Sunday, May 5, 2013

News::New Game Perspective: Dragons Dogma

Tracy Benson from ITF Gaming writes: To start off with, I hadnt previously tried Dragons Dogma. Ive heard good things about it, and Ive heard bad things about it, but generally I didnt have a strong impression of it. So for this introduction to the title, I went in with a relatively open mind. It was a learning experience to say the least.



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News::Indiegamer #38

This week: Gods Will Be Watching, Stonehearth and Tower of Guns.



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News::The Case For PC Part 1: Your Console is a Camry (TruePCGaming)

Sean Freeark of TPG writes: "Your console is a Camry. It is an entry level gaming device designed to fulfill your basic gaming needs, just like a Camry is designed to fulfill basic transportation needs. This is in no way a criticism of either machine (full disclosure: one of us drives a Camry). The Camry is the highest selling car year-after-year, and consoles, until recently (in anticipation of the next generation of devices), continued to fly off the shelves. Why? Because both are exactly what millions of consumers are looking for a solid, dependable product at a very reasonable and affordable price."



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News::Kleis Kevin Forbes talks introducing new players to Dont Starve

Edge:Klei Entertainment, most well-known for the Shank series and Mark of the Ninja, released their newest game Dont Starve last week. We sat down to talk to designer Kevin Forbes about how they approached permadeath, taking away players work, and how to introduce new players to such a harsh environment.



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News::Top 5 Most Overrated Games This Generation

Games come and go, and theyre usually remembered for the good (and not so good) qualities they offer. As such, sometimes games are remembered for being too good, with gamers forgetting all the negative aspects of them. This is a list of the 5 most overrated titles from this gen, and why gamers might be forgetting the flaws in the first place. In the end, these are good games, but maybe not as good as theyre made out to be.



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News::MMOGames: Defiance Review

Volunteer Writer Chris Wray braves the wasteland to discover just what makes Trion Worlds new MMOFPS tick. Will he like what he finds? Find out in his Defiance review.



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News::League Of Legends And ESports Thrive In China, Alongside Online And Mobile Games

Riot Games is holding a huge tournament in Shanghai this month. Last fall, Blizzard Entertainment used that same Chinese city to stage the Battle.net World Championship (BWC). Theres a reason eSports events are happening in China, its one of the biggest potential growth markets for not only pro gaming, but for online and mobile games, as well. In the new Chinas PC Online Games Market Report from Niko Partners, the research firm forecasts that the Chinese online games market will reach $11.9 billion this year. Over the next five years the market will add more than $2 billion in revenue per year, and that growth is actually a slowdown for China.



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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Rasta Banana

News::Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon 1st Mission Commentary

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a stand-alone expansion of Far Cry 3, developed by Ubisoft Montreal. The game takes place on a retro-futuristic open world island crawling with evil, with players assuming the action role of eye-patched cyborg protagonist Sergeant Rex Power Colt. In this video we take a look at the games first mission and see whats changed with this new Far Cry title for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.



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News::Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon VHS Tapes Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "All Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon VHS Tapes Locations to retrieve all these tapes and unlock Greatest Format Of All Time achievement or trophy".



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News::Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Dr. Carlye's Notes Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "Carlyle's Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Notes locations to retrieve all the notes and unlock What Are You Reading For? achievement or trophy".



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News::Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon TV Sets Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon TV Sets Locations to find all TV Sets and unlock Drug of the Nation achievement or trophy".



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News::Star Trek (2013) Audio Logs Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "Where to find all the Star Trek: The Video Game Audio Logs to unlock The Whole Story achievement or trophy".



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News::Star Trek (2013) Research Items Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "Find out where you can find all Star Trek: The Video Game Research Items collectibles".



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News::Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall DLC Review | GameFront

GameFront: "Revisiting Dishonored as its resident super-assassin offers new challenges, but this half of the two-part DLC lacks narrative drive."



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News::GameZebo: My Geek Farm Review

GameZebo: Todays video games tell their stories with photorealistic graphics, fully orchestrated soundtracks, and crews of professional voice actors. Is there still a place for the genre that started it allthe humble text adventure? Absolutely. There will always be that niche of game fans that enjoy imagining their own visuals and voice-overs. My Geek Farm is a text-based game that strives to attract that niche, but it works better as a ten-minute joke than as a full experience.



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News::Batman By Way Of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction And Prince of Persia

Game Informer - To end our month of coverage on Batman Arkham Origins, we wanted to look back at the games that defined the lead developers of the new game. Creative director Eric Holmes has previously worked on the great Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Prototype, while senior producer Ben Mattes has spent years immersed in the world of Prince of Persia with Ubisoft. Watch the video below to hear their current thoughts on their previous work and how the older titles influenced the development of Batman: Arkham Origins.



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News::Mass Effect fan art: The best images we've seen

GamesRadar - I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite gallery.



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News::Google brings on videogame vet as chief game designer

TechCrunch caught wind of Google's recent move to bring on Noah Falstein as their newly appointed chief game designer. Who is Noah, you ask? He's been in the industry since the 1980s and in that time he's worked at Williams Electronics on Sinistar, LucasArts on a number of projects, the 3DO company, and much more.


While Google welcomes and supports games on their Android platforms, the company themselves aren't known for developing games. Granted Google did just release that real-time augmented reality MMO called Ingress . And sometimes they do those special Google logos that are playable but that probably doesn't really count.


So what does this move mean? No one really knows, but Google I/O is happening in San Francisco on May 15 so maybe we'll be hearing more about what all this means very soon.


Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game Designer [TechCrunch]


s Google Getting Serious About Gaming? Noah Falstein Hired As Chief Game Designer

Google brings on videogame vet as chief game designer screenshot






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News::This Blood Dragon Map Is All That Matters

IGN - Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon many secrets are being documented by the community. Jooiiin uuuussss.



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News::Dead Island Riptide Champion Zombies Locations Guide

SegmentNext - "Where to find All Named Champion Zombies in Dead Island Riptide to unlock the achievement or trophy".



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News::Out This Week: New Releases(5th - 11th May)

Not a very good week for gamers if you're looking at pure numbers. But the quality is definitely there. We take a look at the (very small) number of games coming Out This Week.



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News::Dead Island: Riptide Review |CheatMasters|

avoiderdragon (CheatMasters): When the first Dead Island came out in late 2011, it was quite a sleeper hit. The zombie genre was starting to get pretty tired out, but the quality that came out with this game was refreshing. This was at a time when the survival horror genre really needed a substantial pick-me-up, and Dead Island delivered quite well in this. Over a year and a half later since the first games release, we have another title to move the series to the next level.



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News::Zero Suit Samus figure making a comeback as well

Last night we told you that the Max Factory figma Link and figma Samus figures are getting reprinted. The good news keeps on rolling on through as the Zero Suit Samus figure based on Metroid: Other M is also coming back!


The re-release will run for $99.99, comes with Samus and a little Metroid, and should be out towards the end of the year. I can't decide whether I want the Zero Suit version or the armored equipped version of Samus. Then again, the other one is only going for $49.99.


Decisions! Tomopop reviewed Zero Suit Samus if you're interested in how the actual product looks like.


Max Factory's Zero Suit Samus may be back, too [Tomopop]


Zero Suit Samus figure making a comeback as well screenshot


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News::Forbes - iBuyPower Revolt Gaming PC Review: Don't Judge This Rig By Its Cover

Forbes - Like Falcon Northwest, Digital Storm, and Alienware, iBuyPower recently entered the small form factor gaming PC arena with a case created completely in-house. The Revolt packs impressive hardware into its frame, and its price adequately reflects its intended demographic the entry-level PC gamer desiring a hassle-free performer out of the box.



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News::RadarPlays - Receiver

GamesRadar - So there's this game where you use a gun to shoot robots, except the gun is really realistic. Like, you need to take the clip out to reload it, and you need to check the safety, and it's weird. It's called Receiver and we played it. Watch and see how weird first-person shooters would be if they were realistic.



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News::Soundtrack Spotlight - Star Wars: Republic Commando

OnlySP: You didnt think wed forgotten about May the 4th be with you, did you? In celebration of a non-official holiday, although it sure feels like it is on Twitter, we bring you a game that we hold near and dear in our hearts, Star Wars: Republic Commando.



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News::The threat of infection in Resident Evil Revelations


Capcom's latest look at Resident Evil Revelations features a few of the developers behind the project as they detail what inspired them to create the new monsters. Basically, the ideas came from real viruses and how dangerous they can be if left unchecked.


The last half of the video also focuses on how the team used visuals and sound to "create an effective horror atmosphere" in order to get their game to stand out from the pack.


Resident Evil Revelations is out on May 21 in North America and May 24 in Europe for the PC, Wii U, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.


The threat of infection in Resident Evil Revelations screenshot






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News::Leviathan: Warships (PC), Review | Den of Geek US

Leviathan: Warships seeks to capture the turn-based strategy of traditional naval-focused gameplay, but brings with it just enough action to keep those waterlogged conflicts at a constant head. The game comes from Pieces Interactive, whose past claims to fame include a few spin-off titles of Paradox Interactives Magicka series, such as Magicka: Dungeons and Daemons and Magicka: Other Side of the Coin. So how does the modest naval warfare strategy game hold its own at sea after Den of Geek had a chance to deck out our warships with the most devastating arsenal and sink some battleships?



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News::Papers, Please Preview | GameGrin

The year is 1982 and the isolated communist nation of Arstotzka is finally allowing visitors following a long war with neighbouring Kolechia. Obviously, they won't just be letting anyone into the country; this is where you come in. Welcome to the glamourous world of border control. Glory to Arstotzka!



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News::Left 4 Dead 2 Beta Comes to Linux

The Valve team today announced that users of the Linux operating system will now be able to test a native version of Left 4 Dead 2.



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News::Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review (Galactic Gaming News)

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is an over the top homage to every piece of 80's pop culture. Is this game worth the price of admission? Read GGN's review to find out! **Hairspray and tight leather pants not required**



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News::Forbes - 'Star Trek' Review

Forbes - The new Star Trek game is a perfect adaptation of J.J. Abrams version of the franchise fun, fast, straightforward and shallow.



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News::4 Most Unlikable Video Game Characters From This Gen

GP writer Jared discusses four of the most unlikable characters from video game this generation.



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News::Weekend Gaming Hardware Sales - Laptop, 650 TiB, 7850, 3TB HDD

GamersNexus: "Welcome to another edition of Mik's Picks, where I scour the interwebs for hardware deals and report back with my findings. I've found some fantastic deals out there for anyone looking to build or upgrade gaming PCs; this week, we found hardware sales on a monitor, PSU, HDD, and a couple of GPUs."



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News::Battlefield 4 beta access details clarified

News has already been been handed down that gamers with a Battlefield 3 premium membership will be getting access to the Battlefield 4 beta. This has left fans now inquiring about how to get their beta code. The developer today reassured players that Battlefield 3 premium members will indeed be sent a beta code for Battlefield 4 once the beta has actually begun. They went on to state the following, "You won't be receiving a code or beta access until the beta has been released! Don't worry, you won't be left out!"



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News::The Making Of: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back


There’s only one way to start this story. A long time ago, in a videogame universe far, far away, there was a videogame console called the Atari VCS. Upon its release, thirdparty licensing deals did not exist, meaning that there was just one company that initially programmed games for Atari’s console: Atari.


It was a monopoly that couldn’t last. First came breakaway group Activision. Then Parker Brothers, the creator of Monopoly – as well as Cluedo and Risk – threw its hat into the ring too. The story of how the venerable toy company beat Atari at its own game and created the first ever Star Wars outing is a tale of pluck, courage and what a small band of rebels can do when they sneak in under the radar.


“Parker Brothers was just a typical Yankee board game manufacturer,” remembers The Empire Strikes Back’s programmer, Rex Bradford, who joined the company in the summer of 1981. “Making videogames was a new kind of thing for them.” Originally hired to work on Parker Brothers’ lucrative handheld electronic toys – a booming business after the company’s smash-hit Merlin in 1978 – the young University of Massachusetts graduate quickly learned that his new bosses had their eyes on the VCS market.


“It was like David and Goliath,” says Bill Bracy, then marketing manager at Parker Brothers. “Atari was a behemoth in the industry and totally controlled an enormous volume. But they were vulnerable in the software aspect because, unlike Nintendo, they hadn’t been able to secure a monopoly on the hardware and software.” Making a leap from what Bracy calls its history of “tortured cardboard”, Parker Brothers agreed with Lucasfilm to license games based on Star Wars across all platforms.


Unwilling to tie itself to only licensing games for Atari’s console, Lucasfilm took the bait and Parker Brothers quickly set up its videogame development team, a secret ‘skunk works’ group comprised of Bradford, Bracy, programmer Mark Lesser, designer Sam Kjellman and project manager Richard Stearns, taking up residence on the top floor of the company’s corporate headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts.



While the goings-on at Atari’s Sunnyvale offices have become the stuff of videogame legend, Parker Brothers was a rather more puritan environment. No hot-tub parties or dope-smoking sessions here, just lots of hard graft. The first assignment was to reverse-engineer the Atari VCS hardware from scratch. Photos were taken of the interior of the graphics chip, circuit diagrams were traced and Bradford wrote a disassembler program that could take existing cartridges and lay bare their code. With so much R&D going on, it’s no wonder that there was little time for Atari-style R&R.


“It was a bit like being shot out of a cannon,” remembers Bradford. “I was fairly fresh out of school, I’d seen Star Wars ten times and I was something of a hotshot programmer back then. But I’d never programmed in assembly language before, so I definitely learned on the job.” By November, Bradford and designer Sam Kjellman were ready to start work on their first game: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.


In 1981, the concept of making a game out of a movie was still a fresh one. The only touchstone was John Dunn’s Superman, released on Atari’s VCS in 1979 after precocious marketing suits at media giant Warner Communications (distributor of the Superman movie and owner of both DC Comics and Atari) dreamt up the first cross-platform tie-in.


While Superman owed little to the movie except its spandex hero, The Empire Strikes Back was the first home console game to capture some of the drama of the film on which it was based. Opening with a beepy burst of John Williams’ distinctive theme, it was groundbreaking stuff. Bradford is characteristically modest about the achievement, however: “In general, the Atari [VCS] was so limited that we weren’t so grandiose to say: ‘Oh, we’re going to recreate the experience of the movie here’. It was clearly going to be a limited experience, something that at best would remind you of the movie, evoke a little bit of the emotion and most importantly be a fun game to play.”



Still, the Star Wars films seemed to be perfect for game adaptation. “Within each one of those movies there were four or five scenes that clearly lent themselves to videogames,” says Bracy. After a marketing brainstorming session, it was decided that Empire would concentrate on one, iconic scene from the film. The first choice was the battle of Hoth, where the rebel forces fight a desperate rearguard action against the advancing Stormtroopers and their towering AT-AT walkers. Putting the player in control of a Snowspeeder, the game proves an impossible battle for survival: your tiny craft is dwarfed by lumbering, seemingly invincible giants that can take 48 hits to destroy. Like so many early videogames, it’s less about winning or completion than simply how long you can stay alive.


With just 4K of ROM, fidelity to Lucas’s storytelling was always going to involve a certain amount of compromise. “The marketing people were really excited about the idea of roping the walkers’ legs to bring them down,” laughs Bradford, recalling one of the film’s best-known moments. “I never took it seriously because we just couldn’t figure a way to do it on the console.” Instead, the game offers players a different set of tactics.


Each of your five ships is allowed two repair landings on the jagged terrain; and, if you stay alive for a whole two minutes, your pilot is made briefly invulnerable thanks to The Force. Other strategies involve waiting for what Bradford calls a random “sweet spot” – a bomb hatch – to appear on each AT-AT’s body, offering the chance for a one-shot kill. Another technique involves slowing down the advancing procession by damaging (but not destroying) the first and last AT-ATs, buying a little time before

the inevitable flashing screen heralds the end of the rebels’ efforts.


Empire’s real pleasure, though, lay in its sense of speed. The velocity and smooth maneuverability of the Snowspeeder was instantly appealing but tough on peripherals. “The running joke around the office,” says Bradford, “was that we were being paid by the joystick manufacturers because it was so hard on the controllers and people’s thumbs.”



With playtesting complete, there was just one final hurdle: Lucasfilm’s seal of approval. Despite adopting a hands-off approach during development, the company had a contractual right to veto the game before it shipped if it wasn’t happy with it. So, in spring 1982, Bradford took a flight to San Francisco to showcase his work.


Even in those days the Star Wars franchise cast a long shadow, especially if you were a programmer, gamer or geek. George Lucas himself wasn’t in attendance at the meeting, but Bradford remembers nervously showing his game to Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, two of the founders of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division. “These were the pioneers of computer graphics in the Star Wars movie,” he says, still slightly over-awed at the thought even today. “I was a bit embarrassed showing them this little blocky Snowspeeder flying around!”


With Lucasfilm’s blessing secured, the game was released to a public ravenous for anything Luke Skywalker-related. Its success, with over a million copies sold and a later Intellivision port, told its own story, and Parker Brothers would go on to make three further Star Wars games: Jedi Arena, Death Star Battle and Star Wars: The Arcade Game (a planned Ewok Adventure title was unreleased).


For Lucasfilm, then just prepping its own in-house gaming division, Empire’s sales were proof that it was heading in the right direction, marking the emergence of a new empire and an army of clones. Yet it was also something else, perhaps even more influential than that. No one called it ‘convergence’ back in 1982 but that’s what Empire was, the first date in the on/off love affair between games and movies that’s still being played out today.


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News::Dead Island: Riptide Review | GameFront

GameFront: "Bringing some improvements and a (slightly) new setting, Dead Island: Riptide improves on its predecessor, but is mired in all the same mistakes and boredom, too."



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News::LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles Now Available

The LEGO Group and 4T2 Games have today launched LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, a brand new PC and mobile videogame available for free. Players will build, create and control their favourite characters and vehicles as they smash the enemy, solve puzzles and complete challenges within the LEGO Star Wars universe.



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News::Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn "Phase 2" Review | Metal Arcade

Metal Arcade: Nate Gray writes: If the tests are any indication, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn may surprise you. Final Fantasy 14 has made significant strides towards redemption since its initial launch. For some, the changes have improved their experience. For othersnot so much. I say this because, to an almost unparalleled extent, the game's relaunch as Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn has become a hugely polarizing issue both in and outside of its community and fan-base, one Ive touched on in a past article already. I would, however, recommend that the game is given a chance. Whether youve played Final Fantasy 14 before or not, give it a go come launch. If the tests are any indication, the game may surprise you.



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News::Video Games Can Help Cancer Patients

A specialist game has helped cancer patients deal with their condition according to recent studies!



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News::Resident Evil Revelations - Case File #3: Infect

New video Case File #3 of Resident Evil Revelations confirms the existence and potential threat of the T-Abyss virus.



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News::RealGamerNewz Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Review

When we first got a glimpse of this title I thought it was a Aprils Fools joke. Seems like I was the fool instead. The super 80s supported video game based off the award winning Far Cry 3 which will soon receive a review from us. Even though this game has nothing to with Far Cry 3 it is a amazing title so who is ready for some Blood Dragon?



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News::Dead Island: Riptide Review: Same bloody vacation [TheBitBag]

Dead Island Riptide is the somewhat sequel to 2011s Dead Island, the one with the epic trailer that got everyone so hyped up. Majority of earths population wants this game; who doesnt want a first-person open-world action RPG with zombies in it?



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News::Yukes is making Pacific Rim game

Yuke's, developer of the annual WWE titles, is working on a video game based on the Pacific Rim film.



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News::How League Of Legends Has Perfected The Free-To-Play Model

Riot games came out with League of Legends back in 2009 when it was just giving players the bare basics of where the game is now. Over its lifetime it has gained over five million active players worldwide as well as opening up its roster from the forty staple champions to the now jam packed one hundred and twelve champions. The game has grown a lot over the years but one thing has always come into my mind, has LoL perfected the free to play model? The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't think of a game that does it better. So here are my personal thoughts behind how Riot Games has perfected the Free To Play model in their game.



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News::You'll never look at a N64 controller the same way again


The Internet does things to things that makes you think weird things about your favorite things.


(Via Gugogif's Tumblr)


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News::Gamer Gossip: Call of Duty Ghosts, GTA V Controversy, and more!

Ooo! Gossip is so juicy when its regarding a popular franchise! This week, The Koalition featured an editorial that highlighted Rockstars decision to exclude a female character in GTA V. With all the controversy on this topic, youd think this would be a bigger issue. Also in this video, check out Electro Jades view on Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the top new releases of this week. Game on! - Electro Jade



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News::GameZebo: The Raven Preview

GameZebo: From the creators of The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief is a thrilling point-and-click adventure thats full of spectacular burglaries and a dual storyline with plenty of twists and turns along the way. The conniving and devious art stealer simply known as The Raven has managed to evade the authorities for years (plus, hes really into wearing these creepy bird masks). Will you be the one who is finally able to catch the thief and bring him to justice?



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News::"Spiritual Successor" to Eternal Darkness Announced

The creators of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem are launching a crowdfunding campaign for a spiritual successor, Shadow of the Eternals.



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