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Bad Bots
If you enjoy retro style shooters, this game is definitely for you. If you're looking for something a little different, this may also tickle your fancy.
Editorials
Sims 4: Why It’s Overdue and What Fans Want
A few days before the announcement of the release of the Sims 4. The Sims 3 went for a too good to be true price on the Origin store. It was stunning because it seemed that in an uncharacteristic fit of non-contextual ge...
News
Next Generation Xbox Reveal
As the event started this morning it was apparent rather quickly that the main focus of the next generation Xbox was heavily about all entertainment, not just gaming, and about connecting with your Xbox with your voice through ...
Cinema
The Name of the Doctor Rundown! (Spoilers)
CONTAINS SPOILERS! ————————————————— Now many people have seen the series 7 finale, titled “The Name of the Doctor,R...
Geekery
Pretend to Go Pew Pew With Mass Effect Replicas
This nifty site called Project Triforce has managed to create three nifty Mass Effect 3 gun replicas. Now before you start drooling over how pretty they are and imaging yourself wandering the streets pretending to shoot everyo...
Anime
Spring Anime Roundup 2013
Tis the season of Sci-Fi this Spring, bringing audiences a slew of highly anticipated anime remakes, sequels, adaptations and stunning originals chock full of giant robots and magic, among other things. For the slice of life fa...
Recently Eaten
Games
Bad Bots
Bad Bots is a new side-scrolling, platforming, action-shooter developed by Point 5 Projects, in which you take the role of Sam McRae who is the last surviving member of the "Titan Hauler" crew. As Sam McRae you find that the ship's AI has taken control of the ship, and has killed everyone on board, and is hunting you. Among the gnarled pieces of metal and corpses, you find a limbless robot to aid you in your journey to find the AI, and destroy it.
Firstly, I have to say: I'm not an avid side-scrolling platform, shooter... thing player; but in no way is that affecting my review. On that note, let's begin.
[caption id="attachment_8463" align="alignright" width="300"] The Bots have gone Rogue![/caption]
My first impressions upon starting this game up was that it looked cool. Visually this game is very nice. All the assets are drawn in pixels, including the comic-style cut scenes, and you can tell a fair amount of detail has gon...
Editorials
Sims 4: Why It’s Overdue and What Fans Want
A few days before the announcement of the release of the Sims 4. The Sims 3 went for a too good to be true price on the Origin store. It was stunning because it seemed that in an uncharacteristic fit of non-contextual generousity and goodwill, EA decided to share their creation with the world. I could not have been more wrong.
On May 7, it was found to be essentially a cyber-clearance sale, a last minute milking. So, it was not surprising when Maxis announced the release of the upcoming Sims 4 in 2014 in a very EA like move. The new installment of Sims has been announced by EA to be a “Single-Player, offline experience.” Quashing any hopes of rumours of social networking being a part of the franchise in the next few years. With the release date stated for next year, the gap between Sims 3 and Sims 4 has once again fell within the comfortable 4 to 5 year game cycle that has been used by Maxis since their first Sim game, T...
Editorials
PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One: Which one will Reign Supreme
With the Xbox One just announced yesterday, and the PlayStation 4 announced in February, I think the thought on everyone's mind is 'Which one is better?'.
First, let's compare the hardware of the 2 consoles.
The Xbox One has an AMD 8 Core APU, while the PlayStation 4 has a similar arrangement with a Semi-Custom 8-Core AMD (integrated into APU). This isn't something we can really compare them to each other with though due to them being so similar.
They both have Blu-Ray Drives, they both have 8 GB of RAM, but what makes their RAM different is the PS4 uses 8 GB GDDR5 RAM which is used in modern graphics cards, and is a lot faster compared to normal RAM, whilst the new Xbox has 8 GB DDR3 RAM which is slower. Not only that but 3 GB is dedicated to it's OS allowing only 5gb of the RAM to be used by developers. Something worth noting is both consoles use an APU architecture which means RAM is unified, meaning it shares its RAM betwe...
Editorials
Reus: Taking Mother Nature’s Job
Reus, created by Abbey Games, is a game that was just recently released and is what is deemed a "god game" because you control nature which directly effects the people living in it. However you don't play as just one being of "God", instead you play as four different Giant gods representing different types of Nature. There's Ocean, Rock, Forest, and the Swamp giant, and you use these giants to create lands and resources related to their namesakes. The lives of the creatures living on your planets are directly in your hands. You can be the good little creator you are meant to be and do everything by the book, or you can just completely fuck up someone's day by summoning a mountain in the middle of a settlement and wiping that settlement out completely. No one needed to live there anyways, right?
Not being the strategic type myself, I wound up messing up quite a bit. Luckily I didn't kill any civilizations, but I'm sure that we...