Author Archives: Steve Murray
Get Hyped for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void with Viva La Dirt League’s Latest Song
While the rest of the world is fanboying out over Fallout 4 or Rise of the Tomb Raider, my plans for the evening involve taking back Aiur in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void. And it wouldn’t be the launch of a new SC2 expansion without a new song from Viva La Dirt League. The group has made numerous StarCraft themed song parodies over the years and have put together another epic based on Years & Years’ Shine for Legacy of the Void.
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Bob Ross is Coming Back to Twitch Every Monday
Nobody likes Mondays but Twitch now has the perfect way for you to get over your weekly case of the Mondays. Twitch has announced that following the massive and unexpected popularity and success of the Bob Ross The Joy of Painting marathon, Monday nights on Twitch will be Bob Ross nights. For six-and-a-half hours every Monday, Twitch will stream a season of The Joy of Painting and let Twitch chat have its fun alongside.
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Extra Life Raises $6.3 Million for Charity
For 24 hours starting on the morning of November 7th, gamers gathered online to raise money for charity. The annual Extra Life fundraiser sees gamers do a 24-hour marathon gaming stream to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. This year, the live streaming marathons raised $6,360,566 in donations.
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Game Trailers Roundup for November 9, 2015
This week is a pretty quiet week in the world of video games. There’s only four major games coming out this week. On Tuesday, Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void are all launching. If you’re not broke, there’s also Football Manager 2016 coming out on Friday (it’s next on my to-review list).
Besides those trailers, EA and Blizzard were busy over the last week. Blizzard has new trailers for World of Warcraft and Overwatch. EA counters with the first trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda, a ME tie-in with Plants vs. Zombies 2 and one for the first Battlefront expansion.
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Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion Review
For the fourth time this season, we have a two-part episode. While I was disappointed with the last two multi-episode stories, this one is a return to form. When you stretch a story over multiple episodes, there has to be enough content to fill those episodes. While The Zygon Inversion was a bit light compared to The Zygon Invasion, it certainly made the whole hour-and-a-half feel like it was worth watching.
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Geek Links of the Week
The government of New Zealand has released the text of the whole Trans-Pacific Partnership. I’m trying to find a big analysis of it but it’s so big that people are just writing lengthy pieces on small aspects. [New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]
This week in good news, Disney and JJ Abrams showed an early cut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens to a dying fan. [Furious Fan Boys]
Before this summer, how many people heard of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars? You may have now that Psyonix hit it big with the release of Rocket League. It wasn’t an easy road to success for the dev. [Eurogamer]
I’ve never heard of this new social network tsu.co but Facebook has. They’re banning all mentions of the new invite-only social network from their network. Shameless begging: If anyone has a way of hooking a blogger up with an invite, my email’s in the about page. [CNN Money]
Comcast threw shade at Google Fiber. Comcast’s customers quickly threw it right back at them. [BGR]
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Tales from the Borderlands – Episode Five Review: End of the Road
It took them a while but Telltale has finally completed the Tales from the Borderlands series just as they got Minecraft: Story Mode off the ground. It’s fitting that one of Telltale’s game spin-offs ends as another begins. From what I understand of Minecraft: Story Mode (review coming soon), it’s apparently designed to appeal mostly to kids which is how I would peg the stereotypical audience of Minecraft proper.
I look at Tales from the Borderlands in a similar way. No, it’s not a kids’ game but it is a game designed to appeal to the audience of the proper game that it’s based on. In its final episode, though, Tales from the Borderlands finally clicks in the way we’ve gotten used to from Telltale Games.
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Rumours Say Overwatch is Coming to Consoles for $60
One of the hottest tickets in gaming right now is an invite into the closed beta of Blizzard’s new first-person shooter, Overwatch. One of the quiet sub-plots is speculation over what the business model will be. With early comparisons of Overwatch being to Valve’s free-to-play Team Fortress 2, it was expected that Overwatch would also be free-to-play.
However, a Game Informer report suggests that Overwatch won’t be free-to-play. At least, not at launch. Sources tell them to expect it to be a $60 full price release.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: November 6 – 8, 2015
Last weekend was the final stop on the road to BlizzCon. This weekend, the world of eSports has its eyes on Anaheim as Hearthstone, StarCraft and Heroes of the Storm have their World Championship finals at BlizzCon. There are some other regional events and qualifiers in other games happening but all the big money is at BlizzCon.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Posters Unveiled
We’re just six weeks away from the premiere of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. From the time this post went up to the earliest EST showings at 7:00 PM on December 17th, that’s only 1,018 hours. It’s not like I’m counting down but I’m keeping a close eye on the ever slowing movement of my clock and calendar.
Anyway, to celebrate the six weeks remaining mark, Disney has unveiled five new character posters featuring Leia, Han, Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren. All five have their right eyes covered in the posters. I wonder if that’s foreshadowing something.
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