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Chroma Squad Kickstarter: A Power Rangers TV Sim
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"We want to create a game where you manage a sentai tv studio, hire actors, record episodes and use awesome special effects!

Chroma Squad: sentai heroes, manager, tactical turn-based, meta-game, pixel art fun! Everything you want in a fresh indie game! In this game you become responsible for managing and recording episodes for a sentai TV show.

So, what is Sentai? Our game is based on 90′s Tokusatsu TV series, like “Power Rangers”, “Changeman” or… “Captain Planet And The Planeteers”. Yep, any group of 3 or 5, each with different powers, whose union makes a special weapon appear to defeat their enemies. In this case, Captain Planet himself. =)"

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Card Hunter: Beta Key Giveaway
I've been playing Card Hunter, to the exclusion of nearly all else, for about a month and a half now. It's a free-to-play, half-strategy, half-rpg kind of deal. It's a deck-and-card based game, but there's a really clever equipment-as-cards paradigm that prevents this from turning into a may-the-best-card-win kind of affair. The writing isn't exactly subtle, but if your childhood involved sitting around a table with your fellow nerdlings trying to figure out the practical difference between "ration, standard" and "ration, iron", then the game was written with you in mind.

Right now, there is a waiting list to get in on the beta, but I've got a single key to share with... Read All

Stardew Valley Farm Animal Dev Update
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Keep your animal happy (and maximize production) like so:

  • Pet once a day

  • Make sure she has enough food

  • Let her outside if the weather is warm

  • Make sure she is secure at night

  • Purchase a heater to counteract the unhappiness of being inside all winter



As always, the updates that keep coming to Stardew Valley look great. Very excited to jump in and try in what looks like to be the most involved farming sim RPG i've ever seen.

As always, when a release date drops you will be the first to know.

http://stardewvalley.net/dev-update-9/

If you are looking for a collection of the other dev updates, check the CG Stardew Valley page for easy viewing:

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John Carmack's Quakecon 2013 Keynote
Every year John Carmack gives a Quakecon keynote and I tune in. This year it streamed live over Twitch.tv and as luck would have it I watched the majority of it over 3G on my Phone. In this keynote Carmack gives no details about Doom 4(he was asked and said he couldn't say anything) and spartan details about any iD game specifics but does talk about game tech and the industry, graphics technology, the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft and Armadillo Airspace.

Ocarina of Time Speedrun in 22:38, live at AGDQ201
I found a seriously incredible Ocarina of Time Speedrun by Cosmo. In this Speedrun video he gives the Speedrunning history of Ocarina of time and how these particular glitches work so the game can be complete in 22 minutes.

If you are interested in checking out more of Cosmo's videos, check out his YouTube channel and prepare yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CosmoSpeedruns

Interview with Game Designer Paul Vorvick
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I wasn’t winning with the same strategy I used in real life. I figured even if I started out with a bad economic situation I could win on the merits of making the right moral choices alone. I was wrong. The way to win in Paul Vorvick’s newest game isn’t to save and be conservative, you need to swing high and stomp everyone else into the dirt.

When I heard that local game designer Paul Vorvick was showing “Privilege: The Game of Economic Inequality” at the New York at the Games for Change Festival I was very interested in checking it out. When he came back to Portland I contacted him and we met at a local pub so he could show me the game and talk about it. As we chatted... Read All

Damsel in Distress: Part 3 - Tropes vs Women in VG
"This is the third installment in our three part mini-series exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this episode we examine the rare Dude in Distress role reversal and then take a look at the use of "ironic sexism" in retro inspired indie and mobile games. We conclude with an investigation of some titles that attempt to subvert or deconstruct the traditional damsel narrative."

The next installment from the Anita Sarkeesian "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series has dropped and you can check it out embedded above. Let me know what you think of it in the comments below!

Bethesda releasing Elder Scrolls Anthology
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On September 10, Bethesda will get $80 from me. That's the day the Elder Scrolls Anthology releases.

This collection has all the Elder Scrolls games, from Arena to Skyrim. Sure, they released the first two for free, and I already have 3, 4, and 5 in Steam, but *look at it!*

It comes with some maps for all the various regions you'll be traveling through as well, and the packaging is begging to be on my shelf.

I'm a fanboy, yeah. :)

http://www.bethblog.com/2013/08/01/the-complete-elder-scrolls-collection-comes-to-pc-this-september/

Humble Weekly Sale - 1C Company
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"This week, pay what you want for King’s Bounty: The Legend, King’s Bounty: Armored Princess, Men of War, and Men of War: Red Tide. If you pay more than the average, you’ll also receive King’s Bounty: Crossworlds and Men of War: Assault Squad - Game of the Year Edition!" https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

I've always wanted to pick up and play the King's Bounty games, and now it's at a can't beat price. Here's the review I read years ago prompting me to keep this on my radar. In his words "It’s also gloriously ridiculous and constantly inventive." I mean you battle with your belt to upgrade it... ... Read All