Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Pax Prime 2012 – The Hunt for Notch

Pax Prime 2012 has finally come and gone, but did I play all the latest upcoming games and get a ton of sneak previews? Of course not, I spent all of my time losing raffles and trying to find Notch. Now it’s time to sleep for an eternity while my back un-breaks itself.

Team Fortress 2 introduces new Mann vs. Machine co-op game mode

Valve has introduced a new gamemode called Mann vs. Machine coming August 15th as the first of three new additions to the popular team based shooter. You team up with four friends to fight hordes of robots trying to plant a bomb in one of the many Mann Co. factories; the first one being Mannworks. [...]

Awesomenauts coming to Steam

The genre of 2D MOBAs that actually stay true to a strict DotA formula isn’t exactly bloated. Awesomenauts is one of the first games to make that leap into League of Legends meets Super Smash Bros territory paired with one of the best theme songs ever by Sonic Picnic. Unfortunately it was only available on [...]

Unreal Engine 4 tech demo with Epic’s Alan Willard

We’ve seen all kinds of impressive engines this past year such as CryEngine 3 used in Crysis 2 and Dice’s Frostbite 2 engine used in Battlefield 3. They were starting to make Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 seem incompetent. Now to worry though since Epic hasn’t been screwing around. Their new Unreal Engine 4 is making [...]

E3 previews – Nintendo keynote

Nintendo’s E3 show this year was probably one of the flattest we’ve ever seen, which was a surprise considering this was their year to shine with the Wii U coming out soon. We expected tons of third party releases that actually made use of the hardware in new and unique ways, but maybe that was [...]

E3 previews – Sony keynote

Sony has a knack for giving us far more original content than their competitors and their E3 keynote every year typically delivers just that. Here are some of the biggest reveals from this year. Quantic Dream, the developers behind Heavy Rain have brought us another mocap thriller by the name of Beyond: Two Souls which [...]