In this episode of that wacky Game Shop, the gang play a game very similar to Minecraft together. It uses a pretty cool four player split-screen that works really well for the episode.
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"Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition, the legendary FPS in which the Earth's greatest hero provides a steady flow of bullets and badass one-liners, is available on GOG.com, for the low price of one smile, for the next 48 hours. That's not all. For the first time in history, this supreme space-alien slaughter simulation is also available on Mac!"
Duke Nukem 3D Free and now on Mac? Awesome. Best head over to GoG and nab this game before the clock runs out. Never played any Duke games personally so here is my chance to redeem myself!
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/duke_nukem_3d_atomic_edition
Duke Nukem 3D Free and now on Mac? Awesome. Best head over to GoG and nab this game before the clock runs out. Never played any Duke games personally so here is my chance to redeem myself!
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/duke_nukem_3d_atomic_edition
Looks like Blizzard is experimenting with Diablo 3 on consoles. No official plans yet they are getting it working.
http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3752536/diablo-3-running-on-consoles-still-not-an-official-blizzard-project
Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends is now dealing with "big data" and how to scale that to millions of users. As a programmer I find this sort of thing interesting.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/08/207248/for-league-of-legends-creator-riot-games-big-data-is-serious-business
Valve wants to get DoTA 2 running on tablets but it looks like the current offerings are not hefty enough to power DoTA 2.
http://kotaku.com/5967051/valve-wants-to-get-dota-2-running-on-tablets
A pretty interesting game Eador Genesis was recently launched on GoG. Looks like a good game for people that love turn base strategy games.
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/eador_genesis
http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3752536/diablo-3-running-on-consoles-still-not-an-official-blizzard-project
Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends is now dealing with "big data" and how to scale that to millions of users. As a programmer I find this sort of thing interesting.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/08/207248/for-league-of-legends-creator-riot-games-big-data-is-serious-business
Valve wants to get DoTA 2 running on tablets but it looks like the current offerings are not hefty enough to power DoTA 2.
http://kotaku.com/5967051/valve-wants-to-get-dota-2-running-on-tablets
A pretty interesting game Eador Genesis was recently launched on GoG. Looks like a good game for people that love turn base strategy games.
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/eador_genesis
This weekend I made my way to the Mall for a bit of Holiday gift retrieval. As I made my way through the morass of Holiday Shopping Victims I noticed a Wii U Kiosk. I navigated my way through the Horde and spent some time watching kids play and asked the attendants some questions about some of the games.
One thing I took away from checking out the Wii U is that the games are very pretty. The New Super Mario Brothers Wii U & Scribblenauts HD look stunning.
One game stood out to me as a pretty fun example of the new Wii U tablet style controller was Nintendo Land. Nintendo Land is essentially a set of Wii style party games similar in tone to Wii Play & Wii Sports. The rep. was alternating between two Nintendo Land games: Mario Chase and The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest.
Mario Chase is a game where one Mii takes the role of Mario with the Wii U Tablet Controller. The Mario player's screen and game is controlled entirely on the Wii U tablet while the other 4 Mii's dressed like Toad use the Wiimotes to try and catch Mario. So it seems certain games on the Wii U can support 5 players! The interesting thing watching the game was the integration Nintendo gave for Mario Chase. Only 3 kids were playing with Wiimotes so the 4th split screen box was showing the web cam of the kid holding the Wii U tablet, I snapped a pic showing it off here:
http://i.imgur.com/HCwME.jpg (Three kids with Wiimotes chasing the kid with the Wii U Tablet)
The other game they showed from Nintendo Land was The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest. This was essentially Zelda Four Swords with Wiimotes. Looked like quite a bit of fun.
http://i.imgur.com/pu2sq.jpg
I asked the rep. if I could transfer my old Wii saves to the Wii U and she said I could. I sort of threw this question out expecting her to say no so I was surprised to learn you can do it. For me, this increases the chance I might upgrade to the Wii U. I wonder if Sony and Microsoft's next generation console will allow this?
http://www.nintendofuse.com/2012/11/20/wii-to-wii-u-system-transfer/
A few images from the experience:
A Wii U Kisok Panel: http://i.imgur.com/LHZ8O.jpg
Mario Chase Overmap: http://i.imgur.com/yM1kW.jpg
Mario Chase Starting: http://i.imgur.com/6sf4t.jpg
Apparently Nintendo Uses Mac: http://i.imgur.com/6hiWU.jpg
One thing I took away from checking out the Wii U is that the games are very pretty. The New Super Mario Brothers Wii U & Scribblenauts HD look stunning.
One game stood out to me as a pretty fun example of the new Wii U tablet style controller was Nintendo Land. Nintendo Land is essentially a set of Wii style party games similar in tone to Wii Play & Wii Sports. The rep. was alternating between two Nintendo Land games: Mario Chase and The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest.
Mario Chase is a game where one Mii takes the role of Mario with the Wii U Tablet Controller. The Mario player's screen and game is controlled entirely on the Wii U tablet while the other 4 Mii's dressed like Toad use the Wiimotes to try and catch Mario. So it seems certain games on the Wii U can support 5 players! The interesting thing watching the game was the integration Nintendo gave for Mario Chase. Only 3 kids were playing with Wiimotes so the 4th split screen box was showing the web cam of the kid holding the Wii U tablet, I snapped a pic showing it off here:
http://i.imgur.com/HCwME.jpg (Three kids with Wiimotes chasing the kid with the Wii U Tablet)
The other game they showed from Nintendo Land was The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest. This was essentially Zelda Four Swords with Wiimotes. Looked like quite a bit of fun.
http://i.imgur.com/pu2sq.jpg
I asked the rep. if I could transfer my old Wii saves to the Wii U and she said I could. I sort of threw this question out expecting her to say no so I was surprised to learn you can do it. For me, this increases the chance I might upgrade to the Wii U. I wonder if Sony and Microsoft's next generation console will allow this?
http://www.nintendofuse.com/2012/11/20/wii-to-wii-u-system-transfer/
A few images from the experience:
A Wii U Kisok Panel: http://i.imgur.com/LHZ8O.jpg
Mario Chase Overmap: http://i.imgur.com/yM1kW.jpg
Mario Chase Starting: http://i.imgur.com/6sf4t.jpg
Apparently Nintendo Uses Mac: http://i.imgur.com/6hiWU.jpg
Like many of you, when my Holiday time off comes around I plan on playing some games. Minecraft will no doubt be played and it seems that Mojang will be updating it so you can ring in the New Year Minecraft Style.... Minecraft Style.... OP, OP, OP!
From the Mojangs mouth:
"What’s this? This doesn’t sound like a redstone update at all!”, you say. “Indeed,” we say. Thing is, we* suddenly decided we wanted to make sure that you have fireworks for New Year’s Eve, so we’re working in several parallel branches of the code now. One is for the 1.5 “Redstone Update,” and one is now for a 1.4.6 patch update. This update will be out before Christmas, and 1.5 will wait until January (or possibly February)."
Ill be checking the Wiki after the patch drop for the recipe.
http://www.mojang.com/2012/12/minecraft-snapshot-12w49a/
From the Mojangs mouth:
"What’s this? This doesn’t sound like a redstone update at all!”, you say. “Indeed,” we say. Thing is, we* suddenly decided we wanted to make sure that you have fireworks for New Year’s Eve, so we’re working in several parallel branches of the code now. One is for the 1.5 “Redstone Update,” and one is now for a 1.4.6 patch update. This update will be out before Christmas, and 1.5 will wait until January (or possibly February)."
Ill be checking the Wiki after the patch drop for the recipe.
http://www.mojang.com/2012/12/minecraft-snapshot-12w49a/
Just adding another post to the continuing trail of cat parts littering the road to the launch of Mew-Genics.
"So we really splurged with the soundtrack for Mew-genics, the game will feature a full album of over 20 studio recorded songs, with more than half of them with lyrics! we really wanted to make the games music feature extended themes of the game or small stories within each song, kind of how Katamari did it in a way, except all our songs are about cats!"
I really dig the title track and am really looking forward for this release.
http://supermeatboy.com/129/Mew_Genics_Teaser_week_7/#b
"So we really splurged with the soundtrack for Mew-genics, the game will feature a full album of over 20 studio recorded songs, with more than half of them with lyrics! we really wanted to make the games music feature extended themes of the game or small stories within each song, kind of how Katamari did it in a way, except all our songs are about cats!"
I really dig the title track and am really looking forward for this release.
http://supermeatboy.com/129/Mew_Genics_Teaser_week_7/#b
Bethesda's Elder Scrolls Online Team recently released a story from the ESO Universe. This one focuses on Jorunn the Skald-King:
http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/misc/leader-profile/ebonheart
Some awesome people released Portal for the TI Calculator. Video linked above. Nab the code for your TI:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=841
THQ stock jumped 40% after its latest Humble Bundle went live:
http://m.pcgamer.com/2012/12/03/thqs-stock-rises-nearly-40-thanks-to-humble-bundle
Some have noted the Wii U is better for Indie Games. Great even:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/03/1549213/cheap-indie-games-make-wii-u-a-better-value
Crysis 3 specs were recently released. Its as if millions of PC's cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced:
http://www.crysis.com/us/crysis-3/buy
http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/misc/leader-profile/ebonheart
Some awesome people released Portal for the TI Calculator. Video linked above. Nab the code for your TI:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=841
THQ stock jumped 40% after its latest Humble Bundle went live:
http://m.pcgamer.com/2012/12/03/thqs-stock-rises-nearly-40-thanks-to-humble-bundle
Some have noted the Wii U is better for Indie Games. Great even:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/12/03/1549213/cheap-indie-games-make-wii-u-a-better-value
Crysis 3 specs were recently released. Its as if millions of PC's cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced:
http://www.crysis.com/us/crysis-3/buy
In this action packed episode with those wacky kids at The Game Shop, the Game Shop loses power! I am pretty impressed with how much they are able to do with just a Game Shop and a few characters.
This just in from the "I am getting old Department" it seems Quake II marks its 15th birthday today! Bethesda and iD Software rang in the occasion with some interesting tidbits from iD's Tim Willits.
http://www.bethblog.com/2012/12/06/happy-15th-quake-ii/
- Only three artists made all the 2D and 3D art for the entire game.
- One of the original suggested names for QUAKE II was WOR, but the game’s fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a QUAKE game than a new franchise.
- ‘The Edge’ (Tim’s favorite deathmatch level in QUAKE II or any other game), has over 50 trick jumps possible in the map. Tim only designed two of them, and the rest were discovered by the QUAKE II community.
http://www.bethblog.com/2012/12/06/happy-15th-quake-ii/
Edmund McMillen of the Super Meat Boy & Binding of Isaac fame dropped some news on The Binding of Isaac Rebirth. Recently he had a Formsping Q&A on his blog and you needed to be made aware of the details. Your welcome in advance.
"-Rebirth is a totally remade game based on the flash version of the binding of isaac + wrath of the lamb.
-The game is being produced and developed by Nicalis, the guys who did all the cave story remakes and the VVVVVV port.
-Nicalis is working on the port for Ps3/Vita and PC (steam) and is also currently talking to MS and Nintendo about releasing on their platforms. we are also looking into an iOS version if its not garbage.
-The remake will feature all the content featured in BOI+Wrath but will also feature another Wrath sized expansion over the top that will feature a new final chapter, ending, 2 new playable characters and tons more items, rooms, enemies, bosses and the like. the goal will be to make replaying the whole game not only worth it but also make i so it feels very fresh and new.
-The remake will feature content that was removed from the flash version of the game due to limitations (secret stuff!)
-The remake will feature LOCAL 2 player co-op… no online play because that will just extend the release by another forever.
-I will be lead designer on the project, making sure things are as perfect as we can make them and as true to the original as possible, i will also be designing all the new content and features.
-The game will be getting a full 16bit make over, im doing this because i think the art is tired and im sick of looking at it. i think a fresh coat of paint is needed and i think its kinda appropriate/funny to do a damake for the remake.
-We will try to do a loyalty pre-order discount to anyone who owns the game on pc."
Some really interesting bits here:
The full post where he drops the details:
http://edmundm.com/post/36798306331/binding-of-isaac-console-remake-details
Edmund also ran a poll about the remake:
http://edmundm.com/post/37223982057/binding-of-isaac-retro-remake-the-results-are-in
Team Meat is working on a new game called Mew-Genics and dropped a bit of information on how diverse the in game cats are:
"So yeah, Mew-Genics will feature over 12,207,031,250,000,000,000,000 cats. its easy to assume you and your friends wont ever have the same cat. technically that number only applies to how the cat looks, if you include its personality variables that number multiplies by A LOT.. not to mention the ability variables, personal stats and a ton more secret stuff we will talk about later on."
http://supermeatboy.com/128/Mew_Genics_teaser_week_6/#b
This is in the running for my most anticipated new games besides Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
"-Rebirth is a totally remade game based on the flash version of the binding of isaac + wrath of the lamb.
-The game is being produced and developed by Nicalis, the guys who did all the cave story remakes and the VVVVVV port.
-Nicalis is working on the port for Ps3/Vita and PC (steam) and is also currently talking to MS and Nintendo about releasing on their platforms. we are also looking into an iOS version if its not garbage.
-The remake will feature all the content featured in BOI+Wrath but will also feature another Wrath sized expansion over the top that will feature a new final chapter, ending, 2 new playable characters and tons more items, rooms, enemies, bosses and the like. the goal will be to make replaying the whole game not only worth it but also make i so it feels very fresh and new.
-The remake will feature content that was removed from the flash version of the game due to limitations (secret stuff!)
-The remake will feature LOCAL 2 player co-op… no online play because that will just extend the release by another forever.
-I will be lead designer on the project, making sure things are as perfect as we can make them and as true to the original as possible, i will also be designing all the new content and features.
-The game will be getting a full 16bit make over, im doing this because i think the art is tired and im sick of looking at it. i think a fresh coat of paint is needed and i think its kinda appropriate/funny to do a damake for the remake.
-We will try to do a loyalty pre-order discount to anyone who owns the game on pc."
Some really interesting bits here:
- Co-op. Whoa! If you can harm the other then that might make it harder.
- I wonder what stuff didnt make it into the main game they wanted to include? I guess more on those bits will surface later.
- Dropping the price for current owners is a good idea but I would have picked it up either way
- If an iOS version played well I might play more of that than on the PC
The full post where he drops the details:
http://edmundm.com/post/36798306331/binding-of-isaac-console-remake-details
Edmund also ran a poll about the remake:
http://edmundm.com/post/37223982057/binding-of-isaac-retro-remake-the-results-are-in
Team Meat is working on a new game called Mew-Genics and dropped a bit of information on how diverse the in game cats are:
"So yeah, Mew-Genics will feature over 12,207,031,250,000,000,000,000 cats. its easy to assume you and your friends wont ever have the same cat. technically that number only applies to how the cat looks, if you include its personality variables that number multiplies by A LOT.. not to mention the ability variables, personal stats and a ton more secret stuff we will talk about later on."
http://supermeatboy.com/128/Mew_Genics_teaser_week_6/#b
This is in the running for my most anticipated new games besides Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
These are kinda hit or miss but I was a fan of this one. I'm a fan of Brea Grant, she was great on Heroes and Dexter and she's the best part of this series. Her and the boss who is desperate for money.
I think they started hit or miss but the last bunch had been great. I dig the length and format a lot.