Expect to die in Shattered Planet, and know it is you who leads these clones to their demise. Pushing them one step too many past their uppermost limits. In all seriousness, rogue-likes are great for creating your own narrative as you attempt to progress through the game. Not every fallen clone needs a tomb in dedication to their memory, but creating a sense of attachment tends to make one more cautious. If anything it makes the little victories more rewarding, and your failures all the more tragic.
Renya Kagurazaka’s bad luck bottomed out when he tried his hand at his local mall’s lottery machine stand. He only did it because he
God’s story begins like many others – boy meets girl, boy is smashed over the head with a blunt object by girl, boy is now God.
Fairy tales living among us. That is, in essence, the premise of the Wolf Among Us. Based on the Fables graphic novel series by DC comics and Vertigo, we are taken to a world where fables have been booted from their stories and hide among our us.
Telltale Games chose to give us another episodic adventure. Reminiscent of choose your own adventure novels and games of old, The Wolf Among Us is more of a story telling medium than what most people might consider a game. Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to the player to decide. Regardless, I can’t help but draw comparisons to Telltale’s last popular title, The Walking Dead.
If you are a fan of strategy RPGs or are just curious about trying them out, this is the game to ease you into the genre. While Disgaea 2 is not the first in the series it can stand on its own, fans of previous titles will be happy to see the characters once again but new players will not be lost.
Another installment to Namco’s Tales series, A pleasant stroll down memory lane for veterans, while a easy to navigate co-op JRPG for the those just starting out with the franchise.
These are mostly mean comments from my most popular video, Fake Nerd Boys. A lot of people watched it and a lot of people got upset by it, completely missing the message I was trying to send. But from their ignorance comes our entertainment. Why is it that people feel the need to be mean […]
Empathy takes on a whole new meaning in Coming Out Simulator 2014, an auto-biographical chose-your-adventure style conversation game. Relying on a tense storyline rather than graphics, Coming Out Simulator immerses the player in one of the most emotionally strenuous situations known to the LGBT community. Even with the most supportive friends and family, coming out takes […]
You can tell a publisher’s desperate to pad out their conference when four of their games include “Conceptual Prototype” overlayed across them, and include more video of people talking than actual gameplay. The big offenders being the new Star Wars Battlefront, Mirrors Edge 2, the new Mass Effect, and Criterion’s unnamed project. Aside from the stable of regular EA sports games, The Sims 4, and Battlefield Hardline were the only other games worthy of note.
The tide of Soviet power washing across the face of the Earth could possibly have been turned back at various stages of history. But the new energy sources they discovered lit a fire under the Russian war machine. So when Stalin rolled into Paris, the resulting flare-up of global conflict left little more than smoking ash heaps where America and Great Britain had been.
Now, Stalin is dead. Though resistance movements have emerged, the Soviets still stand supreme as rulers of the globe. Only a force from beyond the earth could possibly tip the balance.
Abram Krupin, leader of a resistance cell, knows this. When he sees a dog fall from the stars, then, he takes it as an omen. This dog speaks, wears silver armor, and has an arsenal of mysterious weapons. Abram calls her Laika.
In Space No One Can Hear You… Two years after the debut of space faring rougelike, FTL: Faster Than Light, it received an update, and is now called FTL: Advanced Edition. The new version of the game adds features to the original and is a free download for players who already own the original. This […]
Project Beast This all just rumor and speculation right now so take this all with a grain of salt. Fromsoftware, the developers behind Demon’s Souls and more recently Dark Souls I & II, are slated for a rumored, PS4 exclusive title tentatively called “Project Beast.” Now there is come credence to this story. One: the […]
Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis killed and displaced nearly 200,000 people, the Burmese people are still in great need of assistance. Throughout the Irrawaddy Delta, there are 2.5 million survivors, 70 percent of whom are taking shelter in Buddhist monasteries. Grassroots HRE responded immediately to the cyclone, sending teams of volunteers into Burma to assess the situation in three regions and to distribute food and supplies.
The devastating cyclone is now being followed by subsequent hidden emergencies as a result of continuing rains, limited access to hard hit areas and huge operational constraints imposed by the military government. Donations are still greatly needed to assist in the Cyclone Nargis relief effort, as GHRE and migrant workers in Thailand remain committed to providing aid within Burma. The following is a summary of our assessments in areas severely affected by the cyclone.
Specific names and addresses of aid recipients needed to be given in order to pass through security checkpoints; fortunately, one member of the group had family in Labutta, so we had a reason to deliver supplies to the area. The volunteer team brought two trucks of supplies including blankets, clothing and food.
The government has not provided water to survivors, and although local NGOs set up water treatment pumps, many people were staying in temporary shelters an hour’s walk away. Health conditions were deteriorating, largely due to the lack of clean water for personal hygiene.
About 8,000 cyclone survivors had been staying at a damaged monastery, with food and some clothing donated by local NGOs and private donors. While the government set up a temporary shelter in Labutta for 2,000 people, it imposed limits on the number of people per family allowed to stay in the shelter, leaving many without a place to go.
Cyclone survivors were also asked to make their own tents by the military, possibly for the visit of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and his delegation. However, the heavily guarded tents remained empty of cyclone survivors, and aid supplies donated by the U.S. government were speculated to have been in use only by Burmese soldiers. School buildings were being repaired by local residents, but government officials provided no assistance and charged locals a fee for supplies.
In this area near Rangoon, 157 families were living in a damaged middle school for lack of other shelter. Although three weeks had passed since the cyclone hit, the school had still not been repaired. Private donors have provided food, and UNICEF has provided toilets, but families have not received bedding, clothing or mosquito nets. As there is no treated water, families drink from standing water in a nearby pond, and bathe from a contaminated water trough. During our visit, all families were given a 48-hour eviction notice and told to move to government-run temporary shelters (which can only accommodate 115 families) in an unknown location.
Because Yay Kyaw is a remote village accessible only by boat, it received some assistance by UNICEF, but not the military government. However, a sympathetic government official was cooperative during our distribution of aid. Community volunteers from Rangoon organized a clothing drive and distributed 28 bags of clothes to 150 families and rice to 181 families.
Many houses in this village were partially or completely destroyed in the cyclone, and rice fields were entirely destroyed. The clean-up effort in the village is now beginning slowly. There is a lack of tools and manpower, and the village is cut off from roads. Although wells were contaminated, villagers still use them for bathing and possibly drinking.