The good folks at PBS and Kill Screen Daily that bring us Game/Show have another interesting look into how we game. This week, they examine why gamers get angry about games and the affect rage has on how we play. It’s a really cool video they did and it’s good to see there’s nothing wrong with throwing the occasional controller. And they have a Francis clip which is always awesome.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Comic Book Pull List for November 6, 2013
With Halloween come and gone, I guess that I’m done featuring horror comic series at the top of the pull list. I guess we can talk about some of my favourite miniseries right now. First up is The Star Wars #3 which continues the comic book retelling of George Lucas’ original screenplay for Star Wars. Over at DC, the Forever Evil miniseries continues in Forever Evil #3.
As for new series starting this week, the X-Men get a new series beginning in Amazing X-Men #1. And Dynamite launches a new Red Sonja series with Legends of Red Sonja #1.
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Upcoming Steam Sale Dates Leaked
One of the great challenges of buying games on Steam is juggling the need to play a good game when it’s released with the fact that you can get a game for 33% or more off the launch price if you just hold out a couple of months at the absolute most for the next Steam sale.
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Humble Bundle Drops Steam Keys, Now Directly Adding Games to Your Account
Humble Bundle has changed its Steam key policy so that you no longer get actual Steam keys when you buy bundles. The Humble Store will instead require you to link your Humble Store account to your Steam account to activate your new purchases.
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British Inventor Creates Glow-in-the-Dark Ice Cream
Perhaps just a little late for Halloween, British inventor Charlie Francis, whose company is best known for creating unusual flavours of ice cream, has created the first ever glow-in-the-dark ice cream using an artificially created version of a jellyfish’s luminescence protein.
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Haven: Crush Review
After a second consecutive episode in which everything seemed to change, this week continued our road to the season finale. While the last couple of weeks were a bit more action packed, this week’s episode slowed things down so we could focus on the relationships of the various characters. Well, mostly everyone who isn’t Audrey.
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Geek Links of the Week
We’ve already talked about current-gen Battlefield 4. Now, how do the next-gen versions BF4 stack up. Only slightly shockingly, EA’s “special relationship” with Xbox has resulted in the XB1 version having better textures than the PS4. I’m not saying accusing anyone of anything but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… [Digital Foundry]
And what about Battlefield’s PC fans? Well, I found a comparison of how various graphics cards handle BF4. Makes me wonder if I should upgrade to the R9 290X if I can find a good deal. [The Guru of 3D]
Was Beyond: Two Souls really a linear train ride throughout the whole game? One man sorted through the evidence to find that there were choices in the game but they may not have been obvious to everyone. [Player’s Delight]
Have you ever wondered where all the game console pictures on Wikipedia came from? Chances are they came from this one man. [Peta Pixel]
Star Wars: 1313 will never be made thanks to Disney killing LucasArts. Now we can lament what could have been with these pieces of concept art from the game. [Kotaku]
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EA Cancels Command & Conquer, Closes Victory Games
Those of you hoping for a big budget free-to-play real-time strategy game that could rival the big RTS games out on the market will have to wait a little longer. EA announced this week that they were cancelling the in-development F2P RTS Command & Conquer and closing its developers Victory Games.
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