Xbox Spring Sale Launches Today, Include Ubisoft, 343i and EA Titles

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Xbox One Dashboard
Microsoft has launched a Spring Sale to mark the change in seasons and it includes 40 – 60% off over 150 different games from major publishers like Namco Bandai, EA Games, Konami, Ubisoft and Bethesda Softworks. Gold members also get an additional 10% off the sale price. Microsoft is also bringing back their $1 for one month of Xbox Live gold for those whose subscriptions may have lapsed. Here are some of the best Xbox One Deals: Battlefield 4 Premium 67% off – $19.99 CDN for Gold Members Battlefield Hardline Standard Edition – $16.00 CDN for Gold Members Call of

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Did Alistair McNally reveal BioWares new title at GDC?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

We have known for a while that BioWare maker of beloved Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and yes Knights of the Old Republic,  are working on a new IP. However, what we didnt know was that Alistair McNally  BioWares’s senior director of creative development have revealed that project at GDC. However, he did it in such a  clandestine that all of the media outlets (including our own) who were at GDC missed it.  Take look at that tweet for full confirmation, but basically he said that he was walking around in a new T-shirt that had the IP on it. Also it was

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Newly Released Overwatch Short: “Recall”

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Renee Gittins

Xbox just released on their channel a never before seen short film of the upcoming team-based shooter from Blizzard, Overwatch. The short stars two of the playable heroes, Winston and Reaver. The short animated film is set in Winston’s lab and delves into his past, showing where he got his start as a young ape. It also brings a bit more clarity to why the heroes of Overwatch are active again. This is the first of four expected Overwatch shorts. Overwatch is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One May 24th.

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Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault Hits Stores

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Jason Nason

Aksys Games and Acquire’s Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault, a frenetic and explosive new spin on action strategy gaming is now available. In the game prepare to dig in, plan out and build up your defenses as hordes of hulking monstrosities bombard your heavily fortified city in an attempt to wipe you off the Earth for good! Command the last bastion of humanity as you fight for the survival of the species utilizing fantastic tech, cunning tactics and massive weapons in an all-out action strategy extravaganza! Engage in dynamic city defense via revolutionary gameplay mechanics in which you rotate your

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Nintendo censors some games on Miiverse, but not in the way you think

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Jason Nason

Since Nintendo launched Miiverse I have to admit that I love it. Not just talking about games with other Nintendo gamers, but also sharing screenshots of the game. I don’t really go to Miiverse looking for gameplay help and I don’t really use it much as a forum to talk about games; my focus with Miiverse is taking and sharing screenshots of my games. Nearly every game that was made after the implementation of Miiverse supports this. But not all of them, and it seems to be hit and miss as to what games don’t. I recently picked up Senran

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New Doom Trailer Shows Off All Available Multiplayer Modes

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Doom Alpha
id Software and Bethesda games today revealed the many different game modes that players will be able to experience in DOOM’s online multiplayer.  Below is a brief description of some of the modes I found the interesting: First up in this new trailer is Soul Harvest, which rewards players not for kills but for collecting a soul token that spawns upon a player’s death. Like kill confirmed from the Call of Duty franchise and Headhunter from Halo: Reach this could mean hunting down the player with the highest number of souls to snag an easy victory or jumping in at just the right minute to collect a fresh

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Miitomo reaches 1 million downloads in Japan; Could it be released this week in North America?

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Jason Nason

With Nintendo of America set to announce the launch date for Miitomo any day now, Nintendo of Japan recently issued a statement of the initial success of the app in Japan. In the first three days Miitomo of release, Miitomo has been downloaded over 1 million times in Japan. The app was released for iOS and Android this past Friday, March 18th. While no official date has yet been set for over here, Nintendo’s timeline is listed as late March. And by a look at the calendar we,re now in the final third of the month. If NOA follows the

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It doesn’t matter if the NX is a failure Nintendo will go on

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Guest post by SZKO Have you ever heard of the term “Golden Parchute”? Well if not, a Golden Parachute is basically a contract between a C-level executive and a company that says if the executive screws up in running the company and gets fired then they will be paid out some arbitrarily high amount of money. This allows the executive to make bold decisions that hopefully will steer the company into making giant piles of money that the executive may not otherwise make because they are playing it safe. Having a giant pile of cash to fall back and to

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Final Fantasy XIV / Phantasy Star Online 2 Crossover Announced

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

FFXIV X PSO2
Two super popular MMORPG games will be coming together for a collaborative event later this summer. A small bit of the world of Eorezea from Square Enix’s popular Final Fantasy XIV will come to SEGA’s galactic sci-fi MMORPG Phantasy Star Online in the form of new equipable items based upon the FFXIV Miqote race and an Odin boss fight encounter. FFXIV producer Naoki Yoshida (known within the FFXIV community as Yoshi-P) made a special guest appearance at today’s Phantasy Star Online 2 fan event in Tokyo alongside the surprise announcement. The crowd in attendance reportedly began chanting “Yoshi OH OH

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GDC 2016: Sherlock Holmes: The Devils Daughter Preview

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Sherlock Holmes: The Devils Daughter is an action-adventure game that transports players once again back to Victorian London on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC. This latest iteration improves upon previous entries in the franchise by bringing features and gameplay elements from previous games like Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment. I got the chance to check out the title at a demo booth at this year’s Games Developer Conference, here are my impressions.

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GDC Preview: Manus VR

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Renee Gittins

This week at GDC, I was able to test several virtual reality peripherals that I was excited about. One of those was Manus VR’s glove set, gloved-based controls intended for virtual reality use. The gloves themselves are lightweight with a battery-pack on the back of the hand. It works by taking advantage of the Vive controllers tracking and using custom flex sensor within the glove. The sensors have two bend areas per finger, allowing for tracking of precise finger movements. Unlike other hand-tracking solutions, such as the Leap, there is no constraint on where your hand movement can be sensed.

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Clickteam Fusion 3 Hopes To Revolution Indie Game Development [World Premiere]

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Games have been my passion since I was very young and along with this passion came the spark of creativity – hoping that someday I would be able to develop my own video games. A piece of software from then little-known French software creation firm Clickteam called The Games Factory helped me explore the core concepts of game design. 16 years later, Clickteam is still around and their most current piece of engine technology, Clickteam Fusion 2.5 powers some of the most popular indie titles such as Five Nights at Freddy’s and The Escapists. The next generation of Clickteam developers

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Aksys Teases Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Jason Nason

Aksys Games released a teaser trailer for Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, the upcoming third game in the Zero Escape seires. Developed by Spike Chunsoft, Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma will be available for retail and digital on both the Playstation Vita and Nintendo 3DS in North America and digitally in Europe on June 28th, 2016 The first game in the series Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors was released for the Nintendo DS back in 2010, with the sequel to that game Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward hitting the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita in October 2012.

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Overfall Review, The world is alive

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Reivew by: Brandon Hall Overfall is a new game from Pera games. Funded by Kickstarter and currently in early access, the game released March 1st. The game features a mix of turn based strategy, roguelike elements, and adventure, packaged in to a 2.5 format with a lot of emphasis on exploration. Each time you play the world is randomly generated, so you get a lot of variety and re-playability. You play as two adventurers who have returned from another plane on a quest for the disk of ages  for the Everking. You return home to find that in your absence

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Preorder demo available for PS4 edition of Guilty Gear Xrd

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jason Nason

Aksys Games and Arc System Works announced on Friday that Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- will be released on June 7th for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in North America. Those who preorder the PS4 version of the game via the PlayStation Network will instantly unlock a brawler’s suite of modes! Full versions of Arcade Mode, Training Mode and Versus Mode will be instantly available upon purchase of the full PS4 system on PSN beginning April 5th! The demo mode includes all previously released Xrd characters plus three new combatants! Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- is said to run at 60 frames

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