National Geographic has partnered with Microsoft to create Kinect Nat Geo TV, combining National Geographic’s Wild TV with Kinect sensors. Viewers will get to experience the action of an episode by exploring and learning more about the plants, creatures, and places featured. I believe the closest I got to this kind of gaming experience when I was younger was Amazon Trail and The Oregon Trail. In o...
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Snail Games announced that they are launching an additional closed beta for Age of Wushu on December 20th. “During the first Closed Beta, our company was flooded with requests from players around the globe. Each user was desperate to play Age of Wushu and join the adventure,” said Dick Roberts, EVP of Marketing for Snail Games. “With this trial option, we have found a way to let ...
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Just when you think we’ve reached critical mass on the zombie fad, we find even more zombies. The Nuketown Zombies Bonus Map is now available, and Activision is so excited about the zombie-filled action it promises that they’ve dedicated an entire trailer to it. If you purchased the season pass for Black Ops 2, you now have access to the map, so congratulations. In order to have access to this map...
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Rita Ora is now a character in The Sims and will be available for download in The Sims 3 Seasons. I didn’t know who this person was, but thankfully Google saved me once again from looking like the old and out of touch person I am. Apparently she’s a singer from the UK. I don’t know a lot about music from the UK. From what I understand, everyone there loves Radiohead and Coldplay and is commanded b...
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Wargaming, the folks behind World of Tanks, have created an update that is already live in Europe and will be released in the US on December 13th. The update involves tanks, specifically new tanks. There are already over 200 tanks in World of Tanks, but in the eyes of the developer and the fans of the game, you can never have too many tanks. There are five new US vehicles which feature autoloaders...
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R2Games just released Broken Realm: A Crystal Saga Chronicle, a 2.5D medieval fantasy MMORPG. There’s a struggle over who will run the kingdom after the queen is assassinated. Her nephew had the strongest claim to the throne, but there are constant battles and skirmishes as rival relatives try to claim power. There are also quite a few classes and features to the game Broken Realm: A Crystal Saga...
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Epic Games is hosting a competition at the Gadget Show Live in April of 2013, called “Make Something Unreal Live.” The competition will feature four European studios using the Unreal Development Kit, a free version of Unreal 3, to make a game that will be shown at Gadget Show Live. The grand prize will be a full source Unreal Engine 4, helping the winning studio to become a commercial game develop...
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The Game Director behind The Secret World, Joel Bylos, has just found out that the whole end of the world thing is true. He thought someone just made it up for kicks and giggles, but then he found movies and books about it that confirmed that the myth is real. He’s pretty bummed out about the whole thing, and has turned to YouTube to chronicle his last days on Earth. Because, as we all know, the b...
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Net Dragon Websoft Inc. announced the open beta date for Absolute Force Online. On December 19th at 5 PM PST, players are invited to join in and experience the MMOFPS. The title is also free to play, so it is technically a FTPMMOFPS. Don’t you just love initialisms? They’re absolutely everywhere because titles have become increasingly long and difficult to say, with all the subtitles and additions...
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The latest addition to EVE Online, EVE Online: Retribution, is available for free and launched today. EVE Online is reaching its tenth year of continuous growth, which is pretty impressive for a game. I was more impressed by the fact that EVE Online is now a part of the Museum of Modern Art, which now has a permanent display of video games. It is about time that people realize that gaming is both ...
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