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A pneumatic leg slams into a neon breastplate, dislodging a ball with curious, flattened sides--futuristic-looking in that characteristically impractical sort of way, like a concept car with inaccessible wheel wells. It’s a turnover in favor of Sporting Automata, and one of its robots lumbers into the phosphorescent glow of the end zone, where it spikes the ball and does a few celebratory sit-ups.

This is Cortex, an object lesson in a brand of futurism that's surprisingly hard to come by in the world of electronic sports. Its gridiron is littered with extruded geometries and embossed with cosmetic circuitry patterns. Broad-shouldered athlete-simulacra smash into each other like promo animations for the NFL on FOX as their head coach/Matrix operators look on, bottom-lit by monitor glow. It's a wildly speculative vision of what sports could one day be. It’s the kind of thing you used to see a lot more of earlier in the digital era, and a far cry from the current tack of e-sports with its gently iterative shooters and fighting games.

Maybe that's a mark in favor of replacing the human element in futuristic games like this. If you could only excise all those flimsy, unreliable human bodies, with their proclivities for head trauma and contract renegotiation demands, you'd perhaps reach something purer--sport ascended from the flesh, so to speak. Bigger but more thoughtful. Gladiatorial but safe. With blitzes that play out like chess, with mechanized athletes that can pull any move if you can just hit the right combination of buttons. Some ultimate game where nerd and jock fuse together and assume their final form.

Added: 19.03.2015 17:18 | 19 views | 0 comments


Towncraft is a town builder a heart, but by looks and gameplay, is basically a mix of pre-sim-city cities (towns), and Facebook's Farmville app. It's been developed by both Flat Earth Games(Metrocide) and Epiphany Games (Frozen Hearth), though the latter are responsible for the games' publishing. The game was originally made for tablets and has been ported, and the developers specifically say in their QA that "it will not look like a mobile game", however I feel they've sort of lost that immediately, because towncraft looks identical to a mobile game. In fact, it is a mobile game. The difference primarily being that there are no transactions, no freemium nonsense or DLC's, just a plain and simple build of a game that gets its updates. Surprisingly the game is in its post 1.0 versions, though over the course of the game, I felt like I was playing an Early Access title. There's an awful lot of complexity, but it appears as though the complexity suddenly stops when you want more.

Added: 17.03.2015 21:18 | 17 views | 0 comments


Developer Double Eleven explains how Frozen Synapse Prime takes advantage of Nvidia Shield technology in this exclusive interview from GDC 2015.

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Turn-based strategy game available for purchase on Google Play

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Try not to moan in ultimate sorrow too loudly, crossover fans, because it looks like a Kingdom Hearts game was headed to mobile a couple of years ago that included content from both the Star Wars universe as well as Disney’s most recent animated blockbuster, Frozen...And then it got cancelled.

Added: 11.03.2015 13:20 | 8 views | 0 comments


Save $3.00 on Monopoly Junior Frozen Edition! The price of Monopoly Junior Frozen Edition has been dropped by $3.00, order now from ozgameshop.com with free delivery to Australia and New Zealand.

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Save $11.00 on Disney Frozen Anna Bust Figure! The price of Disney Frozen Anna Bust Figure has been dropped by $11.00, order now from ozgameshop.com with free delivery to Australia and New Zealand.