Content ID requests, it’s only a matter of time before no one does Nintendo videos.
Sometimes, there’s nothing more enjoyable than a Let’s Play video. They’re not always called Let’s Play, they’re Quick Looks, they’re our very own FEZ PLAYs, they’re whatever you like. If broadcast sports or Mystery Science Theater 3000 have taught us anything, it’s that almost any form of entertainment is enhanced by color commentary. A few years ago, a bill was introduced into US Senate that would impose penalties on those who streamed copywritten material, which was construed as a government attempt to ban Let’s Play videos. While the bill’s creators have said that wasn’t the aim, it appears that Nintendo would have no issue with a variant of it as they’ve now sent out Content ID notices to Let’s Play producers like Zack Scott who rely on YouTube ad revenue to, well, live.
‘Anomaly’ 2 (PC) Review: Enjoy Your Escort Mission, Sir
Okay, for starters, I wasn’t terribly drawn into the first Anomaly. (You can read N’s FleshEatingZipper review here.) That’s really neither here nor there, but I want to put into perspective my relationship with this game, or rather series of games, since that game now has a sequel. Tower Offense games are a strange breed, as the twist is you’re the one sending the units to attack the towers, rather than building the towers themselves.Strangely, this boils down to being a series of escort missions. Is this a bad thing?
FEZ PLAY: Grand Theft Auto 4 (Xbox 360) – Just As (Not) Fun As I Remember
Making the game a simulation is its biggest victory and greatest crime.
Everyone welcome Rob to his first FEZ PLAY! With the rash of Grand Theft Auto V coverage lately, we’re going back to Liberty City in a game I never came close to finishing, but it stole my heart for nearly 40 hours, anyway. Watch as N misses turns, deals with inertia and momentum (physics!) and can’t seem to get Little Jacob to climb stairs.
Electronic Arts Kills Project Ten Dollar, A Sign Of Better Times
“OMGZ, TEH USED GAEMS.” – Former CEO John Riccitello
Battling the sale of used games is a conflict the publishers would rather be over. In 2010, EA introduced the “Online Pass”, which was required to access multiplayer functions. Once activated, the code is obviously useless, so if the game were ever traded in, the next person would have to instead purchase an online option to get the functionality back.
Well, EA killed it. It’s dead now.
Metro: Last Light (PC) Review. A Very Expensive Game.
Arterial spray is always good!
Metro: Last Light is the sequel to Metro 2033 and a title we got to have a look at last year at E3. We got our hands on a review copy of the game about a week ago and we’ve a chance to spend quite a bit of time with it on multiple platforms, specifically Xbox 360 and PC. N and Kelly have already started a playthrough of the game in the 360 and did a FEZ PLAY video for it. Meanwhile I was working on the PC review and now it’s time to tell you how this one stacks up.
‘Gran Turismo 6’ Will Be The PS3’s Last Hurrah, Debuts In November
It’s a game about cars.
A mere six month heads up about the release of a new Gran Turismo game seems like a kind of short-change compared to the series’ norm. Usually, that kind of notice is sent out when developer Polyphony Digital is about to release their Gran Turismo Prologue, which is usually an extended demo. Nah, not this time.
FEZ PLAY: Forza Horizon (Xbox 360) – It’s 2012’s Best Racing Game For A Reason
Woke up in a new Bugatti!
N and Kels sit down and tour the Colorado back country and play with glow sticks and race, race, race! Be warned: N is going to try and (poorly) paint some boobs on a Golf GTI just after racing a Bugatti Veyron up the game’s interstate at rocketing speeds!
