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- And now, a moment from Rust
- Rad Show: Age of Time
- Rekoil comes out this month on PC and Xbox Live Arcade
- SOE changing its terms for a few free-to-play games
- The most inexplicably-often rented games at Blockbuster
- Sup Holmes sucks it down with Soda Drinker Pro's Will B.
- Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 has begun!
- The new Street Fighter IV character is tied to the comics
- Throne Together is a puzzle game for Windows 8
- Nintendo squashed Earthbound dev's book plans, and more
- Download a free track from the Dragon Fantasy Book II OST
- Continue?9876543210 follows a failed, dead game character
- Resident Evil: Outbreak is back online thanks to fans
- eSports player owed thousands after team CEO disappears
| Posted: 05 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST Rust is the new game from the people behind Garry's Mod. It's in alpha right now and it's a mix of Minecraft and DayZ where you cut down trees to build sanctuaries from the crippling cold. It's currently in alpha, and like DayZ, will surely produce many moments like this one incident. (Via Reddit) |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST So after exploring the empty backstage area of gaming to find something weird for you guys to watch, I found this gem of a game called Age of Time. I mean this is not the normal Lucha game by any means. It's pretty strange. I don't understand it one bit. But, it's like 32 Mg and I figured we could all play it like some dumb community thing get frustrated and be stupid. So you can download this gem here. |
| Rekoil comes out this month on PC and Xbox Live Arcade Posted: 05 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Plastic Piranha's Rekoil is coming out at the end of this month. Expect the Windows PC version on January 28 through Steam. The Xbox Live Arcade version is titled Rekoil: Liberator, and that's out January 29. Each version will run for $14.99, but those that want to pre-order via Steam can get the game for 30% off, bringing the game down to $10.49. What can you expect? 40 different weapons, seven game modes, ten maps, and five customizable classes. Plus the PC version has modding tools, and more importantly, has a higher chance of a player base and on-going support than what the console version would see. |
| SOE changing its terms for a few free-to-play games Posted: 05 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Right now, it's a pretty popular option to let subscribers of free-to-play games pay a monthly fee to get extra stuff on top of the F2P experience. Players of EverQuest, EverQuest II, and PlanetSide 2 currently get 500 "Station Cash" monthly, but starting February you'll have the option to pick up an item worth 2000 -- you can miss this item, so you have to choose every month. DC Universe Online and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will have their own changes in tow for Legendary and Gold members respectively. My problem with games with "sub" options on top of F2P is that they ultimately don't offer as much value as a full-on subscription based game. With all of the microtransactions on top of that "premium" sub, dedicated players just end up paying more than they would for a standard MMO and get less content for it. Still, it's a fine line, because some people only want to dabble in MMOs and don't want to commit to a monthly fee -- so they won't be playing games like Elder Scrolls Online. Hopefully in the future there will be some sort of consistent compromise, but the developers that are working on WildStar seem to be dabbling in that. SOE Making Changes to Subscriber Account Benefits [Ten Ton Hammer] |
| The most inexplicably-often rented games at Blockbuster Posted: 05 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST [Dtoid community blogger TheDustinThomas shares some of his experiences from his time working at Blockbuster (RIP). Want to see your own blog appear on our front page? Go write something! --Mr Andy Dixon] Most gamers around my age have tons of sentimental memories regarding their favorite rental shops growing up. These days, renting has become almost entirely a thing of the past, especially now that Blockbuster is a faint memory. I never rented from Blockbuster as a kid; we instead rented from our local Marsh Supermarket. Yeah, renting movies and games from the grocery store was a thing you could do. I spent so much of my parents' money renting NES games and late 80s WWF Home Videos. I got out of the renting game in the N64 era, and I even had a few-year period where I didn't really game that much. It wasn't until I got hired on at a local Blockbuster Video that I started renting games again, because renting a game for free for a week is a lot better than paying $7 for five days. This was in 2005, right in the heart of the PS2/GameCube/Xbox era. Unfortunately, even though my store was one of the more busy ones in the area, we didn't get a very good selection of games, and any decent games we did receive, we would only get one or two copies of. We have 2 copies of Resident Evil 4, but don't worry, we have 25 copies of Madden 2006! Since our selection was so barren, I took a lot of chances on games that I had seen get rented out often. Sometimes this worked out great, like with God of War and The Suffering, but more often than not, I wound up on the losing end of the deal. The following is a list of games that I found to get rented the most for no good reason. |
| Sup Holmes sucks it down with Soda Drinker Pro's Will B. Posted: 05 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST This week on Sup Holmes, we welcome Will Brierly to the program. Will's probably best known for the unfairly compelling underground hit Soda Drinker Pro, and why not? The New York Post, The Boston Herald, and the French think it's an important game. Two newspapers and an entire country can't be wrong. It even has a surprise! Will's also worked on My Girl (based on the hit Macaulay Culkin feel good film), the upcoming Oculus Rift title Gator Time, the playable music video for Wheat's Living 2 Die Vs. Dying 2 Live, and new arcade game Get Outta My Face, and many, many other games. Too many to list! We'll be talking about what got him into game development, how he's honed his wild, trashy style, the risks and challenges of creating a game that looks dumb but is secretly maybe not that dumb, and a lot more. Tune int at 1pm PST/4pm EST for the full shebang! |
| Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 has begun! Posted: 05 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST Just a quick reminder that Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 is underway! The seven day marathon benefits Prevent Cancer Foundation and will see people racing to beat games quick while raising money. On top of all the speed running, Simon Vicklund (Payday, Bionic Commando Rearmed) is lending his talents to the campaign, offering to remix one of a number for NES soundtracks depending on which gets the most bids. 900 games are on deck this year, and you can see the full schedule right here. Otherwise the stream is embedded below, and here's the donation page. |
| The new Street Fighter IV character is tied to the comics Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST A source has teased a new clue to Siliconera that the new Ultra Street Fighter IV character has been seen before in the comics. So either she's been in the Street Fighter II manga, or the UDON series. Shoryuken speculates that it's Sarai Kurosawa, a friend of Ibuki who's made an appearance in an UDON comic, plus she's made cameos in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Street Fighter X Tekken. Other potential ladies could be the Dolls, Gouken's daughter, and well a ton of other potential ladies. My favorite theory at the moment comes from reader Reinhold Hoffmann who suggests it's just Yoshinori Ono dressed up as Chun Li. |
| Throne Together is a puzzle game for Windows 8 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST Hey remember that Throne Together trademark that was filed by Microsoft? Yeah turns out it's a block-based puzzle game for Windows 8. It's a game where you have to place blocks down to build castles. You have to be careful with how you place down the blocks, as uneven weight distribution will make your castle fall. It's free to play so long as you have Windows 8.1. Sorry Brett, your dream of a Game of Thrones and Drawn Together crossover are DEAD. |
| Nintendo squashed Earthbound dev's book plans, and more Posted: 05 Jan 2014 03:30 AM PST Last week on Sup Holmes (now on iTunes), we spent a fast hour and a half with Marcus Lindblom, localization and translation head on Earthbound. Having gotten his start as a tech adviser and game counselor, he was eventually promoted to work on localization and copy editing, with Wario's Woods being one of his first games. From there he moved on to work on Earthbound (writing a lot of the jokes, naming items, and creating new objects like the Eraser Eraser when needed), and eventually to other huge franchises like Destroy All Humans, Evil Dead: Regeneration, and... Halo 4? I doubt you saw that one coming. With over 20 years in the industry, Marcus had a wealth of insights, opinions and anecdotes to share. We talked about his dreams of making a new Mother game with Shigesato Itoi that focuses on reliving the levity and sweetness found in Earthbound, how he's saddened by the the way certain AAA games seem to have a pre-installed review score of 9/10 or above based solely on their budgets and intellectual properties, how he's quite unhappy with a lot of his work on Earthbound and would love to re-write it, his plans for a new Facebook-based RTS, and so much more. The saddest, most surprising bit for me was when he revealed former plans to write a book about his experiences working on Earthbound, only to have Nintendo ask him not to go forward with the project. With Earthbound finding new success on the Wii U virtual console (reportedly selling more copies on re-release than it did initially on the SNES), I'd think that Nintendo would want to jump on anything that will help keep the game in the headlines and fans feeling passionate and talkative about the game. I suppose this goes right in line with their attitude towards shutting down Lets Players. I know there are plenty of people within the company that are firmly against that kind of thing, though history would prove that they are often overruled. |
| Download a free track from the Dragon Fantasy Book II OST Posted: 05 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST Dragon Fantasy Book II released last year for PS3 and Vita, improving on Dragon Fantasy Book I with 16-bit graphics and a more fully realized soundtrack. What you may not know is that the soundtrack was composed by our very own corgi-loving Editor-in-Chief, Dale North. What you also may not know is that the soundtrack has debuted at MAGFest and will be going on sale on January 6. It does a fantastic job of evoking SNES-era role-playing game soundtracks, with tracks ranging from sweeping orchestral pieces fit for untold adventures to funk bass infused tunes appropriate for exploring the more disreputable locations of the fantasy world. And I'm not just saying that because Dale could fire me at a moment's notice! Ha ha ha. Ha. No really, it's good, I promise. In case you want a free sample, check out "Hypothecary" below or download it from Destructoid's SoundCloud. |
| Continue?9876543210 follows a failed, dead game character Posted: 05 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST Continue?9 The game stars a dead and failed videogame character left wandering the recesses of the Random Access Memory. You're trying to find peace in your final moments before being deleted forever, and doubles as an existential metaphor of life and how we live it. Jason shared the inspiration behind the game, from road trips to nowhere, Peruvian jungle drugs, and "a brush with death while hopelessly lost in the mountains of New Mexico." Continue? is available on Steam as of this past Friday for $9.99 on Windows, Linux, and Mac, but you can pick it up for $7.99 with the launch sale discount. |
| Resident Evil: Outbreak is back online thanks to fans Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:00 AM PST Resident Evil: Outbreak and the sequel File #2 can both be played online with other players once again. Capcom had shutdown the servers long ago, but dedicated fans were able to reverse-engineer custom made servers. The catch is that this will only work with the Japanese version of the game as there are no known packet captures of the American and European versions of Outbreak. So there you go. If you're a diehard Outbreak fan that owns the Japanese version still, have fun. For everyone else, let us reminisce the part with the zombie zoo animals. 10 years later - Resident Evil Outbreak 1 & 2 are back online! [NeoGAF, via Rely on Horror] |
| eSports player owed thousands after team CEO disappears Posted: 05 Jan 2014 12:00 AM PST Simon Boudreault is the 23-year-old CEO of the Quantic Gaming eSports team, and he owes a lot of people some money The Daily Dot reports. For starters, pro StarCraft II player Ko Hyun has been owed $23,000 in salary and prize money for months now. What's more, numerous people on the Quantic Gaming staff are owed thousands of dollars as well. Upwards to $40,000 is owed to numerous employees. Simon has dropped off the map since December 17, and no one knows where he is. Shortly before disappearing Simon told people he was going for a biopsy on a lump on his lung. Simon has disappeared for weeks at a time before with no explanation, but this time people aren't expecting him back at all. The entire situation is downright sad, and Daily Dot's report sheds a lot of light on how things work behind the scenes with the ever growing field of eSports. ESports star hunts for his missing CEO—so he can sue for $23,000 [The Daily Dot] |
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