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Saints Rows: The Third Marries Tron? Deckers Die Mission Walkthrough

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:10:00 +0000

Saints Row is a crazy game, we know that. Saint’s Row: The Third is going to be even more crazier, we know this but was your expecting Saints Row vs Tron? You did not know this. Here is a walkthrough of the Deckers Die Mission.

Also here is a trailer for that very mission.

Game of the year anyone? Definitely the game I’m most looking forward to this year!

Dungeons – The Dark Lord Box Art Unveiled

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:04:00 +0000

The more evil you are, the better. Any game that has that motive behind it is a good game in my book. Dungeons – The Dark Lord is Kalypso Media’s new offering, hot of the heels of the recently released Tropico 4. Dungeons – The Dark Lord is a stand-alone sequel to the critically acclaimed Dungeons, and challenges players to create dungeons that will entice and entrap heroes, helping the player capture soul energy to use when battling other Dungeon Lords in both single and multiplayer play.

Here is a quick look at the new box art:

Obviously as a sequel to the critically acclaimed Dungeons, the game will be hosting a bunch of new features along with some returning old ones.

Four multiplayer modes for up to four players: Deathmatch, King of the Hill, Survival and Piñata

Entirely new, fully scripted and voiced single-player campaign

New dungeon setting (ice crystal cave) with new graphics, unique prestige gimmicks and a new boss monster – The Yeti

Playable bosses in multiplayer modes (Minos, Zombie King, Calypso and Dungeon Lord)

Various dungeon graphics sets and inventories are now available

New set of skills specifically for multiplayer modes

Dungeons – The Dark Lord will be available both in retail stores and via digital distribution on 23^rd September and does not require the original Dungeons to play.

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Sports Interactive Details Pretty Much Everything In Football Manager 2012

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:06:00 +0000

Yes there are a hefty number of blockbuster games being released later this year and yes they are normally the games that I will put on my GOTY list but there is always a game I forget to mention when compiling them lists. In total Football Manager has eaten up more of my time than any and probably every other game combined! I’m not going to sit here and say it’s an addiction but man I need this shit!! “It can’t get better than this” Every year I say this but every single year Sports Interactive bring me something that blows my mind yet again. This year looks to be no different. There are a plethora of new features in Football Manager 2012, which should give any FM fan a rather excited friend living in the basement. With Sports Interactive opening there blogs for this years iteration, they have detailed pretty much all of the new features so here they are explained.

You can find all this at - http://community.sigames.com/forumdisplay.php/237

Transfers & Contracts

When I’m playing the game, I’m the archetypal “wheeler dealer” manager. Buying, selling, negotiating. Finding that young rough diamond, turning him into a world superstar, getting the best years out of him, then selling him for a tidy profit at the same time. Here’s what is in store for me this year.

Let’s start off with improvements to amateur contracts. And the addition of proper “non-contract” err, contracts.

Non-contracts are very similar to amateur contracts in many ways, in that the players are able to move freely to other clubs if they are signed on non-contract terms. However, these players can earn money with appearance fees and bonuses possible.

Non contracts aren’t just for players either – you can offer non-contract terms to staff too.

Of course, these options are only available to you should the team be likely to use them in real life, so don’t expect these options if you’re managing a top division club!

One thing many of the community noticed from the original announcement and screenshots from a few weeks ago was the “loyalty bonus” which has replaced the “signing on fee”. This has been changed based on feedback from both our agent and chief executive contracts, as signing on fees are now paid throughout the length of a contract, and not all upfront.

Another thing that was mentioned then was contract locks. These have a huge effect in the way that contract negotiations are done now, particularly when you’re on a budget!

Say you’ve got a limited wage budget and a maximum of 5k a week, yet the player you want is demanding 7k. Rather than getting frustrated going backwards and forwards without movement, you can lock the 5k offer, and the agent will then look at other ways to make the player happy, such as looking at some of the other bonuses available, or asking for a percentage of any sale on the player. Or they could just accept. Or walk away. But at least you all know where you stand in the negotiation.

There are some other tweaks to contract negotiations too, such as making it easier to withdraw or change your contract offer, including the chance to re-negotiate terms with a player after the agent has provisionally accepted, in case another club comes in for them that might be offering them more wages.

And you’ve also got the chance to have different minimum fee release clauses, for higher division clubs, domestic clubs and foreign clubs, as well as a new contract clause – “pay increase after x international caps”.
What about when players don’t want to be at your club anymore?

We’ve increased the chances that players might ask for mutual terminations, such as when a team gets relegated, or if they are near the end of their contracts and transfer listed.

You can also, via a conversation, issue an ultimatum to a player who hasn’t agreed a new contract with you in the last year of their contract to sign, or they’ll be put on the transfer list.

And also via a conversation, can tell a player why you’re transfer listing them.

A change with agents sees them better servicing the needs of the club – if you suggest that you’re looking for a new goalkeeper in a press conference, for example, then expect to be offered more goalkeepers from agents.

You also now get much better feedback in the game on why a club that was interested might not put in a bid for a player.

As mentioned in the blog that included the news merge, I wrote about the revamp of the transfer centre.

This really now has become the hub from where you sell players – rather than it just having basic information there, it now has more information by default, and by clicking on the more info button, opens up to give you the full information on the screen. It’s really easy to compare all the different offers, and you can accept, reject or negotiate, them directly from the transfer centre screen, either grouped together, or separately.

You can discuss this blog at http://community.sigames.com/showthr…29#post7077829

Youth Teams & Newgens

Hello everyone, and welcome, to the Football Manager 2012 blogs. This year we’ll have a selection of written blogs and video blogs to show you many of the new features that are in this years’ forthcoming release.

You’ll be able to find each of the blogs at community.sigames.com in English, and they’ll also appear in local languages at our many partner sites, including marca.com (Spain), sofoot.fr (France), 442 (Australia), http://corrieredellosport.it (Italy), bold.dk (Denmark), sporx.com (Turkey)

To see the initial FM 2012 feature announcements, you can find them at www.footballmanager.com, but we’ll be going into more detail with the blogs here.

Today’s is about changes and new features regarding youth players and “newgens” which are the players that come into the game over time to ensure that there are a stream of players available for your whole career.

We often talk about how FM 2012 is part evolution for the series, and part revolution. So let’s start out with some revolution…

In previous editions of the Football Manager series, you didn’t have much control over the youth squad. Each year you’d find a bunch of players dumped into your youth squad at the start of the season. Not any more.

With FM 2012, we’ve given you more control over which players make it into your youth squad. Towards the end of the domestic season, you’ll get a news item in your inbox to inform you that your youth candidates are now ready to be assessed. Your coaches will already have assessed them and will be able to give you a scouting report for each one, as well as your assistant making recommendations to you on who you should, or shouldn’t, give a youth contract to.

Your staff will also arrange a match between your current youth squad, and the youth candidates so you can watch them in action, and you can also choose to have a further look at the players by allowing them to play in normal youth team matches for the few weeks when you are making your decisions on who to take on.

They are initially treated as an extra squad, so it’s easy to see who they are and scroll through them using quick flicks. After the youth candidates have played their evaluation match against your current youth team, they will stay on with your youth team as trialists for the following few weeks.

It’s a whole new level of control for those of you who want to micromanage to the lowest level– but as we know that this isn’t something that everyone will want to do, we’ve also made it so that your assistant can look after who to take on if you don’t want to go this in depth alongside the other things that you can ask your assistant to look after, such as team talks and press conferences.

One thing that we always need to balance when we’re adding in new features is that people play the game in different ways.

We know that some people will love the extra control on youth teams. But we also know that some people don’t bother with youth squads at all, just signing ready made players from other teams in the game. There are also many who manage at a lower level, and struggle to balance their finances between having a youth squad and the needs of the first team.

So we have an option for those people too.

So, for them, you can now ask your board to scrap your youth set up entirely. This will mean no new players coming through, and no need to try and get wages together to pay for the youth team. Your board may so no, of course, but if they’re looking to save money too, then it’s likely they’ll say yes.

There have also been improvements in the way that the newgens are generated, with country based positional “traits” now being used. In Brazil, for example, it’s rare that they have natural wingers in real life, with those players more likely to be wing backs, so you’ll see less Brazilian newgen wingers, and more Brazilian newgen wing backs.

The same can also be said of a players mental attributes. Players in Brazil, due to the way they grow up playing the game, are more likely to have flair. Players in Spain are more likely to play a short passing game. All of these traits are now reflected better in game.

We’ve also improved the way youth recruitment works at different clubs for their youth setup. The club’s youth recruitment network and youth facilities are not only linked to the quality of newgens produced by the youth setup, but also the scope of the recruitment. So clubs with excellent recruitment networks and state-of-the art facilities have the ability to attract youth players not just from the local regions, but from other continents as well.

There’s also been a big improvement in the way names are generated for all youth players, particularly in countries where there are lots of regions and names tend to be region specific.

You can discuss this blog at http://community.sigames.com/showthr…th-amp-newgens

Scouting

There have been significant improvements this year with scouting. Some of this was briefly mentioned when we originally announced Football Manager 12 a few weeks ago, but we can go into more detail now, as well as give you a few new nuggets.

One of the biggest improvements to the whole game this year is the new team report. We’ve very luck at Sports Interactive to have a large number of fans in amongst football, including many scouts who, with permission from their employers, give us the real scouting reports that they put together for teams when watching them for the manager.

And with FM12, we’ve implemented as much of this information as we can!

Not only do you get these reports when scouting the next opposition – you can get a team report from any club in the game world just by asking one of your scouts to scout them.

So what, exactly, do the team reports show you?

Let’s start at the start, and the first screen you’ll see if the “strength overview” screen which shows you the top 3 players at each position at the club, with star ratings for each player.

If you want to go into even more depth than this, just click on the “position strength” options, and you can then see the ratings and rankings for every player and position in the oppositions (or your, if the team report is on your team) squad.

The next option is “team comparison”. This allows you to compare various stats between the two clubs, such as average age, height, weight, caps in the squad, wage bills and how many players are unavailable.

When you are looking at your own team report, the team comparison option will allow you to do a comparison with any team within your own division.

Clicking on the “all positions” tab gives you a comparison of average stats amongst your players, and if you then look at the following tabs to look at goalkeeper, you’ll see a comparison specifically for goalkeeping stats. And with the defenders tab, you see a comparison specifically for defenders. And for midfielders, and attackers.

The “last match” tab gives you information about the clubs last match, with stats such as shots, shots on target, possession etc., and the ratings, goals, and status of each player in that match for both the team you’ve scouted, and their opposition, plus a text match report. And the option to go and watch the match.

Tactic analysis gives you information on how you’ve fared when using specific tactics, with information on how many times you’ve started with those tactics, how many minutes you’ve used them, how many goals you’ve scored & how many you’ve conceded. As well as a breakdown for goals scored and conceded against different rankings of team – higher rated, similar rated and smaller rated. Along with a paragraph of analysis. For each tactic used.

Tactics faced gives you the same information, based on the tactics you’ve played against.

Next up is goal analysis – this shows you at what time in the game you have scored and conceded goals, and where your assists have come from, the types of goals you’ve scored and conceded, and the type of assist for or against you.

It’s quite comprehensive, and isn’t just available for first teams – it’s also available for international teams and your youth and reserve teams.

There are also improvements and new things with player scouting too.

You now have the choice of using a scouting pool to scout players. This would send a scout or member of your coaching staff to go and have a look at a player without you having to designate someone specific.

The scouts are also more intelligent, and will even tell you if they think the scouting mission you’ve sent them on is a waste of time. And if they’re a decent scout and you hire them, they might even bring a ready-made scouting list with them.

They’ll give you feedback on a players best tactical role, will directly compare them to others in your squad in their scout reports, give better feedback on player weaknesses, can be assigned to scout all your feeder clubs & ask them to scout for specific attributes.

But don’t think they’re always clever. If you just scout a player once, and they aren’t famous, you’d better keep scouting them every year or so, or else you might just find some of their stats become hidden again.

If you want to comment on this blog, you can do so at http://community.sigames.com/showthr…dback-scouting

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Battlefield 3 Sexy New Screenshots

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:05:00 +0000

Check out these latest beauties from DICE.

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Eurogamer Expo 2011

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:02:00 +0000

It’s only 5 days till the biggest expo of the year is under way! Okay maybe not the biggest or best or even most exciting but trust me when I say, its happening. Here’s a full list of what is playable on the show floor come Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th September.

We will be there covering the event and will try and cover everything we can.. but mostly the stuff we want to cover. I mean come on, I ain’t going near World of Tanks when Uncharted 3 is sitting there calling my name all seductively. We will bring back videos, previews and other goodies for you to read and feast your eyes on.

What do you want us to cover?

UFC Undisputed 3 Full Match Gameplay Video Showing Off The New & Improved Submission System & Ground Game

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:49:00 +0000

Here is the latest video to be released from THQ with developers commentary on what to expect from UFC Undisputed 3. This video is focusing on the ground game and new submission system which has been added to this years iteration.

The Daily Gaming Network Forum Has Now Been Born

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:47:00 +0000

We at Daily Gaming Network are working hard to bring you a website in which you are a massive part of it. We created this website but we want help from you to run it. This means we need to communicate to the people as easily as possible, so say hello to the DGN Forum. We decided to go for a look that is a little bit easier on the eye so the illuminated green will not make an appearance I’m afraid. This is your chance to tell us exactly what you want this website to become! When DGN was created, we had an ambition to become the alternative to original gaming websites, I’ve always thought that gaming website exclude the community and just give you information instead of included the people and seeing what they want.

Obviously the Forum has only just been created so for a while it will not be as lively as it will become but we all have to start somewhere. Sign up to the forums and take control of the community. We have plenty more features we will be unveiling over the next few days so stay tuned and give the DGN Forums a warm welcome into the world of gaming!

GC: PES 2012 Is Looking Rather Special

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:52:00 +0000

Just because Konami have been concentrating so much on the gameplay in PES 2012, don’t think they’ve ignore the graphical side of the game. As you can see below, the graphical detail in each of the players faces are absolutely stunning! Congratulations have to go to Konami for pulling off such life-like appearances.

GC: PES 2012 Gameplay Footage Emerges

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:38:00 +0000

Konami have took a lot of stick the last couple of years for ruining possibly one of the most loved game franchises of all time, now it seems that they are trying to re-capture the essence of what made PES so amazing in the first place. Judging by these videos they are on the right track. I am a huge Pro evo fan so I was ecstatic to see how much of an improvement PES 2012 looks from previous iterations. Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 or FIFA 12? It might be closer than you think this year.

Want To Play Some Trials Evolution?

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:10:00 +0000

With Trials Evolution being released later this year for XBLA, Red Lynx have announced that they will be showing off there new title at PAX Prime in Seattle but more recently at Gamescom in Germany, the game will also be playable to the public and press. Trials Evolution is the hotly anticipated sequel to chart topping Trials HD which sat at the top of the most downloaded section on Xbox Live for quite a while.

Antti Ilvessuo, creative director at Red Lynx said “This is the biggest game RedLynx has ever done, and one of the most ambitious downloadable console games ever”

More broken limbs please!

Counter Strike: Global Offensive Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Football Manager 2012: First Details Released

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:00 +0000

Its time to put down Football Manager 2011, I know its hard but there is a good reason for it. Football Manager 2012 is here and its back with a bang! Sports Interactive promises us the “most realistic, immersive and playable football management simulation ever”. They aren’t kidding either with over 800 new features being introduced to the game, this could well be even better than any Football Manager simulation that’s been released before it.

Key new & improved features for Football Manager 2012:
Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren’t prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras – “Behind Goal” and “Director Cam” as well as all other camera angles being reversible – meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

Are you excited? Well stay tuned because we will have a lot more on Football Manager 2012 within the next few months.

WWE ’12 Roster Announced

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:11:00 +0000

The current roster for the next instalment in THQ’s WWE franchise has been announced. The roster currently features sixty wrestlers, although more could appear via DLC. Fans of the series will also get the choice between two different covers, with the Champ’s Edition featuring John Cena and the People’s Edition featuring The Rock.

The current roster is as follows:

John Cena
John Morrison
Ted Dibiase
Mark Henry
Kofi Kingston
William Regal
R-Truth
Husky Harris
Daniel Bryan
Tyson Kidd
Santino Marella
David Otunga
Evan Bourne
Sheamus
Goldust
Cody Rhodes
Zack Ryder
Mason Ryan
HHH
Miz
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Arn Anderson
Ricky Steamboat
Road Warrior Hawk
Road Warrior Animal
Vader
Kevin Nash
Booker T
Eddie Guerrero
Demolition Smash
Demolition Ax
Edge
Eve
Natalya
Maryse
Layla
Michelle McCool
Beth Phoenix
Kelly Kelly
The Rock
Kane
Alex Riley
Alberto Del Rio
Rey Mysterio
Michael McGillicutty
Yoshi Tatsu
Jack Swagger
Big Show
Justin Gabriel
Heath Slater
Dolph Ziggler
Undertaker
Christian
Drew McIntyre
Sin Cara
Mr. McMahon
Ezekiel Jackson
CM Punk
Wade Barrett
Randy Orton

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Borderlands 2 – Screenshots Released

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:11:00 +0000

The original Borderlands was runner-up Game of the Year back in 2009, so naturally we’re all looking forward to the sequel. We’ll have to wait until early 2012 for the full release, and maybe a few months for trailers/gameplay etc, but in the meantime, here’s some recently released screenshots.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Coming To PSN, XBLA And PC

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the third part of the series, has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, PC. This latest instalment intends to expand the team-based gameplay using new game modes, maps and weapons.

Almost immediately after it’s release in August 1999, the original Counter-Strike became the most played online PC action game in the world. Even after 12 years at the top, it has continued to be one of the most popular games in the world, with the franchise selling over 25 millions copies. The series has also headlined several gaming tournaments across the world, and continues to do so.

The game is due for release in early 2012, meaning that eager fans would have waited 8 years for a sequel toCounter-Strike: Source, which was released back in 2004.

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Far Cry 3: Tropic Thunder Screenshots Released

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:09:00 +0000

Ubisoft have released new screenshots from the eagerly anticipated Far Cry 3. The extremely detailed and diverse environment is one of the biggest attractions to the game. Far Cry 3 is due for release in Febuary 2012.

Check out these screenshots. Below is also the official gameplay trailer from E3 2011.

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Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Gets More Content

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:09:00 +0000

At E3 earlier this year, Konami announced the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection would be launched for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The bundle would include Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection launches later this year

But as from today Hideo Kojima has revealed exactly which versions of the games will be included, more specifically Metal Gear Solid 3 will be the Subsistence edition which added an online mode, and the ability to control the games camera with the right analog stick. Since the Subsistence edition of Metal Gear Solid 3 also includes the original Metal Gear (not Metal Gear Solid) and Metal Gear 2 games, in emulated form, this means gamers will be getting a lot more for their money than previously thought.

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Origin Required To Play Battlefield 3

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:08:00 +0000

With Sivi our “General PC Gamer” I thought it was best I wrote this story with as little biased opinion on how ridiculous EA have been about unleashing there new service Origin otherwise there will be very little information and just down right disgusting language, so here we go.

EA has announced that in order to play Battlefield 3 on the PC, you will be required to obtain there heavily pushed service Origin. With EA unwilling to release the game on Steam due to restrictions, it seems this is just another step in the ongoing war between themselves and Valve. DICE’S Community Manager Daniel Martos had this to say ”Origin will be required in order to play Battlefield 3 if the game is bought in retail. We don’t know whether this is true if the game is downloaded through a digital download service other than Origin, but we suspect Origin will be required no matter what.”

During Battlefield 3′s Alpha trial is was also suggested that Origin was sapping CPU power whilst running the game, although EA has said they are working on resolving this issue.

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Google + Are Coming! Announces New Games Service

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:08:00 +0000

Here comes the big boys. It seems whatever Google wants, they get, so Facebook must be frantically looking over there shoulder when it was announced that Google Plus has rolled out its brand new games service with the creative title Google Plus Games. Okay so maybe its not that creative but you can be sure that with Google at the helm of such a powerful creation, this could not only take over Facebook but destroy it. Maybe it is a bit to soon to make such suggestions with the limited time frame Google Plus has been about but its a fair suggestion at that.

There has only been 16 games announced for the service but that does not mean the quality isn’t there. Facebook favourites Zynga Poker, Bejeweled Blitz and Angry Birds will all feature with a bucket load more to be announced in the future. Games have become a big part of Facebook in recent years with 40 year old mums having to find something to do in the day time whilst there little terrors are running around causing havoc, so it makes sense that Google would enter the party when it comes to this. Although just because the search engine giants have acquired these new games, don’t expect them to force you to play them. Google have made it very clear that they are offering this as an extra to Google Plus, when you want to play them then they are there, when you don’t, they are gone.

Google are coming and they mean business.

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Nintendo Patents Massively Single-Playing Online Games

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:07:00 +0000

Nintendo has always been a bit cautious when it comes to online gaming, with the DS and Wii both using the hugely unpopular ‘Friend Code’ system. While the 3DS still uses a form of the Friend Code system, gamers can instead add friends locally via Wi-Fi.

This is due to Nintendo not wanting people to have their gaming experience ruined by those unruly gamers pent on annoying others. This may be why Nintendo has filed a patent for a new type of game, a Massively SINGLE-playing Online Game.

This new type of game aims to offer all the benefits of a massive online community but without actually dealing with the people themselves. The idea being that player’s actions will change and affect the gameplay for all players, but the players will never actually meet one another.

Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster Debut Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:06:00 +0000

I don’t care how old you are, you will be buying this game. The debut trailer for Double Fine’s Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster was released yesterday, showing you how you or your little ones can enjoy the wonderful adventure with Cookie Monster, Elmo and apparently a perverted dad watching you from behind, weird.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Adam’s Quest Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:14:00 +0000

New to the Deus Ex franchise and need to get up to speed on the world? Then this video is perfect for you. The video, courtesy of Machinima.com, really gives you an insight into what it’s like to be involved in a Deus Ex game and I have to say watching that back I felt a little nostalgic for the first title.

Limbo Now On Steam

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Limbo, the popular Indie game developed by Playdead has finally come to the PC via Steam for $9.99 or £6.99. For all your hardware fans out there you may be interested to know that the PC version of Limbo is the only one to play at a full 60 FPS.

You can check out our very own DGN review of Limbo right here:
http://dailygamingnetwork.com/2011/07/30/limbo-review/

Norway pulls Call of Duty and Warcraft from shelves

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:02:00 +0000

Norwegian retailers have removed Call of Duty and World of Warcraft games from sale in light of the recent massacre and bombing which killed 77 people.

In his manifesto, which was published online, the killer saw Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a means to hone his skills.

He also used Warcraft as a diversion to explain the time he was absent planning the terror attacks.

Retailers Coop Norway and Platekompaniet temporarily removed all four most recent COD games, Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, World at War and Modern Warfare, as well as Counter-Strike: Source, Homefront, Sniper: Ghost Warrior and WoW.

However, other retailers refuse to remove the games, and state that there is no correlation between games and the vicious attacks.

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HD remakes pave way for next Metal Gear and Silent Hill

noreply@blogger.com (dinkys) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Konami is bringing both Silent Hill HD Collection and Metal Gear Solid HD Collection to retail in a bid to pull in new fans ahead of the next main instalments in each series.

MCV understands the Metal Gear pack – which includes Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and PSP title Peace Walker – will arrive in the UK this November. It will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360, while the Silent Hill HD Collection will be exclusive to PS3.

The Konami box sets will be released ahead of Metal Gear Solid Rising and Silent Hill:?Downpour.

“These collections allow people to revisit their favourite games, while also raising awareness for newer titles that will continue to build those franchises,” Konami said

“There’s huge demand for such collections. We have a wave of people who know of things like MGS and Silent Hill through more recent titles, but perhaps have no way to play the originals due to unavailability or they just don’t have the formats they were released on.

“These act as companion releases, and celebrate Konami’s heritage. While we are releasing new entries in both the MGS and Silent Hill series, our upcoming Birds of Steel and NeverDead games show we are also committed to creating brand new IPs.”

Similarly, Sony this month brought out Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank and Resistance PS3 bundles containing two previously released games in each series. They come ahead of Uncharted 3, Resistance 3 and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, later this year.

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