Category Archives: Games
Steam Exploration Sale: November 26, 2014
Just when you think that you can count on Steam to do something relatively normal with their sales, they’ve come up with a slightly ridiculous name and a new format for their fall sale. This year’s fall Steam sale is the Steam Exploration Sale. The big change is that the sale doesn’t have Flash Sales or Community Picks but they still have daily deals. It might just be a first day of the sale thing but there are two-day deals and one-day deals. I’d hazard that the two-day deals will roll to below the recommendations bar dividing the one and two-day deals.
A lot of the usual suspects are on sale today like CS:GO, Dead Island, Don’t Starve, and Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. However, there are a couple of newer games on sale that you might be interested in. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a game I’ve heard good things about. The Long Dark and The Evil Within are newer and on for good discounts. Conversely, Watch Dogs, Civ: Beyond Earth and Lords of the Fallen are on sale but I’d hazard that they’ll get cheaper if you hold out a bit longer.
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Toybox Turbos Review: Outside the Box
Anyone that follows my writing over on etg. sister site The Lowdown Blog knows that I’m a racing fanatic. Two wheels, four wheels, even more wheels (European truck racing is surprisingly awesome), road courses, ovals, dirt, I can settle down and watch anything. So naturally, I had a lot of toy cars growing up and had a lot of toy car races.
This brings me to Toybox Turbos. While many people liken the game to a modernized callback to Codemasters’ Micro Machines, their first iconic racing game, I thought of Toybox Turbos to be just like the toy car races on the floor at home. But does a childhood call back, whether it’s to a video game or little plastic or die-cast cars, make a great game.
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Steam Updates Early Access Rules for Developers
It’s going to be a Valve news sort of week around here. I think that’s completely understandable with the Steam Fall Sale kicking off tomorrow. And today’s bit of news might be important to you when you see an Early Access game get a big featured discount.
Last week, Valve sent notice to developers that they’ve updated the policies and guidelines for Early Access games on the Steam Store. It’s unlikely to affect the current crop of Early Access games but might impact what you see launching in the future.
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Game Trailers Roundup for November 25, 2014
I slightly forgot about this post yesterday. I was scrambling until the last minute to write the Haven review yesterday and had to sacrifice this post in order to get a little sleep. It turns out I could have passed on that because my local city road works crew didn’t plow the roads so they were ever so slightly flooded because of rain and slush.
Anyway, we have nine trailers for you to watch today. On top of the list is a teaser for Telltale’s upcoming Game of Thrones and I’m not just doing that in hopes of getting review copy of both that and Tales from the Borderlands. In the recently released games ranks, there are trailers for LittleBigPlanet 3 and Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. And there are some pretty cool trailers for EVE and Goat Simulator.
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Hold on to Your Wallets! The Steam Fall Sale Starts November 26
With American Thanksgiving coming up this week, you knew that it wasn’t a matter of if there would be a big Steam sale this week but when it would be. An email from PayPal has revealed that this year’s Steam Fall Sale will start on Wednesday, November 26th at 1:00 PM EST.
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EA Pulls Dragon Age: Inquisition from India Before Launch
About six months ago, Electronic Arts was caught in a controversy over homosexual characters in The Sims 4 which saw the game get an adults only rating in Russia.
This week, EA is having another fight with regulators over the content of its games. One day ahead of the launch of Dragon Age: Inquisition, EA was forced to cancel the release of the DA:I in India because the game would have violated Indian laws because of the inclusion of a prominent homosexual character.
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Jim Sterling Takes His Act on the Road with Patreon-Funded Site
Jim Sterling, The Escapist’s former reviews editor, host of The Jimquisition, and frequent collaborator with Yahtzee Croshaw, is setting out on a new project that just might change the face of video games journalism.
Unhappy with the current state of how advertising and revenue models are affecting content on gaming news sites, Sterling is striking out on his own with his own Patreon-funded website, TheJimquisition.com.
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Game Trailers Roundup for November 17, 2014
I thought that October was called Broketober for a reason. Did anyone who used that nickname this year even look at this month’s release schedule. Two Assassin’s Creeds, Halo: Master Chief Collection and WoW: Warlords of Draenor all in one week and Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4 and next-gen GTA5 the next week. You’re more likely to go broke this month than last.
So in this week’s trailers roundup, along with this week’s three aforementioned releases, there are trailers for indie darlings This War of Mine, Never Alone, Killing Floor 2 and Tales from the Borderlands. We have a little Nintendo content with Pokemon: Alpha Sapphire / Omega Ruby and Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road DLC. And we also have the launch trailer for Escape Dead Island from self-described small publisher Deep Silver.
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Fullscreen to Buy Rooster Teeth
One of the most popular production studios and multi-channel networks on YouTube is going to get bigger. Rooster Teeth, the production studio and YouTube MCN that rose to fame with its Halo-based Red vs. Blue series, announced that it is being purchased by Fullscreen, one of YouTube’s biggest MCN’s based on number of viewers.
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Ubisoft Embargoes Assassin’s Creed Unity Reviews Until After the Game’s Launch
Two big Triple-A games had their review embargoes lift on Tuesday. One of those was Dragon Age: Inquisition, a game that game out a week from this Tuesday, which already has the overwhelmingly positive reviews that you’d expect from BioWare of old. The other game was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Unity, a game that came out on Tuesday with some early and midnight launches but had a Noon EST review embargo.
In the latest of a series of avoidable gaffes, Ubisoft has again insulted the consumer. This time, they embargoed their top franchise’s annual offering’s review until after the game was released in an abuse of the system.
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