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A couple weeks ago the Twitch.TV live streaming app was finally launched on the Xbox 360 after months and months of being teased about its release. Unfortunately for gamers not living in the US of A, the service wasn’t available to them. As of today however, without so much of a peep from either Twitch or Xbox, the app is now available outside of the US, or at least it is here in Canada.
Resident Evil Revelations Review
Author: Jeff McAllister
In recent years, the Resident Evil games have been slowly descending into a festering pit of mediocrity. The once true survival-horror series has practically changed genres over the years, becoming full on action titles and doing away with any tension and suspense the series was known for. It’s not a change that anyone wanted to see and fans were hoping to someday see the series return to its hair-raising, spine-tingling, spook-fests that the original games had been so many years ago.
Resident Evil Revelations was released to high-acclaim last year on the handheld Nintendo 3DS, although the system’s layout prevented decent controls without the add-on circle pad; the game was an actual survival-horror game that brought the series, at least partially, back to its roots. Now a year later and nearly 6 months after the craptacular Resident Evil 6, Revelations is finally getting the full screen treatment with upgraded visuals for its release on the Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released five new screenshots from the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins, which will be available Oct. 25th, 2013. The game, which is the third in the Arkham series of Batman games is being developed by WB Games Montréal and takes place several years before the first two games, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, which were developed by Rocksteady Studios.
As the title implies, the game will focus the origins of Batman’s encounters with several of his Rogues Gallery members, including The Joker, The Penguin, and the main villain of the game, The Black Mask as they try to take him down on Christmas Eve. Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, the Wii U, and PC.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review
No, there isn’t a gun that shoots honey badgers…sadly.
Author: Jeff McAllister
If you could put two parts 80′s actions films, one part neon clothing of the era, and just a dash of hair band music riffs all into a blender, mix it high for ten minutes, and pour it out in videogame form, you would end up with the incredibly absurd, and somehow comforting world of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. To put it plainly, Blood Dragon is basically a mod for one of the best games released last year and while familiar, it’s not quite like anything that has been done before.
Last week in Toronto, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon was showing off his recently released title Injustice: Gods Among Us. Friend of the site and gaming biz renaissance man, Justin Amirkhani (@Keadin) had a chance to ask some questions covering his view on the resurgence of the fighting genre, characters that he would have liked to have seen in the game that didn’t make the cut, and trying to figure out if there would be a certain someone as a hidden playable character.
Dead Island Riptide Review
A terrifying-ly bad game.
Author: Jeff McAllister
Dead Island was a middling game that was released in the not-so distant 2011 and followed a story of four island resort vacationers who were immune to a spreading disease that seemed to raise the other island inhabitants from the dead and turn them into aggressive and voracious monsters. Although the setting and idea was interesting; the gameplay, characters, quick deaths, and just about everything else about the game was disappointing.
With Dead Island Riptide, the new title from Techland, a company that is known for dropping bigger deuces than an elephant, it is simply more Dead Island with a new playable character. There’s nothing improved gameplay-wise, characters still look like they were carved out of wood, and the new additions to the game; like the hub-based wave battles are pointless and monotonous.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a “cool” thing when I was younger… twice. Kind of weird how that happened, but the original black and white comics were incredible and then years later, the goofy “Cowabunga!” Archie Comic version of the Ninja Turtles and Saturday morning cartoons were pretty damn cool too.
So now many, many, …oh god so many moons later, it seems that the Ninja Turtles are on another comeback with a new cartoon series and a new game entitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
Activision has released a new trailer that shows off some of Michelangelo’s in-game moves, as well as a few somewhat frightening screenshots of the nunchucking turtle in his newly realized visage.
There are times during Dead Island Riptide that having numerous amounts of the same weapon can come in handy. Whether it is because you like to toss them and sometimes they’ll get lost or if it’s because they are worth a lot to sell. There is a little trick you can do in Dead Island Riptide that will allow you duplicate the weapons you currently possess and allow you to carry many copies of them in case you just want to have an extra for backup or if you want to make a whole ton of money rather quickly.
So not only are sites doing unboxings, but also tastings now? Man, I need to keep up with the Joneses. So here I throw my hat into the ring and take a test taste of the Bob-omb Candy that you can find…well, I don’t know where, really. The candy aisle somewhere. Is the candy as delicious as the little Bob-omb would have you think or is it really a dud?
One taste. One take. One experience.
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