A Blind Date With The PlayStation 4: First Base Grabbed, Home Still Far Away
A snapshot of Killzone: Shadow Falls, a small taste of what the next generation looks like.
Sony knows how to tease. Despite over two hours of presentation, they’ve still only scratched the surface on what the PlayStation 4 experience will be. Due out later this year, we caught a clip of what the hardware’s going to be like, a dabble of what tech demos developers can make for the hardware, and not much else to go on. In a presentation geared toward hardcore gamers, details are still so scarce – and our HD press footage still so unfulfilled – that it almost feels like they’ve jumped the gun. It wasn’t the first time, Sony unveiled the PS3 a full year and a half before it released, long before even the Xbox 360 hit retailers. So how much blood can we squeeze from this stone?
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It’s Better Than Swype, But SwiftKey’s New Flow Feature Isn’t Perfect, Yet
HEY BRO GET YO’ FLOW ON.
I don’t hate Swype, but at several key levels, I despise it. Because all the cool kids want it though, SwiftKey has spent a lot of time developing their new Flow feature, which will satiate your need to gesture a single thumb across your keyboard to generate words on your smartphone rather than pecking them out with both. I love SwiftKey and while Flow is a better experience than Swype, it’s not quite ready to win me over to swipe-based mobile keyboarding.
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Assassin’s Creed III, Tyranny of King Washington: The Infamy DLC Available Right Now
George Washington, drunk with POWER!
The DLC for Assassin’s Creed that takes you down a what if America had a King scenario released the first episode today. This was one of my most anticipated DLC this year and I’m ready to play it! It looks pretty awesome, I’ve got the trailer below for you to check out for yourself. Read the rest of this article…
The Night Of The Rabbit – New Adventure Game Incoming From Daedalic
Try as I might, I couldn’t find a picture of that damned rabbit.
I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I love adventure games. When PC gaming first started to gain popularity, adventure games were all the rage. I cut my teeth on games like Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, King’s Quest, Police Quest (Which I first discovered in the decisions lab for the ASU computer science department, on a Mac, no less) and many more. Adventure games were great because they kept you busy and active and could take days of play time to complete; Something we’ve gotten far away from.
And now, adventure games seem to be making a comeback. I like it!
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HTC Unveils Cool New Phone, The HTC One, Will Probably Get Blown Out By Samsung Next Month
HTC is in a pickle, despite how neat the HTC One is.
Last year, HTC – once a titan amongst smartphone makers – decided to focus on two models: the One X super-performance model and the One S for the value-minded customer. HTC had been criticized for having far too many offerings and confusing the hell out of the average buyer. The One series still ended up branching a few variants and carrier-specific models, but keeping it simple(r) wasn’t enough to save the company’s profit. Today, they unveiled the latest HTC One, only one design, with specs that seem to run right down the middle of expectations of a modern phone, perhaps even better. Their biggest problem? Samsung is rumored to unveil their Galaxy S 4 next month, which will proceed to conquer the world, leaving HTC’s cute little offering in the dust.
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SimCity Soundtrack Now Available On Spotify, iTunes, Might Just Make Your Day
Like this, but just the music.
Nothing sets the tone of a SimCity game faster than the music. Whether it’s the clever sounds of a farty MIDI track from SimCity 2000 or the string sections of this newest game, hearing the lightweight plucking and sheer optimism of their score is an uplifting experience. Available now in most places you can legally acquire music (and probably many places you can’t), you can relive the urban planning experience wherever you are.
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Gamepocalypse 2013 – Supporting The Wounded Warrior Project
Gampocalypse – Supporting Wounded Warriors
The Wounded Warrior Project is something that is near to my heart. My grandfather served in World War 2, my father was a “Green Beret” in the Vietnam war, my brother in law was in the special forces in the first Gulf war and many of my friends and family are and have been members of the military who have served, and in some cases, been wounded or killed in combat.
That’s why, when I heard about this upcoming charity event, I immediately volunteered FEZ and we threw our hats in the ring to sponsor this amazing community gathering.
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Everything We Know About Bungie’s Newest Game, Destiny!
Can’t wait for this!
I’m sure you’ve see the ViDoc revealing Destiny to the world, if not it’s embeded below. There wasn’t any information attached to the video when I saw it but we’ve finally received more information and that excites me. Still no release date even though Best Buy and Game Stop has started taking pre-orders. The website is up and so is their Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Bungie and Activision has also released a bunch of concept are that we have for you below. Read the rest of this article…
Consumer Camp: How Microsoft’s MVPs Want To Educate The World – The Marques Lyons Interview
Near a Microsoft Store? Check for one of these events. Photo credit: Consumer Camp
For those unaware, Microsoft makes a lot of products. Some are pretty successful, others not so much, but all work together, especially with the advent of their new Modern UI and new releases of Windows and Windows Phone. Amongst those who know the ecosystem best, Microsoft promotes “MVPs”, or Most Valuable Professionals, to evangelize their products. A few years back, I wrote for Zune MVP Marques Lyons’ site Inside The Circle, which made sense considering my passion for the player, but he’s since retired the site to focus on his newest creation: Consumer Camp, a nationwide tour of sorts in which Microsoft MVPs converge on your nearest Microsoft Store to meet with the masses. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Marques about Consumer Camp and his thoughts on Microsoft’s new direction in general.
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Rock Band Network Receives Last New Songs On April 2, Is Sure You’ll Be Crushed
The Rock Band Platform will still be available, though! Don’t you worry!
One of the keenest examples of Harmonix’s foresight when creating Rock Band was in having a unified downloadable content platform available from day one: the Rock Band Platform. Regardless of game, of which there were many, you could purchase new songs not included on the disc and play those songs in any version of Rock Band that you had. New songs were added on a weekly basis, but those days are soon coming to an end. Harmonix has announced that their last update for Rock Band will fall on April 2 with a song “fitting” of such an event.
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