April 10, 2016

Check Out The Evolution of Half-Life 2’s Prison In This Video Compilation


Posted on April 10, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

It is well known that the story, environment and even characters of Valve’s classic shooter Half-Life 2 went through many different iterations during the game’s five year development.  YouTube user TalonBrave.info have taken it upon themselves to chronicle the many different changes the Nova Prospekt map (once simply known as ‘Prison’) underwent throughout 2002.

Speaking about one particular unused area called ‘The Caffiteria’ TalonBrave wrote:

“The level you’re seeing here is from a VMF named cafeteria, which appears to have been produced by David Sawyer; who was a designer at Valve, who produced most of the iterations of the Prison that we’re going to see.The level you’re seeing here is from a VMF named cafeteria, which appears to have been produced by David Sawyer; who was a designer at Valve, who produced most of the iterations of the Prison that we’re going to see.”

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Pre-order Bravely Second bonus features from Canadian retailers


Posted on April 10, 2016 by Jason Nason

Several Canadian retailers are offering four bonus in-game costume outfits while supplies last for pre-order the Bravely Second: End Layer.

Best Buy’s offer, which is available both online and in-store thru valid until April 15, 2016, offers the Gathelatio Bonus Set. That includes Chompette’s Coat, Planeswarden Garb, Sagittarius Garb, and United Garb. Online Customers will have their code emailed within 48 hours of game release. Store / In-store Pickup Customers will have their code provided upon paid balance and receipt of the game.

Amazon.ca customers will get the Al-Khampis Bonus Set, which includes Bravo Bunny, Bonsoir Bunny, Eastern War Garb, and Scholar’s Gown. Codes will be emailed to consumer upon completion of purchase of game from Amazon.ca for those purchasing the game digitally. Code will be emailed within 5 business days after your order ships for physical purchases.

The Amazon.ca offer is valid until April 14th, 2016.

EB Games customers will recieve the Caldisla Bonus Set, which includes the Knight’s Tunic, Vestal Garb, Minstrel’s Garb, and Onion Knight Garb. This offer, which is only available online, is valid until April 14th. Codes will be emailed within 5 business days after your order ships.


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Nintendo’s Super Spring Sale runs until April 21st


Posted on April 10, 2016 by Jason Nason

Nintendo is offering some good savings in the Nintendo eShop with their Super Spring Sale. Select games are up to 30 percent off in Nintendo eShop starting at until 11:59 a.m. ET on April 21st.

The prices listed below are the USD prices, but many of the regaular and sale prices are the same. Some of the older games which were released when the Canadian and American dollars were closer to par had their MSRP prices closer together.

Check out teh full list of games below.

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Spencer says “Xbox One Will Have a ‘Nice’ E3 2016”


Posted on April 10, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

I think most of us remember the Xbox one being called “undepowered and suck” by several game magazines around the world. Things have come a long way since then. I can now play my Xbox One from my PC, Microsoft has announced that I will be able to cross save files from my Windows 10 apps to my Xbox, and that I can probably only buy most games once and play them on both my Xbox and my PC. While its a bit unlikely that Xbox will ever make it to PS4 levels of console sales there is no doubt that Microsoft (and Phil Spencer) has done a good job of trying to do right by gamers with Xboxes current direction.

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In a recent interview with the Venture beat Spencer said

“In the near term, our focus is on the Xbox console. We’re going to have a nice E3. The next focus is how we come to desktop. I’ll call it that. A lot of our franchises map better to desktop. A lot of our players play on both console and desktop. So let’s go after that and see what issues we run into, like control or voice communication or cross-buy, things we’re trying to enable. Let’s solve one big issue first and then look at the next wave of touch in mobile as a place we can go,”

The gist of what Spencer seems to be saying is that the Xbox console’s reach is set to extend far beyond the Xbox it self and off in the world of Windows 10. We have seen some of this with the much maligned recent release of Quantum Break, which was Microsoft’s first heavily advertised cross platform unified architecture game, and now it probably time for us to listen to a long presentation where we hear about the “console divide” and how Gears 4 will be cross platform.

What do you think will happen at this years E3 conference with Xbox? Tell us on Facebook or Twitter or in the comments below!


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Splatoon update and remixed weapons coming April 12th


Posted on April 10, 2016 by Jason Nason

The version 2.7.0 Update for Splatoon will be released on the evening of April 12th. And with the update comes a slew of remixed weapons.

In preparation for the update though, the Splatoon server will be under maintenance from 7:50 PM ET – 9:00 PM PT on April 12th, which means that online services for Splatoon will be unavailable.

At 10:00 PM ET eight remixed weapons, known as Sheldon’s Picks Vol. 1 will be available for purchase in the game at Ammo Knights as well.

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