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What’s So Great About Xbox One’s Cloud? Titanfall‘s Devs Explain.
As amorphous, mercurial and intangible as its atmospheric namesake, the Xbox One’s Cloud is a feature that is hard to appreciate without a strong example. Luckily, Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment has one — dedicated servers. In anarticle on Respawn’s website, Cloud technology engineer Jon Shiring lays it out plain, echoing the sentiments expressed bycompany head…
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Pocket Mobsters Is An Ambitious Game. Ambition Is A Dangerous Thing.
In the whack-y world of the fictional mafia, right down the street from the jolly singing pirates, enthusiasm for climbing the corporate ladder is both good and bad. You need that hunger to stay ahead of the pack, but push too hard and you might find yourself riddled with bullets or, in the case of…
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Snacktaku Special Report: Twinkies Return July 15
Sorry, generic and off-brand creme-filled sponge cakes — your days are numbered. On July 15, the prodigal snack returns. An image on the Hostess Facebook page leads to HostessCakes.com, where someone with absolutely dreadful design skills has placed a countdown to July 15. That’s some quick work from Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co,…
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Toronto Mayor’s Crack Scandal Lands Him His Own Video Game
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been having a rough year, having allegedly been caught on tape smoking crack and then subjected to the great and terrible scrutiny of our sister site, Gawker proper. At least he got a video game out of the deal . Can you help Ford avoid reporters and crack pipes long…
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Now There’s An Attack On Titan 3D Action Game In Second Life
Aside from some visual novel side stories, there is no official video game for the hot new anime series Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) yet, so Second Life builder Moeka Kohime decided to make one of her own. How’d she do? Second Life celebrates its ten-year anniversary this month, and creators like Kohime are…
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This Is How You Sell A Starship
I had my eye on a new Jeep Cherokee, but this ad for Origin Jumpworks’ new 300i series has me sold, both on the ship and Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Okay fine, I was already sold on the game, and this is just proof that my money is on the right trajectory. Only one man…
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Three Weeks In Gaming Apps, In Case You Thought We Forgot
In the last exciting episode of The Week in Gaming Apps, the feature apologized for wanting to kill you. Afterwards it was so ashamed it hid for three weeks. Guess who gets to write-up 20 fresh mobile games? Not The Week in Gaming apps, certainly. It’s just an idea. A thought. A sometimes murderous thought.…
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They Mastered Rhythm Games. How Does iNiS Handle Tower Offense?
Japanese developer iNiS — the name’s an acronym for “infinite Noise of the inner Soul” — has spent the past decade and a half perfecting the art of the rhythm game. From classics like Gitaroo Man and Elite Beat Agents to not-so-classics like last year’s DLC-packed Demon’s Score, iNiShave mastered the melding of sound and…
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The Real Reason Nintendo Will Never Make A Pokemon MMO
We want it. We have to have it. Our desire for it burns like the heat of a thousand suns, but what would happen if Nintendo did make a Pokemon MMO? Gaming humor site Dorklymay be on to something here. I doubt even Valve’s Gabe Newell could save us. For more sick and twisted video…
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Today marks the launch of the “All Hail Galvatron” event in Transformers Legends, slipping the free-to-play iOS and Android card game a little 80s animated movie continuity. The highlight of the event is the debut of Rodimus Prime, the little jerkwad who got Optimus Prime killed. I hope he gets eaten by Sharkticons.
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Is Marvel Heroes Worth Playing? How Do You Feel About Raccoons?
Between issues with early start and the official release being the week before E3 2013 craziness, I’ve not had much time to play Gazillion Entertainment’s “Marvel Diablo” since my days in the beta, so when people have asked me over the past few weeks “Is it worth playing,” my response has generally been “Oh my…
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I Fight Dragons Plus Phantom Breaker Equals One Awesome Music Video
As demonstrate in our recent Man of Steel discussion, I love me some I Fight Dragons. I also love pixel art. So when the Nintendocore band teams up with the makers of Xbox Live Arcade’s Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds for a pixel-perfect music video for their song “Move”, why it’s the best day ever. “If…
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Mobile’s Call of Duty Even Gets Map Packs. Isn’t That Cute?
Look at the little mobile first-person modern warfare shooter. It’s got map packs, just like it’s PC and console inspiration. It names them all fancy — Modern Combat: Meltdown — dramatic! It even releases them on one platform first — it’s now live on iOS, with Android coming soon. Of course Meltdown is free to…
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Contra Is Coming To iOS, And It’s Changed
Konami’s classic run-and-gunner is hitting iOS next Thursday, but it’s not Contra as we know it. This is Contra Evolution, the a retooling of the original using CocoaChina’s open-source game engine, and it’s rather fetching. Contra Evolution first arrived on iOS in China back in January of this year, where it rose to the top…
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A Slight Oversimplification Of The Xbox One DRM Reversal
In NMA TV’s latest video the Xbox One is a pile of shit with a logo and Sony is a ninja getting handjobs. The Taiwanese animation studio might not always be spot-on with their analysis, but they sure do know how to illustrate a point, and boy are they speedy about it. Less than 24…
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Sorry Consoles, Apple’s Controller Support Spells Trouble For You
The biggest news of E3 2013 was the battle between the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, a battle centered on consumer rejection of digital rights management and used game restrictions. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Apple quietly fired a shot that could eventually neuter traditional game consoles. iOS controller support could change everything. Prior to last…
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Nvidia’s Shield Gets A Price Drop And A June 27 Release
Last month Nvidia’s Project Shield Android handheld got a shortened name, a release window of June, and a $349 price tag. With June quickly coming to a close, the Shield is coming in hot on June 27, with $50 knocked off the price to sweeten the deal. Customers who’vealready preordered the Tegra 4-powered, PC game…
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