Category: Gaming

Starcraft Universe releases first multiplayer raid encounter for Kickstarter

With their Starcraft Universe Kickstarted headed into its final days, Upheaval Arts has an enticement for prospective donors: its first, entirely free multiplayer content released to the public. Starcraft Universe: Final Testament is a “complex boss raid, tailored towards hardcore fans of MMO raiding.” This boss encounter is the first multiplayer content released for Starcraft

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Gaming
James Huneycutt

[Preview/Beta Impressions] Insurgency

New World Interactive‘s Insurgency is an Early Access Title available through Steam, currently in Beta. New World Interactive has stated their intent to create a “community driven development experience,” and to bring about an “indie revival of the tactical shooter genre.” I have to admit that I find it hard to imagine a world where any part of the

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[Review] Game Dev Tycoon

As a simulation of the gaming industry that places you in the driver’s seat of a studio making games, Game Dev Tycoon is meta to the point of textbook definition, but its execution is infectiously charming. Each industry has tricks, tools, hazards and obstacles, and Game Dev Tycoon functions as commentary on the very nature

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Gaming
Leland Pierce

Saints Row IV

Saints Row IV is the fourth in the Saints Row series of open world action-adventure games. Just like in the previous titles in the series, the player controls the leader of the Third Street Saints, who has now become the President of the United States of America. The game takes you back to the fictional

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[Gamescom 2013] The Sims 4 Gets Emotional

On a “gaming addiction” scale from one to ten, the Sims franchise tops out somewhere around eleventy-billion. The franchise is on a completely different level of financial impact, with 3 flagship Sims titles across every conceivable platform and countless expansions. Its addictive design-and-micromanage game-play is married with a charming art-style, intuitive controls, and endless customization.

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[Gamescom 2013] Four Blistering Minutes of Titanfall Gameplay

It may bear marked similarities to other juggernauts in the category, but there is no question that Titanfall looks, well,  just awesome. Titanfall comes to us from Respawn Entertainment, a brand new development house with a load of displaced veteran talent from studios like Infinity Ward. The infantry/mech combat title gave another stellar conference showing at

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