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On the Brink of existence…

Kevin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:36:01 +0000

Brink is coming soon, and so to celebrate, here’s some teaser videos! News also arrives to our desk (yes, we have a desk) that tells us Brink’s PC version will also feature dedicated servers through Steam. So, instead of relying on the publisher servers without the possibility of server-side mods (Call of Duty-esque), you can start your own servers (Counter-Strike esque).

Here’s those videos I promised two sentences ago…

A brief history of gaming video

Kevin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:58:45 +0000

Made by some German students of game design, this video takes us through a first-person view of what it’s been like to play games over the last 20 (or so) years!

Credits:
Credits Music:
“Luminous” by Geir Tjelta

By:
Moritz Freyer
Fabian Steiner
Florian Smolka
Lucas Reiner

For more details on the creators and the games used, click here!

Video: 8Bits

Kevin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:15:15 +0000

Here’s a cool animation snippet stuck online recently via vimeo. It’s not necessarily gaming related but it has a lot of gaming references. See if you spot them all…

8BITS_hd720 from 8BCREW on Vimeo.

BioShock Infinite

Kevin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:20:36 +0000

It’s no shock to hear I’m a huge BioShock fan. I’ve played the original several times over. My love affair with Ken Levine’s work is likely to never end, as he’s the first man to design a videogame based on RPG elements that made me want to play. Typically, I shy away from RPG elements. Yes, I write on a video-game website as a man who has never played Final Fantasy 7, or any Final Fantasy indeed.

BioShock’s story is amazing. The lore, culture and characters built in the 8-or-so hours of a first run playthrough in the amazing vaults of Rapture consistently astound. BioShock 2 continued the story arc, starting off with the twist that you are a prototyped ‘Big Daddy’ kind of character. Although not as good a story, diving back into Rapture was a welcome return, especially considering something with more depth was badly required this year.

Next up for the series (and keep in mind SystemShock never got to a third proper iteration) is BioShock Infinite. When I saw smatterings of this on twitter last night I had an immense sense of impending doom, as the second was worse then the first – why would 2K games go ahead with another BioShock title?

The trailer depicts the familiar 50′s-style world, music and characters that we’re now familiar with from the previous two titles. However this time, the world is not set in the oceanic vaults of an attempted society built by intellectuals – but rather a floating world high above the ground. We have no real details of the story yet, but I would imagine the lead designers have spent a lot of time looking at Pixar’s “Up”.

Check out the trailer below…

Time Crisis: Real edition

Kevin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:59:45 +0000

Andy Whitfield and Freddie Wong got together to create a brilliant video featuring the two of them mowing down tons of non-descript enemy gun-weidling dudes in an ode to Time Crisis. The video is excellently produced, and has one or two genuinely funny moments. Check it out below…

Red vs Blue, Reach edition

Kevin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:27:51 +0000

In a mini-series hitting the Red vs Blue comedy show within the world of Halo, it was undoubtedly going to find its way on Reach. And low and behold, thanks to the sponsorship power of Gamestop, the guys behind the series have launched episode 1 of their mini series to tie into the US marketing campaign by the retailer.

Brink: The backstory

Kevin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:45:09 +0000

Brink is a new shooter from Splash Damage, which is expected to be a revolution in the FPS genre (haven’t we heard that before?). Mashing Halo with Mirrors Edge in a shooter is a rough task to under-take, but they reckon they can do it – and entertain us filthy gamers while they’re at it.

The team have decided to give a little backstory to their game in the medium of interweb video, so check it out below and get all hyped up for what is looking like a genuinely good game!

Skate 3 video

Kevin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:54:34 +0000

Sure, Skate 3 has been out a while. Sure, I don’t like skateboarding (because I’m a dirty cyclist hun) – but the in-game video editor is used perfectly on this goonskate video. The music is very hipsterish, but the video is cool. Almost makes me want to make one in my sport of choice – but then I realised no one has made a good cycling game before.

Killzone 2 MP video

Kevin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:02:59 +0000

As a bit of a weekend timewaster, enjoy this Killzone 2 MP video as recorded by yours truly.

Yes, it is a little self-indulgent to upload a shoddy video of me playing a videogame, but I wanted to test the quality of my camera recording from the TV. First comment on YouTube was positive so hey, I may as well post it here. It’ll kill 3 minutes of your time, right?

Futurestates – a play on videogames

Kevin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:43:14 +0000

Futurestates is a dramatical play which depicts the future world, as influenced by us videogamers. Anyone who’s seen the Matrix or ExistenZ will be vaguely aware of how this all plays out.

It’s a 20 minute long piece which doesn’t do an incredible amount except ape previous, similarly themed works. It does look fantastic and has some great music at the end, though.