Double Fine Unveils Second Kickstarter For ‘Massive Chalice’, A Tactics-Based Strategy Game
Gah, stop twisting my arm already, Double Fine!
It’s been over a year since Double Fine launched their first Kickstarter for what would become Broken Age, a campaign that would set records and launch thousands of other campaigns from old-school game developers seeking a new day in the sun. Today, they launch a second with an incredible video, which I’ll include below.
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Ridiculous Fishing (iOS) Review: Yep, It’s Pretty Ridiculous
Reel all those fishies back to the surface and… blow them up with your weapon of choice!
The story leading up to Ridiculous Fishing‘s release has been as interesting as the game itself. Developer Vlambeer created a Flash prototype called Radical Fishing and another dipshit developer copied it straight up and brought it to the App Store before Vlambeer could. I played the knock-off – which I won’t list by name – and it’s pretty terrible. Vlambeer got their redemption when their title released and, as I’m about to reveal, it was worth the wait.
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Microsoft Investing $1B Into Exclusives For Xbox One, Most Probably “Call Of Duty” DLC Money
You’re gonna get a lot of lovin’, Xbox One.
Gears of War cost $10 million to make. Half-Life 2, $40 million. Grand Theft Auto IV, $100 million. Double Fine’s Costume Quest? $3 million. What do these numbers mean? They’re all development amounts, of which Microsoft’s Don Mattrick has said they’re promising $1 billion toward funding for exclusive games on their new console. It sounds like a lot, but what does that really mean?
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Thanks Obama! NASA Will Host Google Hangout With Bill Nye To Talk About Asteroids
“I never asked for this.” – President Obama
Asteroids are a prevalent threat. I don’t care how good your survival instinct is or how many cans of Spam you have stored in your concrete barrier 50 feet under the surface. (Also, can we be buddies? Just in case?) To that end, the Obama administration is allocating NASA funds to detecting and eliminating these rogue rocks. To that end, they’re enlisting Bill Nye and some past and present NASA staff to pop up on a Google Hangout this Friday to chat about asteroids.
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Delay For Blizzard’s ‘Titan’ Means ‘World Of Warcraft’ Needs To Hold Up A Bit Longer
Hold in there, little buddy!
Word is spreading across the internet that Blizzard’s long-gestating MMO followup, codenamed “Titan”, is on the skids and they’re rebooting the whole thing. The staff has been slashed and they’re now back to zero. While few details exist about the company’s follow-up to the nearly decade-old World of Warcraft, the elevator pitch is that it’s a brand-new MMO and it’s science-fiction-themed. The delay, which brings its release well into the latter end of the decade, also means that World of Warcraft can’t afford much more in subscription slides.
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Facebook Launches Verified Profiles So You’ll Stop Following Fakes
Know that this is the real Selena Gomez before you start liking her page.
About a year ago, I liked Alex Trebek. Not the person, as it turns out, but an imposting facsimile on Facebook. I didn’t know it was a fake until after some homework, but it made me wonder what life would be like if Facebook verified who ran different pages and whether I should bother tossing them a Like or a Friend request. Well, Facebook took a page from Twitter’s book by now adding Verified accounts.
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‘Hardware: Shipbreakers’ Gameplay Revealed, Looks Like ‘Homeworld’ All Right
Survey that wreckage, then claim it!
To be honest, I didn’t even know this game existed until nearly a week ago when it popped up on our forums. Rick Cunningham, one of Relic’s co-founders, split from the company and formed Blackbird Interactive in 2010. In the three years since, it’s been working on Hardware: Shipbreakers, a free-to-play “3D Real-Time Strategy” in the veing of Homeworld, which makes sense because it’s the same guys. They’ve been broadcasting production art for a while now, but today we get to see the game in its honest, functional form.
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Nokia Lumia 928 Reviews Arrive, Inspire Windows Phone Fanboy Rage
At $99 with a two-year contract, you get a decent Windows Phone and all the fanboy rage you could ever want.
Today the tech world collectively unveiled their verdict on Nokia’s Lumia 928, their exclusive Windows Phone flagship for Verizon, and it’s a “good, not great”. Like every big hard landing Nokia takes, the fanboys screamed out of the woodwork, crying foul to professional reviewers who found the phone interesting, but south of the company’s high-water mark.
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Let’s Talk About Feed The Beast Ultimate For ‘Minecraft’
There’s gadgets in them thar hills!
It’s no secret; I’ve never been that big of a fan of Minecraft. I’m that guy who will get a hankering from time to time and want to go build something cool, will spend a couple of days in game digging and building and testing, then get what I wanted to build all finished up, get bored and not play again for eight months.
Lately though, I’ve been exposed to the some of the mods out there in the community and things have taken a bit of a turn.
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Getting Started with Feed the Beast Ultimate For ‘Minecraft’: Let’s Build a Generator
Those three machines to hours of my life!
I’m a veteran to Minecraft; I’ve owned it since alpha and play it quite a bit on our FEZ server. About a week ago, some of the guys in our forum brought up Feed the Beast. Now I’ve heard of Feed the Beast and Tekkit, but didn’t really understand what they were. Essentially, they’re a bunch of mods for Minecraft thrown into a pot and stirred together. You get the vanilla Minecraft experience with the ability to conjure magic or automatic machines. It’s pretty crazy when you take it all in. Read the rest of this article…
