With The Walking Dead Season 1 finished and season 2 yet to be released, Tealltale Games is giving fans a little something to hold them over. 400 Days is a new DLC add-on for the incredibly popular first season of the Walking Dead point and click adventure game. A single episode comprised of five separate stories, 400 days centers on the commonalities of those stories. With a shared timeline and central location you can bet that these stories will also share interesting characters, excellent writing, and heart breaking decisions for the player to make.
Xbox One will not be Backwards Compatible
Microsoft has made a great mistake. Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten confirmed that the Xbox One will not be backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 nor the original Xbox, stating “The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn’t really work from that perspective.” He further stated that “We care very much about the investment people have made in Xbox 360 and will continue to support it with a pipeline of new games and new apps well into the future.” The Xbox One isn’t the much anticipated “next” Xbox. A console updating and replacing the old. The
The Broken Economics of Used Games
Much has been said about used game sales. Typically the conversation is about how the purchase of used games hurts those who make games by cutting them out of the money loop thus hurting the medium as a whole. With less money coming in from game sales game companies have less money to put into their next project creating an endless cycle of poorer and poorer quality titles. Let’s be perfectly clear: this will not be one of those typical conversations. I would rather look at the personal economics of used games. We aren’t going to be looking at the
Capcom Arcade Cabinet 1986 Gamepack – Review
Nostalgic gaming trips are strange things. They are, at the same time, wonderful and terrible. It’s always great to step back into a classic game. Unfortunately the memory of the game is usually better than the actual game itself. Most of us have been conditioned to expect the latest and greatest, and decades old games simply can’t hold our attention. Such is the nature of an industry that is constantly evolving and moving forward as fast as it can. Three relatively obscure titles have been assembled for the Capcom Arcade 1986 Gamepack, obscure relative to the other Capcom Arcade Cabinet
Virtual Reality coming to Team Fortress 2
Valve recently announced the next big thing for their extremely successful multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2: an experimental Virtual Reality mode. Making use of the Oculus Rift, Valve aims to offer a level of immersion that Joe Ludwig (at Valve) said they have been “blown away by”. At the time of the announcement support for the Oculus Rift had already been integrated; unfortunately the only people who actually have the device are those Kicksarter supporters who contributed enough to get themselves a dev kit. The rest of us will have to wait to plug into the Matrix until at least
Special Forces Team X – Review
Unique map creation is central to Zombie Studios’ Atari published multiplayer only Special Forces Team X. At the start of each game players are presented with three voting options, each corresponding to a section of the upcoming map. Every map section matches up with every other map section giving players a ton of variation to experiment with. If the players so choose, three identical sections can be stacked side by side to create the (very disorienting) map for that game; or two of the same sandwiching a different piece of the puzzle. Or any one of many possible combinations. This
The Walking Dead Survival Instinct – Preview
It looks like Terminal Reality turned the brightness slider way down since last time we saw footage of the upcoming The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. While this new trailer looks better than the last, it does nothing to answer the questions we have about the game. Questions like: What kind of game are we looking at? The title gives a hint but the trailer has me scratching my head. Is it a game of survival, action, or perhaps a FPS RTS RPG with both deep stat management and extensive base building options? Of course we’re also left with a big question about
The Walking Dead Ep 5 RECAP (Spoilers)
Episode 5 “No Time Left” brings Telltale Games’ Walking Dead Season One to its tragic end. Following tradition Telltale has put together some spoiler heavy statistics on the game tracked player decisions. Everything you’ve been through over the previous four episodes comes to a head in episode 5. The “choose your own adventure” nature of the game dictates different outcomes for different players resulting in a limited number of track-able player choices. Of the seven decisions tracked by the game four deal directly with Clementine, our tiny heroine, while the other three affect Lee. 64% of players, myself included, chose Christa
Could Federal Enforcement of the ESRB be in our Future
Sadly, every couple of years there seems to be another mass shooting somewhere in the country. While these events are unique and tragic, public reaction is typically the same. Time and time again we hear the same stale arguments about the evils of popular culture; movies, music, and especially violent video games. The public reaction to this cycle of violence almost seems scripted. One could design a flow chart with variables concerning age of shooter and number of casualties to accurately predict just how much heat video games will feel from a particular event. The recent events in Aurora and
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct dated – trailer
The latest offering from milking of the Walking Dead universe now has a release date. Hot on the heels of a gameplay trailer (below) Activision has announced that The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be in stores on March 26. Based on and set before the AMC television show, Activision’s first-person-shooter centers around lovable miscreant brothers Merle and Daryl Dixon as they make their way to Atlanta. Yeesh. After a quick double check of the facts; yes the game in this trailer is in fact the game Activision claims will be out in March. I wonder if there’s a bookie
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