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| Rhythm Heaven Fever Fixes Its DS Predecessor’s Missed Beats Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST When I was in junior high school (centuries ago), I always found the metalhead clique at my school intimidating. Rangy boys with long, oily hair and a collective uniform consisting of boots, black-washed jeans, and black T-shirts imprinted with art from album covers by bands whose names bore gratuitous double consonants and lent themselves to harsh, angular logo designs, the metalheads always hung out together at the side of gym class, discussing their heroes’ latest wailing guitar concoctions and glowering at the rest of the world. They sported the shifty desperation unique to 14-year-olds jonesing for a drag on a stolen cigarette. It was all kind of alarming for us clean-cut students whose main ambition for gym class was to avoid notice by the jocks and dropouts while hanging out on the sidelines discussing the latest Zelda strategies with each other (dude, if you just keep going up when you get to that one spot in the mountains, there’s a dungeon there!). In hindsight, though, I realize that the metalhead kids were harmless. They never picked on anyone; they never caused trouble outside of skipping class to hang out and listen to noisy music. They were as geeky as the video-game-fixated A-students; the only difference between us was that their obsessions were wrapped up in an affected antisocial style. Their music may have been about volume and screaming and satanic posturing, but it was just that: Posturing. Underneath it all, those guys just wanted to do their own thing, and they wore their ragged Dokken shirts with pride because they sincerely thought that airbrushed zombie warriors chained to naked, guitar-wielding sex slaves was, like, so awesome.
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| En Masse : Asians are hackers , hence IP blocked Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST
To keep the quality of service high for players within North America we have decided to disable IP addresses from which fraudulent traffic originates. We encourage players in these regions to participate on servers specifically designated for their area. En Masse will block IPs based on region. Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East are included on the block list. While we appreciate that there are players in these regions who would enjoy playing on En Masse servers, it’s unfortunate that the vast majority of Internet traffic we see from these regions are from cyber-criminals relating to account theft, gold-farming and other hacking behavior. Services that promise to improve your ping and decrease lag may sound promising, but they are frequently used by hackers and criminals who want to remain anonymous. Although we do not block them by default, a proxy or server host will be blocked if it becomes a popular tool for criminal behavior. En Masse has a license to operate TERA game servers in North America. This means that if you are in North America, South America, Europe (excluding Russia), and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) you can play on En Masse Servers. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST iCloud, Apple's new backup and sync service can prove a nebulous entity in more ways than one. Cloud storage might not be new A simple, functional guide can help turn your fraught and stuttering start into a seamless transition onto iCloud, which is where Imagine's iCloud For Beginners ebook comes in handy. You can check out iCloud For Beginners on the iTunes store: it covers everything from setting up your iCloud account to sharing data across all your Apple devices in easy to follow, step-by-step tutorials. But best of all (in our opinion) are the funky Multi-Touch features, a veritable sweet shop of multimedia including slideshows, annotated images and scroll–pinch pages all designed by experts using Apple's spanking new iBooks Author software. Plus it's a bargain too, at $1.99. Don't ascend into the iCloud without it – get it here. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:26 AM PST
With that said, there are a number of classes for each side as well. You can view the human classes here (link) and the dinosaur classes here (link). From the looks of it, Primal Carnage will be quite a unique online PvP game, apparently much more logical than having penguins as the main focus (link). Each class will have specific skills to be utilized, and hopefully more will be added.
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| Nintendo’s DLC Strategy Appears to Put the Company on the Right Track Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:31 PM PST Nintendo made headlines last week when it announced something many felt it should have had in place years ago: the Nintendo Network. The details remain sketchy at best and, like with details on the Wii U, it is likely we’ll be waiting until E3 in June before we’ve given a better idea of how the Network will actually come together. What little president Satoru Iwata did have to share about it was encouraging, and the same could be said for a lot of what Nintendo at least claims to be doing as it works to put this current disastrous financial year behind it. Following Friday’s investors briefing, a QA session was conducted where Iwata and company provided many unspecific, but nonetheless promising answers about how the company plans to avoid suffering another money-losing year. It doesn’t take an expert to identify one exceedingly obvious place Nintendo needs to improve: launch window software. I enjoyed Steel Diver and thought Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars was really good, but there wasn’t a whole lot else to enjoy at the launch of the 3DS or in the months afterward. (The first great game was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, and that came months after launch and was not an original title.) Compare that with the Vita’s launch day lineup headlined by the likes of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Super Stardust Delta, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Lumines: Electronic Symphony and you can see how the 3DS’ launch wasn’t at the level it needed to be. With the Wii U coming out by the end of the year, Nintendo doesn’t want a repeat of the 3DS’ poor performance out of the gate, which was due to not just a $250 price tag, but also a lack of must-have games. “What we should reflect on is to keep the momentum in the market, and as I mentioned before, it is important to release software seamlessly,” Iwata said during Friday’s QA. “Specifically, a new platform is likely to have a gap between the launch titles, which many developers want to release, and the second wave of software. It is indispensable to avoid such a gap in our future business. In determining the launch date of the Wii U, we need to take into account not only what to release at the launch period but how to keep the sales momentum after then. In the past, I mentioned that having strong momentum is very important for game platform businesses, and as a matter of course, we are now more convinced of that and we need to have a backup plan ready.” As is the case with many of his other comments last week, this sounds good and I hope it’s true but we can’t be sure it really means anything until we actually see a list of titles set to be available alongside the Wii U later this year. After the problems with 3DS, though, it’s perfectly sensible for Nintendo to seek to make the launch lineup as strong as possible. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime talked last summer about lessons the company learned from the launch of 3DS and noted, “We needed to have key franchises and stronger first-party titles.” Even if we don’t get a new Mario or Zelda HD on Wii U’s Day One, Nintendo realizing gamers expect more than Pilotwings and Nintendogs is a positive sign. Other areas needing improvement are the online and digital spaces, both of which are seemingly being addressed with the Nintendo Network. Downloadable content is one piece of that, and Nintendo sees two ways in which it can benefit. One of those is the revenue that will be brought in through the sale of DLC, whether that be a digital Wii Fit Plus-style add-on for a game like Wii Fit or additional levels in a Mario game, both of which were ideas Iwata mentioned. The other benefit it’s hoping the release of DLC will bring is for its games to remain current. Buying an older game isn’t always the most attractive option, but if that old game has been updated in a way that people continue to play it and talk about it, that could lead to sales of the game months or years down the line it might not have garnered otherwise. It’s a strategy Valve employed with free DLC for Team Fortress 2; the numerous updates it released over the years would bring back new players and get new ones to purchase the game (before it went free-to-play). But as we’ve heard Nintendo and Iwata in particular insist time and again in recent months, the publisher doesn’t want to overdo DLC and upset fans who feel they aren’t getting the sort of value they’re used to. Asking gamers to pay to spend too much for DLC “might be good for short-term profit,” Iwata said, “but it will not serve our mid-term and long-term business developments.” This doesn’t preclude other developers from adopting the sort of microtransactions seen in social games. “If third-party developers would like to adopt this form of micro-transaction, and if this kind of business relationship between the developers and consumers is commonly accepted in Japan, we have no intention to decline it,” Iwata said. Given that Nintendo needs all the third-party support it can get, that seems like a wise decision, as the company most certainly doesn’t want a situation like XCOM: Enemy Unknown being announced for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 (but not Wii U) to become a trend. Whether Nintendo’s flexibility on how third parties handle microtransactions will have much impact is unclear, but it certainly can’t hurt. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| TGS: Photo Gallery – Up Close and Personal With Japan’s Exclusive Super Mario Converse All Posted: 30 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. I traveled to Japan for Tokyo Game Show and only bought a single old video game. That almost seems like a crime for someone who used to host the Retronauts podcast and once swam through the retro shops of Akihabara like a fish in water. No, this year I spent all my free money on clothing, because shopping for fashion in Japan is perhaps the one time being a man on the short side of average with a slight build actually works to my advantage. I can buy off the rack in Japan and a shirt doesn’t hang off of me like drapery! It’s a nice change of pace from the billowing tents they call a “size small” at The Gap. This goes for footwear, too. Converse recently teamed up with Nintendo to create a set of absolutely wonderful Super Mario-themed All-Stars — presumably inspired by the real Super Mario All-Stars — that are being sold in an extremely select number of shops here in Tokyo. Several of my peers in the press have expressed an interest in picking up their own pair of Super Mario Chucks, but they’ve been thwarted by the fact that they can’t find a pair in a size larger than 8.5, much too large for the gunboats the average American male calls his feet. Not me, though. I wear a size 8, and that’s on a hot day when I’ve been eating a lot of salt and I swell up a bit. So I decided to take advantage of my miniature size and have a friend grab a pair for me. The Mario Chucks come in several styles, the most common being solid black or white shoes imprinted with tiny Mario sprites. Cute, but not very striking. (Sorry, I’d post photos, but all Japanese shopkeepers have two things in common: They shout “Irashaimase!” when you walk in, and they get angry when you take photos of their wares.) Then there are the more elaborate ones: A pair that depicts Mario taking on Bowser in World 8-4, and the pair I picked up, which shows Mario at the beginning of his quest in the blue skies of World 1-1. This is definitely the most striking of the quartet, and that’s only fitting — the thing that made Super Mario so eye-catching back then was its cerulean blue sky. So it goes, 26 years later. The shoes are laden with fantastic details, from the way the standard Converse star is replaced with a Starman to the double-layered edges that fold away to reveal a specially imprinted inner lining: Luigi grabbing coins on the 1-1 shoes, goiter-faced Princess Peach thanking Mario for her rescue on the 8-4 shoes. Rather than simply go on and on about these beautiful, nerdy shoes, I’ll just inundate you with photos. These were admittedly pricey — about $110 after exchange adjustments, which is far more than I’ve ever paid for sneakers — so I’ll only be wearing them for special occasions. Weddings, funerals, that sort of thing. Mario classes up any joint, you know? Special thanks to fashion maven Kyle McClain for his help in tracking these down! Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2012 12:31 PM PST
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