What is Ingress Ingress is an MMOARG (massively multiplayer online alternate reality game) created by Niantic labs – which is a start up within Google. The concept of the game is supposed to be similar to games such as World of Warcraft, but I think that’s just a MMO reference rather than features. SO when is Ingress coming to iOS ? The game has been available on Google Play for android users just over a year with a suggested 1 million users and it only came out of Beta in November. I am dying to see the game play rather that just read […]
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Best Games in 30 Years of Gaming
In the last 30 years of gaming what do you think were the most successful video games? Have you been gaming that long? I know I have and seeing this interactive infographic by MeccaBingo makes you feel very old. Especially when you realise that the original Mario Bros game about Mario the Italian-American plumber came out in 1983 on the Atari – oh and what a wonderful arcade game we thought that was, playing it late into the night. The first video games Of course video games didn’t first appear 1983 there were games as far back as the 1950’s that were […]
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Addicting Indie Adventure Game – Spud’s Quest
Spud’s Quest is a fabulous indie adventure game created by Chris Davis from Derby UK, that takes you back in time as it was inspired by classics such as the Dizzy series, Zelda and Metroid. Talk about nostalgia, yes – I’m emotional! Chris has been interested in making games since he got hold of the ZX Sprectrum age 12, since then has taught himself to sprite and code games. Spud’s Quest was successfully funded 120% on back in November 2012 on Kickstarter with its 475 backers raising £6000 I first noticed this game from chat floating around on Twitter – […]
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FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Beta #FFXIV
FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) is a relaunched version of Final Fantasy XIV (1.0) Final Fantasy XIV/Legacy from 2010 which evidently was a bit of a flop. The old version of the game was given an update in November 2012 but was ceased in December. Since November 2012 Square Enix have been testing the new version of the FFXIV game in Alpha its now through to Beta Testing and is already available for preorder. An Epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY as you adventure and explore with friends from around […]
Continue readingThe Rings of Orbis a science fiction fantasy RPG in a virtual Alien world
The Rings of Orbis is a FREE online Science Fiction Game created by Author Philip-Jon Haarsma – now known as PJ Haarsma – and his team to accompany his best selling series of books The Softwire series. Books and gaming together are a fabulous formula to encourage and children to read! How better to spark an interest in reading, that when you play game that is so interesting you have to find out more. I’ve been looking The Rings of Orbis and now even I want to read the books so I can get a full background to the game, and to find […]
Continue readingStrict Nat problem with Modern Warfare 3 – Call of Duty
The time had come! Modern Warfare 3 was released yesterday, eager gamers – queued up to get their copy first lastnight at 12am. Only to find when they returned on that they had a strict nat not an open nat on their Xbox 360 and couldn’t join any online games. We had the same problem, strange though as it often happens with us, not sure if its due to the ip address not being static or the fact something is set up wrong on the router, but set everything up correctly for two Xboxes on the router – anyway I digress. This […]
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