Added: 10.07.2014 16:26 | 48 views | 0 comments


Top-down blaster Halo: Spartan Assault is currently cheap on Windows Phone and Windows 8, as part of Microsoft's weekly Red Stripe Deals promotion. The game's got 30 missions where you fight against the Covenant as Halo 4's Spartan commander, Sarah Palmer. There are weekly challenges and leaderboards, and you can play it with an Xbox 360 controller. Harry gave it a Gold Award and said, "brig...

Added: 08.07.2014 11:13 | 9 views | 0 comments


Street Fighter IV is one of the games of the last console generation. It single-handedly made the beat em up genre cool again and is wholly responsible for the variety and quantity of one on one, two on two and three on three beat em ups that exist today on home consoles, PC and handhelds. Not only that, but its reignited professional fighting game competition by providing a swathe of new games to play. The thing is, have any of them topped Street Fighter III: Third Strike in terms of being the number one go to championship fighter? In the case of everything which isnt Street Fighter no, not at all. With Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom have reason to believe this is it.

Added: 07.07.2014 4:13 | 10 views | 0 comments


David Sirlin, creator of Yomi, Puzzle Strike and Pandante, joins Emdee and Draeno for a return appearance on the 20 Sides of Nerd podcast. Forgoing the usual nerd and news talk of the week, everyone jumps on board to talk about the news in Sirlins world. Since Sirlins last appearance as a guest on the cast, hes has shipped a new gambling game called Pandante. His biggest game, Yomi, has also made its way to iOS. Delving into the happenings of the last two years, the team talks game development and the problems it faces, the challenges of balancing, how Sirlin got his start in games, some talk on Hearthstone, Kickstarter and the mentality around it, and much more. Fans of Sirlins work will be happy to hear that there is some news and development insight on Codex in this episode.

Added: 06.07.2014 21:27 | 10 views | 0 comments



Things may or may not go well for Digital Extremes and Perfect World Entertainment now that gamers are mobilizing to setup a “play strike”.

Added: 06.07.2014 19:13 | 7 views | 0 comments


Warframe Players Urging a Strike to Send Perfect World Entertainment a Signal for Buying Digital Extremes

Added: 05.07.2014 17:13 | 10 views | 0 comments


CraveOnline: "Want an Xbox One, but waiting for a bundle before jumping in? This holiday season may have something for you."

Added: 02.07.2014 23:13 | 8 views | 0 comments


Powerleveled.com takes a look at Strike Suit Zero for PC. Epic 90's space shooter? Or The new bar being set for the Space Shooter genre?

Added: 01.07.2014 1:00 | 28 views | 0 comments


Summer. It’s fucking hot, you guys. I live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. Others in a similar climate can attest to the nature of 98deg; heat with 95% humidity. It’s gross. It’s when stepping outside feels like wading into a giant bowl of clam chowder. The air’s thick... so thick that it’s stifling. Like I said, it’s hot. Summer’s also when a good chunk of the world games the most. Whether it’s a break from school, college or a lull in work, there’s a lot of gaming to be done during the hottest months of the year. Too bad that the heat is so intense in some regions that even gaming can be tough. Me? I play in a basement. I feel like a serial killer, sure, but it’s nice and cool down there. With the AC on upstairs and a thermostat set around 75deg;, the basement is easily a few degrees cooler. It’s fantastic. But, I wasn’t always so lucky. I went to a college without AC. I lived on the fourth floor of a dorm at a school that opened in early August. I used to keep my laptop on a milk crate with four fans blowing on it at once so that I could get my Counter-Strike fix in between nap—ahem, classes. Without the crate and fans, my crappy little computer would randomly shut down. It was, well... is glorious the right word? We’d set bags of ice behind a fan in the window lined with dryer sheets in an attempt to cool the room and counter the stench of my freshman year roommate known as "Stinky Paul;" seriously, Stinky Paul showered but never did laundry. He’d get clean and step into the same literally shitstained underwear every morning I’m almost certain this weird fan setup didn’t work, but the stupid honors engineering kid at the end of the hall swore up and down that it would save us all. It didn’t. I gamed in boxers while my roommate snoozed to The Price is Right at 11am. That’s the problem with gaming during the summer months. You have to keep your computer cool at all times. My current desktop has exhaust fans and ports out the wazoo, but my laptop was a complete mess. Brace yourself, I owned a crappy Gateway. Woof. So, yeah, I had to keep my cow computer cool at all times. I also had to keep myself cool. Sitting next to a blazing hot machine in an already obnoxious climate meant that I was sweating at a constant clip. "Why didn’t you go outside, Joey?!" You rotten son of a bitch... How could you even consider the great outdoors and endless rounds of ultimate frisbee with the fake hippies when there were terrorists to be stopped (or played as) inside my room? I had a duty to my server, nay, my community! "Go outsidehellip;" Get real. Ultimately, I had my roommate switch sides with me. I set my desk next to the window, bought new fans from the 5 & 10 and gamed with all of them pointing at me. The only way I could hear the game itself was with headphones. I couldn’t speak, either, lest I open a rush of microphoned wind for the poor bastards on the other end of my experience. Then came sophomore year. A year older, a year dumber. This was around the time we all figured out how to get our Xboxes on the network. I had "Caboose" and my new and improved roommate had "Donut." This was when our consoles had unique, default names and playing LAN driven Halo: Combat Evolved was a reality. My roommate and I grabbed a few friends from our dorm, pulled the common space’s couch outside, ran an extension cord to a surge protector and set up two TVs and two Xboxes. It was glorious and the evening hours made gaming in August during college infinitely more appealing. Today, you see folks projecting giant Mario Kart 8 sessions onto the sides of their houses. Man, I didn’t have that luxury growing up. Now? Now I buy a few mixed six packs of delicious craft beer, call up one or two buddies and invite them over for lengthy sessions in my basement. We swear away the summer heat during intense rounds of Samurai Gunn, Wii Party U and Monaco. Mario Kart 8 was recently added to the playlist, too. So, how do you game in the heat? Do you prefer to spend your summers outdoors hiking, camping, fishing, hitting the beach/lake? Or, would you rather hunker down in front of your computer refreshing Steam for new Flash Sales whilst rolling one more turn in Civ V? Both sound appealing to me, but I’m a god damn nerd.

Added: 28.06.2014 13:13 | 11 views | 0 comments


A new update is now available for the iOS strategy game First Srike