Building a Vision of Sim City 5

Rejoice budding architects, city planners and civil servants. Your roles in town planning and city management will once again be glorified in video game format as Maxis has just let it be known that they are working on Sim City 5. The previous version of the city builder, Sim City 4, was released eons ago and the new title will be upgraded for a new generation. Multiplayer mode is sure to make Sim City 5 a new and exciting proposition. Most exciting of these new features is the multi-player mode. Now you can team up with a total of 12 people, each player managing their own city in the region. Decisions and choices made by every member will...

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Capcom Takes Onimusha to the Broswer

The last Onimusha game came out way back in 2006. Capcom always has better things to do seeing that their gaming franchises include Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Devil May Cry. As the latter group of titles get frequent releases and development, it is not hard to imagine that Capcom has their hands full and is unable to devote any time to their other intellectual property. However, there may be a way around this predicament. Rather than work on another full scale installment of Onimusha, Capcom will be using it to venture into the browser gaming market segment. The developers are looking to release Onimusha Souls, a browser game for both the PC and the smartphone. The game is expected to show up on 28th June 2012. The game will mine the Sengoku era of Japan for its story, also used as...

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Zoomumba

ZooMumba is a 2D Browser MMO where players will manage their own zoo full of exotic animals from around the world. Zoomumba is a basic management game like we've all played before. You start building your zoo and earning funds but you must build your zoo bigger to bring in more people to get more money, but the more people that come the harder it is to manage, keeping all the animals and people happy. Like a famerama and other bigpoint games you can also interact with other players. In my opnion this is a great game for all the family to play with challanges and levels to pass it keeps you entertained. The best thing about this free browser...

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Drakensang Online

Drakensang online is the next level in browser based mmorpg. Drakensang is a free action packed 3D fantasy mmorpg. And who doesn't love a free game. Being a browser game gives this game a huge advantage over other mmorpg's that are around today. Drakensang online gives you the option of choosing between heaps of different characters to play with base classes of Heroes, monsters or humans. This is definately bigpoints answer to games like world of warcraft with many advantages. It may not have the population as such games but without having to download anything and being able to battle with or against players from all around the world it already...

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MLB 12: The Show Continues to Suffer Strikes from Online Pass Flubs

Both the PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of MLB 12: The Show carry an online pass, that slip of paper that allows new game buyers to access hassle free online play… until it becomes a hassle. As has been the case for Arkham City, Dirt 3, Driver 3, and others, baseball fans are now being shut down when trying to access what they paid for. Users of the Vita edition have found that their code actually unlocked online for the PlayStation 3 version, clearly whether they bought that version or not. Sony says the issues have been cleared up, but some users who entered their code prior to the fix claim they’re still in limbo. Joystiq tells the story of Benoit who has been the victim of a back-and-forth battle with support to receive a code that has yet to come. Other users, as reported earlier, simply...

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Link and Samus Costumes Available in Dynasty Warriors VS.

Link and Samus Costumes Available in Dynasty Warriors VS. Playing dress up has been one of the growing aspects of the Dynasty Warriors series, now brought to bolder life with the addition of Nintendo-licensed costumes. Link and Zero Suit Samus outfits will make their appearance in Dynasty Warriors VS., a 3DS exclusive as of now. Tecmo/Koei are returning slightly back to the roots of the franchise, born from a one-on-one fighter. While VS. will maintain the idea of capturing bases, players are doing so competitively in any set-up, up to four people (i.e., three on one, two vs two). Players may combat each other directly, the first time (I...

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Sizzling hot FPS Games 2011

Developers of FPS games have given FPS game fans more to cheer for in 2011. Online gaming is now the hottest pastime of most kids as well as adults and each and every day, exciting FPS games are being introduced to the gaming arena all over the globe. It doesn’t matter what you have is Xbox, Playstation or the PC, all you need is a craving for action. Here are some of the hottest FPS games for 2011 that sizzle up all their competition: Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 3) As a gamer, Call of Duty should not be an unfamiliar entry. This time round, it is coming back to capture the hearts of millions of gamers, young and old alike, with its extremely realistic military warfare graphics. Killzone3 This game is created by Guerilla Games. Killzone has 4 series that had been published by Sony and...

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Ventrilo Settings

Ventrilo is among the most popular third-party voice chat software used in games, and it remains a favorite way to communicate by voice in World of Warcraft, despite the integration of voice chat into the game. In part this is because Ventrilo has better sound quality and more options than the voice software that is typically built into games. One of the most common complaints I hear about using voice chat is that some people can barely be heard, while others are so loud that they blow your ear drums out. And we all know what it's like when someone gets excited in the heat of battle and starts screaming into the microphone, or decides to...

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FarmVille Outside of Facebook

FarmVille may be the biggest game on Facebook, with over 75 million active users, but you don't necessarily have to be on the social network to play anymore. Utilizing Facebook Connect, developer Zynga has made the farming phenomenon accessible both from its own website and MSN.com. You still need a Facebook account to play, but these options let you experience FarmVille without having to be on Facebook, perfect for computers where the social network might be blocked. Here's how you can sneak in a little farming while you're stuck at work or school. 1. MSN.com Starting recently, the game is now playable at MSN.com. Again, you still have...

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Playing Literati or Scrabble Online

If you enjoy word games, but you can't always find a Scrabble partner, the Literati rooms at Yahoo Games may be the answer to your prayers. It's free to play - the only requirements are a Yahoo ID and a Java-enabled browser. The latest version of Java can be found at Java.com. What is Literati? Literati is a word game that is very similar to Scrabble. Players use a set of 7 letter tiles to construct intersecting words on a board, collecting points based on letter values and bonus squares. Literati vs. Scrabble The most noticeable differences are the game board and the tile values. Both boards are 15x15, but the bonus squares (or, in the...

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Trends of the Decade

Looking back over the last ten years of online gaming, there's no doubt that it has been an astounding decade. To say that the hobby has seen explosive growth is an understatement, and it has taken some interesting twists and turns along the way Here's a quick look at what I would consider the most significant trends that have impacted online gaming in the last decade. Digital Distribution Although it got off to a slow start, digital distribution has truly taken off in the last few years, thanks in part to services like Steam and Xbox Live Marketplace. It's very hard to estimate just how large digital distribution of games has become because some of the major companies involved are privately owned and subsequently not required to release any figures. Although it still probably hasn't...

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The misconception of Japanese games

If you're a gamer then we assume you're aware of an event that’s recently passed called the Game Developer's Conference. If so then we also presume that you heard of the controversial comments made by Polytron director Phil Fish towards his fellow Japanese developers in the industry. "Your games just suck", were the four words Mister Fish used to begin his critique of today's Japanese developers. Fish's rhetoric didn't conclude after his Q&A session ended either. The outspoken developer later took to Twitter and attempted to apologize for his harsh criticism but refused to back down. "I'm sorry Japanese guy! I was a bit rough, but your...

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In the Spotlight: Harry Mason (Silent Hill)

Last time around in our on-going spotlight series PSU got chummy with Resident Evil’s floppy-haired hero Leon S. Kennedy, tracing his roots in the series’ second instalment to present day. Keeping in with the horror game vibe, we’re now taking a peak at one of the heroes from Konami’s pulse-pounding psychological horror franchise, Silent Hill. Here, we scrutinize original protagonist Harry Mason as a trip to the eponymous town with his daughter doesn’t go quite according to plan…. Mason’s debut in the 1999 horror classic Silent Hill was pretty memorable for a number of reasons. However, it has to be said his character wasn’t something...

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We bet you never thought Sephiroth was this sexy

You remember Final Fantasy VII for many reasons. It was a great RPG for its time, had a cast of memorable characters, and it even had one of gaming`s most badass bosses ever, Sephiroth. We even gave that boss his own classic track feature. A woman cosplaying as video game character is nothing we haven’t heard or seen before. However, it`s not every day that a model is officially backed by a game development studio. Red 5 Studios, developers of the upcoming game, Firefall, sponsor Crystal Graziano and all her photoshoots. That might explain why they look so damn good. View the original article h...

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Gotmail – Employer

Employer is the latest Room Escape game released at Gotmail, where you can play all IDAC’s games. Find a way to get rid of your nasty boss! Have fun! View the original article h...

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Wondering About MechWarrior Online

To say the MechWarrior franchise is storied would be a massive understatement. Part of the BattleTech universe, the precursor to the MechWarrior brand in the gamer conscious came by way of Westwood Studios, this blogger’s favorite studio when he was worried about cooties. Fast forward to 1994 and the first MechWarrior is released to the 8-bit gaming world. For many, it wasn’t until the series headed to PCs that it made a name for itself, furthered by a return to console. Twenty three years after debuting, Piranha Games is finally ready to begin detailing the multiple title ahead of its 2012 release. MechWarrior Online! Piranha Games...

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Elder Scrolls MMO to be Announced in May?

According to an industry insider, Bethesda and ZeniMax Online Studios are currently developing a MMORPG based on the Elder Scroll series, which will be announced in May of 2012. The source also stated that the MMO will take place a millennium before Skyrim, during the Second Era, which is a few hundred years before any of the Elder Scroll games. The game will have three playable factions, each being represented by an animal. Not much is known about the factions, except each is represented by one of three animals: A lion, a dragon, and a bird of prey (either a phoenix or an eagle, we aren’t sure).It’s been known for some time that ZeniMax...

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Aion: Ascension Goes F2P April 11th

NCSoft today announced that the free-to-play version of Aion will be launching on April 11th.  Aion will be truely F2P, with no content restrictions or account tiers. The highly anticipated update 3.0, called Aion: Ascension will bring with it two new systems, C.U.B.E and the Atreian Atlas.C.U.B.E, which stands for Customizable User Bundling Experience, is just a fancy way of saying you’ll be able to make your own item-store bundles to purchase from the Aion Store. How it works is that players purchase the Cube from the Black Cloud Marketplace, then can place as many store-items into it as they can fit. There will be different...

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Wrath of Heroes Nears Open Beta

It seems closed beta testing for Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes is coming to an end, and sometime next week, Bioware will announce the date for open beta.A final internal test is currently underway, followed by a final rehearsal test this weekend, and if everything goes smoothly, we should get a date for open beta next week.A new version is going through internal test at the moment and it comes with some very interesting additions. Before we open our servers around the clock, we plan to do a final rehearsal weekend to make sure that everything is in place and working.Keep your fingers crossed that everything goes according to plan...

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