Nintendo’s portable gaming marketing problems
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So the video announcing the Switch Lite came out today two weeks ago, but I’m not here to talk about that, per se. I did watch the video however, and I noticed some interesting things. Long story short is that this fall, Nintendo is going to release a watered down version of the Nintendo Switch at a price point of about $200 and lacking the IR motion sensor and the rumble features on the joy cons. The Switch Lite is a single piece of hardware, I guess it’s easier to manage as a portable gaming device. So, the video started…
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Game Off 2018 – Hard Mode
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from the probably-going-to-fail-to-follow-through department It’s here. And has been, for 6 days. The GitHub Game Off kicked off with the theme of “Hybrid,” and we’re entered! Stay tuned for dev updates, vague screenshots, pictures of monitors with code on them, and copious empty caffeine receptacles! My (very rough) idea of a hybrid game is one I’ve been carrying around for a while. A golf game with combat-style antagonistic features. You’ll see. Do you have any ideas? Comment below! Development update, 20 November: We have installed Unity and run through the tutorials. Looks like my recent retraining on C-family languages is…
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Weekend Stories, Part 1
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I was at a bar with friends, having a pint and talking nonsense. The music in the bar was mostly 70’s era music, with The Animals, Queen, Led Zeppelin, etc. coming in over the speaker. My friends and I were talking to the bartender about an upcoming music festival (Neon Desert), when the bartender said she didn’t really like the music they were featuring. We asked her what she listened to, and she struggled to get any words out. A friend of mine volunteered “hippie” and the bartender emphatically agreed. So I thought she was the one that put the…
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Games We’re Playing, June 2017 Edition
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What we’re playing: RimWorld, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Wargame: Red Dragon Games we wish we could play (cause we paid for them and can’t run them well enough to enjoy): Astroneer, Space Engineers Summary: I feel like I’ve been caught in the casual gaming web. RimWorld’s visuals and soundtrack make it seem like it’s something I could have on in the background, but this is definitely not the case. From my playthroughs, it requires a LOT of attention. The concept of the storyteller is great, I really feel like it lets me have enough breathing room to learn about the game…
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A new place to worship Rambusco – Pokémon GO
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Show your solidarity by joining the blue team in Pokemon GO, or feel our wrath.
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General Chaos
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Boy, we’re pumping these things out now, aren’t we? General Chaos is a great game (I think), but I’ll let you decide. Head over to the video section and have a look. P.S. I finally changed the code so that it doesn’t automatically play our best video ever. Now you can actually see the other ones!
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Gate of Thunder!
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The video’s pretty self-explanatory, but it’s my first impressions of Gate of Thunder: Top Gun, but in the future.
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Tyrian 2000
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After weeks of high stress, no work, and no sleep to go, it was high time for me to just shoot stuff. However, I was way too tired to shoot in the three dimensions that we are used to, but I found a solution. My solution was Tyrian2000, played with my buddy, Shane Strife. Shane and I embarked on the 2 player cooperative adventure, the details of which I have no recollection. What I do remember are hopefully the best parts of the game. The backstory. Tyrian2000 is an updated version of Tyrian, which was released as freeware in 2004….
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Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising
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For those gits who thought they’d been robbed of a review, here you go. Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising is a game. And to avoid depriving you of a quick jump to Wikipedia (boing!), Joint Operations is a large scale war FPS, with support for up to 150 players (I believe). At this point, there are three groups of people. The Epinephrine Phreaks, The Realists (a.k.a. the Pessimists), and the W.O.W. players (a.k.a. the gits). The Epinephrine Phreaks are the people who hear “150 players in a single game” and think that everybody in there is going to be a god,…
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New projects
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Ok, so, we’re still alive, still getting some pageviews… for some reason. Rambusco is supposed to be “About video games, by gamers.” So, we’re going to play some freakin’ video games pretty soon. I’m pulling some old video game reviews off of my personal blog, The New Adventures of Sharkis. So, this week will be a good week! Stay tuned!
Shane
Sharkis
Axel
Cameron 3.4.1.6.11
