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Crypto Gaming: How Cryptocurrency and NFTs Affect Games Today

January 3, 2022 Joey-Bcrypto-gaming, cryptocurrency, gaming, nft-gaming, video games0 comment

Image taken via VGCIn the past few years, cryptocurrency has spread like wildfire. It continues to gain notoriety today, from the usage of GPUs to farm bitcoin to the rise of NFTs. While public opinion is extremely divided, one can’t deny how much money has been circulating as a result of cryptocurrency. And that’s most likely the reason why cryptocurrency is starting to break into the gaming industry as well.“Crypto Gaming” is a broad term. Video games with NFTs or cryptocurrency embedded within can easily fall under this umbrella, though…

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How Gotham Knights’ Court Of Owls May Be Different From The Comics

December 9, 2021 Joey-Bgotham knights, video games0 comment

Various trailers for Gotham Knights suggest that the Court of Owls will be the game’s main villain, but the secret society may be very different from the comics. While DC Comics provides thousands of pages of material and inspiration for character adaptations in TV shows, movies, and video games, deviating from the original design can open new opportunities for developers. Batman villains have undergone serious thematic changes throughout the years, from Harley Quinn’s evolution to Killer Croc’s many forms, and it’s likely the Court of Owls could follow this…

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How Backbone & Superhot’s Narratives Retell Cronenberg’s Videodrome

December 9, 2021 Joey-Bvideo games0 comment

Two recent indie videogames paid homage to David Cronenberg’s cult classic Videodrome in very different ways. The innovative shooter Superhot mirrored Videodrome’s themes, with its story about media addiction and violence that leads to self-destructive transformation. Backbone, a pixel art adventure game featuring anthropomorphic animals in a walled city full of secrets, takes more inspiration from Videodrome’s story structure, and features the same imagery of transformative flesh as Cronenberg’s film. Videodrome is as relevant as ever, and creators have taken inspiration from different aspects of the film to produce imaginative and drastically…

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Fate Grand Order: What Are FGO Craft Essences … and How To Use Them

September 5, 2020 Joey-Bfate grand order, gamer, gaming, video games0 comment

While Fate Grand Order is all about collecting players’ favorite Servants, doing so gets a lot easier when they understand FGO Craft Essences, the items that function a lot like equipment in traditional RPG titles. Fate Grand Order Craft Essences provide Servants with various important bonuses, rounding out their skills – often referred to as “kits” by veteran players – and making up for any of the shortcomings that they naturally possess. For those unfamiliar with FGO, the game is a mobile title developed by Delightworks and published by Aniplex. FGO is based on the extremely popular Fate…

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Godfall: Release Date and All the Latest Details

July 10, 2020 Joey-Bgaming, godfall, video games1 Comment

Looking for the Godfall PC release date, whether we can expect a potential Steam launch, and what kind of experience awaits you? Gearbox has carved out quite the niche for themselves as purveyors of all things loot-related. The Borderlands series’ increasingly absurd arsenal of lootable weapons started it all off, and now the studio is turning to publishing for Godfall, a bright fantasy action-RPG being made by Counterplay Games. While making the combat feel suitably crunchy is a key focus for the studio, lootable weapons and armour are just as…

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Star Wars Resistance Season 2 Premieres October 6, 2019

August 30, 2019 Joey-B3d cgi, gamer, gaming, news, press releases, television, toons, video games, videos0 comment

SEASON TWO OF THE HIGH-FLYING EMMY® AWARD-NOMINATED ‘STAR WARS RESISTANCE’ PREMIERES SUNDAY, OCT. 6, ON DISNEY CHANNEL AND DISNEYNOW Kylo Ren Featured in New Season Two Trailer The Emmy Award-nominated series “Star Wars Resistance” returns for its second and final season beginning SUNDAY, OCT. 6 (10:00-10:30 p.m. EDT/PDT), on Disney Channel and in DisneyNOW, with subsequent airings on Disney XD. The new season takes place during the events of The Last Jedi leading up to The Rise of Skywalker, as Kaz and the team continue to fight against the threat…

“Straight White Dude” Speaks Up About “Forced Diversity” In Gaming

April 29, 2019 Joey-B700-page, characters, developers, diversity, fightincowboy, gaming, representation, social issues, video games0 comment

Back in the day when I was into video games, the issue of diversity never occurred to me. I played games like Tekken and Mario Kart, happily changing between a variety of characters from an Italian plumber to a kickass Japanese woman, a mushroom and a Russian robot commando. I was spoilt for choice for diversity, and never once thought that I needed a character ‘like me’ to feel represented. The idea of playing video games was to escape to a fantasy world and be ‘someone else’ for a while.…

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Amazon has this ASUS gaming laptop on sale for $300 off — the lowest price we’ve ever seen it

July 8, 2018 Joey-Basus, laptops, shopping amazon, video games0 comment

As much as console players don’t want to hear it (including myself), PC gaming does it better — from graphical power to control precision. However, shopping for them can be a bit difficult. It’s often a balancing act between cost and performance, especially when it comes to gaming laptops. But thanks to Amazon and ASUS, that headache has been drastically reduced. SEE ALSO: Sony’s stubborn stance on cross-compatibility is holding video games back The ASUS ROG STRIX Thin and Light gaming laptop is currently on sale for $999.99, down $300…