First Molyneux, Now Garriott: Why Are Rich Gaming Pioneers Kickstarting Games?
Minimize risk by making other people pay to develop your game, I suppose.
When Peter Molyneux – gaming legend responsible for Populous, Black & White, Fable, Curiosity, etc., – stepped up to ask gamers to fund his already-in-production god game Godus, I was taken aback. Here was this legendary developer, one who could move the Earth and channel the seas, asking gamers for the funds to produce his game. His Kickstarter went over just fine, so now Ultima creator Richard Garriott, known to many through his avatar Lord British, has followed up with his own Kickstarter for his already-in-production Ultima-like Shroud of the Avatar. But why?
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Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos Review: Best In Breed
You didn’t think a new flavor would come? IT CAME.
Because I am a food critic, I decided that not only would I rate the original Nacho Cheesier Doritos Locos Tacos, but I’d take it upon myself to inform my world, through my sophisticated sense of taste, how its newer Cool Ranch variant fares. In my original DLT review, I pined for more flavors, of which there are many in the Doritos universe, but they picked the best flavor to follow up with, perhaps because of unit sales more than anything.
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Oz the Great and Powerful Review: Oz the Con Man
Has anyone honestly ever looked at The Wizard of Oz and claimed he or she wanted to see a prequel to it? Does anyone really care why the Wicked Witch of the West has green skin? Does anyone care why the Wizard of Oz chose to hide behind a curtain and portray himself as a giant disembodied head? I think part of the appeal of the original film is that it never attempted to explain anything, but Sam Raimi must have believed that exposing some of the mystery of the original film was a good idea, because here’s the movie that provides the answers to most of the questions no one ever bothered to ask.
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Arena.Net Keeps Pushing Out New Content For Guild Wars 2
Not rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hordes of fire-wielding Charr will stop us from making more content…
Ever since its release in November, Guild Wars 2 has been going through a lot of changes within the first 6 months of introduction. I’m not sure whether this is a frantic push to keep things interesting or sheer boredom on the dev teams, but they’re going for the gold it seems. The current living story event, Flame & Frost has been adding more and more content since January, currently sitting at the half-way point in the story.
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‘Dead Man Down’ Review: Wasted Potential
Dead Man Down may be the most disappointing film I’ve experienced this year. No, it’s not disappointing because it’s a bad movie. I’ve seen considerably worse movies already this year. Dead Man Down disappoints because it fails to live up to its incredible potential.
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EA Explains SimCity Server Issues, Offers Free Game
That traffic jam is like the servers at EA.
With the ongoing clusterfuck that is the SimCity launch, EA is trying to make up for it by giving everyone who has started or tried to play SimCity between launch day and the 18th. No word on what games you get to choose from but it will be a “PC download game from the EA portfolio.” On the 18th EA will be emailing users instructions on how to redeem this free game. So what about the server issues? Read the rest of this article…
Tomb Raider (PC) Review: Good To Go Or Does It Blow?
Lara’s seen better days, that’s for sure!
Square Enix asked me to review Tomb Raider for the PC and, of course, I gladly accepted the chance to get my hands on one of the more anticipated titles of the year. We were really hot for this one at E3 and I’ve spent the whole year hoping that this was going to be as good as all of the trailers and emails and commercials made it out to be.
So I gave it a play through…And now, the answer to the question:
Did it suck, or was it good?
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‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 3 “Burning That Bridge”
Artists Getting Scared sounds like a cool album, right?
Last we left our Strip Search buddies, they hadn’t really accomplished anything. Imported from all over the country for the chance to win big prizes and work with the Penny Arcade crew for a year, Strip Search is a fascinating show. Today, however, it was nice to see some actual blood being drawn. Not literal blood, just figurative blood.
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In Wake Of ‘SimCity’s Issues, City-Builder ‘Tropico 4’ Now 75% Off On Steam
For the point, Kalypso.
At this point, Electronic Arts’ problems with SimCity don’t stop in the technical realm, but have now spread into the world of public relations. EA has told its partners to stop advertising the game, which is reminiscent of World of Warcraft‘s earliest days, and Amazon even stopped selling the game for a number of hours today. The less new people trying to buy or play SimCity at this point, the better. Kalypso is taking advantage of the situation by taking a whopping 75% off their Tropico 4 Collector’s Bundle, a plethora of content to satisfy any urban planning maniac until SimCity‘s servers decide to behave. For those unaware, Tropico 4 places you as the benevolent – or cruel – dictator of a fictional banana republic. Not only will you be laying down roads and infrastructure, but you’ll also be making clever social decisions that will make your people swoon over your visage or fear your very name. Like any Steam sale though, you might be spending the whopping $9.99 to not play the game, which is probably not much of a different fate than SimCity at the moment.
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Here’s How Christopher Nolan’s New Movie ‘Interstellar’ Is Going To Work
“Ya done figured out me movie, FleshEatingZipper! Well done, lads!” – Christopher Nolan
The big news in town today is that Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, a film that sat on Steven Spielberg’s plate for years before he finally passed it off, will be released on November 7th, 2014, meaning that the film is already well into production. A science-fiction movie that appears to be taking its science very seriously, Interstellar will purportedly explore wormholes, black holes and, well, interstellar travel. This seems pretty incredible considering the genre has been buried in the post/apocalypse for years, so it’s nice to see a new spin. Who best to do it than Christopher “Batman” Nolan, but there are key notes in the construction of his films that make Interstellar out as a puzzle already solved.
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