Alexander Kraus's Posts

Drift Mania Championship 2 Available Now on iOS and Android

Ratrod Studio gives racing fans a variety of product placements in Drift Mania Championship 2. There is a mixture of opinions when it comes to advertising.  Some people are fine with watching commercials coming up on Youtube.  However if you want to experience a sport in any way, especially car racing, you will have to just accept that sponsors will cram cute, erotic women wearing Adidas...

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MechWarrior: Tactical Command Launches Onto iPad

Giant robots might be one of the most recognizable icons of nerd culture.  Comic books, movies, books, and especially video games all use giant robots in ways to make our media fascinating.  One of the more recognizable game franchises that use giant robots is – no surprise – the MechWarrior Real Time Strategy series.  Players guide a squad of Mechs (giant robots with bi...

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Google Becomes Fifth Most Valuable U.S. Company

People have questions for lots of things.  What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (Hint: 2 * 21)?  How can a person get a job in the game industry?  What method to use so the breading around chicken is crispy when fried?  In the past people turned to pastors or clerics to divine these answers for them.  Now, people turn to Google ...

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Unboxing World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition

By now, World of Warcraft fans should be rolling up anthropomorphic Pandas that swing sticks in the new Mists of Pandaria expansion.  The new expansion from Blizzard Entertainment might not press the hard reset button, but it does provide a ton of new content and new areas to explore.  Along with the release comes – with no surprise – a collector's edition for Mists of P...

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Play Carrier Command at HMV Gamerbase London

A long, long time ago.  In a game generation far away…There were classic games your Parents might remember.  I'm not talking about Mario as that is still available.  I'm talking about a well-respected Real Time Strategy game Carrier Command on the ZX Spectrum,  Commodore 64, and other machines released in 1988.  If you remember this Vector-based game, then...

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Massive Pre-order Deals Emerge for Company of Heroes 2

Whether you like pre-orders for video games, developers and publishers will keep wheeling them out to catch our attention.  Sometimes you might get questionable pre-order deals, As pink-bunny-suit Josh Atkinson talked about.  But in other cases you could get a massive amount of options for your pre-order, and that is THQ and Relic Entertainment's plan with Company of Heroes 2 for th...

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Grand Chase: Rebirth Launches

Most anime – Japanese cartoons – have a unique aesthetic.  Anime might have some of the most insane clothes thrown together and more ink in their hair than what was used to edit their story.  But Anime could also be the personification of escapism for fans.  And what better way to escape from reality than by defying logic with young, cute characters going into dungeons a...

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Earn to Die Available on App Store

The zombie-crushing Flash game Earn to Die is making its way to the iOS. Most Flash games could be brushed off by gamers as it seems to target the 'casual' audience.  Maybe gamers assume these are only made to make virtual dress-up dolls or dating simulation games.  But it seems like if you throw zombies into any game than it could be popular with gamers, such as Earn to Die.&n...

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Unity Compatibility Coming to Wii U

The Unity community can now build their games for Nintendo's Wii U. Building a game engine is hard.  Fortunately there are a variety of game engines available right now, such as the CryEngine 3 with their glorified toads.  Another popular engine with indie and mainstream developers would be the Unity engine.  The nice thing about this tool is that you could build a quick 3D sho...

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The Secret World Encourages You to Dig Deeper

There are some nasty challenges awaiting you in The Secret World Issue #2: Digging Deeper.  Better bring a rocket launcher. Funcom, developers of Age of Conan and the still new The Secret World, has just revealed a few new secrets up their sleeve for the modern MMORPG..  New content will be added to the game which will challenge you in Issue #2: Digging Deeper, and new upgrades are avail...

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