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”GOT A DEGREE, MOVED TO BLACK MESA, FFFFFFUUUUUUUU
All You Need To Know About Gordon Freeman’s Backstory.
Via this forum thread containing the GameInformer scans that confirm Portal 2 is coming to the Mac.
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Here’s a larger version of the 6th “Steam and Half Life for Mac” teaser shot that Valve sent to me for Macworld. 1200px wide enough for you? Click the image to get the full version.
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Darksiders is awesome. Really awesome
It’s Zelda + God of War in a cooler setting: You play as War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who was somehow tricked into prematurely triggering judgement day for all beings in heaven, hell, and Earth.
It is 100 years after an apocalyptic war between heaven and hell destroyed the Kingdom of Man and humanity itself. You were stripped of your powers and killed at the onset of the apocalypse, and now you’ve been sent back to Earth powerless, on a mission to find out what happened and who did it, or die trying. You’re running around the ruins of modern day society, overtaken by demonic growth and the monstrous habitats of Earth’s new tenants.
An open-ended world, just-complex-enough combat, massive bosses, lots of different character and weapon upgrade paths, and puzzles of mixed difficulty and scale are making for a great experience so far. Run, don’t walk.
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Bleep Bloop: Bioshock 2 Custome
I wish they would ask him what he actually does for a living. Impressive.
via Gizmodo
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Tuper Tario Tros.
Stupid name, brilliant Flash game mashup of Super Mario Bros. and Tetris. You basically have to switch out of Mario gameplay to drop Tetris blocks and build your path through the level. There’s some interesting game design ideas here.
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”An extremely common misconception is that you can no longer play when you’re out of energy. The fact of the matter is you continue playing Eliminate for as long as you want, your character’s progress will just be stopped until the next recharge and it will take a few seconds longer for you to get matched in to a game. That’s it. If you’re happy just playing a few matches each day while earning credits and the rest of the time just playing for fun, you never need to spend a cent on Eliminate.
Almost Everything You Need to Know About ‘Eliminate Pro’ (Review) | Touch Arcade
Touch Arcade clears up the confusion around Eliminate, ngmoco’s new online multiplayer iPhone FPS that features a leveling system and in-app purchases. I think this is a much more reasonable arrangement, and Matthew Rex’s fears about ngmoco’s slippery slope are unfounded.
You begin Eliminate with an energy bar that drains after each match. To continue playing and earning credits with which to level up your character, you have to either wait 240 minutes or buy more energy via in-app purchases.
But if you want to just play for free without spending a dime to partake in the leveling system, knock yourself out. Eliminate features a matchmaking system that pairs you with other players at the same skill and equipment levels, so you shouldn’t have much of a David vs Goliath disappointment.
Unless AT&T gives you a polite phone call about gobbling too much 3G bandwidth (a call that will inevitably drop), it sounds like you can play Eliminate for free over 3G or WiFi until you’re blue in the face, as long as you’re ok with a static character at whatever point you choose to stop (or never begin) paying. This seems quite fair to me.
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”Not intent with charging for games traditionally, [ngmoco has] opted to release games for free and require you to pay-to-play.
ngmoco’s slippery slope: Eliminate and TouchPets - matthewrex
My gut reaction is the same as Matt’s, accusing ngmoco of greed and falling from their pedestal. But then I wonder about what’s involved with running and supporting a mobile game that is as bandwidth-intensive as Eliminate. It’s a multiplayer high-action iPhone FPS in a deathmatch format, playable over both WiFi and 3G. Gotta wonder what the bandwidth costs are for that, especially since other high-bandwidth applications like Sling Player have been shot down by AT&T unless their 3G network abilities are handicapped.
Eliminate is free, and you get what sounds like about 15 minutes of free game time every day (or two?) before you need to purchase credits if you want to play more. Honestly, considering Eliminate’s mobility, that sounds fairly reasonable to me. Then again, I don’t have a lot of time to game during the day, and I much prefer to be armed with a keyboard and mouse for a FPS.
Love it or hate it, this brave new connected world is difficult and expensive to maintain. New business models for applications like this may be only the beginning.
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”The rest of us will stick with our current hardware, thanks. If you sell a system that takes hours of setup, downloading, and charging before you can see what a game looks like on the screen, you have failed pretty spectacularly. I absolutely love my PSP, but [the PSP Go] is what would happen if a facepalm was turned into a piece of hardware.
PSP Go review: Sony is charging you much more for much less - Ars Technica
Sony has lost ground in some of its key industries, closed retail stores, is hemorrhaging cash, enduring criticism from nerds and the public alike, and this is what they come up with?
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”Today, I got through an entire dungeon, had fireballs shot at me, fought a giant turtle and the princess turns out to be in another castle. FML
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Nintendo to transform Times Square into real-life Wii Sports Resort - Joystiq
Be careful when passing through Times Square on the 23rd. You just know a few Wiimotes are going to get embedded in windshields and store windows.
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Doom Resurrection Review for iPhone - Touch Arcade
It uses a unique control style to eliminate the weaknesses of FPS gameplay on an all-touch device. Movement is automatic along a scripted path, but you use the display, accelerometer, and various HUD buttons around the screen to aim, shoot, pick up items, and dodge fire. This looks really tempting.
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Icrontic Gaming » What the WWDC iPhone announcements don’t mean for gamers
My pal Chris White just landed a gig writing at Icrontic. Everyone clap and open this in 100 tabs to congratulate him.
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Is it bad that I kinda want to see this film?
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Is “Unless You Are Being Attacked By A Terminator” the new In The Butt? *hopes*
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