Monthly Archives: January 2016
FIM Speedway Grand Prix 15 Review: Get Dirty
One of the great things about the current gaming ecosystem is that not every game has to be a massive triple-A effort. It opens up the market to smaller games that wouldn’t have been made in the past. Take FIM Speedway Grand Prix 15, for example. Flat-track dirt oval motorcycle racing is so niche that I’m not sure that I ever saw it on Speed Channel. Yet this fairly unheard of form of two-wheel motorsport has one of the best racing games of 2015.
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Geek Links of the Week
Hopefully coming soon to a home near you: WiFi 802.11ah which will give you better range and less trouble from walls for less power. [Geek.com]
We’re prone to looking at the business of gaming but what about the business of the galaxy? Would the destruction of the second Death Star had an economic impact so big that it would have crippled the galactic economy? [New York Times]
Are you on T-Mobile and watching YouTube? That’s a silly question. The EFF says that T-Mobile is throttling YouTube on their network so of course you’re not watching it. [BGR]
There were a lot of fans of Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars: Episode VII filibuster on Parks & Rec. Did any of his vision for The Force Awakens come true? [Inverse]
An Awesome Games Done Quick fundraiser is coming to a close this weekend. There’s still time to watch and donate. [AGDQ]
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et geekera’s Most Anticipated Games of 2016
Since we did our look back at 2015 earlier this week, it only makes sense to look forward this week. It’s only logical to follow-up on our list of our favourite games of 2015 with a look at the games that we’re most excited about in 2016 with the Most Anticipated Games of 2016.
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Oculus Rift Coming In June for $600
Virtual Reality is the next thing in gaming (again) but if you want to be an early adopter, it’s going to cost you a pretty penny. At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, Oculus VR announced that the retail version of their Rift virtual reality headset will be shipping starting at the end of March. It will only cost you $599 USD before taxes and shipping to be one of the first to get your hands on one.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: January 8 – 10, 2016
It’s a quiet weekend in the world of eSports. League isn’t back until next week so MOBA fans will have to make due with the qualifiers for March’s Shanghai Major. Otherwise, there’s a little bit of Hearthstone, SC2 and HOTS for you to take in.
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et geekera’s Fifteen Favourite Games of 2015
How about one last blog post before we close down for the Christmas break? At this time of year (okay, often sooner for everyone else), everyone does their year-end lists. As is tradition for etg, we close the year with our favourite games of the year. I think this year will be the last time we do the 15 for 15 thing because it was very hard getting to 15 games. Next year will probably be a top ten or something.
For now, here is our list of our fifteen favourite games of 2015. They may not be the best games of 2015 but they are the ones that I loved the most.
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Movie Trailers Roundup for January 6, 2016
Unlike the three-week break that we took for the Game Trailers Roundup, the Movie Trailers Roundup returns with actual trailers. Because Christmas is a big time for movie releases and movie watching, distributors want to get people hyped for their upcoming movies. That’s why we have nine movie trailers for you to watch this week.
A lot of these trailers are for blockbusters. Deadpool, X-Men, Godzilla and Triple 9 all have trailers that came out over the last three weeks. There are also trailers for three animated kids movies if you’re looking for a movie adventure for the youngins.
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Star Wars Original Trilogy Trailers Redone in The Force Awakens Style
I think that one of the unsung heroes of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens was the guys who cut together the trailer. It got people hyped for the movie while giving almost nothing away apart from who was in the movie. In a day and age when movie trailers are closer to two-minute synopses of the movies they’re supposed to be previewing, The Force Awakens might have had one of the best trailers in recent memory.
Since The Force Awakens is getting comparisons to the original trilogy, YouTuber Tom F decided to flip the script. He recut trailers for the original Star Wars trilogy in the style of The Force Awakens’s trailer. The result is pretty good, especially Empire’s.
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PSX is the Perfect Example of a Games Industry Showcase
It was around this time two years ago that I suggested that the games industry needed a second showcase event apart from E3 every June. Following another edition of The Game Awards that was more interested in the new trailers and game reveals than it was in celebrating the best in gaming during the unspecified nomination period. I was planning on leaving this alone because I don’t see The Game Awards ever being an awards show but rather being a product of hype.
Last month, I changed my mind. While it wasn’t the first time they did this, I realized that Sony might have inadvertently stumbled upon exactly what I was looking for with their second PlayStation Experience convention and industry show.
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Activision Buys MLG for $46 Million
The biggest name in North American eSports is now the property of the biggest game publisher in North America. Just prior to Christmas, MLG’s Board of Directors approved the sale of “substantially all” of its assets to Activision Blizzard for $46 million.
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