Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Steam Box

With Linux and Valve teaming up together to make a new console that will bring PC gaming into the living room. The Xi3 Piston ,or Steam Box, will be a powerful but compact and quiet gaming PC that will be Linux-based. The release date for the Xi3 Piston will be released around December for about $1,000 and will cost around $750 more if you get it with a 512 GB hard drive. The Xi3 isn't posing a major threat to Sony nor Microsoft and sense its something new who knows what will happen.


Info from www.edge-online.com
http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-rise-of-linux-as-a-gaming-platform/
http://www.edge-online.com/news/microsoft-doesnt-see-valves-steam-box-as-a-threat/
http://www.edge-online.com/news/valve-confirms-steam-box-living-room-friendly-pc-hardware-coming-next-year/
http://www.edge-online.com/news/xi3-piston-pre-orders-go-live-launch-set-for-holiday-2013/
http://www.edge-online.com/news/microsoft-doesnt-see-valves-steam-box-as-a-threat/

Saints Row IV Comeing Soon

The release date for Saints Row IV has been confirmed and will be released August 23rd of this year , 2013 for those of you who don't know the year. This sequel the the Saints Row franchise will be the first saints Row to be released by a different company, Deep Silver, because of the bankruptcy of THQ and the sell out of Volition Studios.

I have high hopes for this game and I know it will be good. How do I know its going to be so good, I still play Saints Row the III, and I have played it earlier today also.

Check out this nice video.

Info form www.Edge-online.com
http://www.edge-online.com/news/saints-row-iv-release-date-confirmed/

Keyboard and Mouse Vs. Controller

Over the many years of gaming there have been to main types of controllers that where here sense the beginning are used in gaming today. The to main types are hand-helds and keyboard and mouse. The think is not allot of people thought about which of the two where better; so I will make some points about it.

The hand-helds has many advantages that the keyboard doesn't have. The main thing that a hand-held controller has is comfort, in fact most hand-held controllers where made mostly for the fell and comfort, as keyboards aren't always made for this purpose. Another thing going going for hand-helds is the ease of using buttons and the analog.

Keyboards and mice might not be conferable and might not be the easiest to use but that doesn't mean that they are bad. Keyboards have many buttons that you can change what each one dose if you want, and even make button combos that you would only have to press one button instead of five or more on an hand-held. And a great thing about the mouse is that they are built to be precise, instead of the analog stick that is sometimes hard to use unless your playing some racing game.

Over all they keyboard with mouse and hand-held controller both have there advantages and disadvantages. So I will say in my own opinion that keyboards with mouse is better than hand-held controllers.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

What Minecraft Is to Me

I have been playing Minecraft for about two years now and I am still enjoying the game, like many other people I know. Minecraft is an Indie game so its not your plan RPG (Role-Playing-Game) or your  PVP (Player-Vs-Player) and PVE (Player-Vs-Environment).

Old Town Village
Minecraft is a game of infinite possibilities, with the ability to have your own worlds and do what ever you want to them. From trying to survive the onslaught of zombies to makeing a large city that looks just as good as some real ones.

I my self have been playing this game like I have said before for about two years, and in that time I have made great cities, survived the onslaught of the hardest mobs in the game, and also made great friends (online of-course) that I still talk to today. I will say the Minecraft is the best game I have ever played in my life time and I still enjoy this game with the communty that surrounds it.

Minecraft Remake of Final Fantasy Midgar
And if I had ever gotten bored of the game I would just add some mods to the game; that would could change everything and bring out more challenges and give me more options of how I would play the game.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

PS4 Will Be Here By the End of the Year

The PlayStation 4 is said to be released holiday 2013. This means that we will have to wait another nine or ten months till we can get our hands on this new product. So start putting on your Xmas wish list and hope for the best or do the right thing and get a job over the summer and save the money to buy it yourselves.
Some of the great games that will be comeing out with the PS4 are DriveClub, Killzone Shadow Fall, Deep Down, Watch Dogs, Diablo III, and Infamous: Second Son.

And here is a nice clip for you to start thinking about getting the PlayStation 4

http://www.edge-online.com/news/ps4-coming-holiday-2013/

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The PS4



The PS4 will be the best console system to this date. After 4 years of planing and designing the PS4 is suppose to be compared to a top-of-the-line gaming computer. All I can say is that the price will be high for the PS4 when it comes out, and if I was to guess the price of the PS4 it would be over $400.


The PS4 will have a," 8-core AMD "Jaguar" x86-64 with integrated graphics APU, 8GB of GDDR 5 RAM, which can mainly be found in the top-of-the-line graphic cards and "next-gen" AMD Radeon graphics processor capable of processing at 1.84 teraflops, and like the PS3 the PS4 will ship with a Blu-ray drive, built-in 80.211 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI, Analog-AV, and an optical digital output." In addition you may also play PS4 games on the PSP Vitia.

The other thing that has been revealed is the DualShock 4 controller. This new and beautiful controller made for the PS4 has a touch screen like the PSP Vitia's, there is a new share button on the controller to strem in game or out of game pictures to your friends, and also will include a headphone jack and light bar to identify players. Another thing that will come with the system will be a 3d Stereo Camera that will track the Move-enabled controller.


And also ten laucch titles for the PS4 where revealed that included the new Unreal 4 engine. "Popular titles like Killzone and Infamous are making their way onto the next platform with Killzone Shadow Fall and Infamous Second Son. But out of all the game two notable ones seem to take a direct aim at Microsoft  Drive Club, a next-gen racing simulator seems to be Sony’s new and improved Gran Turismo and will take on Forza Motorsport this next generation. Also, Bungie made an appearance at the conference to showcase their new game Destiny. Bungie and Microsoft severed their partnership back in 2007 and Bungie made that clear when they announced that PS4 players would be getting exclusive  DLC content for Destiny. A bit of a back hand to Microsoft. Other games like Watch Dogs, and brand new titles were demoed and announced as well."
Currently there are no pictures released for the PS4, but I place my bet (I'm broke so no real bet) that the PS4 will look extremely good.


Information brought to you buy
Edge-Online         http://www.edge-online.com/news/ps4-the-hardware-the-controller-the-network/
Games-Tec.com  http://games-tec.com/inside-the-playstation-4/

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Super Crate Box

Super Crate Box is a fun quick play game that is also very addictive to play. It is a free to play game off of steam or www.supercratebox.com. This game has 13 different guns, 14 characters, 3stages, 3game modes, and 3 mian enemys. This game can run on just about any windows computer and cost $1.99 on apple's itunes store.

Here is a vid =D


www.supercratebox.com/

Grand Theft Auto V is Coming

Grand Theft Auto V is Coming 


Grand Theft Auto V release dateGTA V will feature a story line that follows three protagonists.

Grand Theft Auto V has been announced to be released worldwide on September 17 for the Xbox 360 and PS3. No news about Wii or computer. Now I just want to find some more infomation on this game before it comes out.

For more details follow the link or links below.

http://www.rockstargames.com/videos/video/8001
http://games-tec.com/grand-theft-auto-v-is-set-for-september/



Turns out that with a bid of $23 million to buy out Volition, subcompany of THQ, from Koch. With  this bid Koch Media takes THQ's "crown jewel" Saints Row franchise, which has a track recorded of creating internationally known games. Koch Media says," We think this acquisition represents excellent value of money!"


For more infomation click here

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

THQ Gone Bankrupt



Turns out the game publishing company THQ is going out of business. For me its sad to hear this because THQ has made or helped to make many of the games that I still play to this date. Shortly after the was a huge bidding war of all the remanding parts of THQ.

Sega bought Relic for $26.6m. Zenimax (which owns Bethesda) narrowly missed out with a bid of $26.3m
Koch bought Volition for $23m. Ubisoft bid $5.4m for the studio
Ubisoft was the only bidder for THQ Montreal, and it paid $3.2m
- Darksiders developer Vigil has not found a bidder at this stage
Crytek acquired Homefront for $500,000. There were no other bids
Koch Media bought the Metro IP for $5.8m. Ubisoft bid $5.175m
Ubisoft bought South Park rights for $3.2 million. There were no other bids
- Take 2 snapped up new IP Evolve for $11m. Developer Turtle Rock Studios bid $250,000


THQ has filed for bankruptcy and is hoping to get back into the industry.


All information form
 http://www.edge-online.com/news/thq-bankruptcy-sale-details-emerge/
http://www.edge-online.com/news/thq-files-for-bankruptcy-60m-sale-agreed-jobs-studios-and-games-saved

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Blacklight Retribution Free to Play

One of the best free to play games that I have played to this date would be Blacklight Retribution. I have been playing this game nonstop for at least 2-3 months and it still surprises me. From the hard fought hard suit battles to the satisfaction of doing a oppa gangnam style taunt on top of the one that you killed. This game is great for all gamers that love first person shooters, and has fantastic graphics.

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Scorpion Tank
Some of the many game modes this game includes Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination, King of the Hill,Netwar, and my favorite Siege. All of the game modes are simple enough to understand and easy to play. When playing Siege one team (Escort) will have to advance threw three road blocks and get their Scorpion Tank to the other side of the map, as the other team (Defense) dose anything in there power to stop the tank form reaching its objective. In Netwar there are 4 nodes and 1 flag in the center of the map; The objective of this game is to score 1600 points. How do you get these points you might ask; well the flag is worth 100 points as each node is worth around 2 points a second. Netwar is a very fun game mode of which you have to protect your nodes and capture the flag or your opponents nodes.

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One of the best parts of this game is the full customization. For guns you can customize from the stock to the muzzle. You can change the muzzle, barrel, magazine, scope, stock, weapon tag, and camouflage. The primary guns are Assault Rifle, Submachinegun, Lightmachinegun, Blot-Action-Rifle, Combat Rifle, Burst Rifle, and many more. You can also change up what you wear. By changing what armor you have you can go faster, or carry more grenades, or be the Juggernaut that no one can kill in one shot. Of course if you chose some things like a jacket you will go faster but you will lose heath; and when you use a full sized bullet proof jacket you can carry more stuff and have a ton of extra health you lose a lot of speed.

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The main think that makes this game stand out from all the rest is HRV (Hyper Reality Visor). With HRV you can look through all the walls in or on the map to see where everyone is including your opponents; which is use full for finding the campers that we all love. Simply put its like a wall hack or x-ray but your allowed to use it. The down side to using HRV is that you cannot shoot while using it and it has to recharge after every use.

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The Hardsuit
Another good thing on this beautiful game is the deport. The deport or depo for short lets you bring a large arsenal of heavy weapons; which includes rocket launchers, flamethrower, turret, air strikes, rail guns, katana, and the best for last Hardsuits. The depo  makes the game more equal for all players by allowing the player to use in match cash called CP to buy what they need or want.

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This is honestly the best FPS (First Person Shooter) that I have ever played and if you don't want to take my word for it just watch and see what IGN has to say about this game. 



If you want this game for computer you can learn more or get it for FREE at http://blacklight.perfectworld.com/

Recommend games by id3dteen

Hello there people that might or might not care about me so much. I have decied to make a small list of games that are very fun to play. Most of these games I have playied and wasted a great amount of time playing, and some of them are also free to play. 

FPS

Blacklight Retribution 
Planet Side 2 
Dust 514
Halo 4

Indie

Minecraft
Gary's Mod
Super Crate Box

RTS 

Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion
Star Craft 2
Civilization 5

Raceing

Need for Speed Undercover
Mario Kart Wii

RPG

Pokemon Black/White
Saints Row the Third

MMO

Eve Online

Free to play games are Blacklight Retribution, Planet Side 2, and Dust 514. Saints Row the Third, Civilization 5, Planet Side 2, and Blacklight Retribution can be found on Steampowered.com ( http://store.steampowered.com )