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Random Steam Play: Splice, A Great Cell Based Puzzle Game

Like many of you I have a ton of games in Steam I've never played. We all get them from bundles, game packs or Steam sales and have high ambitions to play them all. Eventually.

Thing is, over the last year my list of games has increased at a faster rate than I can play them so I decided to take steps to address this. One thing I do now is I don't buy a game I won't immediately play. So if there is a new sweet bundle OR game on sale, I will not buy it unless I will be playing it within a few days of buying it. My thinking here is that if I don't plan on sitting down to play the game now it won't happen in a week.

I have also decided that when I want to play a new game,... Read All

Reaper of Souls Coming to Consoles August 19th

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Blizzard will launch Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Ultimate Edition on consoles August 19th. If you have been unable to play the game thus far because your are console bound, now you will get your chance. At first I thought this release would only make it to the PS4 and XBone, but it seems Blizzard is releasing it on the PS3, PS4, 360 & XBone to keep everyone happy.

"Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition is filled to the brim with fast-paced action, awe-inspiring heroes, and legendary treasure. It features all the content included in the Reaper of Souls expansion set, as well as Acts I through IV of the original Diablo III for those who have yet to vanquish the Lord of... Read All

Tim Schafer Plays Day of the Tentacle

"Tim sits down for the first time in 10 years to play "Day of the Tentacle"! In this first installment we explore some of Bernard's storyline and clear away the cobwebs of time from Tim's memory. "

Double Fine is releasing a few videos that have since been special backers only rewards. I just watched the latest video of Tim Schafer playing Day of the Tentacle. Hearing him talk about the games development as he plays it is really great as Day of the Tentacle has always had a special place in my "video game soul."

Thy plan on releasing more videos of Tim Schafer playing Lucas Arts classics and will conclude the Day of the Tentacle play with a part 2.

What memories do you... Read All

Diablo: Mortal Shroud Comes to Starcraft II

Blizzard gave Starcraft II a great map editor. That editor has spawned many awesome Arcade maps and in the case of the Warcraft III editor, it even created the whole MOBA game genre with DoTA. Not to be undone by the past, someone has taken it upon themselves to recreate the original Diablo in Starcraft II and call it "Diablo: Mortal Shroud."

Playing it is pretty simple, you just open Starcraft II, go to the Arcade section and search for "mortal" and select Diablo: Mortal Shroud. The game is already pretty darn great and has the feel of the original Diablo. The mod author is using the original game voice acting, art and play style as the original. The game looks a bit... Read All

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/11/2014 at 07:10pm

There's a typo in your heading. =)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/11/2014 at 07:21pm

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/11/2014 at 07:26pm

Hahahahahahaha We all make mistakes.

I haven't played around with the map editor. I guess this is what you were doing last night when I saw you sign in to Battle.net. I noticed you were in the Starcraft II Arcade.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/11/2014 at 07:26pm

Yeah, I was playing the Diablo mod.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/12/2014 at 01:24am

I haven't seen any updates on this for about a year. Glad to know they're still working on it. It's looking WAY better.

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New Unreal Tournament Game in the Works, Will be Free

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"Work on the future of Unreal Tournament begins today, and we’re happy to announce that we’re going to do this together, with you. We know that fans of the game are as passionate about Unreal Tournament as we are. We know that you have great ideas and strong opinions about where the game should go and what it should be. So let’s do something radical and make this game together, in the open, and for all of us.

HERE’S THE PLAN:

We’ve created a small team of UT veterans that are beginning work on the project starting today.

From the very first line of code, the very first art created and design decision made, development will happen in the open, as a collaboration... Read All

Terraria 1.2.4 Drops: Mounts, Quests, Minecarts and More!

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"As many of you know we decided to pull several of the mechanics and features from the Lunar Update and do them in a smaller update to minimize the wait for a patch. Now that this is out of the way we will be putting our full attention on the Lunar. Lazure has already been hard at work creating assets for the event and Crowno has a pretty awesome idea for the final boss of the event."

From the top of the feature list:

"You can now get quests from the Angler NPC for cool rewards. Each time you complete a quest, the rewards progressively get better.
You can now use critters as bait for fishing.
You can now ride around in style on the new Minecart system.
Beaches no longer... Read All

Travis Admin wrote on 05/09/2014 at 12:49am

This game is growing faster than I'm comfortable with. Not really, but kinda.

I'm seriously wondering at what point it will reach "too big." I'm kind of obsessive about games like this and I want to collect EVERYTHING and do EVERYTHING.

Terraria is going to be the death of me.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/09/2014 at 12:57am

Perhaps a good problem to have? That said, Terraria is still VERY finite and our games have pretty obvious ends.

That said, they are giving it WAY more of a life than i'd have thought and I really respect that. Doesn't seem like we have that much further to go for the "final update."

Travis Admin wrote on 05/09/2014 at 01:02am

Yeah I love it. I really do. BUT I WILL NEVER BE DONE. :)

Seriously, I'm looking forward to getting back into it.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/09/2014 at 01:05am

Me too. I was thinking holidays for server part 4. Or is it 3?

Travis Admin wrote on 05/09/2014 at 01:07am

4. We've done three. I guess lunar update is the obvious point for server 4.

And if by "holidays" you're talking about December, I'm not sure I can wait that long. If you were talking about Memorial Day or Independence Day as "holidays" though...

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/09/2014 at 01:37am

I'd be open to an earlier server.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/09/2014 at 01:50pm

I played around with this a bit last night. The smart cursor is awesome, but I can imagine I wouldn't want to use it all the time. With my already decked out character I was able to mine all the way to hell in a new large world in about a minute.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 12:16am

The new stuff seems interesting, I'll have to check it out sometime. When I saw the minecart video, I thought that it would be really cool if some how worlds could generate some minecart trails. I think that would be cool.

Is Lunar another game they are making?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/10/2014 at 12:46am

The Lunar update, according to what I have read, seems to be one of the last large content updates to Terraria? They plan on adding the Moon and the final boss there.

I kind of thought the last boss would be Cthulhu himself, but it seems like it won't be.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 01:56am

Interesting, thanks for filling me in.

Sungorth wrote on 05/10/2014 at 02:08am

I havn't played for probably a year - this game looks insane now

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/10/2014 at 04:23am

@Sungorth: The game really has gotten pretty huge, I played it at 1.1 and then 1.2 and haven't yet played this update. Can't wait to start up a new game.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 11:16am

Jon, do you mean, "start up a new game," as in a new character in a new world? That would be dedication, going though it all over again. I've thought about doing that, maybe I will again eventually.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/10/2014 at 12:29pm

We've done it at least three times. Every time we do a new server we start up new characters. I have one other that I started fresh. It's fun!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 01:48pm

Wow! I've only created one character.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/10/2014 at 04:09pm

Yeah, going through the game fresh is really fun. Otherwise there isn't much to do save the new content.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 05:47pm

It's also kinda nice to start a new character because not all the new content is meant for end game. So I tend to discover things a little more naturally as I progress through the game. Plus I seem to progress quicker with each successive play through so starting over isn't really that big of a deal. :)

That said, if we start up another server I have no real preference for new characters or continuing on with existing ones. I think we'd have fun either way.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/10/2014 at 09:47pm

Good points!

Travis Admin wrote on 05/11/2014 at 01:55am

With starting up a new one I'd definitely want new characters. There have been so many minor additions since our last one that we would still miss out on a ton.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/11/2014 at 02:54am

At least they didn't nerf our favorite weapons again. Too bad they didn't un-nerf them. Hahaha Anyway, the wiki doesn't seem to have the Angler listed under NPCs yet.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/11/2014 at 05:19am

Which wiki are you using? If you're using the wikia wiki, you're doing it wrong. The gamepedia one is the "official" one, and is much better.

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Angler

That said, both wikis have the Angler in this case.

http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Angler

And they both have them in the categories:
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Template:Town_NPCs
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/NPC

It looks like all those page changes were made on the 9th, so if you checked before Friday they may not have been there.

I'm probably giving you way more info than you care about.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/11/2014 at 10:12am

I was looking at the official one. Thanks for the links. If you notice the Angler doesn't seem to be on the front page.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/11/2014 at 01:30pm

Looks like it was added earlier this morning

http://terraria.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Terraria_Wiki&oldid=253906

Travis Admin wrote on 05/11/2014 at 01:33pm

I just realized that I barely ever looked at the front page, if ever, I just search for the thing/category I'm after. There's a lot missing from it, but it's a nice primer.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 05/11/2014 at 06:33pm

There we go!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/11/2014 at 06:58pm

Yeah, I just search for what I am looking for. Except for when I started and really didn't know what I could do with the game. That said, I love the wiki and hope it's always maintained.

Travis Admin wrote on 05/12/2014 at 01:21am

Oh it will be. So many obsessed fans! What would we do without them?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/12/2014 at 03:35am

Miss more than half the game.

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The Story Of The Original Doom

Some awesome person on the net took a snapshot of the original Doom manual and found that it contains an actual story. It's no Song of Ice and Fire but it does make sense and sets the game up well.

Interested in checking it out, peep the link below

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Game/Show Predicts the Future Of Gaming

Jamin makes some interesting predictions about the future of gaming I wanted to share. He seems to think that at some point the idea of watching and playing video games will cross together more to create a kind of game/spectator hybrid experience. He cites Twitch Plays Pokemon as a recent example.

He makes a few other interesting predictions too. What do you think, where will gaming be in five to ten years?

The Diablo Story Thus Far

I have a sneaking suspicion we might see Lilith in a future Diablo game. That or Diablo, I bet we will always be killing that guy.

Interview -w Alex Preston Creator of Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper Light Drifter is an upcoming 2D action RPG. Like many of you I was dazzled with the Kickstarter and am on the edge of my seat awaiting more information on it's development. After the last trailer dropped at PAX East I wanted more information on how things were progressing with the game and contacted Heart Machine Games.

I decided to take a different approach to this interview and reached out to one of my friends Alex Atkins, the lead writer of Monsters Ate my Birthday Cake. We are both excited about the game and he agreed to toss a few questions in the interview to give it a different perspective.

Alex Atkins: Many developers (and artists in general) are... Read All