You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below. Gather the resources you need to repair your ship and set off to explore the vast, infinite universe… Sounds familiar, huh? Yes, this is what happens in the very popular game – Starbound. Going Starbound! Starbound is an extraterrestrial sandbox action - adventure video game designed and published by Chucklefish Games for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. Starbound takes place in … [Read more...]
PlayStation 4 or Xbox One: Which One to Choose?
Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4: these are the consoles which have dominated the console gaming industry for a long time now. They are constantly evolving, with new and interesting features added to them with each installment and exclusive game titles, just to occupy that space in your living room. Needless to say, the game libraries of both the consoles have expanded greatly, and both of them now starting at $350, there was never a better time to get the best in the gaming arena. But which one should you … [Read more...]
Spider-Man Edge of Time Review
Developer Beenox produced what I felt was a fairly well thought out and received Spider-Man title with Shattered Dimensions, so when Edge of Time was introduced and revealed to have only two versions of Spider-Man in it, I thought that things could’ve been tightened up and the gameplay solidified a little. My thoughts were still along this track when I started playing Edge of Time, but then that line was quickly derailed. The story revolves around Miguel O’Hara (Spider-man 2099) who while spying on an evil scientist, … [Read more...]
Child of Eden Review
Much like the game that inspired it (Rez), Child of Eden is a game that defies definition. Is it a shooter or is it a screensaver? Is it a rhythm game or is it an on rails shooter? Regardless of how the game is defined, it easily has become one of, if not the reason to own a Kinect system in my opinion. Sure it lacks the child friendly and forgiving qualities of Kinectimils, and it's not quite as generation linking as the upcoming Once Upon a Monster, but this is a game that can and should be used to show off what the … [Read more...]
The Cloud and Beacons Come to Xbox
Why this type of information isn't disseminated during the regular press conference, I'll never know. But Microsoft announced some more details on about some new services today like Beacons and Cloud storage for your profiles and game saves. · Beacons. We want to make it easy for you to connect with friends over your favorite games on Xbox LIVE, so we are introducing Beacons to the service. Beacons are a way to tell your Xbox LIVE and Facebook friends that you want to play a game on Xbox LIVE. By setting a Beacon, … [Read more...]
Jeff’s Microsoft Press Conference Thoughts
As I was sitting at the office watching the Microsoft press conference, I started jotting down some thoughts on what I had just seen, and here are those notes. I stopped once it got to the section about the exclusive games, but for the most part I was personally a little disappointed by the presentation. Microsoft Opened up with the Modern Warfare 3 demonstration, and while yeah it looks great (at least on my stream) it basically seems like the same type of game as MW and MW2. I can say that I was really let down by … [Read more...]