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How The Xbox One Harnesses The Mighty Power Of The Cloud
The cloud — that’s a powerful term these days. If you release a product that doesn’t do something with the cloud, then you probably shouldn’t even bother putting it out. Snack foods, floor cleaners, maid services and even consumer electronics like the newly announced Xbox One use the cloud to do great and magical things. Like what, you ask? How about LIVING GAMES?
A Mutant Crop Of Plants Vs. Zombies Blooms On Facebook
While fans of the war between plant life and human undeath wait anxiously for July’s Plants Vs. Zombies 2, the eternal battle has spilled over into Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures, a Facebook game where planting virtual crops could save your life. Rather than the corridor-based battles of its big brother, Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures reverts to more traditional tower defence.
I Couldn’t See Star Trek This Weekend, So I Built My Own
I love Star Trek. Some of my fondest early memories are of staying up late to watch reruns on the old black-and-white television we had on the third floor of our duplex. With the exception of Enterprise (It’s been a long… no) I’ve watched it all, but I couldn’t make it out this weekend for Star Trek: Wrath of Abrams. In my sadness, I turned to Hasbro’s LEGO alternative.
App Review: I Want To Love This Game So Much, But I Can’t
“Hold me,” This Is Not A Ball Game begs me with her adorable French accent, tears running down her cheeks. Whimsical music plays against a backdrop of cardboad circus silhouettes, the lions and strong men and acrobats bearing witness. I hold up my hands, each finger a tiny gaming app critic, waiting to slice her to ribbons. “I can’t.”
And That’s Why Doctor Doom Is So Damn Awesome
Doctor Doom’s schemes figure big into Gazillion Entertainment’s Diablo-esque Marvel Heroes. It makes sense — he’s second only to Galactus when it comes to go-to Marvel video game bad guys, and in this first instalment of the “Chronicles of Doom”, a four-part motion comic leading up to the game’s June 4 launch, Victor Von Doom shows us why.
Not One Of This Week’s Gaming Apps Will Cut Your Throat In Your Sleep
I know you’ve been worried. You’ve been keeping your phone in that heavily-padded case in a locked lead box under your bed. Your iPad is in a safe, and not for its own protection. You’ve got handcuffs for your Nexus 7, and not the kinky kind. Well do not worry, my friends. None of this week’s gaming apps will kill you.
The Largest Transformer Ever Made, Until Metroplex Ruins Everthing
The late 80s was the best time to be a toy-obsessed child. Back then toy companies weren’t afraid to release a toy that looked like a gun, contained toxic paint or weighed more than the kids it was being marketed to. It was a time when Hasbro, a couple years after releasing a toy aircraft carrier that measured more than 2m in length, gave Transformers fans the largest official Transformers toy on the market for more than 25 years — Fortress Maximus.
The Greatest Comic Book Cover Ever Printed
Pretty sure I just had a heart attack. Coming exclusively to Transformers Botcon in San Diego from June 27-30, this variant cover for issue five of IDW’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic micro-series is artist artist Tony Fleecs’ way of reaching into my chest and grabbing hold of my heart with his ink-stained fingers.
Inheriting Civilization V’s Brave New World, One Trade At A Time
I’d like to think I’m a people person. I might not agree with 75 per cent of what other people say or think or believe, but I get along. It’s what I do. In today’s society it works, for the most part. In Civilization V it didn’t, at least not until now. It’s a Brave New World, and I almost conquered it with commerce.
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