By: Nathan Andrews, Editor Part 1 – The Single Player Experience Let’s face it. From the beginning of the franchise, with the fantastic Battlefield: 1942, DICE’s Battlefield games have been about one thing: Multi-player combat. The entire Battlefield series set the bar for online multi-player combat, and they set it high. Prior to Bad Company…
Android NDK r3 – Big Leap for Android Games
By: Nathan Andrews, Editor Last month, Google released the latest version of their NDK (Native Development Kit), which allows developers access to the internals of Android systems. I’m not going to get into the differences between managed code (the Java code most Android developers end up writing) and native code, as it’s outside of the…
TRON: Legacy – New Trailer Brings the OMG!
By: Nathan Andrews, Editor Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Well, that’s at least what I was saying when I got done watching the brand new trailer for TRON: Legacy, the follow-up to the 1982 classic. Click on through for my impressions, and a link to all the trailery deliciousness.
Battlefield: Heroes – TF2 + BF2 + CA = Awesome?
Well… kinda. If you can’t make it through the alphabet soup in the title, see the breakdown at the end of the article. It’s taken me quite some time to get my hands back on this article (I originally started it on July 15) for several reasons. 1) I (well, my wife has, I’m just…
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? Do you?
If you’re not familiar with, or a fan of, The Guild I have one question for you: What the heck are you doing on a site dedicated to gaming with a bent toward MMO and RPG? I mean, seriously? Come on. That’s just ridiculous. Fine! Go ahead and take your FPS and RTS! See if…
Need For Speed: Shift – Time to Get Real
Need for Speed has always been one of those franchises that said to players: Yeah, we have some realism in there, but we like to make sure you have fun, too. This allowed the game designers to subvert the laws of physics and engine mechanics a bit in order to make some of the most…
Command and Conquer 4: Reveal Trailer
ComiCon has been giving us a lot to chew on for the next several months. Our previously mentioned TRON: Legacy trailer had us all (well, me at least) squirming for more. Next up, the trailer for Command and Conquer 4. While the trailer doesn’t tell us a whole lot, it does give us a little…
Combat Arms: Free FPS Gaming that Rocks
Nearly a year ago, a little Korean gaming company called Nexon created a new FPS game with one intent: make it awesome, and free. In the beginning, things were basic: A couple of maps, limited characters, and a base set of weapons. The real kicker that got people into the Combat Arms community was one…
Fieldrunners: iPhone’s Tower Defense Granddaddy
By: Nathan Andrews, Editor I’ve had an iPhone for a little over a year now, and I’ve found that the most use it’s gotten has been in the gaming space. Of the gaming I’ve done on my iPhone, the vast majority of that has been playing one particular type of game called ‘Tower Defense. The…
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