Tag: video games
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Assassin's Creed Unity Meets Parkour in Real Life - 4K!
Devin Super Tramp -
Quake
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (Zero Punctuation) -
The Golden Age of x86 Gaming
I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC, but the situation has changed, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November: The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs, built on: Intel Atom class (aka slow) AMD 8-core x86 CPU 8 GB RAM AMD Radeon 77xx / 78xx GPUs cheap commodity…
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 3
In the final part of his three-part look at the future of VR storytelling, Dan summarises some of what he's learned and ponders the challenges VR storytellers might face.
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 2
Dan embraces the hacker culture of the VR ecosystem by abusing Google Cardboard and borrows an Occulus Rift DK2 in order to continue his virtual adventure...
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Immersive Storytelling - Thoughts on Virtual Reality, part 1
Dan's been playing with a Google Cardboard, and it's nothing like The Lawnmower Man nor like any of his virtual reality experiences in the 1990s. The adventure begins...
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Review of Hacknet
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Hacknet Rating: 👍 I've been a huge fan of the "hacker game" ever since I first played 1985's Hacker on my Amstrad CPC: I'm pretty hardened to the genre, and I can confidently say that not since Uplink has anything broken through my firewall …
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The Web Is Not a Post-Racial Utopia
Rust, a 2013 indie survival game from Facepunch Studios, plays like a cross between Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto. Players find themselves “born” into a mysterious wilderness, naked and alone, forced to forage for resources and to craft clothing, supplies and shelter for themselves. They must contend with starvation, hypothermia and animal attacks, but by …
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Not sure I want to take the train, any more...
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In-game hack you can do to enable third-person camera!
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"MarI/O" - how an evolutionary neural network learned to play Mario
Seth Bling -
Minutes away from completing my first hitchhiker mission, playing for the first time since 1.x, this happened. Nooooo!
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Review of Just Cause 2
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Just Cause 2 Rating: 👍 You know the way that everybody plays Grand Theft Auto (at least, 1 through 3) or Saints Row at least once? That is: they ignore the plot and just zip around blowing stuff up? Well: Just Cause 2 is …
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Review of Xenonauts
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Xenonauts Rating: 👍 The original X-COM series (Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep, and even Apocalypse) were among the most-immersive, deeply-strategic, and thematically-beautiful games of the 1990s. 2012's reboot was fun, but it failed to capture the sophistication and complexity of the original: it …
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Hey, mods: how about a Lanius flair?