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Animal Crossing: New Leaf review
Thanks much.
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The Last of Us review
Journey's end.
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Does Animal Crossing Stress Anyone Else Out?
Not sure if she's doing it wrong, Olivia questions whether or not Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a management sim blessing or a holy-crap-there-so-much-to-do-and-I-want-the-best-town-ever-right-now time-sink curse.
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The Witcher 3 Opens Its World for a Wild Hunt
CD Projekt Red lets a neophyte take a look at the latest Witcher title.
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In Which Lavish Praise is Heaped Upon Two Old Game Boy Color Re-Releases
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Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Review
A review of Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.
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Gender is Carefully Balanced in The Last of Us
Gender equality in video games is an important talking point in our community. With this in mind, Olivia takes a look at how well Naughty Dog handles gender roles in The Last of Us. Warning, this article contains spoilers.
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Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Launches on Steam
Satirical role-playing game makes its way to Steam for PC and Mac... but beware of the microtransactions!
Live: Ubisoft E3 2013 Conference
Deus Ex: The Fall is six hours long, the first of a series and will contain in-app purchases
An isometric or top-down action rpg would have worked quite well.
But no, they are shoehorning a fps onto iOS which reminds me of the days of Street Fighter 2 on the Spectrum or Resident Evil on the GBC, they can be done, but the experience is vastly subpar due to technical limitations. Reply +7
Deus Ex: The Fall is an iPhone and iPad game out soon
Just fuck off with this "Master Race" bullshit, I mainly play PC games these days and I've been playing them for over a decade. I love mouse and keyboard but I'm not such a fucking moron as to disparage anyone who favours a different control device to me.
A games controller works perfectly well for most game types bar strategy games (Oddly, the type of game touch screen and mouse excel at.) I don't give a flying fuck if you hate aim assist and that your l33t skillz with a mouse net you more kills, For single player games or console games, there is nothing wrong with a controller.
A touch screen, however is impractical for FPS/TPS; It forces your hands into impractical and uncomfortable positions, precious screen real estate is taken up by various buttons and your hands are constantly in the way.
There may well be a lot of these types of game coming out for the touch devices, but that doesn't mean they should. This isn't about one control method being better than another, its about pushing games that shouldn't ever be used with that device being forced onto it.
But then I guess, you'd be demeaning those who drive electric cars saying that walking in cement boots is stupid because your petrol car is the best way to get around. Reply +2
40 minutes of Fast & Furious: Showdown you'll never get back
I actually went looking at PS1 racing game graphics and there isn't a whole deal of difference. A few extra polygons, slightly smoother frame rate and some basic anti-aliasing, but yeah, even driver 3 on the PS2 looks better than this and that's nearly a decade old, running on the least capable machine of the last generation of consoles. Reply -4
Football Manager-style Blood Bowl game announced
Destiny: Bungie unveils its shared-world shooter
It seems with this and Diablo 3 we find games are being designed around awful DRM to lock players in and to monitor and monetize them every step of the way.
Coincidence Activision are involved with both of these 'pioneering' titles? Reply +64
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes review
Great iPad games that I've come into contact with so far:
Pirates!
A Bard's Tale
Galaxy on Fire HD
Aliens Vs Humans (It's old school X-Com)
Its also home to some amazing board game adaptions such as Elder Sign: Omens and Scotland Yard.
The trouble with games on ios is that the cheap and shitty games far, far outweigh the top-tier stuff and makes it hard to discover the great indie games. Reply +2
Microsoft delighted with Xbox NUads, vows increased investment
EDIT: I'm actually kind of depressed at how often this video has become a response to gaming news over the past couple of years. Reply +43
I saw it with my own eyes: Woodcutter Simulator 2013
Sega is suing Level-5 over its touchscreen controls in Inazuma Eleven
It would have made 1st and 3rd person games pretty much impossible to make with a controller in mind.
Innovation is often bought about by mimicking and improving on someone else's ideas. Patents these days make sure that once an idea has been imagined it's next to impossible to improve on it. Reply +3
Creativity is rapidly being destroyed by greedy people and their greedy lawyers. Reply +36
New Black Isle intends to make triple-A RPGs based on Interplay's IP
Amazingly, I give even less of a shit about the news now than I did yesterday. Reply +10
Borderlands 2: Gearbox reveals the Mechromancer's "girlfriend mode"
I mean guys had to start somewhere didn't they? You weren't given a gender specific mode to cut your teeth with, were you, so why should it be different for women? Reply +6
I'm also working with the Freemasons and the Council of Elder Zionists to make sure women can take control of the world by the year 2037, whereby we'll force sterilisation on all men and live the rest of our days in a lesbian paradise. Reply +4
"Look, dear, they've even put a game mode in just for you. It's a cute girl and its super easy."
It's just like selling everything for girls in pink or with princesses ffs. It's condescending and fucking offensive to some of us.
Even the fucking name of "Best Friends Forever" implies that it's just for girls as it's a common term used among the girly-girly type of girls they think gamers have as girlfriends! Reply +2
I don't think so. That might have been the case a decade ago, but these days there are a hell of a lot of female gamers who play games as well as men. By implying such a thing, it just shows that this guy has no clue as to the true audience of his company's product, and simply assuming it still consists of a bunch of boys belies the general patriarchy that exists in the upper echelons of the industry still.
The simple fact, that there have been so many articles and controversies over sexism in gaming recently shows that a shift is happening and sexism, whether intended or not, is not acceptable in the industry any longer.
There is still a long way to go, however, and we have to make a stink over things like the 'Girlfriend Mode' so we can shake the dinosaurs and manchildren out of their old ways of thinking until the industry is something that can truly be enjoyed by all. Reply +7
Context is key.
Besides, no one has said anything about banning anything. Most of us are merely showing our disdain for another derogatory comment from someone in the industry, not calling out for his blood. Reply +4
Yeah, making generalisations about a class of people is fucking offensive. Only the most racist people would not find offence at the above sentence, so why is it okay to call all girlfriends non-gamers who are useless at games?
The simple fact is, more women are playing games than ever and a great many of us are as capable, if not better than the men who thinks their hobby belongs to them. Having someone stereotype us as being unable to play anything but the simplest of games is patronising, if not sexist. Reply +5
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 theme composed by Trent Reznor
I guess Activision's money is just too much to resist. That, or Bobby Kotick is really a Sith Lord. Reply -21
Resident Evil 6 demo launches for Xbox 360 Dragon's Dogma owners
Crystal Dynamics: Controversial Tomb Raider scene is "close physical intimidation," not rape
I mean this whole premise is used in a lot of squicky lolicon and rape fan-fic and should not make its way into the mainstream in any fashion. Reply +13