March 2010 – Best Game Month in a long time

March is intense this year. Many great releases, dlc’s and expansions to look forward too. These are just a few of the ones that Im looking to get.

XBOX 360:
March 2nd: Resident Evil 5 – Desperate Escape
March 4th: Bad Company 2
March 9th: Final Fantasy XIII
March 19th: BlazBlue – Calamity Trigger
March 19th: Metro 2033 – The Last Refuge

PC:
March 12th: Dawn Of War 2 – Chaos Rising
March 18th: Command & Conquer 4

DS:
March 29th: Pokemon Heart Gold

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Starcraft 2 + DotA = True?

Even though it isnt really “planned”, they want to give the people the chance of making a Starcraft 2 DotA map or minigame if you so will. As to the first DotA it will be up to the community to create and make it happen. It seems as the game editor will make it possible, with a chance to make equipable characters and so on. Anyway. Yes there will be a Starcraft 2 DotA, I would be in shock if nothing like it was created.

For the whole video about it: http://www.starcraftzine.com/2008/10/starcraft-2-dota/

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Resident Evil 5 – Lost in Nightmares

What can I say…

Lost in Nightmares in a new DLC for Resident Evil 5, it’s the first part of two episodes, the second one coming later this year. Let’s just start off with what you get for your money with Lost In Nightmares.

An extra episode for the game.
Another Mercenary mode called Mercenary Reunion.
Extra figurines.

I probably forgot about something now but this is what you will see straight up and look at when you get it. Let’s start off with the main game part you get, It’s somewhat of a flashback playing Lost In Nightmares. You play as Chris and Jill and you will notice as soon as you get in to it, that this is one Spencer Mansion remake, the first half of the game reminding you of all the horrors that the first game had.

For true fans of the series, this is welcome; you will walk around nervously in your first play thru in fear of what they may have added to this house. I like that the game brings up this feeling, in a much better way than the whole fifth game did, you actually get stressed out and feel the fear crawling up your skin. Very well done.

I can’t really tell much more then this for one reason, which will lower the score of this DLC greatly. The length of the episode, with a friend you will be able to beat this in between 20 and 40 minutes. This is without reading documents that are placed around the episode, with that added you have about an hour maybe more of play time. That’s still not a lot. It feels as if they could have released both episode at the same time and that would have given you sufficient single player action. Right now, it’s disappointing. I’m not saying the game itself is bad, and you will enjoy playing it a couple of times, even if only to get the new achievements.

Graphics are good as always, and sweet old school touch have been added were you get a short animation when walking through doors in the first part of the game. This is very sweet for the fans that have stayed with the series. For players that only played Resident Evil 5 and even maybe RE4, will get lost in many of the old game references, but it’s been like this for quite some time in the series. Always going back to what happened in the older games.

The new Mercenary mode isn’t really “new”, I haven’t unlocked all the maps yet, but for what it looks like, it seems as though it’s the same maps in the first Mercenaries. The characters are new and this will give you a lot of play time that the episode didn’t give you. If you enjoyed trying to beat mercenaries for the characters the first time, this won’t let you down, new equipment builds and clothes may sound like nothing, but it will make you hunt for those last few points.

Good:
+ More Resident Evil
+ The horror is back
+ Mercenaries Reunion

Bad:
- Way too short
- Should have been one single DLC for the whole two parts

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Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun – Free Download!

Free? Yes. Cause they’ve decided to make it freeware. So right now, at this very moment you can download C&C Tiberian Sun from their website for free! One of the best games in the Tiberian series. ^^ Also free for download: Red Alert 1, and expansions for Tiberian Sun

Go here for more info and download: http://www.commandandconquer.com/news/your-command-conquer-freeware-awaits

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Top 5 Heroes – Heroes Of Newerth

IMPORTANT: This is my personal top 5 like always, what I prefer to play and how I play them. You may consider it wrong, you may think its stupid how I do and that’s okay! Please leave a comment why and what not as well. ^^ Always interesting to read.
Here goes. My top 5, taking the first spot…

Number 5 – Mr Panda

Name: Pandamonium
Type: Strength

I love the panda for a few reasons. One, he is the only “true” tank character I can properly play early game, two his abilities mix so well with each other all helping to stun, slow and stop your opponents heroes completely, and three, he is a panda!

It’s been awhile since I played as the cuddly tank, but when you do well… you usually arm him as a tank. High attack and boost his HP/defense. Use him to fling back your opponents heroes for an easier kill, jump in to them to stun them, use your ulti to immobilize and punch them hard. The panda can be very useful in the right team set up, mix him with another stunner like Magmus and you have a team that can easily disrupt early in bigger fights.

Use his first abilitiy to push lanes and get the last out of heroes HP, it will often get you the last hit if used correctly.

Number 4 – The annoying one

Name: Succubus
Type: Intelligence

Some may laugh at this choice but there is a good reason for me to love this character. No it’s not her boobs. Me and friend played a lot of 2 v 2 games back when we started playing HoN, me being Succubus, and the way she worked out in those games was sick. Being able to stun (mesmerize) one opponent and using succubus hold on the other was insane on 2v2 matchups. And I would not be surprised if many other people use her in that as well.

In bigger games I don’t pick her that often, her abilities are great and again mixed with the right heroes and players she can be a game turner. If you’re going to use her, remember that she is there to support your team, not to make you run around ganking (even if that’s something you could do if you find someone roaming around alone).

Number 3 – The Tower Pusher

Name: Defiler
Type: Intelligence

She is sick, her ulti is sick. If you ever played her and didn’t use your ulti while pushing a tower, you’ve been doing it wrong, unless you’re lvl 4 or something like that. It’s so easy to do and when having Defiler on your team, pushing a tower often ends with your team getting some extra gold and the opponents losing a tower.

But that’s not all of it, she can silence a LARGE area, in a crucial moment this can turn the tide of a battle and together with her ulti and first spell (that I sadly don’t remember the name of). She can deal a lot of damage together with the rest of your team.

That’s it. Not so complicated?

Number 2 – Mana Shield Dude

Name: Electrician
Type: Strength

Okay people, he is a “tank”, but it doesn’t mean he is a heavy hitter, if anything he is there to support your team. His grip is great early game and his together with his ulti late game you can hunt down most heroes. I love electrician for that grip, but his shield is what wins the game in the end. Being able to absorb so much damage with Black Helm and mana regen items, it’s just insane. Send him in there, use your “discharge” ability as I usually call it and take the pain.

Your team should have enough time (if you have a good item set up), to kill the opposing team, and if they don’t go for you, grip the most dangerous hero going for your nuker or other important part of your team.

So play him as a support character that can take a lot of damage, not as a hero that goes in for the kill. Assists (you will have a lot of em) before kills.

Number 1 – Forsaken Archer

Name: Forsaken Archer
Type: Agility

Why archer you ask. Well why not archer I will ask you. Something I always do with archer (and everyone should in my opinion), is to go with her skeleton ability, they are so good early game that it’s not even funny. You get a skeleton from killing the enemy creeps, and from denying your own creeps. They also have a poisoning effect on the enemy, if you go mid as archer and get 3-4 skeletons. Try to stop your opponent with your volley, if you hit them, you’re always almost guaranteed a kill if you’ve been harassing somewhat earlier. This is always a better strategy then trying to get a kill with your ulti, even if that can help you. Volley and skeletons <3.

The skeletons help a lot! Early game you should always try to help gank in lanes where it’s needed, and as soon as both teams reach higher levels, stay in the back using volley and your ulti to assist your team. Even though you have a high damage output (or should have), you’re still an easy kill if the enemy team decides to go for you. Be aware.

Thanks for reading or at least going through my top 5 Heroes Of Newerth heroes!

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Heroes Of Newerth – YouTube Deluxe

Hello everyone, no I havent been out making my own videos but sure want to show of the great works of others! Finding a sweet guide on there that should be used and viewed by the new players out there. Even if you’re not a beginner its always nice to see what other people think about different heroes think and how to use them.

To start of this little video Deluxe of HoN will start of today with the following videos:
Heroes Of Newerth Hero Guide and a Basic Item Tutorial. Both taken from the following channel on youtube:

Ps. Be sure to check out the videos on that Channel. Good stuff!

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Bad Company 2 – Demo test

You know, there is a demo out right now. I’m going to start it. Right now. And I’m going to play it and write down what I think about, I tried it earlier today and it felt allot like the first one. Of course a few things have been changed, graphics improved and so on. It’s a multiplayer demo so its hard to tell what’s new and better in the single player campaign. Well lets see what we get from this shall we!

(The test will be done on xbox360).

So what do we see when we start the demo:
First I want to mention the Weapon and Gadget menu. Here we can see all the weapons that will be available in the full game, 28 weapons that are specific for different classes (Assault, Engineer, Medic & Recon) and also another 15 weapons that can be used in any class. There are also gadgets, as in the first game, these are motion sensors, C4, Knifes and grenades and so on.
And finally we have the awesome specializations menu. Feeling alot like the perks you would add to your character in Call Of Duty, yet most of them are extra equipment rather some extra “special power”. Like better scopes, armor and upgrades for tanks you drive. Very neat.

If we look a bit further down in the menu we also found: My stats. Just like any new FPS game we feel like we neeeeed this (apparently), to show our huge e-dicks with better k/d ratios. Anyway. Lets start the fighting!

There is only one map in the demo, the icy “Port Valdez”, I believe its called. You have the instant option to join a squad or enter a squad later on. As a team player, I jumped right in to a group of people. The new medic is also a great addition for just that, team playing, being able to revive your allies with the “Defib”, and make you lose one less re-spawn.

I started of as the engineer, we are attacking and as in Bad Company 1, we have 2 places to detonate to get more re-spawns and push the enemies back. At a first glance what you notice is that the HUD feels modern. The circles and names on the map showing you this and that feels flashy in a positive way, with a futuristic neon-like feature to them. You still have the option to spawn in your base, or to one of your squad members, the later being the best (usually).

The teams are at the moment 10 vs. 11, even though this isn’t a HUGE difference from the team sizes in other FPS games on console, it makes a big difference in the actual game, mix this with the squad re-spawn and all of a sudden the game feel epic. The maps are still extremely huge and give you several different strategies to try. They have taken the best qualities from BC1 and put it in here for sure.

Another thing I noticed is that, after you’ve been heavily damage, you don’t stay in the “grey wounded zone”. In bad company one, this could be very annoying, you got wounded, and played as a sniper, and everything would be grey and the sound effects muffled out by a weird echo sound. It was annoying, thank goodness that’s not in here anymore. The sound effects are still high-class, it sounds like an actual battlefield, and the different calls on you radio sounds genuine. Something that can be lacking in other games.

The movement is allot smoother than before. You can turn and twist allot easier now then you could in BC1. Overall the game looks and sounds and plays well. And even though I don’t believe it will be Modern Warfare 2 killer like some people hoped, it will be a great new FPS game. I will be playing it and enjoy just I like I did the first one.

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Nintendo in 1988!

You gotta love old television shows! Enjoy this finding from 1988, when Nintendo was taking over the states. Brodcasted one year after my birth. o.o Scareh.

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