StarDrive is a massive 4x strategy game from Iceberg Interactive and the first game developed by Zer0 Sum Games. StarDrive introduces you into a gargantuan universe with eight playable races, an almost innumerable amount of galaxies and a depth and breadth of customization that is staggering. Coming into StarDrive I was almost completely lost with how to first proceed. Which leads me right into one of the biggest problems with StarDrive, the lack of a tutorial mode and...
Ok, when I first read about Beatbuddy it seemed neat, but nothing grabbed me. It’s an action-adventure game that syncs in-game animations with the music being played. Now to hear that Austin Wintory is a major contributor to the music definitely helps. But after watching the trailer below, I’m very interested. If this game is like an EDM version of “Under the Sea.” Color me happy. Which really isn’t a color, so that expression doesn’t even...
If you’ve played StarDrive you know it’s a massive game with almost non-existent tool tips or tutorials. There’s a tutorial “manual” and tutorial videos found underneath the help section, but who wants to spend time reading and watching those when you could be playing your game? So I’ve put together some of the basics I’ve gathered while playing. Everything from speeding up time to how to use subspace projectors and launching...
Maybe you’ve recently read (and if not go do so) Austin’s and Taryn’s posts about how video games or gaming related things got them through some tough times. Gears of War 3 helped Austin push through the pain of appendicitis and Podcast Beyond and the gaming community in general is helping Taryn to create a new life for herself. I’m here to add to that conversation. To get right to it, my parents divorced when I was younger, when I was about nine...
Spicy Horse, the creators of American McGee’s Alice series, announced recently that Alice: Otherlands has a Kickstarter project going. Many fans of the Alice series, like myself, got super excited for another Alice game only to have our hearts broken. The Alice Kickstarter is not for another Alice game. It’s a project that is raising money so that Spicy Horse can buy the American McGee’s Alice film rights. The idea is to show EA that there is interest in...
With all of the news circulating about the retract of DRM from the Xbox One. Cliffy B has added his thoughts, as he usually does. He warns gamers that while they hated DRM, many of the evils DRM was trying to keep away will come back and with force. Brace yourselves. More tacked on multiplayer and DLC are coming. — Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) June 19, 2013 You’re also about to see available microtransactions skyrocket. HATS FOR EVERYONE. — Cliff Bleszinski...
Self publishing. We’ve seen what it has done for store fronts like the iOS app store and Steam. There’s been recent announcements that the PS4 is going to allow self publishing. Microsoft has opted to stay with their old strategy of an indie game needing to be published by Microsoft Studios or a third-party. That is the only way a game can make it onto XBLA. I can see the plus and minuses for both sides, really. We’ve all gone to the app store on an iOS...
Seriously y’all we saw some awesome announcements yesterday from EA, Sony, Microsoft and Ubisoft. We saw great trailers from games we already knew were coming, we saw gameplay from games just announced. Some of the press conferences were great others were really… not so great. Ubisoft was one of those bad conferences, straight up. Aisha Tyler is great in Friends, bad in E3 press conferences. When your press conference is known for being awkward, #girlwood, maybe...
“From Underwater shipwrecks to Mayan Temples, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag is the most ambitious open world game ever.” This is what we heard at the Ubisoft press conference. Sometimes I love Assassin’s Creed games and sometimes they are just okay. Either way I’m always excited for another one. We didn’t learn anything new from the AC part of the Ubisoft press conference. They showed a new dope trailer (which will be up as soon as...
“Steal from your neighbor and protect your loot.” Ubisoft announced at it’s E3 press conference Free-to-Play loot game (obviously) where the objective is to bust into your homies castle steal their loot and bring it back to your castle. Once there you’re able to guard your treasure with a number of traps and other horrible things to make sure your greedy ass keeps all you steal (where are your morals?) It’s in beta now, go check it out.
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