A post on the Yahoo! developer Tumblr has analysed the time spent on mobile devices (in the US). Their takeaway is that people are spending more time with their mobile devices, which is hardly a surprise, and they are prioritising apps rather than browsing the web. Another, a bit more interesting, observation is that the amount of time spent on games is decreasing from the year before, from 52...
So you've played Watch Dogs and thought to yourself "that don't look too hard," and now you want to learn how to be a hacker. Well, you should know that there is more to hacking than just staring at your phone all day, which we all do anyway, and you have a long way to go if you want to give DEDSEC a run for their money. DEDSEC Before we begin I should say up front that I am not a security expe...
Microsoft's Xbox One was released on November 22nd, 2013, little over a week after its direct competitor Sony's PlayStation 4 . These are two systems with comparable technical specifications (barring any non sequitur arguments about FPS ) and will feature much of the same games, along with a few exclusives. They differ from Nintendo's Wii U by being technical powerhouses that push us into the n...
With the official launch of Unreal Engine 4 , Epic Games has mentioned on the UE blog that anyone who pays the subscription fee will get access to the newest iteration of the engine as well as the full majority of C++ source on GitHub . This is a dramatically different from how things have worked in the past, where the license to use the complete engine was given out to developers based on spec...
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Game engines are great things, able to take the weight off developing a game idea to let you focus on the idea itself. Powerful engines like the Unreal Engine , Source Engine and indie-darling Unity3D are examples of great tools built by people who want to make games bigger and better. Game engines provide developers with a slew of components and helpers they can use to build their games faster...
The majority of the contents of this article have been moved to the Viking concept page. This article was originally posted on BnBGaming on March 7th, 2011. "Carry your head always high in battle, where swords seek to shatter the skulls of doomed warriors" — Harald Hardrada, viking king of Norway (1047-1066) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been announced, set to be released in November, and it...
This article was originally posted on BnBGaming on February 8th, 2011. Fifteen years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released upon the world, signifying a new generation of console gaming and revitalizing the industry that had been devastated by the arrival of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . It was the most sold console in the world, up until the PlayStation came along, and for a lot of...
This article was originally posted on BnBGaming on November 8th, 2010. Why does World of Warcraft (WoW) feel like crack-cocaine to those who play it? Hours upon hours are sucked into a game that essentially rewards time and not effort, but the players can't get enough and the amount of WoW players is steadily increasing, much to the pleasure of Blizzard. How does it all work? Tom Chatfield, an...
With the announcement, and subsequent release, of the Steam for Linux Beta , Valve Software have taken a hefty stand on the subject of cross-platform PC gaming. Their forays into developing their Source engine for the Linux ecosystem (specifically the Debian-based Ubuntu variant) has yielded surprisingly good results, as mentioned by the Valve Linux blog , and they have been working closely wit...
The task laid before me, it fills me with gloom If I am bested, then I'm sure to be doom'd Putting leaves on a shoe Does that make sense to you I combine all my items with those in the room
Raise up your sword to bask in the light And gather the will and the power to fight Your princess is calling The darkness is falling As courage will banish the evils of night
The starting gun fires with a deafening crack And you fight tooth and nail to get ahead of the pack Then from way far behind you Revenge turns your world blue And you find yourself stuck all the way at the back
A spaceship has landed just outside the base And out steps a warrior, with poise and with grace A girl clad in armor So nothing could harm her Left bits of space pirate all over the place
The hero of time, through the valley has come With a sword on his back, and a spell on his tongue He'll smash all your pots Cleave the plants in your lots With your rupies in his pocket he's gone
The man with the red hat is coming With the sound of crushing bricks approaching He'll stomp on your head Kick your shell, then you're dead Off the cliff with no hope of returning
I have to start by being honest about my inexperience when it comes to the Tribes series. I played Starsiege a bit, may have glanced a few times at the first Tribes , but didn't really have my first experience with the jetpack/ski fest until I discovered Tribes 2 , years after its release. I had a blast playing against a friend of mine over local multiplayer, trying to get the mid-air-spinfusor...
The Tribes: Ascend beta is in full swing and, being a fan of the previous games (maybe not Vengeance ), I decided to pre-order the game and receive instant access to the beta. Does that sound crazy? Paying to pre-order a free-to-play game.. yeah, that sounds pretty stupid, but let me explain. I wasn't paying to pre-order the game, that's not what this is about, the concept of "pre-order" is an...
Desura has both games and game modifications (mods) Desura is a digital distribution platform from the guys at DesuraNET , the company behind ModDB and its sister site IndieDB . It allows developers of indie games publish and sell their games without the need for a publisher, even letting you push your game directly out from one of their community sites. This low barrier to entry along with the...