With Dead Island: Epidemic, another franchise threw its hat into the multiplayer online battle arena and let the public watch as the non-disclosure agreement lifted on its Closed Beta earlier this month. Courtesy of Austin Griffith, I was able to get into the closed beta and spend some time with Dead Island: Epidemic, cutely abbreviated DI:E, and loved my zombie-filled island getaway. The competitive multiplayer formula in Dead Island: Epidemic is addicting. Dead Island:...
Game Workshop’s Mordheim will get a video game adaption and I could not be happier. I am a Games Workshop fanboy. Even as I write this my living room table has three separate warhammer armies in different stages of completion. So when I read that another one of their tabletop games would get a video game adaptation, I peed my pants a little bit. You know, in excitement. Focus Home Interactive, the same company that published Blood Bowl, and Rogue Factor formally announced...
The 16-bit side-scrolling mech shooter GIGANTIC ARMY came out on Steam on March 6 and feels like the arcade games I played more than 15 years ago. I would rather this game stay in the past with the other arcade games from that part of my life. GIGANTIC ARMY takes less than a hour to beat in a single run, and you have to beat it in one go. In the arcade game style you have four lives, including the one you start with, to make it through the game’s six levels. Which...
The recently released draft of the Tax Reform Act of 2014 would deny a permanent and improved research and development tax credit to the makers of violent video games. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) released the Tax Reform Act of 2014 draft Feb. 26. The bill’s executive summary states that the tax reform act provides: “An improved, permanent [research and development] tax credit, finally giving American manufacturers the certainty they need to...
I remember watching my friend who introduced me to video gaming play the original Thief games, when I heard a new one would come out this year I could hardly wait. While my schedule has only permitted me the time to play a handful of hours of the game since its release February 25, I wanted to share my impression of Thief’s first few hours. When things go bad in Thief, the game shines. When a plan goes south, as mine often do, the game presents plenty of options. Between...
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