Author Archives: Chris Morris

10 Awesome Video Games You’ll Never Play

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Whether games that weren'tdue to poor execution, game-crashing bugs, or corner-cutting development, sometimes the game you’ve been looking forward to the most turns out to be a waste of time and money.

But nothing’s more wasteful than a great game that never comes out. No matter how good a game might look in previews, publishers routinely kill off titles for a variety of reasons, often to the consternation of players. The latest victim? World of Darkness, an online vampire game that held tremendous promise. But instead of turning us into undead legends, it’s just another awesome game we’ll never get the chance to play.

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LEGO robot plays free-to-play games while human creator sleeps

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You game playing robotmay think you’re a dedicated player of your free-to-play game of choice. But no matter how often you go on raids in Boom Beach or send help requests to Facebook friends in Candy Crush Saga, you won’t come close to Uli Kilian’s dedication.

Kilian, a 3D production director, loves Jurassic Park Builder. But like most free-to-play games, it requires players to check in regularly and tap on a dinosaur to earn in-game currency. The alternative, of course, is to pay real world money, but who wants to do that?

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Here’s your chance to play one of the rarest games ever

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Some nintendo-world-championships-goldcollectors have paid more than $10,000 to be able to play Nintendo World Championships. Now you can do it for next to nothing. Sort of.

What’s considered one of the rarest game to ever appear on a Nintendo system — if not the entire video game world — is about to become more widely available, though in a slightly different format.

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Gaming’s oldest mystery may be solved in just over two weeks

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For et-landfill-april-26more than 20 years, rumors have flourished: Buried in a New Mexico landfill are millions of unsold copies of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial for the Atari 2600.

Last year, a pair of documentary filmmakers claimed to have finally found the location. On April 26, they’ll start the search — and they’re inviting the general public to come watch.

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The revenge of the hard video game

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If dark-souls-2you’ve spent any time with recent release Dark Souls II, you’ve doubtlessly asked why, exactly, you’re putting yourself through the game’s particular brand of torture.

It’s big, it’s beautiful, and it’s controller-throwingly difficult. To call it challenging is akin to calling this past winter “a bit nippy.” If someone new to gaming were to spend five minutes with it, they’d walk away and never look back.

And that’s exactly how it was designed.

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U mad, bro? This prototype Xbox 360 controller can sense it

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Ever prototype-stanford-controlleryell at a game because it was too hard or nod off because it was too easy? What if the game could change based on your feelings while playing it?

Researchers at Stanford may have just solved that particular Holy Grail. A team in the electrical engineering lab has created an Xbox 360 controller that gauges your brain activity as you play — and alters the game to react accordingly.

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Microsoft reportedly considering Xbox 360 emulation on Xbox One

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Both xbox-one-360Microsoft and Sony took some heat when they announced that neither the Xbox One nor the PS4 would be backwards compatible. Sony had a solution in its pocket, though, with its upcoming game streaming service,PlayStation Now. Microsoft was left a bit flat-footed.

But now, the company says it’s thinking about rolling out an emulator for Xbox One to let people play Xbox 360 games.

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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls sales hit 2.7 million in a week

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Diablo diablo reaper of soulsIII might have met some initial skepticism, but it’s still a hot property with players.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the first expansion for the click-tastic role-playing game, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week. And it’s proving nearly as popular with gaming voyeurs. Diablo III views on Twitch on the expansion’s launch day topped 2.4 million.

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