This Weekend, Learn How to Save Your BBQ from Dinosaurs
Hands-on preview of Fire Hose Games’ in-progress title Go Home Dinosaurs! is live, and it looks to be a very dino weekend – the interview with Fire Chief Eitan Glinert is due to hit N4G tomorrow!
It’s an early build of what’s shaping up to be a fresh addition to the Tower Defense genre, a genre of awesome.
N4G Review: ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Two of my most favorite games, now on PS3. You’d think that would be all there is to say!
Retro Gamers in Portland
People of the Northwest, rise! Portland’s hosting its sixth-annual Retro Gaming Expo September 24 and 25 at the Doubletree Hotel. Go there for the Freeplay Arcade, home to 30 arcade games, 6 pinball machines and 40 home consoles like the Atari 2600, NES and Sega Genesis. Or check out speakers and panels (keynote speakers Thor Aackerlund and Robin Mihara) and buy some homebrew (games) at the marketplace.
Last year’s event saw 1200 in attendance, tickets are super cheap, and kids under 10 are free. Think of the educational opportunities.
Star Trek Online Goes Free-to-Play
Try and act surprised!
Cryptic Studios, Inc., the team behind MMORPG Star Trek Online, was recently acquired by Perfect World Entertainment. It shouldn’t be too shocking, then, that the masters of free-to-play are bringing STO to that end of the pricing model.
The game will launch as free-to-play in 2011, with a closed beta “coming soon”. Already a subscriber? Players can access additional features a la carte or become Gold Members by continuing to subscribe at $14.99/month. New players will have the option to upgrade to this Gold status, as well, for the same price.
Borderlands 2
Going live today on N4G are both my interview with Gearbox Art Director Jeramy Cooke and my preview of Borderlands 2. The PAX takeaway: the Gearbox team’s appreciation for their fans is off the charts.
Here’s a pretty picture of Salvador:
Crimson Alliance Preview
Certain Affinity like to make FPSs. So they made an action RPG. Story goes that Max Hoberman, formerly of Bungie, wanted to make an RPG, and this is that game. Amidst all those first-person shooters the idea of an RPG was always there, and Xbox Live Arcade made it possible to take some risk, without committing a team of 120 people. Don’t worry, it works.
Talking and playing - it's a trick!
Fractal, A Brainy Beauty
Write-up about a really nice indie game for your iPad is live over on the N4G blog now. Fractal has staying power.
The September 1 update fixes stability issues, my only gripe with the app.
Dark Nebula: Episode One is Free
Dark Nebula: Episode One is free this week! Episode Two’s price is halved to the standard App price of .99 – and it’s just as worth picking up as its predecessor. So it’s sort of get one for free and buy the second half price deal? I recommend them.
Google-
I adopted early, because that’s what we do. Turns out that those niggling qualms about where Google+ would fit in my life, if I even wanted to carve out space or time or inclination, those weren’t just latent Luddite tendencies trying to rear their nasty heads. Time is my internet currency, and when it comes to Google+ I’m skint.
(yes, you can sever Google+ from your Google account, just use a sharp, clean blade)
New and Shiny Site!
Sally has finished work on our new HAVAmedia site, woo! All our latest projects and sites are there, and you can check out my likeness on the Our Team page, pretty much the spitting image. What do you think, new Twavatar?
Marcus Fenix Listens to Cat Power
Probably went to every Lilith Fair, too, because brawny men emote now.
Have you seen the new Gears 3 cinematic trailer, “Dust to Dust”? If you have then you know (maybe?) the song isn’t Cat Power, it’s Mazzy Star’s “Into Dust”, which I expect will also be featured in, say, the next Twilight movie. That hasn’t happened yet, right?
It is one depressing chick song, and all that juxtaposition with the big strong man shapes and the violence, ooh it hints at layers, deep emotional layers! C’mon, Gears, own what you are – an expletive-laden testosterone fueled “sh*t f*ck BOOM sh*t” fest.
Win an OnLive Console (and some other stuff)
Just posted the September contests for N4G, and since I came away from PAX with an OnLive console I thought someone else should get one for free, too!
Posting the post-PAX contests for the month always feels a bit of a lie – because there are more contests coming!! With so much swag to give away, it’s really only a matter of when, or even how…
Post-PAX Lobbycast
At the close of PAX Prime 2011 I joined Geoff Olsen of the PGL Lobbycast for a quick podcast – check it out for a bit of a preview of what’s in store as we talk about some highlights (and lowlights)!
(and on N4G, of course)
True Game
Like True Blood, but less icky? GamerFitNation graciously asked me to answer a few questions as part of their True Gamer series. I’m thankful that every time an N4G forum goer asks, “I want to start running/exercising/lifting, but how?” there’s a site I can point them to! Thanks, GamerFitNation!
(and yes, this means I survived PAX, so brace yourselves for a deluge of previews – and a review of the Ico/SotC Collection in just one week!)
Could you repeat the question?
PAX kicks off Friday – the laundry is laundry-ing, the packing is…packing-ing, and the interviews are written(ing). Well, mostly. Part of the pre-show interview fun times is asking my husband if he has any questions he wants answered. Thing is, most of his questions find the line for “hard hitting”, and then throw rocks at it.
Some of his suggestions from last night:
- Seriously?
- Would you guys ever think of a subscription that’s not $15? Like, $2. Yeah, $2.
- When will you give me my Beta key?
- Give me a copy of this game so I can show it to people, because trying to explain it sucks.
- Do you have a job? Like, a real one.
- How many more of these are you gonna make?
- The Virtual Boy was a colossal failure, what made you go back to the well a second time?
- How long has the production of the Ico/SotC Collection delayed the release of The Last Guardian, because I’ve already played both of these and now it looks like we will only get one Fumito Ueda game on the PS3 you bastards?
The juicy core of those is good stuff – and you should probably keep in mind we were laughing pretty hard running through them – so there’s a lot of…refining that takes place – but no matter what I say he insists that “Seriously?” counts as a question.
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