Video Games

Starhawk Review

Lightbox Interactive has been hard at work on their first release, Starhawk, a spiritual successor to 2007’s Warhawk. In fact Lightbox Interactive is actually made up of Dylan Jobe and some of the former members of Incognito Entertainment (the studio behind Warhawk). And with it being one of the first multiplayer-only games for the PlayStation 3, it developed a huge following and support from the community.  And there is still some support to this day. With a game that has such a cult following, would Lightbox be able to make something that would appeal to both veteran players along with new ones?
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Spec Ops: The Line Demo Impressions

Spec Ops: The Line is a third person action game from independent German studio Yager Developers and publisher 2K Games.  In the demo, released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox360, you play as Captain Martin Walker, voiced by Nolan North (Is there any game he isn’t involved with?). He along with his two teammates, Adams and Lugo, must find U.S. Army Colonel John Konrad. Konrad, along with his group the 33rd, volunteered to lead survivors from the post-catastrophe destroyed city of Dubai. Soon contact with Konrad and his men is lost, and the U.S. Army sends you and your squad to find them. But not all is as it seems. You soon find that the 33rd have in fact gone rogue and are in a sort of civil war with the refugees left in Dubai. To make matters even worse, the refugees are being led by an American CIA agent. And both sides want you dead.
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Re: Finding Lost Treasures – Spontaneous Lesson Learned

Some people collect coins, other stamps. I collect video games.

It’s funny when life imitates art, especially when it’s comedy-like in this case. I enjoy the sitcom The Big Bang Theory. If you’ve ever seen the show, there’s a particular episode called “The Nerdvana Annihilation” where one of the main characters named Leonard Hofstadter bids $800 on a whim for what he thinks is a prop from the classic 1960 movie The Time Machine. Well, he ends up winning the auction because no one else bid and now is faced with paying the $800 amount and getting something that he didn’t think he would. I think you can see more or less where this story is going?

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The Walking Dead: Episode 1 – A New Day Review

Creating video games off of licensed products can be a very tricky thing. Most games based off of movies and shows are usually panned and met with disappointment. After all, some of these simply feel like an attempt to cash in without much care to the actual game. But when Telltale Games announced that they would be making a video game based in the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, the game was met with some enthusiasm. Having already worked on licensed games such as Sam and Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Back to the Future and Jurassic Park series, Telltale stuck with the point-and-click style instead of making another zombie action game. But would this equal success for both Telltale and The Walking Dead fans alike?
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