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The N5 Show: Week #15, 2013 – Oceana Anniversary! Classic PC Gaming!
Explosions in the sky!
Hey, don’t you remember when I did these things, except with topics and videos and stuff? No? Okay, well, it’s time to wipe the slate clean as I blast you with the newest iteration of The N5 Show, a new weekly podcast! Today we’re talking about Oceana’s anniversary with good pals Elijah (blind_guy23), Sara (saravog) and Trevor (zeeteeess) who worked on the pyramid a full year ago today! TODAY! In the second segment, I jabber with Cody about classic PC games and their modern renaissance thanks to services like GOG and Steam!
‘StarCraft: Ghost’ May Still Be A Real Game, Was Never Canceled
I was this close to playing history.
StarCraft: Ghost is a large chunk floating in Blizzard’s pool of unfulfilled potential. Announced at the beginning of the sixth generation of consoles in 2002, the game was postponed indefinitely in 2005 as new consoles were arriving. To the casual observer, it seemed that Blizzard’s protracted development cycles seemed inflexible for the strict lifespan of a console life. Notice, I didn’t say it was canceled in 2005 and neither did Blizzard, because apparently it still exists somewhere over a decade after its announcement.
PC Gamers Already Hatin’ On Next-Gen Xbox, PlayStation 4, But Why?
Sometimes people want a keyboard and a mouse and a joystick and a dedicated thumb input. Sometimes they don’t.
With all this rumbling going on regarding Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles, (some) in the PC gaming community feels the need to play defensive. The PC gaming versus console gaming debate is an age-old one, but what’s sillier than debating video cards versus Xbox Live Arcade is the fact that some people honestly believe they’re mutually exclusive things. Holding a Dual Shock 3 automatically disqualifies you from playing World of Warcraft with authority. Murdering dudes in Hotline Miami means you have a super-gaudy, massive gaming PC with annoying LED light leaking everywhere. With new hardware, the battle continues!
‘Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s Neon Sights And Blasting Beats Make Me So Hot
Yes. All of this.
Did you think last year’s amazing Far Cry 3 could’ve been, I don’t know, weirder?This game’s been making the rounds in the past few weeks, but there’s now enough information out in the wild to guarantee that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is my most-anticipated game of the moment. Taking place in the distant year of 2007 and featuring 80s sci-fi star Michael Biehn (Aliens, The Terminator), this game’s link to Far Cry 3 seems pretty tenuous, but who cares? It looks so siiiiick.
Microsoft to Unveil Next-Gen Xbox On May 21? Yeah, Sure.
Okay, it probably won’t look like this.
Thanks to Peter Moore, Microsoft had a real schmaltzy way to unveil the Xbox 360: an MTV special. Airing just after the climax of their “The Colony” ARG, back in the Spring of 2005 and starring the Lord of The Rings‘ Elijah Wood, viewers got to see celebrities play classy titles like Perfect Dark Zero while The Killers played. Now, we can’t say that MTV will be involved, but it looks like Microsoft is going to unveil their new console ahead of E3, which makes a lot of sense.
Your Game Needs A Kickstarter? PR Firm’s New Service Can Help You With That
Above: The recent Kickstarter for Torment: Tides of Numenera broke funding records
You’re a game developer with a passion and a game you’ve wanted to get off the ground for years. You have the ways, but not the means. You know you’re a solid $500,000 short of blasting Thyroids with Spaz Guns and winning all the points, but that kinda cash just isn’t available. Enter Indie Developer Consulting – or IDC, as its friends know it – a PR firm that has a specialty group for handling those ready to take on Kickstarter.
Gaming Industry Makes #TeamBoneless A Trending Topic, Prefers Boneless Chicken
Uh, so wow.
Well, so this happened. In a dispute with fellow editor Tim Turi, Game Informer’s Dan Ryckert decided to take their fight to the public. What started as a mere Google Docs poll between how people prefer their chicken wings (boneless, obviously) quickly became a trending topic propelled entirely by the games industry.
FEZ Week In Review: Week #14, 2013 – SimCity Oddities, BioShock Infinite, StarCraft 2 Reviews
First week of April, rhymes with maple?
FEZ Week In Review is a series where we go over the stories that mattered most to you in the past seven days, whether gaming, tech, entertainment or otherwise, we bring them together for you to view in one quick glance!
‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 11 “Street Art”
Painting a pineapple Maki is more clever than you think.
We’re now into day four of the Strip Search competition and this graffiti art challenge is pretty clever. Everything I know about spraypaint art can be traced back to Jet Set Radio Future, which features a number of pieces based on bizarre and wonderful typography, something that the artists didn’t chase here. That’s fine because despite these guys being new to the process, their pieces still came out pretty well.
Why I Loved LucasArts
Hello there, old friend.
“Here,” dad said, swiveling to the opposite end of his elbow-shaped desk and grabbing a booklet, “you’ll need to read this before I let you play.” It was the instruction manual for LucasArts’ Star Wars: X-Wing, a complicated space sim that was loaded to the gills with commands. In those days, a joystick was a fixture of PC gaming. When LucasArts combined it with an array of keyboard controls to manage your fighter’s energy, throttle, and targets, they allowed Star Wars to become so much bigger than I ever imagined it could be while the films worked so hard to make it smaller.
Once the industry’s golden standard for quality, innovative games, LucasArts fell off with the release of the prequel trilogy and never recovered its glory. Sure, they did great things with Star Wars, but they had some other clever ideas, too. These were the games that played an incredible role in my appreciation of video gaming and cemented my love for PC gaming altogether.
