‘Skryim’ DLC Rundown: From ‘Dawnguard’ To ‘Dragonborn’
The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim release in November of 2011 was unprecedented, resulting in ten million copies sold within its first month and reaching a nice, round $650 million dollars in revenue, making it Game of the Year material quickly. It gave fans a much-needed return to the world of Tamriel, their first since The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion debuted in 2006. Though it surely gave Bethesda a bit of a reprieve to watch the fans glorify it as the best Elder Scrolls game to date, if not of all time, their work on the series wasn’t quite finished. After taking some time to charge through the game with a bow, dagger and a skill at lurking in the shadows, I’m finally ready to give a round-up on the downloadable content released for Skyrim so far.
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Complex’s ‘Top 40 Hottest Women In Tech’ Is Possibly The Worst Thing You’ll See Today
“We need to post hot women, but of what occupation?”
Ripping a page straight out of the year 1999, a few pages after the Y2K preparations, Complex has brought us not only a lazy listicle (a Top <number> article that simply lists things, a fad that only Cracked.com is authorized to use at this point), but a lazy listicle about the hottest women in tech. At a time when the internet is still buzzing about Adria Richards, the product evangelist of SendGrid who was fired for the firestorm she caused getting some other developers fired with a tweet, seeing a remarkable gem like this appear is perhaps the least classy thing possible
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FEZ Week In Review #12, 2013: BioShock Infinite, SimCity And EA
Only one week left in March!
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!
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PAX East Started Today, Are You There?
Hey now, that’s a couple of computers you got there. Photo credit: Nvidia
PAX East has been serving Boston since 2009, which seems so long ago, with no doubt record-breaking crowds with over 70,000 gamers converging on the Boston Convention and Expo Center for three days to play games, interact with other gamers, and experience a stress-free game environment that’s the opposite of, say, E3. Sadly, our year is PAX-free, despite my best intentions, but it’s nice to know a great event in gaming is happening right at this very moment.
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 7 “Elimination #2”
Another Cosmic Smashing IN THE ELIMINATOR!
Another day, another elimination round down at the Strip Search house. (Actually, it’s sorta hard to believe this has taken over three weeks to play out, but that’s ground well-trotted at this point.) In the chamber this time around are Katie (again!) and Ty, sent in by Nick, who felt their position post-job interview had been compromised. How do they hold up?
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‘Minecraft’ With A Point: ‘PixelJunk Inc.’ Allows You To Be Soup Emperor
Galactic Domination! With soup!
Love or hate Minecraft, have you ever wondered what would happen if you were given a task or the things you built ever amounted to much beyond moved and reconstituted earth? Maybe something beyond redstone switches and hidden doors? Enter PixelJunk, Inc., the latest from Q-Games that seeks out a Terraria-style perspective to let you dig super deep into the landscape, fight feral monsters, and, well, make soup.
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‘Hearthstone’: Blizzard’s New Epic Reveal Is… A Free Card Game?
Motion comics galore!
Blizzard, you may win me over. While the other nerds in high school were playing Magic: The Gathering in the cafeteria, I was reading PC Gamer. I never had an ‘in’, and none of my friends did, either. So when Blizzard announced their newest game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, would be a relatively modest card game, I immediately deflected. But y’know what? I’ll give it a shot.
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Chris Avellone To Join ‘Torment: Tides of Numenera’ Team If Kickstarter Hits $3.5M
The original Planescape: Torment is a classic I still haven’t gotten my hands on.
After inXile blew through their Kickstarter goal for their latest game project, Torment: Tides of Numenera, it came time to set up stretch goals. I mean, seriously, once your game blows through its substantial million dollar goal in record time (well, record time before that Veronica Mars thing happened), you’ve got to aim a little higher. Enter well-known designer Chris Avellone.
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‘Reef Shot’ Review: Shy Of SCUBA Perfection
SCUBA diving meets computer games. Interesting.
A few days ago, I was contacted by the PR folks who are handling a new game called Reef Shot, created by Polish studio Nano Games. They asked me if I’d like to check it out for review and, since I’m a SCUBA diver, I thought it would be a fun way to spend some time, so they fired me off a copy to mess around with.
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‘BioShock Infinite’s First Review Is In: IGN Gives It A 9.4
It looks like the pile of gold IGN gave up to get this exclusive paid off.
IGN’s released their review of BioShock Infinite and the verdict is an incredibly positive 9.4. Because of course. While everyone else is going to have to wait an extra few days to tell the world how awe-inspiring and revolutionary the game is, IGN gets to tell you now, leading the Metacritic rush.
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