03 Jul 09 Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
ShellShock 2: Blood Trails is a violent, first-person, survival horror game set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Gameplay centers on the use of psychological horror and fear, relying on the power of suggestion, mood, tension and foreshadowing - implying the notion of danger, potential danger, imminent danger, and horrifying acts that have or are implied to have occurred or will come to pass. On course for war torn Vietnam, a plane carrying a top-secret cargo known only as Whiteknight is lost over the uncharted jungles of Cambodia. The special ops squad sent in to retrieve it disappear wtihout trace. Until, a month later, one of them walks out. Something in the darkness has driven him insane… Somehting from the darkness has followed him out…
Tags: Acts, Backdrop, Blood 2, Blood Trails, Cambodia, Darkness, Fear, First Person, Gameplay, Imminent Danger, Notion, Potential Danger, Power Of Suggestion, Psychological Horror, Special Ops, Survival Horror Game, Tension, Uncharted Jungles, Vietnam War
12 Mar 09 Dead Space Xbox 360 review (Adrenaline Vault)
Publisher: EA Developer: EA Redwood Shores System: Xbox 360 Genre: FPS Release date: Available now Review by: Ed Humphries There are no new ideas, just new ways of freshening up the old ones. At least, that’s how the old cliché goes. While it’s a tenet derived from narrative fiction, the same notion can be applied [...]Tags: 360 Review, Adrenaline Vault, Dead Space, Developer, Fps, Genre, Humphries, Narrative Fiction, New Ways, Notion, Publisher, Redwood Shores, Release Date, Tenet, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Review
27 Feb 09 Dear Valve and Microsoft: Fix Xbox 360 Team Fortress 2!
I play console games because of my perceived notion that I won’t have to deal with hacks and cheating when I play online. This has been going on for a few months and Microsoft and Valve doesn’t seem to care about it or the XBL TF2 community. We’re 94,648 players strong. That may not be as big as Halo but it's got to count for something.Tags: Cheating, Games, Hacks, Halo, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox, Notion, Team Fortress 2, Xbl, Xbox, Xbox 2, Xbox 360
23 Jan 09 Five Thousand Jobs: Gone, Just Like That.
Microsoft is letting go of about 5,000 employees. Not because they’re losing money. Oh no, they made $4.17 billion in the fiscal quarter ending December 31. It’s just that they made $540 million less than the same quarter last year. Obviously proving that Microsoft is about to go out of business. (???)Microsoft, like many other corporations, have thrown the dice on the notion that not only will they be profitable, but they will always be more profitable next year compared to this year. TheTags: Corporations, December 31, Fiscal Quarter, Jobs, Microsoft, Money, Notion
20 Dec 08 Eyeing the Phone: Aurora Feint
tau Hideo Kojima is on board. John Carmack is on board. Yoot Saito is on board. And though many will note his historic opposition to gaming, Steve Jobs himself is on board too. What do these individuals and companies like Electronic Arts, Sega, Gameloft, Namco Bandai, Konami and more have in common? The notion that with a skyrocketing installbase and a collection of intriguing new technology, the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch is becoming a valid handheld gaming platform — and one that just might beTags: Apple Iphone, Apple Ipod, Aurora, Electronic Arts, Feint, Gaming Platform, Handheld Gaming, Hideo Kojima, Iphone, John Carmack, Konami, Namco Bandai, New Technology, Notion, Opposition, Steve Jobs, Tau, Yoot Saito
