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Exploding Kittens is a tabletop card game recently funded on Kickstarter. It’s a twist of Russian Roulette, kittens, sandwiches, enchiladas and even goats! Players take turn drawing cards from the deck, who ever draws the exploding kitten card loses. Players can avoid losing by defusing the bomb, skipping their own turn or forcing your neighbor to take extra turns.The game met its $10,000 goal in…

end of the year list

As 2014 winds to a close its nice to reflect back on what was cool or exciting in the past year. In no specific order, here is what’s on my list.

1. Binding of Issac Rebirth: A good rogue-like dungeon crawler. I was a big fan of the first installment (which is really cheap too on Steam) and judging by the looks of the second installment, a lot of content has been added to increase its…

GTA 5’s PC port release date was pushed back in order to tweak some functionalities in the game. GTA 5 will have support for up to 4k, and a fully supported first person mode. Extensive work has been done to ensure that the graphic textures and animations are prime. The first person feature allows a proper fps like experience.

The Xbone and PS4 will also receive the first person functionality as…

Payday 2:

It’s no secret that you can receive Payday: The Heist for free if you join the Payday 2 Official Steam Group. If 1,500,000 members join the group, Overkill stated that they will announce something that has been kept under wraps… until the goal has been reached.

John Wick will soon be a playable character in Payday 2and…

Hearthstone Has Hit 20 Million Players in Less Than 6 Months

Thank you all for joining us in #Hearthstone! We're going to need a bigger tavern! http://t.co/7OUMMIM5ww— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) September 15, 2014

20 Million Players in 6 months! Considering how in that same time period, Hearthstone is one of the most streamed games on Twitch, has multiple tablet ports and even an expansion out.

Being the pioneer F2p card game on the web with relatively…

Game 24 is now Live!

The livestream has begun! It can be found here.

Game24 is a 24 hour event which is dedicated to PC gaming. There isn’t just one stream but there are many small streams that can be watched in the same stream. There are going to be interviews and other giveaways and stuff.

Every hour, there are game codes giveaways.

Every 2 hours, a letter will be released. After the 24 event is over, who ever…

Game24, A Global 24 Hour Event Aimed Towards Gamers.

On September 18, 2014, Nvidia will be hosting Game24. A 24 hour event that is available to be livestreamed that is dedicated specifically towards PC Gaming.

On the site, it states that “exclusive content, developer interviews, game reveals, give-aways, and more” will be featured.

Plus, if you live in or near Los Angeles, Chicago, Indianapolis, London, Stockholm or Shanghai, you can sign up and…

Binding of Issac: Rebirth has an incoming release date on November 10th

The trailer shows very little about the game. There are new mobs. There are new items. There are new powers. There is a Local Coop. There are also new maps and zones.

Highly recommend. Will get a copy of it on release day.

Store page for pre orders

Owners of Rome II will receive a free upgrade titled “Emperor Edition”

After it’s bumpy launch and a yearlong of balances, overhauls and patches, Creative Assembly and Sega are releasing a free upgrade to all current Rome II owners.

The upgrade comes with:

All of the game’s free DLC

A whole new campaign that covers the 2nd Triumphant War,a conflict between Octavian, Marcus Lepidus and Mark Antony that led to the end of the Roman Republic.

A redeveloped politics…

There is now a game on Steam that has no support for English

http://store.steampowered.com/app/292990/

A game titled Nobunaga’s Ambition: Souzou only has support for Traditional Chinese. The title might seem familiar to you if you played a predecessor on the Sega Genesis.

It seems unfathomable for a game not to have English in it. Was there not a budget for English translations? How was the game developed? And how the heck did the guys at Steam determine…

Payday 2: Gage Assault Pack DLC revealed

Though it is not a secret that Overkill is working on it’s Walking Dead game, they still make time to work on Payday 2.

On September 4th, The Gage Assault Pack will be making it’s way to Steam. It’s motto is “Assault. When Plan A is not an option”.

The DLC focuses more on the low concealment side of the game for there are more guns. a grenade launcher, and more melee weapons. Why choose to run…

I got received a Gameboy Advance SP, my first ever handheld console, for Christmas/ Birthday 2005 ish maybe. It was also wrapped with a  limited edition NES skin too. It was neat since I was the only one that didn’t need stickers for my gameboy in my playgroup.

The entire package not only included the gameboy but included 4 games as well: The NES versions of Super Mario Bros, The Legend of…

Scrolls by Mojang Having a Release Date for September 2014, Includes a Market

Scrolls, Mojang’s card slinging game, will be released on the pc and on mobile os this month. It’s biggest feature is the Black Market. You can sell your scrolls, your playing cards, to others through the market type system. You put your wares up for sale, log off, and hope you sold your scrolls while you were away.

Source: https://scrolls.com/2014/09/whats-next-for-scrolls-4

Blizzard Wants You to Play Hearthstone for the Next 10 Years because of Inexpensive Pricing

In a nutshell: Hearthstone’s senior developer hopes and wants you to play Hearthstone for the next 10 years because buying packs and content are inexpensive.

They also bring up the success of World of Warcraft 10+ years of longevity (2004- present), stating that their pricing with WoW was generous.

After getting those free packs for initially starting up the game, the ability to improve a deck…

  In this episode we discuss what the whole uproar with Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian is about and why this matters to games and gamers as a whole. Feminism is important in all facets of our society, especially with a medium like games. Also, New 3DS, and talk about the way Magic: the Gathering, is changing its standard block format.