Okay, so this last week streaming cloud company Gakai announced that they’ve now launched a streaming app for PC games on Facebook, allowing gamers who don’t have the kind of hardware required for playing their favourite games on High to access the entire experience via their desktop browser. While this isn’t a new idea, I’m going to rather look at why its not the money maker it should be, for now.
Pictured: Game streaming, clearly not working.
I levelled up! Yaaaaay! Admittedly, only by a single experience level, but that’s got to mean something, right? Hey, I haven’t had much time on my hands, what with the magazine going to print last week and everything. Cut me some slack.
Yes, Rocksmith has experience points. I only noticed them when suddenly I went from being classified as an amateur to “a new act”, which I guess is better. Personally I’m okay with being called an amateur because it means that people’s expectations are lower, but I suppose that’s some sort of psychological issue that’s best left discussed with a professional than people on the Internet.
I'm thinking about growing out my hair and taking up heroin. That's a good idea, right?
I don’t play MOBAs, but if I did, I wouldn’t play Nival’s Prime World. “But why’s that?” asks Nival’s hypothetical marketing guy, Mr Hypothetical Marketing-Guy. “We’re even offering big incentives to female players, like cheaper DLC female characters!”
I’ll get to that in a bit, but in the meantime, there’s the game itself. Or, somewhat more specifically, at least for the moment, the game’s art direction.
Cool dagger.
Everybody loves free stuff, right? And free games are no different, even if they aren’t really free. Well they are, but then nothing really is. Free-to-play games, for the uninitiated, are available to download and play for free, but usually feature micro-transactions. Developers essentially create a game, release it for free, and build in certain features which players must pay to use. These can range from items, vehicles, and characters, to in-game currency and special outfits.
There are seemingly thousands of free-to-play games out there. Most of them are crap, but there is more than a handful of great free-to-play games as well, including the likes of Team Fortress 2 and Star Trek Online, neither of which made my list because I actually paid for those games when they were released, so they don’t count as free-to-play in my books. Also, don’t cry because League of Legends didn’t make my list. No game going by the acronym “LOL” deserves a place on my hard drive.
I consider myself to be a beginner guitar player. Although I’ve been at it for a few years, my on-and-off strategy is apparently not what’s required to master the instrument, or even become passable, for that matter. My greatest achievement on the guitar is stumbling through the easy bits of the Tristram theme song at half pace. Now Rocksmith is here to solve all of my problems and teach me how to become a godlike rock totem to the skies, because if there’s one thing I’ve got plenty of time for, it’s video games.
My rock adventure awaits!
I’ve been using Windows for what seems like ages, guys and girls. I first started off with Windows 95 on a friend’s computer, and stared in wonder that this alien concept that was staring back at me, unblinking. Towards the end of my High School career, I tinkered and toyed with every computer I could find, even down to VHS players. I was even called into the headmaster’s office one day to help with duplicating VHS tapes – I programmed both Phillips units in during a biology class in Grade 9 and got three copies rolling for them. By that time my mom had her own computer that she bought for the family, and I tried learning everything I could about Windows XP.
Most of it was learnt pretty quickly, too.
I heart Battlefield 3, hard. Not only is it in my opinion the very best multiplayer shooter of this generation, but it also represents the culmination of decades of technological advancement in game design and development. Massive, open battle environments, a variety of vehicles, and a broad selection of weapons, vehicles and gadgets to try out make it one of the most dynamic and interesting video games I’ve ever played.
And then, Commander Shepard killed all the bad Reapers with a sticky grenade, and the world was saved, and everybody lived happily ever after and had loads of sex with their clothes on.
THE END
Lol.
Take Earth back, mankind's last hope, Dude, Where's My Super Star Destroyer, etc. - Ed
Or not, since I’m nowhere near completing the game. I do however want to talk about people talking about Mass Effect 3’s ending, and more importantly, people complaining about Mass Effect 3’s ending.
Mind if I start again, then? Thanks.
So everyone is totally freaking out about how crap Mass Effect 3’s ending is and it’s making me feel left out because I’m only 6 hours into the game. On the bright side, I’m very unlikely to share any spoilers with you in the next 600 words because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON.
So yesterday, I participated in the Nokia Amazing Everyday Lumia hunt, and drove to Port Elizabeth in order to track down one of four Lumia 800 handsets being handed out to the first person who arrived at the secret location. By the time the competition was 15 minutes in I had figured out three clues and begged my mom for the use of her car. Forty minutes later I was out of the gate and off to PE.
