Category Archives: Games
Valve Releases Source 2… In Dota 2 Steam Workshop Tools
Most companies will launch their new game engines with a quick little sizzle reel or tech demo showing off how spectacular their new engine looks and fill in devs on the back-end bells and whistles later. Valve isn’t most companies, though. While we knew they were working on Source 2 behind the scenes, the first look at Source 2 in the wild appears to be in the Steam Workshop Tools for Dota 2.
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Steam Reportedly Adding Movie, TV Shows and Music to the Service
With Steam trying to move into the living room with Steam Machines and the other console manufacturers trying to shift into roles as multimedia devices for your living room, a couple of lines of code in the latest Steam client beta shouldn’t surprise you but it’s making big news. SteamDB has found new binaries in the latest Steam beta referring to movies, TV series and music.
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Game Trailers Roundup for August 11, 2014
The Trailers Roundup is a little bit short this week. That’s because everyone is gearing up for Gamescom this weekend. In the grand scheme of things, it’s the last big industry event between now and the holiday buying season. Any remaining bullets in the chamber are being held onto for this weekend in Cologne so things are a bit quiet this week.
We do have three triple-A games with trailers this week. Metro Redux, Dying Light and the legacy-gen Assassin’s Creed: Rogue all revealed new trailers last week. And Sierra might be coming back for a Gamescom revival.
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Xbox Loses $400 Million in 2014 Fiscal Year
The launch of a new video game console is an exciting time to be a gamer but investors are often a little less excited about that. Traditionally, consoles are loss leaders with the manufacturers making up the difference through license fees on game sales, patch certification fees, their own stores and subscriber programs.
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Casey Hudson Leaves BioWare
It’s starting to seem as though all we do around here is cover major departures from developers but this is a fairly significant one. Long-time BioWare employee and director of the Mass Effect trilogy, Casey Hudson, announced his departure from the company after 16 years.
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The Walking Dead: Season Two – Episode Four (Spoiler-Free) Review: My Body is a Cage
One of the advantages of being behind on playing an episodic game like The Walking Dead: Season Two is that you can play multiple episodes in quick succession. I didn’t get into the first season until a random Steam Sale so I was able to go through the first three episodes at the same time. There’s something to be said about being able to keep the story rolling by binging episodes. It works for TV so why wouldn’t it for video games?
Once again, my habit of going contrary to the consensus critical opinion continues in this review. While critics rated it as the worst episode of the season, I have it as the second-best. So what did I see that no one else did?
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The Walking Dead: Season Two – Episode Three (Spoiler-Free) Review: Survival, From a Certain Point of View
For some reason, my views of this season of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead skews opposite of that of most reviewers. While I absolutely loved Episode Two, many were lukewarm relative to me. Then I look at Episode One and most critics liked it more than I did.
Episode Two introduced William Carver, the antagonist for this season of the game, and the story made a turn for the darker which is something that strikes a chord with me. The majority of critics called it the best episode of TWD Season Two when it came out. I won’t go that far but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a good episode of the game.
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Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed: Rogue After Footage Leaks
While some companies will deny, deny, deny any leaks coming out of their camp until they’re blue in the face, Ubisoft quickly gave up the fight when it came to the leak of this fall’s other Assassin’s Creed game.
After leaks on Tuesday and reports that we had for you as far back as March, Ubisoft confirmed that there would be a second Assassin’s Creed game launching this fall. This game is last-gen only on PS3 and 360 and is called Assassin’s Creed: Rogue.
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GameStop Updating Trade-In Program and Offering More Money
GameStop catches a lot of flack for their used games trade-in program. Most people feel that the scheme gives sellers too little money compared to what GameStop is able to resell them for. When you take a look at the setup of the program, you can see that it’s geared very specifically to keep money inside GameStop’s “ecosystem” and throws a whole bunch of qualifiers at clerks and customers to do so.
Now, GameStop’s overhauling their trade-in scheme. It simplifies all the variables that affect the price sellers get and increasing the base price for reselling a game by 20%.
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Game Trailers Roundup for August 5, 2014
A day late thanks to a holiday Monday in Ontario but it’s never a dollar short, it’s time for us to look at the video game trailers from the last week. If you’re looking forward to fall releases, this will be the roundup for you. Expected financial blockbusters Dragon Age: Inquisition and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare have gameplay and story trailers, respectively.
If you’re more interested in double-A franchises, Codemaster’s new F1 game got a reveal trailer. Whether the lack of engine sound in it is a commentary on the new F1 engine formula or just the early state of work on sound is something Codies would have to tell us. Digimon gets a new fighting game and a new Chinese MOBA gets announced.
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