While it started as rumors that Onlive laid off all of its employees, the digital game service will continue with no harm to customer accounts. Recently there were rumors floating about that Onlive, the popular cloud-gaming digital service, might be going out of business after two years. Apparently Onlive laid off all of its employees a few days ago, and many suspected that their servers will be g...
Read More »Achievements + in-game currency + Team Fortress 2 hat economy = Equator for iPad. “Edutainment” games tend to feel very minimal in terms of game design. Theoretically video games would make a great tool for education, but execution of the process in terms of video game history has been met with lukewarm results. I got no idea whether TigerFace Games new multi-player game Equator will b...
Read More »Get those cannons ready and learn to live with scurvy in the pirate MMOG Kartuga! It’s rare to find any kind of RPG outside of the fantasy setting. Sure Skyrim and the upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition are a load of fun to fans of RPGs, but they still have elves and swords for you to swing. Sometimes you might be an elf, but given a machine gun instead of a bow – hence why Shado...
Read More »Jump around on rooftops and slaughter your foes on the go in Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, coming to the PS Vita. Most fans of the Assassin’s Creed franchise speculated that there might have been female assassin’s to play as. It would make sense, considering the setup of the franchise: We’re exploring the ancestors of main character Desmond Miles in the previous Assassi...
Read More »Need to satisfy your multi-player shooter while commuting to work? Grab yourself a PS Vita and a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified! Getting a shooter game on a handheld device is tough. It has been attempted before in the past, and some successful ones could be Fighting Fantasy: Warlock on Firetop Mountain on the Nintendo DS. But when you bring up the horrible memories of Metroid: Prime...
Read More »Meet with some of the best game developers in the industry at Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) held in Cologne, Germany. I’m sure a lot of gamers out there would love to get into this industry and make their own video games. Maybe they no longer want to rant about how Call of Duty could be improved by adding female models in the game, and instead make their own Call of Duty-lik...
Read More »As Blue Collar Jim, you must fight off the insect-like horde of Acrid and solve the mysteries hidden inside Lost Planet 3. Sometimes I think it’s not the guns we’re looking to shoot in shooter games. Oh sure there are a lot of great guns to fire off in great shooter games: Firing a grenade launcher into a horde of zombies (or into your friends by ‘accident’) in a Left 4 Dea...
Read More »Get your Excel spread sheets ready folks, because you’re going to need a lot of the best random-dropped weapons to take on Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2! It’s rare when a game trailer recognizes an important element that distinguishes a game from other forms of media. No it doesn’t have anything to do with how awesome a pre-rendered toad would look like in a sparkling new engine...
Read More »Mind Candy, developers of Moshi Monsters, announced that two new games in their popular virtual pet raising game will be released later this year. Kids love animals. It’s one of the few reasons why Zoos exist is so kids can see exotic animals that might be a little too close for comfort. Before video games parents might get their kids some pets to play with, but tending to them could be expe...
Read More »A teaser trailer for Wargame: AirLand Battle shows off the mighty battle of helicopters, jets, and tanks fighting against each other. Real Time Strategy games might be a niche genre to some gamers. Oh I’m sure I’m going to be criticized by that comment from PC gamers wanting to tell me what their favorite RTS game is. But the keyword in that sentence is “PC Gamers,” as in t...
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