Law & Order: Game of Thrones
If you’ve kept up with this season of Game of Thrones, you’d know why a Law & Order mashup would be very appropriate. The folks at Double Prizes cut together the Law and Order: SVU intro with Game of Thrones and even gave a little scene starting with the famous Law & Order thunk-thunk sound.
By the way, if you haven’t seen the last couple of episodes: spoilers.
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Critics Corner: Wolfenstein: The New Order
There is little that gamers like more than old franchises. Reboots, remakes, sequels. These are the life blood of modern gaming. While people like new IPs, it seems like people go crazy over old IPs. And I wonder why I lament the death of creativity when the big money makers are sequels. I don’t count GTA in that because each GTA has little to do with the ones preceding it apart from mechanics.
I’ve actually played a little bit of Wolfenstein back at Fan Expo last August. I came away with a few impressions from that demo. First and foremost, I just can’t FPS to save my life and I really can’t without my mouse and keyboard in hand. The visuals weren’t spectacular on the early Xbox 360 build. The gameplay felt decidedly old school with limited regenerating health (from 1% to 25% health), picking up stuff off the ground rather than collecting it by walking over it and crouch jumping. I’d imagine that it changed a bit in the 10 months between when I played it and when you will.
But enough of what I think of Wolfenstein. Let’s see what the professionals think.
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Critics Corner: Transistor
I’m not saying that there haven’t been any noteworthy games released over the last few months but prior to this week, we hadn’t done a Critics Corner metareview of a game in two months. Transistor leads off an unusually packed late-May release lineup. You’ve got Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 leading the big budget productions while Transistor represents the indie contingent.
Supergiant Games had only one game under its belt prior to this week but having Bastion as its only title made it as close to video gaming royalty as one game will get you. Now, they’re back with Transistor. While the game tries not to be Bastion, it’s hard for reviewer (and gamers, I’d imagine) not to draw the inevitable comparison between Supergiant’s two games.
The game’s story and gameplay are a bit divisive with some critics absolutely loving how the story was done and the new style of gameplay while others just weren’t interested in what Transistor was offering. Everyone agreed that the art style and audio were absolutely fantastic.
But enough of my intro and summary. What did the critics think of Transistor?
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Man of Steel 2 Now Called “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
Just when you thought that Superman was back in a big way with last year’s blockbuster Man of Steel, DC Comics and Warner Brothers want to remind you who is on top of the DC food chain.
The sequel to the Superman reboot is not only not a Superman-focused movie but Superman doesn’t even get top billing. The Man of Steel sequel is now officially known as “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
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CVG, The World’s First Gaming Mag, Facing Closure
Just as the gaming industry grows with record revenues at the launch of a new console generation, the old guard of the gaming media whithers and dies. A BBC report says that CVG’s publishers, Future, are examining the future of the CVG brand and may shut the magazine down.
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Game Trailers Roundup for May 21, 2014
Just because this was a holiday weekend in Canada doesn’t mean that I’m not going to do the weekly trailer roundup. It just means that it’ll be a little later than usual.
To make up for the slight tardiness in this week’s video game trailers roundup, I have a couple of launch trailers for games that would have already come out by the time this post goes live. Yesterday was launch day for Bethesda’s FPS Wolfenstein: The New Order and Supergiant Games’ new Transistor which is the one that we should care more about. Also, ahead of next week’s release, Ubisoft has a lengthy video previewing Watch Dogs.
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Riot Unveils Fantasy LCS
Growing up and even to this day, it seems as though more people are interested in their fantasy sport teams than their favourite teams and players. Loyalty is nice but nothing grabs people’s attention like competition with friends and random folks on the internet.
Riot Games are trying to cash in on the popularity of fantasy sports by launching their own fantasy eSport. Starting this summer and currently in beta, Riot is launching Fantasy LCS for summoners who might make a better team manager than team member.
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Lawsuit Claims iPhones Don’t Deliver Texts to Android Phones
Have you ever wondered why your friends with iPhones never seem to text back or take their sweet time answering? They aren’t ignoring you. Well, not all of the time, anyways. A new lawsuit alleges that iPhones don’t deliver text messages to users on Android and other mobile phones with the problems worst for users who switched from iPhones to other devices.
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Twitter Working on Deal for SoundCloud
This is a pretty big week for business acquisitions. First, it was all about YouTube’s reported purchase of Twitch. Then, there was the story about AT&T buying DirecTV for billions of dollars but only if the NFL renewed its Sunday Ticket deal. Now, Twitter decieded to get in on the action. A new report suggests that the social media / microblogging website is in talks to buy online audio-sharing website SoundCloud.
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Comic Book Pull List for May 21, 2014
This week, the DC Comics universe begins again. After many weeks of delays, the Forever Evil saga comes to an end. Old storylines end (or maybe they die) and new ones rise in their wake. So if you’re a DC fan, you have three comics to choose from. The big DC-verse-wide event comes to and end as Lex Luthor’s Injustice League does battle with Earth-3’s Crime Syndicate in Forever Evil #7. The fallout from that continues in a new storyline in Justice League #30. And the JLA series comes to an end in Justice League of America #14 but who will survive.
Elsewhere in the comic book world, Marvel’s 2014 universe event continues in Original Sin #2. Just because they’re losing the Star Wars license doesn’t mean that Dark Horse isn’t pushing out new Star Wars series. New this week is Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir #1. And Dynamite has a new series featuring pulp hero The Shadow in the Cold War called The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #1.
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