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New Super Time Force Trailer Explains Rewind Time

Capybara Games just released a new trailer for it's upcoming game Super Time Force. The trailer uses hand drawn time lapse to work its magic. The trailer spends quite a bit of time explaining how the time travel part segment of the game works to create a single player co-op experience. You should watch the trailer to see it for yourself but the idea is you play the game up to a point and rewind time and teleport in another character. What you have done up to the rewind start point is saved and you can start afresh with the new character playing alongside the other.

Super Time Force will initially release as an XBox exclusive. Heres hoping the exclusivity window isn't... Read All

Take a Turn As The Alien in Paradise Lost: First Contact

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" In a remote desert, an unidentified object falls from the skies. A research organization known as G.E.R. has tracked and found the mysterious meteor: a capsule of organic material that brings an unknown life-form to our planet from the depths of space. Here begins the story of this impossible being, as it attempts to escape and survive on this strange, hostile world that we call home."

Paradise Lost: First Contact is a stealth escape game where you play as an alien attempting to escape a hostile science base. The Kickstarter video looks incredible and I seriously encourage you to check it out. I really dig the gameplay they show off in the video and enjoy the... Read All

Blizzard Classic Game Blackthorne Available For Free

If you checked your Battle.net game downloads lately you may have noticed that Blizzard recently made its classic Super Nintendo game Blackthorne available as a free PC download. If you were curious about checking out this Blizzard classic, now is your chance.

I played Rock N Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings but I haven't tried Blackthorne yet. What are you thoughts on this one? Interested in checking it out now that it's free?

Hope they release the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans for free. Haven't played that game since I had a DOS machine.

https://us.battle.net/account/download/

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Great News Everybody: The Witcher 3 Will Come DRM Free!

After the rocky Witcher 2 DRM rollout issues it seems CD Project RED is ditching DRM completely for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I laud the move and in a nice set of events they are taking time to take shots are DRM in general and offer some great rationalizations as to why DRM is a bad thing for people that buy games.

The issue of DRM being appreciated by gamers is pretty over and done, but it seems some companies are holding fast to a very old policy of treating paying customers badly. In the video CD Project RED states that they are in the business of making life long customers and some people may lack the funds or ability to become paying customers at at some point... Read All

Prison Architect Halloween Flash Mob

When I first watched this video I thought "yards need a fence to be viable." Then the music kicked in.

Have a Happy Halloween everyone.

Doom Lore In a Minute

Nice break down of the first Doom game story in a little over a minute. Doom was the first game to ever scare me because of its graphics and use of sound. The original Doom story was re-booted in Doom 3, which changes the original Doom narrative but keeps the blood, guts and carnage.

Game/Show: Why Do Games Make Us SO Freakin Angry?

"Games make us ANGRY. Who hasn't come down to the wire in Street Fighter IV, toe to toe with some jerk named "ryukiller4eva", and suddenly you make a stupid mistake and KO, you are done. What do you do? Take a deep breath, slam your controller against the wall, try to pull it into two pieces, scream? Experiencing anger while we play video games is very real, but why does it happen, and does it help us? There are physiological reasons, emotional reasons, and psychological reasons for our anger, and your crazy drive and steaming ears just might help you succeed. Watch and learn why video games make us so angry!"

Interesting break down from Game/Show of why video games... Read All

Confederate Express: A Turn Based Strategy w Zombies

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"Confederate Express is all about exploration, fighting enemies, and making your way towards the main goal: trying to survive while delivering a package. Packages vary by size, weight and fragility; which makes every delivery a unique experience, ranging from a quick 15-minute tasks, all the way to a challenging journey throughout various events and locations. The more difficult the delivery, the greater the rewards: mercenaries, gear, weapons and ultimately - greater challenges."

Confederate Express has already sailed past its Kickstarter goals but if you want to get early access to it, funding it at the $25 level will get you in. Nice to see the Indie game scene... Read All

Steam Halloween Sale: Your Wallet Will Die A Horrible Death

Steam is having a Halloween sale starting today until November 1st on some awesome games. If you were looking to add a few new games to your collection, now is a good time as any.

A few games on sale that caught my attention:

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Plants Vs. Zombies

7th Guest

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs & A Dark Descent

Ghostbusters A Sanctum for Slime

A Wolf Among Us

The F.E.A.R. Collection

Alice Madness Returns

Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2

Bioshock 1 & 2

Alone in the Dark

Eldritch

Fallout 3: GoTY

Limbo

The 11th Hour

Costume Quest

Borderlands: GoTY

Painkiller Pack

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition

Killing Floor

The Walking Dead

Don't Starve

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Starbound Beta will Come Soon and In 3 Stages

Didn't think i'd be writing about the Starbound beta this year but it looks like it will be coming very soon. Chucklefish recently posted about how the beta will roll out over the upcoming months.

stage 1: progenitor

"Stage 1 will be move at a breakneck speed. This will be the buggiest and busiest stage of the beta. A bunch of unfinished features will be disabled whilst we finish them up. Updates will come thick and fast, sometimes as often as multiple updates a day.

If you choose to take part during stage 1 you should expect bugs, lots of balance changes, you shouldn’t get too attached to your character or universe as we may make changes that require you to start from... Read All Didn't think i'd be writing about the Starbound beta this year but it looks like it will be coming very soon. Chucklefish recently posted about how the beta will roll out over the upcoming months.

stage 1: progenitor

"Stage 1 will be move at a breakneck speed. This will be the buggiest and busiest stage of the beta. A bunch of unfinished features will be disabled whilst we finish them up. Updates will come thick and fast, sometimes as often as multiple updates a day.

If you choose to take part during stage 1 you should expect bugs, lots of balance changes, you shouldn’t get too attached to your character or universe as we may make changes that require you to start from scratch. You should expect the game to be broken at points as we make sweeping changes but you’ll get to enjoy exciting new content added constantly. The engine won’t optimized during this stage of the beta so performance could be poor on some low end machines."

stage 2: automaton

"Stage 2 will be largely feature complete. You’ll still find the odd bug but they’re unlikely to be game breaking and the chance of you losing your character or save is minimal. The main quest line won’t be in yet but the sandbox experience will be near complete. All sectors of the galaxy will be available including sector X (End game content). Much of the focus in this stage will be on bug fixing, optimization and balance."

stage 3: Bio-organic

"Stage 3 is largely about prepping for v1.0, this means finishing up the main quest line and implementing the post beta content. i.e. the Novakids, fossils. By the time stage 3 is complete Starbound should be ready to launch as a finished game. Worry not however, we plan to keep adding new content for at least a year after release, perhaps a lot longer."

If you are in the Starbound beta are you going to check it out before the release? Are you planning on playing the game heavily at first or wait for the game to be a bit less buggy?

http://playstarbound.com/how-the-beta-is-going-to-work/