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After a fake teaser made the rounds last week for the PlayStation 4, Sony has finally released a real teaser for its next-generation console. Read more…
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Globe & Mail says Assassin’s Creed III “distorts history”
This just in: video games are not historically accurate.
In an editorial that sparked a minor twitter firestorm Thursday, the Globe & Mail lashed out against Ubisoft Montreal’s action-adventure game Assassin’s Creed III, claiming the game “distorts history” by imagining a Native American hero who fights against the British redcoats during the American Revolution. That sound you hear are thousands of gamers’ palms simultaneously slapping against their faces.
Don’t be fooled, youth of Canada. This Native American assassin killing redcoats as part of a secret war against the Templars, as experienced by a guy from 2012 who is inside a high-tech brain-scanning machine that also allows him to visit the First Crusade and the Italian Renaissance, is NOT historically accurate.
Insert quarter for Extra Life
If you have a charitable gamer in your life, you probably know this weekend marks the annual Extra Life fundraising drive, a 24-hour gaming marathon in support of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Tons of gamers, including myself and fellow Button Masher Matt Dykstra and his sprawling team of Edmonton-based players, will be playing games straight through from this morning until tomorrow morning to raise money for our chosen kids’ hospital charities. (I’m backing the SickKids Foundation, Matt and the Extra Life Edmonton crew are supporting the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.)
I’m about to get settled in for what could be a long day and night — I’ve got a nice big coffee and egg n’ peameal bacon sammich to get the engine running, and tons of food, caffeinated bevvies and Visine for later on. It’ll be fun, at first. But I have a feeling that even by this evening this is going to feel like a bad idea. And at 3 a.m…. well, we’ll stagger across that bridge when we get to it.
The best Portal prop ever
I longed for the ThinkGeek.com inflatable Portal turret. I pined for the $375 Portal gun prop sold at Fan Expo Canada. But this… this is the greatest piece of Portal love ever conceived. And by the folks at New Zealand-based effects studio WETA Worksop, no less, who sent it to the headquarters of Portal creators Valve Software.
Makes you wonder, though… why would WETA, the folks who have done effects work on The Lord of the Rings, Avatar and dozens of other films, devote so much time and energy into making a functional Portal prop? There can only be one explanation: A PORTAL MOVIE IS IN THE WORKS! With WETA doing the props and digital effects!
OK, probably not. But we can dream. Sleep mode activated.
Ouya haters gonna hate
The Ouya console will run on relatively low-powered hardware and sell for $99. This makes some people unhappy.
If you have even a passing interest in video games, you’ve probably heard about Ouya, a low-cost, Android-based video game console that’s in the midst of a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. They’d hoped to raise $950,000 by Aug. 9 to fund production of the thing. Two days into the campaign, they’re at $3 million and counting.
And so begins the backlash.
E3 2012 – Ubisoft steals the show
Watch Dogs is one of several Ubisoft games blowing minds at E3.
The French are good at making many things. Cheese. Wine. Sweet, sweet love.
Know what else the French excel at? Making video games.
