Author Archives: Steve Murray
Game Trailers Roundup for October 6, 2014
There are a couple of big releases tomorrow and I have trailers for none of them. That doesn’t make for a particularly topical game trailers roundup. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have trailers for games you want to know more about.
Today’s roundup includes trailers for Civ: Beyond Earth, Far Cry 4, Dying Light and Dragon Age: Inquisition. If those don’t strike your fancy, you can always watch a launch trailer for Styx: Master of Shadows and a teaser for F.E.A.R. Online. Not a bad little post for watching.
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The Steam Halloween Sale Starts October 30th
Are you a fan of big discounts? Are you a fan of horror games? Well, if you answered yes to either of those questions (but preferably both questions), Valve has you covered. The Steam store will be running a special Halloween Sale from October 30 to November 3rd so you can get discounts on your favourite Halloween themed games.
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Doctor Who: Kill the Moon Review
What happens when you take the training wheels off your bike? You either fall over and land on your head or you ride straight and true.
That was the question on Doctor Who this week. Though it feels like a question that has been asked time and time again, the question was asked again of Clara. Unlike every other time that Clara might have been left to ride on her own, this was the first time that she pushed back.
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Geek Links of the Week
Verizon is suing the FCC over Net Neutrality rules but other big wigs in the industry think that this suit could backfire and make things worse (for them). [Ars Technica]
Is Bungie’s Destiny really an unintentional criticism of consumer culture? [The New Yorker]
While the Xbox One’s Japan launch was an unmitigated disaster, the Chinese launch didn’t turn out too badly. [Tech in Asia]
If you’re a tech journalist who covers Apple with their blessing, don’t talk about bendy iPhone 6 Pluses. The editor of Computer Blid, Germany’s biggest tech magazine, had his Apple press credentials pulled for posting a video showing that the iPhone 6 Plus could be bent. [The Register]
Are you looking forward to The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron? Disney/Marvel is going to include a preview of the movie on the DVDs and Blu-Rays of Guardians of the Galaxy. [Screen Crush]
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America’s Supernatural Claims to Fame (Infographic)
Welcome to et geekera’s 31 Days of Halloween! If you read my Haven reviews, you’ll get that joke. If not, you should read them and watch the older episodes. It’s actually a fun show.
Anyway, since we’ve reached the month of October which means that everyone wants to talk about ghosts, monsters, the occult and other things that go bump in the night. So let’s kick-off our on and off look the frightening with an infographic from the folks at Movoto looking at the most famous supernatural creature or story in each US state. What can I say? I’m a fan of a good ghost story.
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The Visual History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Infographic)
I think I mentioned this before but I was pretty big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was growing up. I was never into the original TMNT comics but I do remember reading a few of the comics in the early 90s. While those two were pretty close visually but they were very different from the live-action Ninja Turtles movies of the early 90s. Since then, TMNT has kept going and 2014 marks 30 years of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
To mark that occasion, the folks at Buy Costumes have put together a look at the changing visuals of the Ninja Turtles over the last 30 years.
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eSports Weekend Calendar: October 3 – 6, 2014
As the eSports seasons start to wind down to a close, there’s a lot of big matches this weekend. The quarterfinals of the League of Legends World Championships are this weekend as we’ve reached the final eight. StarCraft II”s WCS Europe is also down to its final eight and will crown the Season Three champion this weekend and likely confirm a few more trips to the WCS Global Finals. The GSL is well past the final eight. This Saturday is their Season Three final that pits soO who has finished 2nd in the last three GSLs and Innovation who needs to win to have a shot at BlizzCon.
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Kickstarter Investments Projected to be Down as Much as 50% in Gaming for 2014
The last couple of years have been great for independent gaming. With the consoles opening themselves up to be more open to indie devs publishing on the platforms and the growth of Steam and Humble Bundle, there are more indie games now than ever before. Also helping that was the rise of crowdfunding of games through Kickstarter.
However, really only a couple of years into the crowdfunding revolution in indie games, it might already be dying. A study suggests that 20% fewer Kickstarter projects in gaming are getting funded this year compared to 2013 and the dollars invested year-on-year could drop as much as 50%.
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Hollywood is Working on a Tetris Movie for Some Reason
Turning video games into movies is pretty common place nowadays. There was a Need For Speed movie earlier this year. Resident Evil has a rather lengthy and successful enough film franchise. Ubisoft is trying to make movies out of all of its big franchises starting with 2012’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. There are movies for World of Warcraft, Uncharted and Gran Turismo in the works.
However, the latest video game adaptation is likely to leave you scratching your head. Threshold Entertainment has plans to turn Tetris into the next video game to hit the silver screen.
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eBay Spinning Off PayPal as Its Own Company
You may have forgotten since the purchase was twelve years ago but online auction site eBay actually owns the biggest online purchase service PayPal. Or at least as of next year, they will have owned PayPal. That’s because eBay announced plans to spin-off PayPal as its own company complete with a share flotation to make it public.
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