Today Nintendo hosted a Nintendo Direct that was all about Super Smash Brothers Wii U and 3DS. Everyone was expecting to see new characters announced but none seemingly were. Then, in typical Nintendo tomfoolery, the screen faded up and hundreds of Pokemon rained from the sky like meteorites. Charizard faced against the sky and was confirmed with a “Charizard Fires It Up!” He ascended to the sky and came crashing down inches from Mario. During the fight a shadow...
When the original Hotline Miami was released it snuck right past me. The talk of egregious violence surrounding the game pushed me further away from it still. Through a Humble Bundle it ended up in my Steam library and got itself a pensive click. I immediately understood the error of my ways and proceeded to fall deep into a psychedelic killing haze. Bragging time: I actually Platinumed the game on Vita. With the ferocious love I hold for Hotline Miami, it is safe to assume...
The past couple years have been slick with irony. Everywhere you look people are doing things they do not really enjoy for indecipherable reasons. Over time this has slowly evolved into an unironic appreciation of the ironic; this may or may not itself be ironic. In more succinct terms, the irony has backfired and made me personally, enjoy what are objectively the dumbest things. That is why, when I received an email informing me of the existence of a game called Broforce I...
It appears as if gamers are still not ready to go fully digital. While many welcome the idea, there seems to be something keeping many from going the full digital route. From a report through the NPD, it seems that gamers, even when preferring digital, still buy a physical copy of a game. Gamers that prefer digital games over physical, still play far more physical copies of games over digital. Also, the increase from players that prefer digital, to actually playing more...
In a post on EA.com, Steve Papoutsis announced that Amy Hennig has now joined Visceral Games, makers of the Dead Space franchise. As Steve said in the post, she’s most likely working on a new Star Wars game; “Over the last few weeks, Amy and I have spent a lot of time talking about what her first project would be. There are a lot of different directions we could have gone, but I could sense that what really excited her about this opportunity (because let’s...
EA Sports UFC should be coming out soon (no release date yet, just Spring 2014) and I’m pretty excited to check it out in person. Just from what we’ve seen so far, it looks at if EA’s Ignite engine will raise the bar for the franchise. It boasts a new locomotion system, full body deformation, obvious real-time damage and what seems most interesting to me, exertion. In many of the UFC games passed, your fighter would get tired from too much action and...
Today at the United Kingdom based gaming expo EGX Rezzed, Creative Assembly announced the release date for the upcoming Alien: Isolation. Prepare to soil yourself with fear on October 7th on PS4 and Xbox One as well as on PC and last-gen consoles. October has historically been a good time to release a horror game, what with Halloween right around the corner. As reported earlier, Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game that acts as a direct sequel to the...
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...
Xbox 360 players will now will now have the ability to stream tournaments from MLG. Sundance DiGiovanni, co-founder and CEO of MLG, recently sat down and talked with the staff over at Xbox Wire to talk about the new MLG.tv app coming to the Xbox 360. The app will be available this week through Xbox Live. When asked by Xbox Wire about what the fans can look forward to seeing on the app, DiGiovanni answered, “We will also be rolling out new content regularly. The app...
We’re finally getting a look into which games and developers will be coming to the Xbox One because of ID@Xbox. As of right now over 250 developers are taking part in ID@Xbox, receiving Xbox One dev kits in order to produce games for the console. “Our goal has always been to make Xbox One the best place to play games, and that means having a diverse portfolio for gamers to choose from,” said Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios. “We’ve...
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