Peter Rubin:
We have no idea what the videogame landscape will look like seven years from now, just as we had no idea in 2005 how foundationally streaming and smartphones would change everything. The very concept of any physical media box may well be obsolete within a decade. But even if this is the last true console we ever see, one thing is for sure: Gaming isn’t just games anymore.
Original source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one
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Most people I know that own an Xbox 360 use it to watch Netflix. Most of the people I know that own a Playstation 3 use it primarily as a Blue-Ray player. Sure, they bought games too, but they really dont play them. Attempting to call the Xbox One an entertainment system that just so happens to play games, is a brilliant move by Microsoft.
After the conference ended, Reddit was quick to complain they wanted a new console, not a TV remote. The fact being overlooked is you still are getting a c
Most interesting statistic: Only 6% of all characters made cleared the highest difficulty.
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And truly captures Wario’s character.
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I’m sure its just a coincidence this was released a day before the Xbox announcement.
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It’s hugely involved, with you mining the ground to gain resources to trade for coins to claim your land. Like a proper game of Civ, major construction involves clicking on the ground and watching the buildings extruding upwards. They’re functional buildings, allowing you to enter and use them, and enhancing them to provide the bonuses to the land.
This feels like the next natural stage of evolution of Minecraft.
A Minecraft Mod To Admeier: CivCraftThere’s not a lot of structure to vanill
Mostly fluff, but there is something to be said about a publication like WSJ covering the Xbox. It’s a little astounding how far video games have progressed for a new console release to be covered by mainstream culture.
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323398204578489710767303392-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html
One password, discovered over 20 years later, long after the Metroid password system had been completely reverse-engineered, does not grant you all items. This password just crashes and resets the game:
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I still remember when I would get the monthly flyers from Game Genie in the mail with the latest discovered codes for games.
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EA Senior Software Engineer and Architect, Bob Summerwill takes to twitter (Then quickly deletes his tweets) regarding the Wii U. This comes days after EA announced it has no future plans to develop games for the console.
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This update is 100% created by the TF2 community. And when we say everything, we mean everything—the in-game content, the update hub website, the animated short, the comic, even the splash images in the Steam store. Even better, everything you created avoided the classic trap of using other companies’ intellectual property.
Valve has done something no company has done before; they outsourced the work of an entire update to the very people playing it.
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The latest batch features Game Dev Tycoon, a clone of Game Dev Story for IOS/Android. Even though it’s more or less just a mobile port, It’s still worth checking out.