If you’re a grown-up heading to the Penny Arcade Expo East next month in Boston, you can join your fellow drinking-age nerds at the Friday night “Gamers Gone Wild” party held by 2Old2play.com and SFX-360. The event will run from eight o’clock until two am at a venue called MKT at 120 Water Street. Admission is free if you have a PAX East badge and you’re over 21.
Commander Shepard is the character that the player takes control of in Bioware’s Mass Effect, a shooter/ role playing game set in a rich space opera universe where humanity is struggling to find its place in intergalactic politics. The galaxy of Mass Effect is inhabited by various alien races united by a council of elders and policed by Spectres, an agency of special agents who enforce the will of the council.
If you’re a grown-up heading to the Penny Arcade Expo East next month in Boston, you can join your fellow drinking-age nerds at the Friday night “Gamers Gone Wild” party held by 2Old2play.com and SFX-360. The event will run from eight o’clock until two am at a venue called MKT at 120 Water Street. Admission is free if you have a PAX East badge and you’re over 21.
Do you suck at video games? If you find yourself getting stabbed in the back every ten seconds in Call of Duty, or if you walk around Halo with a “Stick Plasma Grenade Here” sign on your helmet, then you might want to have a look at a new free-to-play online game called FPS Trainer. It purports to help raise the skills of a novice player to an intermediate level, and even has some content on the way which will help already experienced players get to a professional level.
A new teaser site has popped up for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, with the URL titled “www.findmakarov.com”. The icon is a holographic picture of Makarov’s face, who, in case you didn’t know, is the main villain from Modern Warfare 2. The site was nothing more than a countdown, but it used assets from the Modern Warfare 2 trailers, and briefly showed. a shadowy figure with military fatigues and a beret.
Back in the 90s, when first person shooters were starting to get more popular, games had a lot of personality and over the top mannerisms not found in today’s shooters, arguably for better or worse. Over the years, though, the first person shooter audience has become fascinated with more realistic, and relatively subdued shooter experiences. As a result, the fact that Bulletstorm, an over the top, stylistic and profane first person shooter, even exists at this point is something of a miracle. Now that Bulletstorm is out on shelves and in digital storefronts, the question has to be asked; is this throwback any good? The answer, happily, is yes. Bulletstorm is fantastic. A very fun game that could even attract some of the most hardcore Call of Duty players, if they were just looking for great shooting mechanics. The problem is, is that Bulletstorm doesn’t have much value for your $60.
Bioware’s latest epic Dragon Age 2 is just on the horizon now and many console and PC gamers alike are eager to get their hands on it. Dragon Age 2 looks to surpass everything that Dragon Age: Origins built, much like Mass Effect 2 surpassed its predecessor. The only problem, is that the game isn’t out yet and gamers need something to keep them going until March 8th. Below is a list of several games that aren’t quite Dragon Age 2 but are close enough to keep you going until the release date of Bioware’s next epic.
