My 10th Annual E3 Banner Contest Banners
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The 11th Annual E3 Banner Contest is coming this week, so I thought I'd post the banners that I submitted last year. I hope people will enjoy what I've cooked up for this year's contest.
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The 11th Annual E3 Banner Contest is coming this week, so I thought I'd post the banners that I submitted last year. I hope people will enjoy what I've cooked up for this year's contest.
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[This is the third entry in a series of blogs. It's recommended you read the first and second before you read this one.] I'm probably not alone in this, but for the past few generations, I've thought of the PlayStation as the Exclusives Machine. The PlayStation 3's Cell processor made sure that it was a bad place to play a lot of third-party games, and the current gulf between how games run on...
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Unlike the other three games so far featured in May Millennials, I did at one point many years ago make some progress into Arx Fatalis (which I own both physically and digitally) before abandoning it for reasons I forget. I'd like to think, or hope, that I'm a more patient sort these days and that the added context that Arx Fatalis was explicitly built to be an Ultima Underworld spiritual succe...
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Guess who's playing Indie spacewhipper s again? This guy. Can't get enough of 'em. Dandara 's another one that - perhaps recognizing the ubiquity of its chosen format - has opted for a divergent control scheme, not unlike similar contemporary Yoku's Island Express . Instead of pinball, however, Dandara has a distinctive movement scheme where the player can only jump from point to point, and onl...
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What I admire most about Gothic , besides the usual moxie of European CRPGs that charmingly overreach, is how it feels constructed by those who understand how to build an RPG world, possibly from years spent poring over D&D rulebooks or reading a lot of fantasy fiction. Specifically, someone who puts story and characters ahead of mechanics and loot, which is so rarely the case even in a genre t...
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One robot ninja's noble journey to see how far they can travel across this great cosmos of ours without spending any money or exerting too much effort. Part 5: Insane in the Warframe Expanding this feature from a weekly check-in to a monthly one has afforded me a certain amount of leeway in how and when I choose to consume Warframe , though I fear it's also made me a little more lackadaisical i...
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Bombcast 582 - they are discussing the Randy Pitchford, (Gearbox - Borrderlands 3), meltdown on Twitter about how Game Informer "fucked him"; when in fact they were just clearing up that he misspoke. He said the game would have "no micro-transactions", when it in fact does. He then called Game Informer "fuck wits" saying " you knew what I meant ". Now he honestly may not have thought paid cosme...
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I originally missed Piranha Bytes's seminal 3D action-RPG Gothic franchise, having only discovered the developer through Gothic's "sequel" series Risen . However, having played Gothic (the first one) for a few hours it's clear where most of the blueprint for Risen came from. Hailing from a genre I often refer to as "ERPGs" - the often janky RPG offerings from continental Europe, which make up f...
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Oh, hi there, I'm back. There have been a few hurdles in the way of keeping up the edits, what with my Premium running out and not being able to afford a re-up, which doesn't keep me on the site as long. Luckily, I managed to scrape by some coins for the Giant Bomb Premium sale, which is happening right now, baby. Only a few more days to go, so act fact! I've also been grinding away at Apex Leg...
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This was as close as I could get to the Grand Theft Auto V game cover with Giant Bomb related things.
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May 2019 will continue to be full of gigantic CRPGs, so I peppered the Indie Game of the Week schedule with games like The Tiny Bang Story : very chill, very short, very not at all violent and bloody. Sometimes Indie games work best because they're capable of taking risks and focusing on aspects like narration and atypical-to-AAA aesthetics (mostly pixels, granted, but also other distinctive ar...
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Severance: Blade of Darkness is, on reflection, one of the more distinctive games released at a time when the semi-recent advent of 3D dungeon-crawling had opened many doors for inventive developers. While there were a number of RPGs figuring out how to explore a 3D space, in particular early panoramic games like The Elder Scrolls: Arena and Ultima Underworld from which the era of 3D RPGs origi...
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February 26, 2019, 10 PM Eastern Many fighting game fans probably tuned into EVO’s Twitch stream to see which fighting games would be announced as one of the main showcase games for this year’s EVO tournament. Unlike previous years where they stretched out announcing titles for shenanigans and such, Mr Wizard and Markman played it straight and announced nine games straight through. Much of the...
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Much like Dante in DMC5, I have awoken from my months-long slumber and I'm ready to go! Only instead of killing demons, I have an insatiable urge to... blog!! You know how back in the day, people would say that games are “good rentals?” For many, those opportunities have sadly dried up. The decay of stores like Blockbuster has left the state of game rentals in a bad place. Unless you can borrow...
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I think it was fellow EuroMod @fisk0 that recommended this one, or perhaps aficionado of crusty CRPGs @arbitrarywater , but Severance: Blade of Darkness (known simply by its subtitle in the US) is an action-RPG I'd never encountered prior to this month and took a gamble on it based solely on word of mouth. While set in a vaguely "Tolkien by way of Conan the Barbarian " fantasy world of dwarves...
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These days most of what I write comes in the form of a monthly bigh post about a single game, or maybe a couple games, but it's been a bit since the last game I played that I felt like I could squeeze out that many words about. It's been a little over a month, but I realized I've played a decent number of games this year that I haven't written about at all, so here's a "rapid fire" (some of the...
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Here's a quick synopsis of the story: Humanity has solved the cheap energy problem and made hyper efficient robots that produce everything in quantities greater than what the human population can consume. The society is structured in a class system where the poor have to consume vast quantities of the goods to fulfill their ration quotas and the rich can live simple lives. The main character is...
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Due to the always busy May schedule, I appreciate when a game like Divide By Sheep drops into my lap - it is presently being given away for free on the Steam store, and will be for the remainder of this weekend (May 11-12). Divide By Sheep is a puzzle game I've had my eye on ever since I logged a bunch of wishlist items from one of those "highest rated Steam games with lowest amount of sales" c...
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It only took 5 months, but I finally mustered enough willpower to start long-form writing about video games again after a combination of a capstone paper and two back-to-back Game of the Year blogs ruined my desire to throw thousands of words at a screen. I’m sure you’re as excited as I am, so let’s get to it. Bioshock 2 Hey, remember how they made a sequel to Bioshock? No, not the sky one. As...
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I rarely played any video games during the stretch where I was overcome with anxiety throughout the day. I briefly played a couple of games here and there during this stretch, but playing video games did not cross my mind as an option to help ease anxiety. The few occasions I did play video games in this stretch did help get my mind be able to escape the constant anxiety barrage that I was cons...
