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Titan Fall – Angel City Demo

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Titanfall_wallpaper2560x1440Ok, I have to admit:  I am a sucker for Mech-based games.  And when Respawn took the stage back in E3 this year with their announcement that “TitanFall” was coming out in the near future.. I was excited.   From EA and Respawn Entertainment are bring the thunder, with Mechs’ stomping around, blowing things up; “Call of Duty” Style game mechanics and next generation graphics.. This seemed to be the next best game coming out.

Then I found out the sad news:  TitanFall will be a exclusive title for the Xbone, and may (or may not) make it over to the PlayStation 4.   And since I really like what Sony has come out with as far as the PlayStation 4, that’s the platform I am leaning towards.  The good news is that it will also be available for the PC (whether or not the rig can actually play it is another matter entirely!)

*A little history side note: Respawn Entertainment is the company built from the ashes of the nasty split from Activision and the developer “Infinity Ward”. I guess this is an excellent score for Micro$oft, giving them a shooter that will stack up against “Call of Duty” and the “Battlefield” series.
But, it truly shows what you can do to sway a developer when you throw money at them. 🙂

Check out the Angel City video, courtesy of Gamersyde.com

 

 

Battlefield 4 on the Next Gen Systems

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Coming right out of GamesCom 2013, Electronic Arts and DICE unveiled another BF4 map, titled “Paracel Storm”. Sporting 60 silky frames a second, the game bleeds color on your television. Not to thrown in the dynamics of the map changing, and a few weather patterns to boot. This one looks to be one killer of a map to play.

“I see lots of explosions in your future”….

Check out the link, courtesy of Gameinformer.

Glad I am not a gambling man….

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In another brilliant reversal move by Micro$oft, the new Xbox One will now allow indie developers to publish their game on Xbox Live without requiring a publishing partner.

It seems that what Micro$0ft ultimately did was take all the negative press from E3 concerning the Xbox One, and decided “nah, lets not do that”, causing some indie publishers to jump ship, and head to Sony.

(Including the “Oddworld” developer, and “Bastion” developer.. )

Sony, on the other hand, has been up front and working with all indie developers that it could possibly get ahold of for the new PlayStation 4.

Regardless, this does have the potential to reverse the flow of folks signing up for a PS 4 for a Xbone (Not me though..)

Now, if Micro$oft would drop the whole “Kinect is required” mantra, and drop the price $100, they may get a bit more folks signing up for a pre-order.

Maybe next it will run all Apple products too?   Click Me.

 

 

Sorry, we didnt mean to do that..

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That’s right gang!  For once, you the video gamers of the world have a voice, and apparently Micro$oft listened.  Game Informer recently posted that Micro$oft is reversing their original plan for not allowing any used games
on the Xbox One, or requiring that the Xbox One “phone home” every 24 hours so you can play your games offline.  I guess it doesn’t take much to bow to the pressure of your gaming community, does it?