Author Archives: Steve Murray
WB Games Montreal is Working on Two DC Comics Games
Sometimes, you don’t need an insider leak to tell you what a developer and publisher are up to. You might just want to look at the job listings. On the front page of their website, Warner Bros Games Montreal announced that they starting work on two new games that are “focused on expanding the DC Comics universe in the interactive space.”
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Comic Book Pull List for December 2, 2015
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, hasn’t it? Since I have a little more time on my hands for the next month, I may as well use it by bringing back the Comic Book Pull List.
This week, Marvel spams us with all sorts of new comics. Their list starts with the all-new All-New Inhumans and All-New X-Men. They also have the Totally Awesome Hulk, Spidey (that’s what it’s called), Daredevil, Red Wolf and Guardians of Infinity. Yes, that’s seven #1 issues from Marvel this week. I can tell that I’ve not done this for a while because I didn’t know that Dynamite had a James Bond comic and are on their 2nd issue. There are those and so much more in this week’s releases.
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Former Rockstar Employee Hints that Red Dead Redemption 2 is Coming Soon
Here’s the latest hot bit of news from the rumour mill. While everybody was either hunting for black Friday deals or playing one of the numerous November releases, former Rockstar developer Danny Ross did an AMA on the Opie and Anthony subreddit. Answering a question, Ross seemed to strongly hint that Red Dead Redemption 2 was the next project out of Rockstar Games.
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Game Trailers Roundup for November 30, 2015
This week is a quiet few week for the Game Trailers Roundup because most of the big trailers are being saved for Thursday’s The Game Awards. I’m not a huge fan of the cross between what Geoff Keighley wants to be the Oscars of gaming and an industry marketing event but publishers like revealing footage on Keighley’s platform. It’s how his awards shows are still running even if the Oscars or Golden Globes aren’t directly used as a marketing platform for other movies.
Anyway, we have six trailers for you to watch today including three for games that will be launched in the next week-and-a-half. And depending on how fast videos get to YouTube, we might have a TGA Trailers Roundup on Friday.
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Doctor Who: Heaven Sent Review
Sometimes, it doesn’t take new blood to do something different. For the penultimate episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor was locked in a castle with one villain who was seldom on-screen. It was a completely different approach for an episode of Doctor Who but it works because of it.
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Geek Links of the Week
In a big win for the internet, a Swedish Court says that they can’t force ISPs to block The Pirate Bay. [TheLocal.se]
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, anti-encryption supporters are coming out of the woodwork. If they start gaining traction, we’re all in trouble. [Info World]
What was it like to be a Nintendo game play counsellor? [The AV Club]
Steven Moffat originally wrote Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor into Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary Special. [Digital Spy]
I hope you’re not looking forward to a Fantastic Four sequel. Fox has already pulled it from their release schedule. [Comic Book]
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Overwatch Closed Beta Impressions: You Got MOBA in My Shooter
Last weekend, Blizzard let a bunch of people into the Overwatch closed beta for a stress test on their servers. With the game’s launch no more than seven months in the future, it might be a little early to tell what Overwatch will be like when the game is released to the public. However, a lot of big names in the gaming world have been sinking a lot of time into the latest IP out of the house that Warcraft built.
Since I’ve probably spent far too much on StarCraft and Heroes, I was able to get into the three-day Overwatch stress test. I may not be much of an FPS gamer but I certainly didn’t feel too out of place in the game.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: November 27 – 29, 2015
This weekend, the world of eSport descends on Jonkoping, Sweden. The little Swedish town becomes the home of competitive StarCraft, Dota, CS:GO, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm as it’s the host city of DreamHack Winter 2015. StarCraft II, Hearthstone and HOTS all have their own tournaments that started earlier today and will continue through to Saturday. Dota 2 and CS:GO have ongoing leagues that are concluding their seasons in Jonkoping.
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Kotaku, The Blacklist and What’s Left of Games Journalism
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for a gaming news outlet to be blacklisted by a publisher. You can hear Jim Sterling talk about blacklisted regularly on The Jimquisition. Destructoid was blacklisted by Konami. At one time or another, EGM was reportedly blacklisted by numerous companies including Sony, Midway and Ubisoft. Jeff Gerstmann infamously lost his job at GameSpot over a poor review of Kane & Lynch that resulted in Eidos Interactive threatening to pull ads from the site.
The latest publication to take their blacklisting public is Kotaku. Editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo took to the site to reveal that the company had been cut off by the PR branches of both Ubisoft and Bethesda. While some in games media are standing up for Kotaku, those content consumers that Kotaku are supposed to be producing content for aren’t on their side. When you’re as divisive as Kotaku, there isn’t much sympathy for the devil.
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There Are No Daily or Flash Sales During the Fall and Winter Steam Sales
The 2015 edition of the Steam Fall/Thanksgiving/Black Friday sale is just underway. For gamers, it’s kind of like early Christmas. You can get deep discounts on those games that you wanted to buy at $60 but held off knowing that this day would come.
There will be a change for this year’s fall and winter sales that you might have already noticed. Last week, Valve sent notice to publishers that there would be no daily deals or flash sales during the sale. Instead, the discount they set will be fixed for the duration of the sale.
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