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Lego Doom. I Didn't Know How Cool It Could Be.

I found this Lego Doom photo as I was spelunking the corners of the Internet and wanted to share it with you. Before I saw this I wasn't aware how much I wanted Lego Doom. Hopefully the Lego Doom movie isn't too far away!

http://i.imgur.com/u7fwf5v.jpg

Hyrule Warriors Quick Review

Azurephile gives this a solid "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

Azurephile gives this a "Rad" on the Ghost Scale

This is fun, with very few issues, and is well worth your time.

Quick review

Recommended (one of my most favorite Wii U games)

Many Zelda elements

DLC

Kind of short story mode on normal difficulty

amiibo functionality

At E3 this year, only months ago, Nintendo showed off some new games to look forward to. When it comes to E3, I pretty much always watch the Nintendo press conference and more videos about whatever they are showing off, ignoring everything else. This year's E3 wasn't really that different from other years, meaning that Nintendo got me really excited again. One of the new games they showed off was Hyrule Warriors, a combination of The Legend of Zelda and Dynasty Warriors. I've never played a Dynasty Warriors game,... Read All Quick review

Recommended (one of my most favorite Wii U games)

Many Zelda elements

DLC

Kind of short story mode on normal difficulty

amiibo functionality

At E3 this year, only months ago, Nintendo showed off some new games to look forward to. When it comes to E3, I pretty much always watch the Nintendo press conference and more videos about whatever they are showing off, ignoring everything else. This year's E3 wasn't really that different from other years, meaning that Nintendo got me really excited again. One of the new games they showed off was Hyrule Warriors, a combination of The Legend of Zelda and Dynasty Warriors. I've never played a Dynasty Warriors game, but consider myself a fan of the Zelda series.

Zelda elements and DLC: Initially, I thought the videos for Hyrule Warriors looked very exciting. There are so many playable characters, stages, and elements from various Zelda games. The game is action-packed and even has DLC. I believe I have all the currently available DLC, which includes many various character costumes and more. At least one DLC is available for a $20 purchase, while some of the other DLC is available for those that pre-ordered the game and also after registering the game at Club Nintendo. It also seems that Epona is or will be available as a weapon via DLC.

While I've had a lot of fun with the game, perhaps the only disappointment I've come across is that it didn't take me very long to beat the main part of the game (Legend Mode) on normal difficulty. I wish the game was much longer, but then again there are plenty of extra modes and things to unlock (like new characters, weapons, etc.). I'm currently working on capturing all the Gold Skulltula. They appear in Legend Mode on normal difficulty only after defeating 1,000 enemies. However, there are more which can only be obtained in hard difficulty and with various conditions, such as a certain character with a certain weapon. I have not yet explored the other game modes (Free Mode, Adventure Mode, etc.).

amiibo: There is also amiibo functionality. Any amiibo will give you something, but Legend of Zelda amiibos give you better things. Check out this link to find out what amiibos will give you what items: https://www.nintendo.com/amiibo/games/detail/hyrule-warriors-wii-u/

I've really thoroughly enjoyed this game, which makes me think that I should look into other Dynasty Warriors games. Anyway, I highly recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of the Legend of Zelda. For more information, please see the official site: http://zelda.com/hyrule-warriors/

*Update*
Hyrule Warriors is definitely one of my most favorite games on the Wii U. I haven’t checked out the 3DS version though.

Borderlands 2 now on Linux

In addition to officially announcing Linux support for the Pre-Sequel, today Borderlands 2 can be played on Linux.

Some DLC is still showing Windows/Mac only, but an Aspyr rep on Reddit says that it's taking some time to flag everything properly.

In addition, there's a massive sale on the game and all the DLC so if you don't have it yet, now's your chance to get it cheap!

http://store.steampowered.com//sale/borderlands2_steamos

Terraria 1.3 teasers surface

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Do you see that? That's a drill mount. This is the coolest thing I've seen so far coming up in 1.3

Recently the developers at Relogic have been dropping some hints at what we can expect from 1.3. Check out the full post here

http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/a-lively-world-terraria-1-3-spoilers-tcf-launch-event.342/

Cheerful Ghost Reviews: A New Steam Curation Page!

I setup a new Steam Curation page with a few games I recommend people check out. In the future I plan on migrating awesome Steam game reviews to the page. So if you have been itching to review a cool Steam game, post it to the site and let me know about it and it may be featured on our Steam Curation page.

http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6874475/

Steam Music Drops, Valve Gives Away Free Music For Everyone

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"Now it’s easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam.

Point Steam to the MP3s on your computer, then browse your collection of albums and artists. You’ll also find your Steam Soundtracks DLC in your Steam Music library when the associated base game is installed. Listen to albums, queue up mixes, and create playlists you love, right in your Steam library. Best of all, it’s all available right within the Steam Overlay, so you can control playback without leaving your game. The Steam Music library and player consist of all the basics you need to enjoy your music without switching tasks."

Steam Music has finally shipped and it's available to... Read All "Now it’s easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam.

Point Steam to the MP3s on your computer, then browse your collection of albums and artists. You’ll also find your Steam Soundtracks DLC in your Steam Music library when the associated base game is installed. Listen to albums, queue up mixes, and create playlists you love, right in your Steam library. Best of all, it’s all available right within the Steam Overlay, so you can control playback without leaving your game. The Steam Music library and player consist of all the basics you need to enjoy your music without switching tasks."

Steam Music has finally shipped and it's available to anyone that recently updated the Steam client. Steam Music offers a pretty spartan UI right now in allowing you to search through all your music and filter by artist or album. After Steam scans your library accessing and playing your music is pretty quick but I miss a some features like being able to shuffle through all your music. At some point I hope they offer a cover art style way to mouse through your library, I really like this as I have a ton of music and it's nice to visually locate and album as I scroll through hundreds of albums(I have a ton of music).

That said, I love that music support came to Steam and am looking forward to further releases that support more audio formats like AAC & FLAC.

To celebrate the launch of Steam Music Valve is giving away the soundtracks to some of it's most iconic games. So grab them now while you can.

Half-Life | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323130/

Half-Life Two | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323140/

Half-Life Two: Episode One | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323150/

Half-Life Two: Episode Two | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323160/

Portal | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323170/

Portal 2 | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323180/

Free to Play | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323120/

http://store.steampowered.com/news/14358

Blizzard Needs To Make Warcraft 4

Hopefully it's not a secret to most of you that back in the day, I had a thing for Warcraft 3. I loved the strategic elements, the heroes and it's non-starcraft pacing. At University I played it a lot with friends and when DoTA hit, played that as well. I generally played as the Undead or Orcs and had a pretty good build that could stand up well in a fight.

After World of Warcraft released and quickly became one of the most popular games ever, I figured that it wouldn't be too long until Warcraft 4 was released. After Starcraft 2 was announced I lost hope in a Warcraft 4 release as it didn't make sense for Blizzard to push two strategy games at once.

That said, I... Read All

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 09/23/2014 at 02:15am

I believe this is the first I've heard of Warcraft 3. I obviously live under a rock in the middle of no where. I might have to look into it. I played the first two games, but have never played WoW. As for SC2: LotV, it seems to still be in production according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_II:_Legacy_of_the_Void), although it's been about 10 months since it's been updated, so hopefully it shall be completed soon.

Travis Admin wrote on 09/23/2014 at 03:10am

I think Starcraft 2 was more important to get out, and I'm glad they went that route before going back to Warcraft. Starcraft 1 is a bit of a chore to play these days, while Warcraft III is still as good as ever.

But yeah, I think it's time for a new one. I'd be surprised if there weren't some design documents somewhere already. I don't know how many teams they have but hopefully once a couple of years have passed after Legacy of the Void comes out, we get a new Warcraft.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 09/23/2014 at 04:09pm

Greg: Warcraft III was released in 2002, so if you weren't doing a lot of PC gaming back then, you might not have heard of it. At the time I was at University and all I had was a laptop for school work and no money for a console. So I mostly played PC games.

Travis: I agree as I am really excited about Legacy of the Void. Hopefully it's not as long in the making as you say, but what you say sounds right.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 09/23/2014 at 07:30pm

Yeah, i was at "University" at that time, too. I didn't do a lot of PC gaming, mostly console gaming as I had all three current-gen consoles at the time.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 09/23/2014 at 07:38pm

It'll be interesting to see how/if Warcraft 4 shapes up. I wonder if the current emerging esports scene will influence the game. Especially considering one of the major esports games is an outgrowth of Warcraft 3 (Dota2).

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Doom Reborn: New Mod Recreating Doom Using the Doom 3 Engine

"The basic goal is to recreate the original Doom and Doom 2 in the idTech4 engine with all the engine eye candy ID Software has provided us with so we can recreate the game for a classic Doom player to remember and enjoy the memories of the classics in a modernized way, but keeping the old Doom spirit well in the game."

The Doom Reborn project has just released a pre-beta version for testing so if you are interested in heading back to the original game with an updated skin, check it out.

http://doomreborngame.com/index.php?page=news

I'll be watching this pretty closely as loved other fan recreation projects of old games like Black Mesa and Diablo Mortal Shroud.

Watch Facebook Watch You Watch Facebook

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/oculus-brings-the-virtual-closer-to-reality/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

It looks like the Oculus is getting closer and closer to being released. There's a lot in this article, so I won't copy and paste much of it.

I'm not sure if I'm thrilled with the thought of buying a VR headset from a company like FB, but really all corporations are going to be the same. Watching your habits and trying to make money off you.

That said, it would be awesome to have a Cheerful Ghost Virtual Hangout!

Cannon Brawl Reaches 1.0

Two years ago I played Cannon Brawl at PAX Prime. I liked what I played so much I bought it and have since been waiting for it to hit 1.0. Since when I originally bought it till now Turtle Sandbox Games(the creators of Cannon Brawl) have ported it to Mac and Linux and added a lot of new features to it. If you are looking for a fun couch/internet co-op strategy game you can pick up and play with a friend you should checkout Cannon Brawl. Cannon Brawl also features a interesting story mode that is worth checking out too.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230860/