Category: Gaming

Double Fine’s Kickstarter Pays Off

Developer Double Fine’s ambitious project to fund a new independent adventure game on Kickstarter raised a million dollars in one day. They had hoped to raise $300,000. That took about eight hours. And there’s still thirty-one days to go. What sort of project gets this much fan enthusiasm? Well, when the development team headed by

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She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: February 3 – 9

Welcome to another installment of She’s Got Game’s Weekly Wrap Up!  Now that 2012 really is in full swing, gamers are preparing for all the best that the new year can offer.  This week Diablo III releases 100,000 additional beta keys, Soul Calibur V‘s marketing ploy is pretty transparent, Skyrim releases a creation kit and

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She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: January 27 – February 2

Welcome to the second installment of She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up! As Denver prepares for the Snowpoclypse, I am gathering all the interesting gaming and geek blurbs from this week for you to enjoy in 15 inches of snow! This week we are playing Half-Life 2 to get Valve to release Half-Life 3, looking

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Gaming
Rett

Top 5 Reasons to Not Overlook Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim still spinning in most RPG enthusiasts’ systems it would be easy to overlook Big Huge Game and 38 Studio’s soon to be released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. However, the more I see of Kingdoms of Amalur the more convinced I am that dismissing this game would be a huge

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Mass Effect 3 Voice Cast Revealed

Seth Green, Freddy Prinze Jr, Tricia Helfer, and Martin Sheen. What do they all have in common? They will all be joining you on your adventures in Mass Effect 3 coming on March 6, 2012. While some of these actors, like Green and Sheen, have appeared in past Mass Effect games, others, like Jessica Chobot

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIII-2, Announces DLC

After a bit of a wait, Square Enix finally released its follow-up to 2010’s Final Fantasy XIII, the appropriately titled Final Fantasy XIII-2. And, with its release, Square Enix has decided to announce plans for downloadable content. In addition to Coliseum Battles, which pit the player against characters from previous Final Fantasy titles who can be recruited into the

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Trailer Park – The Last of Us

We said we’d be back and we meant it.  Welcome to the second episode of the Trailer Park, where we take a look at some of the newest trailers to hit the industry. Even though the Spike TV Video Game Awards are but a distant memory at this point, James and I couldn’t help but

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MMOs and the Trouble Of Eternal Life

There’s been talk of a Mass Effect massive-multiplayer-online-game going ’round, much as there’s talk of an MMO any time a franchise is successful. On the surface such talk is often tempting. An open-ended exploration of a favorite franchise! Revisiting beloved locations and characters! Taking part in the ongoing story of the setting! But like many

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Gaming
James Trauben

Trailer for Resident Evil 6 Released

An official trailer for Resident Evil 6 has been released, and man, it’s a doozy. The trailer features a heady bouquet of what looks like even more action than in previous Resident Evil titles (with sprinting and sliding among other things), the return of honest-to-goodness zombies, no fewer than what looks like three playable protagonists,

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