Eager explorers looking for ancient, steampunk artifacts within the ancient ruins nested in City of Steam only have one more week left in the Alpha testing weekend! For anyone that missed out on the previous report of City of Steam: The game is a full-3D, browser-based MMORPG that lets players explore a steampunk world filled with familiar fantasy races. Expect to find lots of shiny green (or what...
Read More »Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands Get ready to drink down more alcoholic beverages in the new DLC for the indie RPG on Steam, because Conquest of the Wizardlands DLC is now available for Dungeons of Dredmor! There was a time when RPGs were pretty simple to get into, yet having a great deal of depth to their core mechanics. These RPGs didn’t require you to have complex relation...
Read More »Most military shooter games focus on explosions and macho men being macho men. Characters that could be easily found in a 1980s action film where they take on a swarm of faceless, default bad guys with big guns and simple reasons that are connected to family or patriotic values. At least that is the only way I could think of describing a group of people in a multiplayer game for a modern military ...
Read More »Imagine if your family ended up on one of those TV sitcom shows where your could win a fabulous prize: A new car, a lifetime supply of chocolate, a luxury cruise vacation, or even a new house. Now imagine that the TV sitcom show requires you to work with a stage crew consisting of angry monkeys, thwart UFOs from stealing cows, or jump over a kiddie pool full of sharks? If your thinking of Doubl...
Read More »I always think of video games as a way of letting players experience something. Films might give us the visual and audio experience of swinging around a sword of light at androids in a science fiction world; or a book could expand on this universe and show us what it’s like from the dark side of that universe. However video games, like machines, can accept input from us so we can craft our...
Read More »One British-born, Australian-native game critic once said that stealth based games appeal to him due to the ability to be invisible while enacting his perverted voyeurism. I won’t get into details here on whether stealth-based games are appealing to me like that, but I do like them for touching on challenges I like in video games. I like exploring in dark corridors, carefully planning my ste...
Read More »I remember shooters had a lot more variety of game-worlds to them in the past. One shooter that stuck out the most for me would be Descent on the PC, which allowed you to fly around in a 3D world shooting at your targets. Descent could work in our time as you take control of a pilot in a fighter ship, flying around in tight corridors with full 3D control and shooting down enemy fighter ships with ...
Read More »One of the leading free-to-play game publishers, gPotato, will be attending this year’s Gamescom to show off a slew of updates for their games. gPotato.eu is a multiplayer game portal Web site provided to numerous players around the world. Most games in gPotato.eu’s library are free-to-play MMORPGs like Flyff, but there are some casual Flash or browser-based games like Canaan Online. A...
Read More »Hackers that got into Ubisoft’s online PC network found exposed data for uPlay which could be used for malicious software. Specifically some hackers claim uPlay could be used as a rootkit to get into other people’s systems and activate programs against their will. However, the possibility of uPlay being a rootkit is up to debate with some software security experts. Computer and Video G...
Read More »The free-to-play longboarding Downhill Xtreme is releasing an update that will revamp online competition along with adding new boards. Longboarding is considered an extreme sport where competitors ride on a longboard (think of a skateboard but shorter than a surfboard) down tracks. They can perform tricks with the longboard similar to other extreme sports games, such as sliding or air brakes. If y...
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