Courtesy YouTube’s The Blue Owl, the voice of professional wrestling, “Good Old J.R.” Jim Ross once again lends his voice to video games. As always, GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! THAT KILLED HIM! AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!
Category Archives: Games
Valve Makes Another Change to the Steam Controller
The Steam Controller has been in a state of seemingly constant evolution since it was first unveiled in September 2013. It’s gone from two touchpads and a touchscreen to something resembling a PlayStation controller with touchpads. Now, Valve is believed to have made another change that brings it a little closer to the status quo. Now, the left touchpad will have a directional guide that makes it look a lot closer to the classic D-pad.
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Steam Pulls and Restores Controversial Game Hatred from Greenlight
The controversial isometric shooter about a serial killer, Hatred, made it to Steam Greenlight but it didn’t last long there. After only a few hours on Greenlight, Hatred had ascended to #7 on the Steam Greenlight chart but that was as high as it would go. Valve quickly removed the game from Greenlight and indicated that Hatred would not be making its game onto Steam.
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Game of Thrones – Episode One Review: Valar Morghulis
If ever there was a marriage of licensed property and game developer that made sense, it’s Telltale Games and Game of Thrones. With The Walking Dead series, Telltale showed that it could do series with dark themes, tough decisions and no-win scenarios. After some previous lacklustre GoT games, George R. R. Martin gave the okay for Telltale to have a go and assigned his personal assistant as a story consultant so you know this isn’t going to be a quick cash-in on the license.
Game of Thrones is the fourth series we’ve seen from Telltale this year and concerns about the possibility of the team being spread thin are unfounded. Episode One of GoT could be the best debut episode that Telltale has ever done and fits in perfectly with the rest of the world of Westeros.
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Game Trailers Roundup: December 15, 2014
After getting spoiled by all those trailers from The Game Awards in last week’s Game Trailers Roundup, we’re down a bit on the number of trailers in this week’s roundup. Still, we have seven trailers for you to watch today.
The latest from Mojang, the mobile card game Scrolls, is the big release of the week. It doesn’t lead us off. That spot goes to indie darling The Talos Principle which launched last week. We also have trailers for upcoming console games Persona 5 and #IDARB among other game trailers for you to watch.
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Basketball Pro Management 2015 Review: Brick
While I did a lot of sports gaming in my teenage years (who didn’t?), one sports I’ve never really been into is basketball games. That’s not to say that I haven’t watched basketball. I did see the Malice at the Palace on local TV. I know enough to have called a few basketball games (including a provincial championship) for radio in university. Most importantly, basketball was by a Canadian so it’s really in my blood. So it’s not like I don’t understand basketball.
That preamble doesn’t mean that I understand this basketball video game. Unlike the NBA Lives and NBA 2Ks that I’ve played in the past, Basketball Pro Management 2015 doesn’t put you on the court. Similar to the Football Manager series, Basketball Pro Management takes you off the court and onto the sideline and in the front office of a basketball franchise. I’ve played games close to BPM15 and enjoyed them but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider to be Published by Microsoft
Just when you thought that the controversy over bought and paid for third-party console exclusives had regained new life with the announcement that Capcom’s Street Fighter V would have console exclusivity on the PS4, the story got bigger. Not only is the sequel to 2013’s hit Tomb Raider going to have timed exclusivity on the Xbox One but publishing duties will be handled by Microsoft Studios rather IP holders Square Enix.
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Ralph Baer, The Father of Video Games, Passes Away
Ralph Baer, the man who invented the first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, and who was considered the father of video games, passed away at the age of 92.
Baer was responsible for video games as we know them now. While he held over 150 patents from his work as an inventor, in gaming circles, Baer was famous for inventing the first home console. Originally dubbed the Brown Box, Baer’s console was in development in the 1960s with archive footage from 1969 showing Baer testing the device. He licensed the technology and it became the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972.
Baer’s contributions to games didn’t end there. He is also credited with creating the first light gun game called Shooting Gallery. Gamers will know that as the technology behind popular NES game Duck Hunt. Away from video games, Baer was the inventory of popular memory game Simon.
He received numerous awards during his lifetime for his work. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush. In 2008, he was given Game Developers Choice Pioneer Award. And he was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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The Death of the Day One Patch
On Monday, CD Projekt Red announced that The Witcher 3 has been delayed until May 2015. That’s the third release window for the game since it was announced. The original 2014 release window was specified down to Fall 2014 which was revised to February 2015 and most recently to May 19, 2015.
At one point in time, a game being delayed for a second time would have been met by the internet gaming community with torches and pitchforks, especially a game that is as hotly anticipated as The Witcher 3. However, reaction to the move has been mostly favourable.
After being burned too many times in a row with games that are broken or technically faulty upon launch, gamers are starting to say enough with the now standard practice of a day one patch and are looking for a return of the good old days when games were done when they were released.
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Tales from the Borderlands – Episode One Review: There Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
I’ve never really been a big first-person shooter fan. Maybe it’s coming from a console background in my youth rather than PC but I was never really into FPSs. So I’ve never been into the Borderlands franchise. Sure, I’ve got some ten hours into the first game and my sister knows the franchise inside and out (she’s the FPS player in the family) but I’ve never been compelled to keep going with those games.
That being said, I’m a big fan of the last couple of years of content from Telltale Games. While I haven’t had time to get to The Wolf Among Us (though I hear it’s fantastic), The Walking Dead seasons have been absolutely fantastic so of course I’m going to pick up the next game from Telltale. So can a merger of genres and developers that may not necessarily work at first glance come together to make another Telltale and Gearbox classic?
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