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How Gameshark Codes Work

I still remember when I would get the monthly flyers from Game Genie in the mail with the latest discovered codes for games.

How do GameShark codes work?This has always boggled me. Obviously GameShark and Game Genie never got inside access to place their own cheats into every game. I don’t think any developers gave them the source code to pour over...ArqadeLoveAndCoding

Posted in: Play
By: Tyler
1 min read

Apparently EA Really Hates the Wii U

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.

EA Senior Engineer: ‘The Wii U Is Crap’ - IGNIn a series of Tweets, EA’s Bob Summerwill blasts Nintendo and explains why EA isn’t working with them anymore on Wii U.IGNColin Moriarty

Posted in: Business, EA, Nintendo
By: Tyler
1 min read

TF2: First Entirely Community-Created Update

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.

Team Fortress 2

Posted in: Play, Valve
By: Tyler
1 min read

6 More Games Added to Steam Greenlight

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.

Posted in: Business
By: Tyler
1 min read

Rift to go free-to-play June 12th

Rift finally joins the ranks of games such as Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Aion, Tera, and Knights of the Old Republic.

Posted in:
By: Tyler
1 min read

Google Breakout Easter Egg

Doing an image search for ‘Atari Breakout’ turns the page into a playable version of Breakout.

Posted in: Play
By: Tyler
1 min read

CD Projekt's REDKit Available Now

The toolkit finally allows players to create official mods for The Witcher 2, ranging from new quests to new worlds to explore.

Posted in: Development
By: Tyler
1 min read

'Shaqfighter' Trademarked

I’m not ashamed to admit how excited I am over the possibility of a new Shaq-Fu game. I just hope this isn’t some crappy IOS game.

12/09/2019 update: There was a new game. And it was bad. The series did not age well.

Posted in: Culture
By: Tyler
1 min read

Mash Effect

A slew of articles about the new XCOM game was released this morning, but Andrew Yoon at Shack News sums it up perfectly:

XCOM as it is today can be best summed up as this: Mass Effect, set in the 60s.

Posted in: Play
By: Tyler
1 min read

Why Virtual Worlds Died

Give people a blank piece of paper and ask them to “have fun!” A few might get excited and start writing a poem or sketch a masterpiece. But most will be annoyed, grow bored and give up.

People are quick to point out Minecraft as an exception to this. Sticking with the paper analogy; while most virtual worlds only give you a pencil, Minecraft gives you colored pencils, glitter, and scissors.

Posted in: Business
By: Tyler
1 min read

45 Japanese Animation & Video Game Website Layouts

Sometimes I wish more western sites would adopt some of these Japanese web design trends.

Posted in:
By: Tyler
1 min read

Morrowind Rebirth 2.2 Released

Find new enemies to fight, exciting areas to explore, gain access to new weapons to slay your foes or just roam the huge world that’s out there

Combine this with the Morrowind Overhaul Mod, and you have a beautiful remake of the classic game.

Posted in: Indie, Play
By: Tyler
1 min read
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