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It was only a few days ago when we last heard about 22cans studio father figure - P. Molyneux and now The Man is back with another project. This time, as with many developers these days, he has turned to Kickstarter to seek funding. The game concept is  - Godus a god game as we remember them from earlier era of gaming when Molyneux created the god game genre. 

"It’s an innovative reinvention of Populous, the original god game and delivers exciting global co-operation, competition, creation and destruction to a whole new generation.."

Back in those days, I didn't much like that type of games. A normal strategy game was better any time but there certainly was a market for the power trip that Populous and other similar games offered. 

Are the grandfathers of games design destroying the wonderful thing that Tim Schafer started - crowd funded games? There are some who think so and to be truthful  I do too sometimes. The rapid expansion of suck projects on Kickstarter and other similar sites is over saturating the market. So far fans seem eager to share their wallet contents to just see their childhood favorite remade again. But its only a matter of time that all this collapses. For one thing fans are helping to make the game and get no part in the gains the game will later rake in. They act as investors but without most of the benefits that usually come with it.

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WTF is Hitman Absolution:

Machinima:

The Hero Engine (Star Wars The Old Republic) announced today that it has joined forces with the best tree guys out there - SpeedTree `

still not clear enough?

Alright, the Hero Engine is a game engine that is used to build games in, games like SWTOR  and SpeedTree is a piece of tech that builds trees for many different games. Chances are that if you play games, you have at one time or another seen a tree created by SpeedTree.

These two have now joined forces to offer an all-in-one package for future developers. No longer do you have to worry about trees in your game if you are choosing to use the Hero Engine. 

Total Recoil is a brand new game available on iTunes starting from today. We got our hands on it a bit earlier this week and here is what we thought.

Total Recoil is an action shooter with a top-down view. It's a fun, no hassle shooter with ranks, weapon unlocks and perks. Yes perks, similarly to what we've come to expect usually from Call Of Duty titles. 

The game consists of numerous levels that play out like horde mode matches from other games and in the end there would be a boss fight. There are many levels but one thing I noticed was that you need to start grinding very early on. The levels are unlocked at different rank levels the player can achieve by playing matches but after playing the first two maps I hadn't ranked up enough to unlock the 3rd map so I had to return and play the previous levels.

Gameplay is great, I was playing on the 4th generation iPod Touch and everything ran well. Shooting and collecting coins felt good. Calling in airstrikes was incredibly satisfying. Coins can be used to purchase upgrades and unlock new weapons between levels and it successfully creates this urge to get more coins just to unlock that next upgrade. There is an option to use real money to buy additional coins as a shortcut but it's never forced on the player and feels organically implemented to the game.

Visually the game suffers from low resolution and some weird design decisions for the game interface. In game text was sometimes difficult to read and certain pop-up messages after each game were just unnecessary. Action, level design and effects however look decent and I quite enjoyed the slow motion kills that trigger sometimes. 

Overall it's not a bad way to spend $1.99 on the iTunes store. The amount of satisfying shooting action and gameplay you get for that money is a good value. The visuals could be better but gameplay is key and Total Recoil is fun to play.

Clueless Gamer - Conan O'Brien returns with another hilarious episode. This time he playes Hitman Absolution and I honestly think he was having fun with thise one.

Fresh new content is heading to Guild Wars 2!