Category Archives: Games
Four Companies Won’t Be on the Floor at E3 2016
It used to be the most important week in gaming. Now, it looks as though it isn’t just the gamers and the press that think that the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, has lost some of its luster. Some of the biggest names in the industry don’t see it as the be all and end all of gaming.
Over the last few months, four companies have publicly announced that they won’t have a presence on the floor of E3 this year. In January, EA announced that they wouldn’t be at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Over the last week, Activision, Disney Interactive and Wargaming all announced they wouldn’t be at the LACC either.
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Superhot Review: Am I Standing Still
You’ve probably heard or read the lines but maybe you don’t understand them. “Super. Hot. Super. Hot.” Or maybe you’ve read “It’s the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years.” These aren’t ready-made box quotes from your favourite critics. They’re lines right from Superhot, the new first-person shooter that’s taken gaming by storm for the last week or so.
Superhot is a new first-person shooter that’s been labelled as being somewhere between a strategy game, a puzzle game and a traditional FPS. The hybrid of styles certainly makes this one of the more fun and interesting games that I’ve played in years.
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Steam Bundles Prices Can Now Drop for Already Owned Games
Have you ever seen a bundle on Steam and thought “it would be a good deal if I didn’t already own half of the games in it?” That feeling may change very soon as Steam has reworked the bundle system and made dynamic bundle pricing available for bundles. This means that the price of bundles on Steam can drop based on the number of games you already own in it.
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Firewatch Review: Hey There Delilah
Walking simulators and I have an adversarial relationship. I wanting to like them because I love a good story in a game but the review scores don’t really back that up. While I loved The Stanley Parable, I thought that Gone Home and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture were average games at best despite picking up acclaim from other games.
The latest walking simulator that I’ve added to my library is Firewatch. The game got its first big public unveiling as part of a PlayStation E3 keynote presentation and has now made its way to the PC as well. Given that PC is home to the walking simulator, would the latest entry in the genre stack up to the competition.
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Game Trailers Roundup for February 29, 2016
I could be wrong but this is the last chance that we’ll get to do the Game Trailers Roundup on a February 29th for the next 28 years. I somehow doubt that I’ll be around doing this in 2044 but stranger things have happened.
The big feature in this week’s roundup is Uncharted 4 which made waves for including art from Assassin’s Creed IV in the original story trailer so we have the updated one for you to watch. Nintendo has trailers for the new Pokemon games as well as Bravely Second. Oh, and there’s also Superhot. Super. Hot. Super. You get it by now.
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Game Trailers Roundup for February 22, 2016
Apologies for the lack of content lately. I’ve been busy travelling with work last week and I was felled with a bad cold/flu and nasty kitchen knife cut this weekend. So I’m not exactly typing one-handed right now but I’m only using my index finger on my left hand to type right now and it’s incredibly annoying.
Anyway, it’s Monday which means that we have to catch you up on the latest video game trailers from the last week. We have a couple of triple-A launch trailers for you for Street Fighter V and PvZ: Garden Warfare 2. There are a pair of Pokemon trailers for both classic Pokemon and Pokken Tournament. And we have six more trailers for you to watch after that.
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Until Dawn Review: Trope Scares
One of the alleged selling points of The Order: 1886 was that it was “cinematic” but it didn’t really feel like anything out of a movie other than the aspect ratio of the screen. To make a game that seems like a movie, you need to rely on more than just the visuals. Ready at Dawn missed that memo.
Supermassive Games didn’t miss that memo. They had last year’s PS4 exclusive that was noteworthy for all reason opposite to The Order: 1886. While Until Dawn could be called a cinematic game, it was cinematic because it was put together as a loving homage to 90s slasher and horror movies. It looked and acted the part and was all the better for it.
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Game Trailers Roundup for February 16, 2016
This week’s game trailers roundup is a little shorter than the last few weeks with only five trailers for you. On the plus side, they’re all for triple-A games. We’re reaching that time of year where the big publishers are trying to get games out the door for their year-end financial results. That six month window from October through March sure is a great time to be a gamer.
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Is Microsoft Making a Mistake Pushing the Microsoft Store on PC Gamers?
How many of you have heard of the Microsoft Store? I don’t mean a physical retail location like the Apple Stores. I mean a digital store. If Steam’s operating system stats for its users are to be believed, about 34% of you might have heard of it since the Microsoft Store is only available to Windows 10 users.
I bring this up in the wake of the recent announcement that Microsoft is launching Quantum Break on PC alongside Xbox One. While Quantum Break will be the first game in Microsoft’s own renewed push towards making Windows a prominent gaming platform, the vast majority of PC gamers won’t be able to play it. That’s because Quantum Break won’t be coming to Steam but will be a Microsoft Store exclusive.
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Basic Guide to PC Graphics Options (Infographic)
One thing that is wildly inconsistent in PC gaming is the quality of tooltips on the graphics options menu. You have games like StarCraft II which tell you which piece of hardware is being drawn on the most by a particular option and you have other games that just leave you to guess what the options mean, assuming they have any. Fortunately, in the case of the latter, I found this handy little infographic that explains some of the more prominent graphics options in PC gaming.
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