Alexander Kraus's Posts

Pre-orders for War of the Roses Ends Soon

Which medieval weapon in War of the Roses is your favorite?  Once you get all that heavy armor wrapped around your torso and are ready to hop onto your war horse, which medieval weapon do you bring into combat?  Do you prefer something simple like a sword, which can slice through limbs yet doesn't have a great reach?  Or do you go for a bow, firing a volley of arrows at your en...

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Ragnarok and Dragon Saga Collide Together

Familiar monsters and loot from the Ragnarok MMORPG will be invading the world of Dragon Saga for players to kill and take. Cross-overs in nerd culture are nothing new.  Back on the Super NES I remember cross-over games like Aliens vs. Predator or Robocop vs. Terminator.  There were even some odd cross-overs like when Marvel's The Punisher shows up in an Archie comic.  However ...

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Kirby's Dream Collection Now Available on Wii

Kirby will return to his roots of sucking and blowing off his enemies with a collection of classics – and not in the way you are thinking of. When most people think of Nintendo, they think of one of the most memorable characters in the video game industry.  However Nintendo does have other franchises developed over the years that might rival and/or perform better than the Plumber who al...

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New Trailer for Uprising44: The Silent Shadow

Supposedly chest-high walls, a stable of modern shooters, might go well with RTS elements in Uprising44. DMD Enterprise has been hard at work at the World War II shooter Uprising44: The Silent Shadows.  The game borrows elements from modern shooters like third-person perspective, like a cover system used by burly men to hide behind while bullet wounds magically heal in seconds (Just like real...

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Cyber Monster Goes into Closed Beta

NGames brand new 3D browser-based MMORPG, Cyber Monster, will show off cute characters and a variety of mounts to pick from. There are quite a few elements about MMORPGs that make them popular for core and casual gamers.  One could be the variety of loot, such as finding a green sword or a golden chicken in a farming game.  Yet what NGames seems to be focusing on with their new 3D browse...

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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD Update Coming To Steam

The stranger in need of some "moolah" will return with an HD face-lift in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. Imagine if there was a first-person shooter that didn't give you a variety of weapons, no multi-player, and not a single drop of realism.  What you got was a first-person shooter that gives you a variety of living ammo to use in a crossbow, a unique protagonist trying to a...

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New Super Mario Bros. U Pre-Order Your Copy Now

The latest installment in the Mario franchise will take advantage of the Wii U GamePad and introduce a new character. A Mario game on a new Nintendo console is inevitable; like realism-based weapons or technology crammed into fictional military shooters.  This analogy might not hold up well as the current generation of military shooters will incorporate science-fiction elements like ED-209.&n...

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Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Coming to Nintendo

The new sequel to the Monster Hunter franchise will be available on the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS. Now that we know that the next console from Nintendo will be coming out later this year and how much it will cost us, we can start speculating on how much money we would have to save up so we can get before November comes around.  However getting a console means you need some games to play on the c...

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Ubisoft lines up a series of games for the Nintendo Wii U

From zombie outbreak to platformers, Ubisoft will make sure there are a variety of games available when the Nintendo Wii U launches. The French publisher/developer of games has a history of releasing new games next to the launch of a console; such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars for the Nintendo 3DS.  Not wanting to lag behind on the launch of Nintendo's new console, the Wi...

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Legend of Grimrock Dungeon Editor Open to Steam Users

Anyone that purchased a copy of Legend of Grimrock, the awesome dungeon-crawler RPG released earlier this year, has access to the Beta for the Dungeon Editor. Good news to fans of the Legend of Grimrock game:  Almost Human, developers of Grimrock, just released the public Beta for the Dungeon Editor!  Bad news for fans of Legend of Grimrock:  If you bought the game from GOG.com (lik...

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