Saturday, April 19, 2014

News::Tom Clancys Ghost Recon: Phantoms Review Ghosts and Phantoms Wait, What? | COG

Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Phantoms is Ubisofts first free to play Clancy game; however, its anything but free and in the end we are not sure the Ghost Recon faithful will stick around for this ride.



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News::New Titanfall Community Challenge Gets You Mad Catz Titanfall Headset.

Titanfall Community Challenge is getting real popular. The winner will go home with the Titanfall Swag Pack that includes a Mad Catz Titanfall Headset, a signed Titanfall Art Book and a complete set of Titanfall patches.



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News::Get Even Greenlit on Steam, Shares New Enemy Designs

The Farm 51s upcoming first-person shooter, Get Even, has successfully passed its Steam Greenlight campaign, meaning it will be sold on Valves digital storefront come full release. The developer revealed that it had received over 13,000 votes to get the title Greenlit within just a few days of the campaign being posted. New concept art showing the titles enemies was also debuted as way of thanks.



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News::Skyrim mod Skywind recreates Morrowind, will include revamped crafting and voice acting

Skywind, the pleasing portmanteau of Skyrim and Morrowind, continues to look really, really good. Remaking Morrowind in Skyrims engine is a mammoth task, and a new development video breaks down the many ways that a legion of volunteer modders, voice actors, and artists are bringing the Elder Scrolls classic into the modern age.



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News::Let's Play Amnesia: The Dark Descent Part 6 |

Part six of our extended playthrough of Frictional Games Amnesia: The Dark Descent has Kyle finally meeting his maker, kicking and screaming like a baby the whole time. Oh, he also solves some puzzles like a boss.



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News::Game Music Bundle 7 Lets You Rock Out to Seventeen Albums

For those who like to jam to video game soundtracks, Game Music Bundle 7 is serving up seventeen albums for your listening pleasure.



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News::10 Years Later: World of Warcraft

Pixel Critique's month-long look back at the 30 games that defined 2004, goes on a bit of an MMO run, and finds it difficult to come up with anything new to say about World of Warcraft.



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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Ninja Tongue-Twister: The Winners!

Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Ninja Tongue-Twister: The Winners!


Kotaku's Photo-Manipulation Brigade are the most magical of people. I give them an image of a creature with an enormous tongue, and not one of the entries in this week's contest was as inappropriate as I feared things might get. Well, except the one.


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News::Track: Leave It | Album: 90125 | Artist: Yes


Track: Leave It | Album: 90125 | Artist: Yes


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News::See why Mushroom 11 was one of my favorite games at PAX East


Alex Bruce, the man behind Antichamber , was at PAX East with no game to show off at all. He was simply there purely to help out other indies. I saw a lot of indies supporting other indies at PAX, as a matter of fact. In this particular case, I ran into Alex while he was playing Mushroom 11. We talked for a bit, and then he convinced me to take his spot and play what would become one of my favorite games of the show.


Holmes interviewed the Itay and Julia, the duo behind Mushroom 11 and detailed the concept behind the game. Players have to guide a blob through levels by essentially destroying it along the way. It's a quirky setup, and something I honestly haven't been able to stop thinking about since I got my hands-on with it.


Check out Darren's preview on Mushroom 11 for a more in-depth description on the game's mechanics.


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News::A Dad And His Kids Happily Play Video Games Together. They Have To.

A Dad And His Kids Happily Play Video Games Together. They Have To.


This is an image of a happy family; a father and his two adorable children bonding over a video game. It's a stock photo, of course. Their excitement is fake, their game controllers disconnected. It's cheap theater, but I have to believe that somewhere in the country a genuine version of this scene is playing out — I am tired of tales of domestic gaming tragedy.


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News::Moebius: Empire Rising Review | Hardcore Gamer

The game isnt just awkward and unpleasant, its an insult.



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News::Interview: Greg Kasavin Discusses New Ideas and a New World in Transistor

DualShockers speaks with Supergiant Games' Creative Director, Greg Kasavin, on what to expect from the studio's follow-up to indie giant Bastion with their new game, Transistor, at PAX East 2014.



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News::Max Gentlemen was inspired by a spam email for penis pills


Max Gentlemen was inspired by a spam email for penis pills. Yup, that's according to the developer Holmes interviewed at PAX in the video here. It was then created in a drinking game jam, and brought around to some shows like PAX East.


The point of the game is to stacks hats with one or two players, drink beer, and avoid the debris flying around the level from the crazy bar fight happening in the background. Simple, silly, but most of all, super fun.


Max Gentlemen will be out this month for free on iOS, Android, and Steam, and there will be special characters you can purchase to help support the developers.


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News::The Most Amazing Cosplay From Wondercon: Day One!

The Most Amazing Cosplay From Wondercon: Day One!


Every year, the Wondercon cosplayers keep astonishing us, both with their attention to detail and with their creativity. You keep thinking you've seen it all — and then you see what people have come up with this year, and it's a brand new delight all over again. Here's our favorite cosplay from Wondercon day one.


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News::What was your favorite Marty O'Donnell song?


As we learned this past week, Marty O'Donnell is no longer with Bungie after nearly two decades at the company. His music is iconic in this industry, and the Halo series owes a part of it's infamy thanks to what he did on that series without a doubt.


While I think Marty will find work again easily if he wants it (maybe go to 343 and make the Halo music good again?), I did want to take this moment to reflect on his career at Bungie. Specifically the Halo series as the music he created for it has been some of my favorite for any game franchise out there.


The one that left the biggest impact on me was the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack. From the haunting saxophones of "Overture," to the feelings of defying the odds with "Special Delivery," ODST's original score has been one of the handful gaming soundtracks to actually move me to tears. Proper credit to Michael Salvatori who worked on this album as well.


So what was your favorite song/album/piece that Marty O'Donnell worked on while at Bungie, or otherwise. Did you know he made the Flintstones vitamin song? That was a good one too. Man remember when the Flintstones were cool?


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News::Glitchspace Preview: A++ | Cubed Gamers

This game is shaping up to be something really cool, with a few tweaks. Well worth buying early.



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News::Someone's Compiling A List Of Every Video Game Ever Made

Someone's Compiling A List Of Every Video Game Ever Made


With help from a growing posse on 4chan, Pastebin user Data_Baser is attempting to compile a list of every video game ever released. Not just console games or PC games, but every mobile and browser-based game as well. The current count? 43,806.


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News::Setting Off the Kessler Effect in Habitat's Space Junkyard | Hardcore Gamer

Its the end of the world again, but this time weve got a bit of warning. Nanobots are eating the planet from the inside out but its going to take a while for that to happen, so the logical thing to do is to chuck every single thing we can get our hands on into space. Buildings, ships, trains, nuclear reactors, and lots and lots of rockets now clutter Earths orbit, for as long as theres an Earth remaining, and humanity needs to lash the bits together to construct a new home. Youve got a small group of space-suited engineers zipping about the 2D plane with the planet in the background showing no signs of the impending apocalypse going on in its core, retrieving as much space junk as possible and welding it into place to create a Frankensteins monster of a space station, balancing food, oxygen, and power for its growing population. And just to make life difficult, those jerks in the other habitats dont view you so much as fellow humans trying to survive as they do competitors s...



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News::Game Fails Recap for the Week of April 7th, 2014

Michael, Ray, and the best of the worst for the week of April 7th!



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News::Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 99 - Golden Hoe

The AH crew is back with the 99th episode of Minecraft! This week they play "Golden Hoe."



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News::Gamers Unite: You've Gone Mainstream

Here's an interesting infographic on just how popular video games and competitive gaming have become.



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News::Can We Build a Gaming PC on a Console Budget?

Gamespot: "There's no debating that a souped-up gaming PC will outperform an Xbox One or PlayStation 4 any day of the week, but it'll also cost you a lot more at checkout. However, what about a gaming PC that isn't top of the line, say, one that was built for $550? This is the question we put to the test: could we build a gaming PC from scratch that could provide a gameplay and visual experience on par with a next-gen console, for around the same price as a next-gen console? While the PlayStation 4 is substantially cheaper, we wanted to make this exercise as competitive as possible, and that meant allowing ourselves the luxury of a slightly higher budget. Our own Mark Walton and Peter Brown each built one machine; one based on Intel and Nvidia chipsets, and the other on AMD hardware."



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News::Hyper Light Drifter: A Pixel-Lover's Paradise | Hands-On Preview, Games Abyss

Andreas Asimakis writes, " From the simple graphics to its minimalist soundtrack (care of Fez's Disasterpeace), Hyper Light Drifter was one of the best experiences of PAX East 2014."



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News::Vertiginous Golf Preview | Geekenstein

"Exploratory narrative, golf and steampunk are not words you would ever think to associate with one another, yet Vertiginous Golf wants to merge all of those strange terms into one very strange game. The world is a dreary landscape of never-ending rain and, thankfully, there is an escape in the rich virtual landscape of the Vertiginousphere, where you and your friends can relax in a kingdom on the clouds, floating on an endless blue sky, and take part in a relaxing game of miniature golf, complete with robotic hummingbirds, wicked traps and trails, the ability to rewind bad shots, and a tiny rocket that sits atop your ball so you can adjust your shot." - David Rhinehart of Geekenstein



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News::The Elder Scrolls Online 1.0.4 already available

Despite the fact that The Elder Scrolls 1.0.3 already launched this week, ZeniMax are not sitting back relaxing and have released yet another patch before the Easter break. The Elder Scrolls Online has now moved to version 1.0.4 and has added some slight fixes and improvements, focusing specifically on bank expansions and issues with guild invite latency, as well as UI improvements.



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News::The Video Game Easter Eggstravaganza

Amber writes: "Its Easter time and that means plenty of chocolate being passed around and lots of happy children and fluffy bunnies, but what do video games and Easter have in common? Easter eggs of course, not the edible kind mind you. Easter eggs in games have been around for quite some time now, plenty of recent titles have paid homage to older games in the series or have poked jokingly at other games using these hidden away references, jokes and secret messages."



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News::Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche Getting Free Demo for Greenlight

Beast Games Avalanche endless climber game captivated players in 2007, which lead to the creation of the newly announced sequel, Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche. The game is currently available for pre-order, but Beast Games needs the help of gamers to officially get the game on Steam.



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News::Latest Nosgoth Screenshots showcase Vampire Deceiver, Dual Pistol-Wielding Prophet

Psyonixs free-to-play multiplayer combat game receives another update of media, with the latest onslaught of image showing off two of the most interesting characters revealed so far The Lost Seers of Avernus Prophet and the Deceiver.



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News::Top 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your HDTV

Top 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your HDTV


You spend a lot of time in front of your TV, but chances are you may not be using it to its full potential. It's not just about better picture, either—a good TV setup requires the right cables, a good remote, and a lot more. Here are 10 tweaks for creating the ultimate TV setup.


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News::Dumb Idiot Ideas: Voice pack mistakes





Max had his dumbest idea yet; handing the show over to me. What if more games had downloadable content voice packs the way they put Snoop Dogg into Call of Duty: Ghosts ?


What kind of celebrities would work for that kind of thing? The answers may surprise you.


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News::Working the Sneaky in Invisible Inc. | Hardcore Gamer

Invisible Inc is Klei Entertainment's new strategy game, and it's being released in the same fashion that worked so well for Don't Starve.



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News::PAX East 2014: GamerFitnations Best in Show

GF: GamerFitnation saw some impressive games at PAX East. Some stood out more than others, though. Check out GamerFitnations list of the Best in Show at PAX East, which highlights the best Xbox One game, the best PlayStation 4 game, the best PC game, the best mobile game and the most innovative game.



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News::E3 2014: 10 games we expect will make an appearance

With E3 2014 closing in fast I figured it would be a good idea to gather some info in preparation for the event. I was mostly interested in knowing what games will be presented at this years expo, whether they have been confirmed or just rumored. So after browsing the internets in search of E3 related announcements Ive decided to compile a list for you guys.



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News::A Journey Through Always Sometimes Monsters | Hardcore Gamer

Always Sometimes Monsters is a game about choices. Indeed, theres a yet-to-be-determined conclusion, a pretty run-of-the-mill control scheme, a theme involving heavy doses of uncomfortable romance, sacrifice, lifes more potent mundanity and a true sense of placement. While each new game features the same base narritive, theres an underlying lack of direction that reflects a reality rarely portrayed in video game form. Behind the pixelated visuals, the catchy tunes and the often hilarious dialogue, theres a harsh and bleak truth: choices, whether small or large, can change everything.



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News::Trial of Trails, the Free RPG You Bikeride Through

Take a look at Trial of Trails, the new RPG that you play entirely with a stationary bike hooked up to the game, actually traveling the game's distances for an interesting new way to work out.



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News::Assassin's Creed IV's Honest Game Trailer Strikes True


"After the huge letdown of AC III, prepare to redeem the franchise with the Pirates of the Caribbean game that Disney never made." Smoosh Games' latest Honest Game Trailer takes on the Assassin's Creed pirate spin-off that somehow wound up a numbered entry in the series.


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