OUYA Has Competition – GameStick Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Whoa, the console is in the controller!
We’ve talked about OUYA and how everyone thought it was vaporware. Just recently OUYA shipped developer consoles out with early early early UI and without a final version of the controller. After seeing GameStick, I am 100% convinced that neither of these are vaporware. GameStick looks to be a direct competitor of OUYA with cheaper cost and being more portable. Read the rest of this article…
In This Article, We Tour Our Minecraft Server. Come Along! [VIDEO]
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Kels dispatching a skelly.
We’ve talked about our Minecraft server before, but until now, haven’t had a video tour! We invite you to see the many sights and sounds of our wonderful Ravine City, TheBaldr’s castle, Orlmarine’s log cabin that we… kinda blew up, and more!
Coming Soon! The 10 Games I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On In 2013 And Beyond – Part 2
The other 5 titles I’d punch my own mother to get my hands on
A couple of days ago I banged out an article talking about depression and anxiety and getting all emo because the world is in a shambles and how the only cure for my fever is more video games. In that article I talked about 5 of the 10 titles which are coming out this year or in the near future that I absolutely must get my hands on and promised that I would finish up the rest of the list today so here it is.
Again, in no particular order:
Hackers And Cheaters And Glitchers, OH MY!
Not only is it wrong, it should get you kicked in the nuts, as well.
Since the dawn of PC gaming, people have worked endlessly to find new and innovative ways of cheating the system. From editing save files with hex editors to manipulating memory addresses to out-right changing the code of the software itself, people have been cheating their way to victory for decades. Since the dawn of multiplayer gaming, those same cheaters have been mucking things up for everyone. Invulnerability cheats, speed hacks, aimbots, shooting through walls, flying, teleporting, instant reloads and spell-casts, invisibility…these are just a few of the things that people have been doing to ruin the experience for everyone else.
In this article, we’re going to take a look at WHY people cheat, HOW people cheat and what the game developers are doing to try to stop people from cheating.
Activision Unveils New Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Title, Looks Like Budget Game
In Activision’s new Walking Dead game, zombies are now LEGO minifigs, complete with plastic heads.
Guys, I’m so sorry. I’ve been trying to make my way through Telltale’s award-winning The Walking Dead series and I’ve only completed the first episode. You’ve heard it’s great. I’ve heard it’s great. I want to tell you how great it is and that time will probably come soon. You know who else heard about how great Telltale’s adventure series is? Activision. As such, they pushed out a trailer for their Walking Dead game (based on the TV series, rather than the original comics) which appears to be premature and quite awful. I’ve included the new trailer below.
Coming Soon! The 10 Games I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On In 2013 And Beyond – Part 1
I’m not big on patience. I am big on raiding game developers’ offices to play their new titles, though.
I’m sitting here sipping on a nice cup of joe, after a really good meal and I started thinking about all of the things that we have to look forward to in the new year. Higher taxes, Obamacare, more chances to win the lottery, FEZ expanding, war, getting to see boobies, famine, gun control…Some of these things are good and some are bad. Some…well some just depress the hell out of me. So I sat here sighing into my coffee and I thought “man, I need to get myself out of the dumps” and started looking for something to cheer me up.
Then it hit me. The thing that never fails to make me happy is simple as pie…Video games.
Kickstarter Celebrates All Those Games You Funded With Kickstarter’s Help
The One Campaign To Rule Them All
You heard about a lot of gaming Kickstarter campaigns this past year. We wrote about a lot of them ourselves. So it makes sense that Kickstarter, as a relatively new company, would take a moment and thank you for using their platform to allow many new gaming projects to exist. From Double Fine’s definitive Kickstarter effort to Chris Roberts’ return to space simming, we’re happy that Kickstarter is around. So are they.
OUYA Ships Developer Consoles On Time
OUYA, user interface mockup
A few days ago, OUYA, sent an update to all the backers letting them know they sent off 1,200 developer consoles to developers around the world. They also released an unboxing video showing off the first run special developer consoles. They are translucent, rooted and ready to go straight from the box. They know there are bugs and the controller isn’t perfect, but this give developers a chance to find bugs and submit feedback before OUYA does a production run for the masses. Read the rest of this article…
Sony Discontinues PlayStation 2 In Japan, Era Begins its End
Still a hideous console.
Hard to believe, but March marks the thirteenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s release in Japan. It’ll also mark one of the last times that you’ll be able to purchase the console in its home country before the last shipment to retailers sells out. Americans flew to Japan to acquire one of these consoles at nearly $400 a pop (lots of dough in 2000!), long before the console’s October release in North America that year. It’s still one of the ugliest consoles I’ve ever seen and while I’m a bit of a hater, the PS2’s legacy involves a lot of popular games that defined a generation.
Tomb Raider, Now With Multiplayer For Better Or Worse
Imagine this, but with point totals in the corner.
Word has now leaked across the internet that the latest edition of Official Xbox Magazine will be revealing a whole new side to Tomb Raider: multiplayer. The once-solo adventure, already somewhat controversial in its tackling of mature topics, is now being fitted with a variety of multiplay modes developed by Eidos Montreal, developer of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This is either the best idea or the worst idea, but I have no doubt it came down to one thing: money.
