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| What’s the One Thing You Want Most in Next-Gen Consoles? Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:54 AM PST The DICE conference in Las Vegas is good for a lot of things, but one thing it’s great for is bumping This story, if you’re playing along and read the headline, contains the answers to the first of those two. Brian Reynolds, Zynga Marc Merrill, Riot Games Mike Capps, Epic Games Randy Pitchford, Gearbox Software Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward Michael Condrey, Sledgehammer Games Matthew Lee Johnston, PopCap Greg Kasavin, Supergiant Games David Jaffe, Eat Sleep Play Tomonobu Itagaki, Valhalla Game Studios Todd Howard, Bethesda [1UP: Do you have another current gen game I don’t know. Our games take a while, so I can’t answer that question right now. I can honestly tell you, ‘I Ted Price, Insomniac Games Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:54 AM PST
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| Indie Royale bundle celebrates Valentines Day with its latest bundle Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:54 AM PST The sixth major Indie Royale bundle is out now. The five games making up the bundle include the excellent Source Engine-powered FPS Zeno Clash, fellow Independent Games Festival nominee, Lume, and Big Sandwich Games' multiplayer strategy game Hoard. The final two games, and something of a coup for the bundle site, the retro RPG-defense games Souclaster I II. Indie Royale bundles run on a five-day model where the price automatically goes up as more people buy it. The price is driven down, however, when people choose to pay more than the minimum price at the time of purchase. You can find out more and grab the bundle on the Indie Royale bundle site. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Microsoft Allowing a Small Number of Mistakenly Banned 360s Back on Xbox Live Posted: 12 Feb 2012 01:26 AM PST Stephen Toulouse, the head of Xbox Live’s Policy and Enforcement team, has written a blog post today explaining that a number of suspensions were mistakenly made by this software that is sometimes used. It occurred between August 29 and September 9, and those who were impacted will find that their console has been unbanned. To make it up to those affected users, Microsoft will soon grant them a free three-month subscription to Xbox Live Gold and 1,600 Microsoft Points ($20). “Recently, it was brought to our attention that a number of customers had concerns about the validity of a recent ban of their individual consoles, which they feel had been triggered inaccurately,” he wrote. “In this case, the bans were related specifically to modded consoles. I take these claims very seriously, and after an initial investigation we have confirmed that a handful of banned consoles did in-fact appear to not have been modified or tampered with. We’re still conducting our review but the cause appears to be a software issue, not an error on the part of the enforcement team’s normal actions. It’s very specific and occurred between August 29 and September 9, affecting a very small percentage of users.” He went on to apologize and reiterate that this didn’t involve a large number of users. “One of the most serious actions my team can take is to prevent a console from accessing Xbox LIVE,” he continued. “We make every effort to be conservative when taking that action. If there is any doubt that this step was taken incorrectly, we want to address it while at the same time protecting the service for our customers.” If you happen to be among the unfortunate few who was banned, you don’t need to do anything — simply try logging into Live and you’ll be all set. If you still find yourself banned, then you weren’t among those in the group banned by mistake. “I’d like to take a moment to personally apologize for the inconvenience this has almost certainly caused to the affected customers. You have my assurance that we are investigating how this error occurred and have since discontinued use of the software that was used. The Xbox LIVE community is the best out there and we regret the inconvenience this may have caused for our loyal members.” Very often, the people who complain about being banned unjustly turn out to be lying — and in the process make up ridiculous (albeit very entertaining) excuses. However, it looks like some users actually had a legitimate gripe for once, and at least Microsoft is being forthcoming and honest that it screwed up. Toulouse said that use of the software in question has been discontinued. Hopefully that means something like this won’t happen again. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Contrasting the IAAs and VGAs: Is There a Difference? Posted: 11 Feb 2012 07:53 PM PST Many gamers who take the hobby seriously scoff at each year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. There are numerous reasons for this, the most prominent being that the show is often filled with gags, skits, and seemingly anything that does not consist of awards being handed out and accepted. You need only look at the show this past December where certain awards were given out beforehand and others were announced so rapidly they were gone in the blink of an eye. But about what the awards themselves — are the selections, too, put to shame by other award shows? Last night, in the midst of the 2012 DICE Summit in Las Vegas, the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (the IAAs) took place and were hosted by who else but comedian and BlizzCon frequent Jay Mohr. DICE (which stands for Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) is an event geared towards those within the industry and thus has a much different focus than a trade show like E3. Whereas the nominees and winners of the VGAs are chosen by a select group of those in the videogame press, the IAAs are “decided by a peer-based voting system,” as the organizers, the Academy of Interactive Arts Sciences, put it. One might therefore expect the awards to end up in the hands of different nominees than the VGAs. In fact, the award winners from last night’s show and the VGAs in December were remarkably similar. Although not all of their categories line up, there are more than a few analogous ones to help make this comparison. Both named The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim their Game of the Year, which is no controversial decision unless you’re unfortunate enough to be still experiencing lag in the PlayStation 3 version. Likewise, Bastion was named Best Downloadable Game and Downloadable Game of the Year by the VGAs and IAAs respectively, while Mortal Kombat was the top fighting game, Forza Motorsport 4 was the best driving/racing game, and Skyrim was the best RPG/MMO. (Skyrim unsurprisingly cleaned up at the IAAs, winning five awards in all.) Even when the award titles differed more greatly, the same game often won. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the VGAs’ Best Shooter and the IAAs’ Action Game of the Year; Batman: Arkham City was the VGAs’ Best Action/Adventure Game and the IAAs’ Adventure Game of the Year; and Super Mario 3D Land was the VGAs’ Best Handheld/Mobile Game, while the IAAs broke the category up into Handheld and Mobile categories, with Mario winning the former. There were a few disparities between the two shows’ award winners, one of which was in the sports category. Fight Night Champion (Best Individual Sports Game) and NBA 2K12 (Best Team Sports Game) won the VGAs’ two awards, while the IAAs’ Sports Game of the Year award was taken by FIFA 12. Voters also disagreed on what game had the best original music: the VGAs said Bastion had the Best Original Score, while the IAAs awarded Portal 2 with Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. It’s hard to really argue either side got it wrong (as if there is a “wrong”), although I would have gone with Bastion, myself. Looking at the shows on paper, one place they differ even before the awards are handed out is in the degree of specificity in the IAAs, which has awards for Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering and Game Direction. (Skyrim was the winner of both.) When it comes to recognizing a game’s graphics, the VGAs do so simply by naming a game as having Best Graphics — Uncharted 3, in 2011′s case. The IAAs, on the other hand, break that down into three distinct categories: Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Art Direction, and Visual Engineering. Of course, even this doesn’t highlight much of a difference between the shows as a single game won all three of those awards: Uncharted 3. Regardless of what is named the winner of each of the awards, the IAAs are made distinct by their focus on the games and the developers (and, yes, a lot of Jay Mohr). That is, after all, the purpose of the awards: to recognize developers and their achievements. The VGAs have a different goal as a program being broadcast on Spike TV, but it’s still nice to know there is a formal awards show that puts the developers front and center. If you’re interested in seeing what last night’s show was like for yourself, you can watch it in its entirety here. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2012 01:52 PM PST
A new Player Vs Player (PvP) footage (8 minutes long, wow) was also released, showcasing a simple 2 on 2 battle. Nothing really spectacular, but you can see some of the skills being used by the character classes. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2012 01:26 PM PST
Basically, Tianxia 3 is a martial arts MMORPG, with various new elements added which Netease claims to let players play the game instead of the game playing the players. There will be an interactive world, where every small action by players will affect the overall happenings in the game. This is shown by the ability to build cities from ground up, create players’ very own skills, start their own clans and record history annuals. Interactive environments, time, weather and seasons system are just some of the eye candies revealed so far.
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