Added: 19.10.2014 16:00 | 1 views | 0 comments

It's that time of year again folks. Time to play video games live on the internet for an inordinate amount of the time! GameSpot's third annual Extra Life effort will see our entire international crew take part in a monster 100 hour gaming marathon. For the children!

What will we play during that 100 hours? Well 100 games of course, chosen by live viewers at the beginning of every hour using the poles on GameSpot's chat. This year's target sits at $20,000, just over what we made last year - with all funds going to Oakland Children's Hospital and Research Center.

This year's stream will once again be split across GameSpot's three international offices. Our headquarters in San Francisco will get the ball rolling at noon on Wednesday, passing over to our UK colleagues after twenty-four hours. Jess, Zorine and the team down in GameSpot AU will pick it up from them once we hit forty-eight before passing back to the San Francisco crew for the final twenty-eight hours stint.

See you there friends.

For the Children!

Added: 16.10.2014 12:15 | 7 views | 0 comments


By day Ian Koehler faces the same terrible drudge we all do - by night however he is a criminal mastermind who holds the city in his iron fist. He writes - "A few weeks ago I found out Sleeping Dogs was getting remastered! I was pumped! I enjoyed the game a lot on my 360 but now I decided to step it up and get the PS4 version. For those of you that dont know you play as Wei Shen a undercover cop working for the San Francisco Police Department who is trying to take out a Triad gang from the inside."

Added: 14.10.2014 17:12 | 9 views | 0 comments


GR: That Pokédex wont complete itself. so before diehard franchise fans jump to conclusions as to who is the real Pokémon master, Nintendo wanted to share new details of its upcoming remakes of the previous remakes of the original Red and Blue Pokémon games. I went to the company's offices near San Francisco to get hands on with Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, though the games werent recognizable in the least as I hadnt set thumbs on Ruby and Sapphire previously and my fandom has waned over the years.

Added: 13.10.2014 15:12 | 3 views | 0 comments


To wrap up the week 6 action, Madden 15 helps to predict the outcome of the San Francisco 49ers and St. Louis Rams Monday Night Football contest.

Added: 07.10.2014 5:12 | 8 views | 0 comments


His grades tanked. His parents fretted. A few years later, the 20-year-old from the San Francisco area leads a team of headset-wearing players into virtual battle in a darkened room at a small private university in Chicago. He's studying computer networking there on a nearly $15,000 a year athletic scholarship for playing League of Legends, the video game that once jeopardized his high school diploma.

Added: 30.09.2014 1:12 | 8 views | 0 comments


Theres never been a better time for fans of point and click adventures. The rise of Kickstarter has given way to revivals of old classics, and companies like Telltale have taken the genre in new directions. But this genre revival isnt a new thing. Its been alive and well, especially in the indie scene, for years now. Dave Gilbert and Francisco Gonzalez have both been working on old-school point and clicks for over a decade. They both started making freeware titles using Adventure Game Studio back in the early 2000s, and both earned awards for their work. Dave founded Wadjet Eye Games in 2006, and has since made a living on critical darlings like the Blackwell series and Gemini Rue. Wadjet eye is publishing Francisco's A Golden Wake, a a deep, fascinating look at the real estate boom that preceded the great depression. Hardcore Gamer sat down with Dave and Francisco to discuss their bodies of work, their history with the AGS engine, and their thoughts on the current state of...

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Connected Digital World writes: Alex Ness is a writer at Toys for Bob working on Skylanders and I sat down with him at their studio in San Francisco to talk about the story and voices he does a lot of them, including the Chompy Mage and Broccoli Guy!