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Fans of “Halo” should get their passports ready and set their sights on Australia. For the first time, the popular game series has entered the world of arcade gaming with “Halo: Fireteam Raven”, which was revealed at Timezone (Australia’s answer to Dave & Buster’s) at the Sydney, Macquarie Shopping Centre. “Halo: Fireteam Raven” is a 4 player arcade experience where players can either work together or fight each other. The game booth sports a 130-inch widescreen, 4K gameplay, and 5.1 surround sound. Fans can fight alongside Master Chief as ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) members of Fireteam Raven as they fight off the Alien conglomerate known as The Covenant and the dreaded zombie-like infection known as The Flood. Eventually, more Timezone locations will have “Halo: Fireteam Raven” in their arcades but fingers crossed that “Halo” fans in the states will see this beauty of arcade goodness someday here at home!
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I sat down with a hefty book for a nice afternoon of reading (Yes I DO read, I don’t play video games all the time!). I read through Brett Weiss’s “The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A–M)” from Schiffer Publishing. This coffee table book is amazing! The book has more than 2,000 colored images showing off the majesty of over 350 SNES titles! What is amazing about this book is how much it’s a trip down memory lane for me. I did not play SNES growing up so I missed out on a lot of these games but I remember the box art and advertising posters when I would go rent movies! A lot of the games in this book were based on TV shows I watched when I was younger and forgot about! Many of the titles shown will seem familiar to many as these were the first installments in current series played and
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Ninja Theory is again taking the gaming experience to a whole other level in “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition”. The BAFTA award-winning game will now have a VR feature that will launch on Steam on July 31, 2018, for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The VR feature will be free to those who already purchased the game on Steam. The story will still be in third-person but the headset will now act as the camera as well as an aid in controlling Senua’s movements. “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” is a dark fantasy game about a young Pict woman named Senua who has come to the land of the “Northmen” to travel to their underworld to rescue the soul of her lover who was sacrificed to Hel, the Northmen’s goddess of the underworld. The main focus of the story is that Senua suffers from Psychosis that affects how she sees the world on her journey. Below is a video diary showcasing
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The final chapter to “The Walking Dead” game series by Telltale Games will be coming August 10th where choices made by players will determine how the story’s main protagonist, Clementine’s chapter in “The Walking Dead” universe will end. Over time, fans of the game series watched, Clementine’s story evolve where she has become the symbol of what’s left of innocence in a world gone to hell, and watched her grow from a little girl who needed protection to a young woman who does the protecting. In the final chapter, Clementine takes on the role of a mother figure to AJ, a young boy that fell into her care in a previous chapter, a role that hauntingly resembles the father/daughter relationship she had with Lee in the first chapter in the series. Clementine will face the undead as well and living foes, all the while trying to protect Aj and others will her story end like how it started? This is
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“Remothered: Tormented Fathers”, a survival horror video game that’s a throwback to classic interactive entertainment titles that define the genre. With the impending console release less than 24 hours away (July 25, 2018) the game and its hardworking developers received some (well deserved) recognition and praise from a legend in the horror gaming field. Chris Darril, creative director of “Remothered: Tormented Fathers” received a tweet from Keiichiro Toyama who praised the game. Toyama is the creator of critically acclaimed gaming horror phenomenon “Silent Hill”. To put it in perspective to some, this is the equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci saying the sketch you just drew was amazing, Dave Grohl liking a melody you were humming, or Alfred Hitchcock praising your two-minute long film project. Not only did Toyama praise the game, he even expressed interest in doing a project together with Darril someday which a big deal is since Toyama’s past works “Silent Hill” and “Siren” helped inspired “Remothered: Tormented
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Mobile game developer MetaArcade has announced four new levels to their horror game “Cthulhu Chronicles” based on the popular tabletop RPG game “Call of Cthulhu” by Chaosium. This week the first of these new levels, “The good professor” was released (July 17th). In the latest chapter, players have met their match as everything they’ve experienced in the story so far leads them to test their decision-making skills. Miskatonic University: releasing 11 AM PT on Tuesday, July 24 Players will have their questions answered as they study at the mysterious school and meet the unusual faculty. Crimson Letters: releasing 11 AM PT on Tuesday, July 31 Players must survive Mr. Wick’s dinner party in order to receive the Crimson Letters. Blackwater Creek: releasing 11 AM PT on Thursday, August 2 Everything players have encountered in the story leads up to this chapter as they venture to Blackwater Creek where the standoffish locals are the least of their worries. The game is
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The great old one, or as some call the “great dreamer” will be arriving on console and PC just in time for Halloween! “Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game” by Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive, will be released October 30th of this year (2018)! The first-person cosmic horror experience takes players to the mysterious island of Darkwater as private investigator Edward Pierce. The game not only is an RPG but it will have stealth mechanics as well that will affect the sanity of Pierce as well as players. The storyline of the game can be affected by the results of investigations as well by choices made by Pierce. The video game is inspired by the tabletop RPG “Call of Cthulhu” by Chaosium which was inspired by the original short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft. The games and story revolved around a mysterious cult and the creature not of this world that they worship. You can
Continue reading →
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Gearbox Publishing and Compulsion Games have released the latest trailer for their upcoming psychedelic dystopian twist about England in the 1960’s, “We Happy Few”. As mentioned in a previous article, there will be three playable characters and today new information is available about them! Many know about Arthur, a man who works for the news only allowing “happy” information to be printed. The next character has a connection to Arthur, Ollie, a former soldier who’s impatient and not quite fully there (mentally). And finally, we have Sally, a scientist, and socialite who can blend in and conform allowing her to sneak around. “We Happy Few” will be out August 10th for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Continue reading →
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Ever wanted to protect your town/city or even your own backyard from walkers? Now’s your chance! Next Games has teamed up with AMC for a new augmented reality mobile game, “The Walking Dead: Our World”. The mobile game will allow you and friends to defeat the undead anywhere in the world from Main Street in your hometown to the poolside in a friend’s backyard during a BBQ! Players will be able to: Fight hoards solo or compete in weekly missions alongside friends, showcasing their skills to claim recognition and rewards Collect character and weapon cards, helping to take down the walkers one bullet at a time Rescue survivors and bring them to safe locations Play the game wherever and whenever they want with “couch play” options Complete a wide variety of mission types and earn rewards Join the fight and play alongside characters from AMC’s The Walking Dead, including Daryl, Michonne, Rick and many more Use flares to grant group
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The cool hardworking folks over at Darril Arts gave me the opportunity to play the Xbox One version of their awesome horror-stealth game ‘Remothered: Tormented Fathers’ in a previous article I spoke of this. The game is out now on PC but will be out on PS4 and Xbox ONE July 25th. It’s been a while since a horror game actually spooked me! I would play the game, take a break from it and partially vow to never play again but the story drew me back in because I wanted to see what happens next! The story takes place in 1970’s Italy and follows a woman named Rosemary Reed who came to the mansion of Dr. Felton to ask about his health while in reality, her true intention is to find out what happened to his daughter Celeste who has gone missing years ago. After her investigation abruptly ends, she breaks into the mansion at night and quickly things get
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Fans of “Halo” should get their passports ready and set their sights on Australia. For the first time, the popular game series has entered the world of arcade gaming with “Halo: Fireteam Raven”, which was revealed at Timezone (Australia’s answer to Dave & Buster’s) at the Sydney, Macquarie Shopping Centre. “Halo: Fireteam Raven” is a 4 player arcade experience where players can either work together or fight each other. The game booth sports a 130-inch widescreen, 4K gameplay, and 5.1 surround sound. Fans can fight alongside Master Chief as ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) members of Fireteam Raven as they fight off the Alien conglomerate known as The Covenant and the dreaded zombie-like infection known as The Flood. Eventually, more Timezone locations will have “Halo: Fireteam Raven” in their arcades but fingers crossed that “Halo” fans in the states will see this beauty of arcade goodness someday here at home!
Continue reading →
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I sat down with a hefty book for a nice afternoon of reading (Yes I DO read, I don’t play video games all the time!). I read through Brett Weiss’s “The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A–M)” from Schiffer Publishing. This coffee table book is amazing! The book has more than 2,000 colored images showing off the majesty of over 350 SNES titles! What is amazing about this book is how much it’s a trip down memory lane for me. I did not play SNES growing up so I missed out on a lot of these games but I remember the box art and advertising posters when I would go rent movies! A lot of the games in this book were based on TV shows I watched when I was younger and forgot about! Many of the titles shown will seem familiar to many as these were the first installments in current series played and
Continue reading →
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Ninja Theory is again taking the gaming experience to a whole other level in “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition”. The BAFTA award-winning game will now have a VR feature that will launch on Steam on July 31, 2018, for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The VR feature will be free to those who already purchased the game on Steam. The story will still be in third-person but the headset will now act as the camera as well as an aid in controlling Senua’s movements. “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” is a dark fantasy game about a young Pict woman named Senua who has come to the land of the “Northmen” to travel to their underworld to rescue the soul of her lover who was sacrificed to Hel, the Northmen’s goddess of the underworld. The main focus of the story is that Senua suffers from Psychosis that affects how she sees the world on her journey. Below is a video diary showcasing
Continue reading →
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The final chapter to “The Walking Dead” game series by Telltale Games will be coming August 10th where choices made by players will determine how the story’s main protagonist, Clementine’s chapter in “The Walking Dead” universe will end. Over time, fans of the game series watched, Clementine’s story evolve where she has become the symbol of what’s left of innocence in a world gone to hell, and watched her grow from a little girl who needed protection to a young woman who does the protecting. In the final chapter, Clementine takes on the role of a mother figure to AJ, a young boy that fell into her care in a previous chapter, a role that hauntingly resembles the father/daughter relationship she had with Lee in the first chapter in the series. Clementine will face the undead as well and living foes, all the while trying to protect Aj and others will her story end like how it started? This is
Continue reading →
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“Remothered: Tormented Fathers”, a survival horror video game that’s a throwback to classic interactive entertainment titles that define the genre. With the impending console release less than 24 hours away (July 25, 2018) the game and its hardworking developers received some (well deserved) recognition and praise from a legend in the horror gaming field. Chris Darril, creative director of “Remothered: Tormented Fathers” received a tweet from Keiichiro Toyama who praised the game. Toyama is the creator of critically acclaimed gaming horror phenomenon “Silent Hill”. To put it in perspective to some, this is the equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci saying the sketch you just drew was amazing, Dave Grohl liking a melody you were humming, or Alfred Hitchcock praising your two-minute long film project. Not only did Toyama praise the game, he even expressed interest in doing a project together with Darril someday which a big deal is since Toyama’s past works “Silent Hill” and “Siren” helped inspired “Remothered: Tormented
Continue reading →
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Mobile game developer MetaArcade has announced four new levels to their horror game “Cthulhu Chronicles” based on the popular tabletop RPG game “Call of Cthulhu” by Chaosium. This week the first of these new levels, “The good professor” was released (July 17th). In the latest chapter, players have met their match as everything they’ve experienced in the story so far leads them to test their decision-making skills. Miskatonic University: releasing 11 AM PT on Tuesday, July 24 Players will have their questions answered as they study at the mysterious school and meet the unusual faculty. Crimson Letters: releasing 11 AM PT on Tuesday, July 31 Players must survive Mr. Wick’s dinner party in order to receive the Crimson Letters. Blackwater Creek: releasing 11 AM PT on Thursday, August 2 Everything players have encountered in the story leads up to this chapter as they venture to Blackwater Creek where the standoffish locals are the least of their worries. The game is
Continue reading →
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The great old one, or as some call the “great dreamer” will be arriving on console and PC just in time for Halloween! “Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game” by Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive, will be released October 30th of this year (2018)! The first-person cosmic horror experience takes players to the mysterious island of Darkwater as private investigator Edward Pierce. The game not only is an RPG but it will have stealth mechanics as well that will affect the sanity of Pierce as well as players. The storyline of the game can be affected by the results of investigations as well by choices made by Pierce. The video game is inspired by the tabletop RPG “Call of Cthulhu” by Chaosium which was inspired by the original short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft. The games and story revolved around a mysterious cult and the creature not of this world that they worship. You can
Continue reading →
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Gearbox Publishing and Compulsion Games have released the latest trailer for their upcoming psychedelic dystopian twist about England in the 1960’s, “We Happy Few”. As mentioned in a previous article, there will be three playable characters and today new information is available about them! Many know about Arthur, a man who works for the news only allowing “happy” information to be printed. The next character has a connection to Arthur, Ollie, a former soldier who’s impatient and not quite fully there (mentally). And finally, we have Sally, a scientist, and socialite who can blend in and conform allowing her to sneak around. “We Happy Few” will be out August 10th for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Continue reading →
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Ever wanted to protect your town/city or even your own backyard from walkers? Now’s your chance! Next Games has teamed up with AMC for a new augmented reality mobile game, “The Walking Dead: Our World”. The mobile game will allow you and friends to defeat the undead anywhere in the world from Main Street in your hometown to the poolside in a friend’s backyard during a BBQ! Players will be able to: Fight hoards solo or compete in weekly missions alongside friends, showcasing their skills to claim recognition and rewards Collect character and weapon cards, helping to take down the walkers one bullet at a time Rescue survivors and bring them to safe locations Play the game wherever and whenever they want with “couch play” options Complete a wide variety of mission types and earn rewards Join the fight and play alongside characters from AMC’s The Walking Dead, including Daryl, Michonne, Rick and many more Use flares to grant group
Continue reading →
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The cool hardworking folks over at Darril Arts gave me the opportunity to play the Xbox One version of their awesome horror-stealth game ‘Remothered: Tormented Fathers’ in a previous article I spoke of this. The game is out now on PC but will be out on PS4 and Xbox ONE July 25th. It’s been a while since a horror game actually spooked me! I would play the game, take a break from it and partially vow to never play again but the story drew me back in because I wanted to see what happens next! The story takes place in 1970’s Italy and follows a woman named Rosemary Reed who came to the mansion of Dr. Felton to ask about his health while in reality, her true intention is to find out what happened to his daughter Celeste who has gone missing years ago. After her investigation abruptly ends, she breaks into the mansion at night and quickly things get
Continue reading →
