Oculus Rift Priced; Internet Freaks Out

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Kenny Keelan

Paradigm Shift In case you missed it or you’ve been living underneath a gaming rock for the last little while, Oculus announced a price and start date for shipping for its Rift VR Headset: 599$ USD and March 28th. As one can expect, the reaction was generally the same as it is with things that have been hyped a lot: “gaming company does a thing; the internet freaks out.” I could talk about the reasoning behind such pricing, why some people think it’s outrageous, why I think it’s perfectly reasonable and should have been expected, and why expectations were set differently

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January 7th Nintendo Download

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Jason Nason

SDK Spriter – Demo Version – SDK Spriter is an all-in-one studio for creating retro video game assets, including character sprite sheets, tile sets, maps, and full levels. The final assets can be exported to Miiverse™ or SDKSpriter.com. Sprite sheets are comprised of 64×64 pixel art characters that have eight frames of animation for each compass direction. The resulting sprite sheet is a PNG image. Tiles sets are comprised of 64×64 tile pixel art that is assembled into a 16×16 grid. The resulting tile set is a PNG image. Maps are 256×256 grids of tiles that reference an existing tile set.

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Humble Tom Clancy Bundle 2 Sneaks Into View

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

The Division
Humble Bundle’s latest tiered selection of games once again selects titles from series bearing the name of late author Tom Clancy. Whether you are going to be planning missions for Team Rainbow or sneaking down corridors as Sam Fisher  there are a number of games available at a few price points. Interestingly the “beta the average” tier also includes beta access to Tom Clancy’s Division on PC later this year. Here’s the full list of available of titles: $1 or more Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998) Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 (2003) Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (2006) Tom Clancy’s

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Unravel Trailer Shows Us The Inspiration Behind Yarny

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

A brand new trailer for Coldwood’s Unravel has spun its way on to YouTube. This new video gives you some information on the inspiration behind protagonist Yarny , as the game’s creative director Martin Sahlin discusses how a family camping influenced the game’s creation. In his recent blog post Martin Sahlin described his vision for Yarny: I really wanted Yarny to be brave, and to accomplish great things despite being so small. I hoped when we were making the game that Yarny would be empathetic and relatable, and based on your support, I can see that Yarny is already reaching people.

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New Dying Light The Following Story Trailer

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Techland, the developers behind Dying Light, have given fans another glimpse into the story for the upcoming expansion in a brand new trailer titled “A Prophecy Incarnated”. This trailer also gives viewers a brief glimpse at some of the new characters to be introduced in this expansion as well as its’ new environments. Dying Light: The Following is a major expansion for the original 2015 game. Following the original game’s protagonist The Following drops players into a new area known as Harran’s Outback. Game-play balance is adjusted in The Following with a focus on wider open rural areas, drivable vehicles

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Skipmore Looking to Release Two 3DS Games in 2016

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Jason Nason

Skipmore Games, who were the developers of last year’s Circle release Fairune, have stated that they are hoping to release a second 3DS game in 2016 after they complete the follow up Fairune II. That game is nearing completion and the developers are currently working on the final boss. You can check out our review of the original Fairune here. The developer is also looking to develop a trio of new smartphone apps this year. Many of their mobile games are available locally in the app store and the Google Play store and are free. You can find their mobile

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Cooler Master unveils new modular case

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Cooler Master has always led the way in case design for avid PC gamers, but now it seems they are upping their game in to the enthusiast world with a fully modular case. As someone who themselves uses a CM trooper and loves it, this can not come as better news. Cooler Master has long been my favorite manufacturer of cases and now the MasterAir Maker 8 and 5 show that they are as dedicated to their craft as I am to gaming. The new case called the MasterAir Maker 5 incudes four USB ports, one of which is USB 3.0 Type-C, a

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Psychonauts 2 reaches funding goal

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Well it was bound to happen, Psychonauts 2 has successfully raised the over 3 million dollars it requested from its fans on new fundraising site Fig.com [youtube id=i7i2yfqp8pc] Fig is interesting in that its more of a micro investment site than a true crowd funder, yes still in this case the campaign is split almost 50/50 between conventional “reward” backers, at $1.613 million, and investors, at $1.698 million. It seems many of the donators either did not understand how fig works, or simply love Psychonauts 2 so much they just wanted to give it their money with no real want of

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Palmer Luckey insists “we are not making money on Rift”

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Oculus
So the Occulus Rift sold out at 600$. A price point that I belived would make it unobtainable for most average consumers. Way too much for me (I had budgeted for 450$), and 100$ more even than most industry estimates. Much more than what we heard in 2014 which was 200$-400$ and while this was in a European publication, its still fairly safe to say even in Euros that price does not match. Luckey tweeted “To reiterate, we are not making money on Rift hardware. High end VR is expensive, but Rift is obscenely cheap for what it is.” The hole

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Second and Third Series Animal Crossing amiibo Cards

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Jason Nason

The second series of Animal Crossing amiibo cards will be released in North America on January 22nd but the third series are almost out in Japan. Before we get our hands on series 2 the third set of 100 cards will be available in Japan. One week before to be exact. While I’m still working to collect all 100 from the first series, I thought I’d share a few images of the second and third series of cards. These are the Japanese cards from the Nintendo of Japan website. Enjoy.

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Petite Novel Series – Harvest December | Review

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Jason Nason

For a number of reasons this review has been challenging and for those same reasons this review will actually have to be a two-part review. The first part of the review is based on the software itself while the second part based on the story. It’s an odd way to do the review, but hear me out. Petit Novel series – Harvest December is a collection of 13 stories set in the small, snowy town of Tagami. Follow Masaki Konno, a teenager prone to falling into sticky situations through his last year of high school. Each month is a new

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Konami bringing New Yu-Gi-Oh! Game to 3DS this summer

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Jason Nason

Konami announced today that it will release new Yu-Gi-Oh! titles across a number of formats in 2016. In readiness of the series’ 20th year, Konami will bring the Yu-Gi-Oh! series to mobile devices with a new mobile game called Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. The title will be followed up by a new game for the Nintendo 3DS platform in the summer. Konami will also release a new online game for consoles and PCs in the winter while the popular console game Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist and mobile game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation will both receive receive major updates.

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Pathfinder Rusty Dragon Inn Miniature Set Now Available

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Pathfinder Miniatures
Any experienced tabletop RPG player will tell you that having the proper miniatures can help the immersion of a good gaming session immensely. Sure, the orc you just slew might be represented by a left over red RISK piece but wouldn’t it look better if it was an accurate painted plastic model instead? WizKids has announced that their latest line of miniatures, The Rusty Dragon Inn set. This set includes figures which includes 51 figures based on heroes, villains, NPCs and other characters from the popular fantasy RPG setting.  These figures are available in two different configurations, as a $15.99

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Independent Games Festival 2016 Finalists Announced

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

The Independent Games Festival have announced their line-up of finalists across seven different categories for the IGF Awards which are to be announced during the 2016 Games Developer Conference in San Francisco California. It must have been a painstaking process for the 400 evaluators to select this small list of finalists from among the more than 750 entrants that were in the running this year. Evaluators are selected from industry professionals based upon their expertise in the distinct categories, according to the IGF. So what is in the running this year? Toby Fox’s Undertale, the minimalistic train simulator Mini Metro,

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