Diablo Pablo shares some valuable tips and tricks for playing the new Simcity game for both beginners and veterans!

Informative and amusing, recommend to anyone who is playing.

Yes! Star Citizen breaks $5.5m. Half a million more and it sounds like they actually run out of stretch goals.

From their latest update:

$5.5 million! You’ve unlocked the Bengal carrier, added motion capture to Squadron 42 and earned the exclusive Record Breaker skin.

When we set out to crowd-fund Star Citizen we asked for two million dollars, the absolute minimum with which we thought we could build a solid game. And then we planned stretch goals so that we could include everything else we imagined. We expected three million, hoped for four million, dreamed of five million and so on. And the absolute top option, the impossible dream, was six million.

Six million was what it would take us to build the game we were imagining with all the bells and whistles we wanted included. Well, here we are with just over eight hours to go and that impossible goal where everything is unlocked is suddenly in sight. At six million you’ll launch the game with 100 systems, a full orchestral score and a free copy of the first Squadron 42 mission disk, Behind Enemy Lines.

It’s not as sexy as unlocking the carrier, for sure, but would certainly be pretty amazing if we met every one of our goals. So let’s push this campaign all the way to the last minute. We can make this march!

Link to Kickstarter if main site stops working… again

postarcadenp: Watch out! Gandhi’s got a nuke! On Thursday, The Globe and Mail‘s editorial board was roundly mocked online for writing an editorial condemning historical inaccuracies in the video game Assassin’s Creed 3.If video games are now the stuff of newspaper editorials, one could only imagine the cries of historical inaccuracy, if not outright allegations of racism, that would be brought down by the site of one of the great pacifists of human history smiting his enemies with nuclear fire like it was the most natural thing in the world.
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Watch out! Gandhi’s got a nuke!
On Thursday, The Globe and Mail‘s editorial board was roundly mocked online for writing an editorial condemning historical inaccuracies in the video game Assassin’s Creed 3.

If video games are now the stuff of newspaper editorials, one could only imagine the cries of historical inaccuracy, if not outright allegations of racism, that would be brought down by the site of one of the great pacifists of human history smiting his enemies with nuclear fire like it was the most natural thing in the world.

(via nationalpost)

Source: fullcomment.nationalpost.com

guardian: Here we meet lead character Michael, an ageing bank robber who fulfils that most fecund of crime-fiction archetypes: a crook who’s made good, retired to a fancy house, but now misses the excitement of the old days. In the demo Rockstar shows us, he starts out sunbathing by the pool like Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast, the city shimmering in the distance beyond his landscaped gardens. The player is able to get up and explore the bleached stucco mansion, passing the tennis court (you can play a match if you like), then bumping into Michael’s bored wife as she clambers into a sports car on the front drive. “If you want to know where I am, read your credit card statement,” she yells as tyres squeal. “I’m feeling lucky, I’ll check the hospitals!” he calls back. And slowly but surely, his previous career begins to beckon. Keith Stuart gives the lowdown on Grand Theft Auto V, in this comprehensive preview. Bald protagonist!  Rejoice!  Also others: In the past, players would have controlled a lone character all the way through the game. Here, you have three, switching between them at will. Alongside Michael, there’s Franklin, a young kid working in vehicle repo for a bunch of Armenian gangsters, and the fascinating Trevor, a psychotic career criminal with a shady military background.
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Here we meet lead character Michael, an ageing bank robber who fulfils that most fecund of crime-fiction archetypes: a crook who’s made good, retired to a fancy house, but now misses the excitement of the old days. In the demo Rockstar shows us, he starts out sunbathing by the pool like Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast, the city shimmering in the distance beyond his landscaped gardens. The player is able to get up and explore the bleached stucco mansion, passing the tennis court (you can play a match if you like), then bumping into Michael’s bored wife as she clambers into a sports car on the front drive. “If you want to know where I am, read your credit card statement,” she yells as tyres squeal. “I’m feeling lucky, I’ll check the hospitals!” he calls back. And slowly but surely, his previous career begins to beckon.

Keith Stuart gives the lowdown on Grand Theft Auto V, in this comprehensive preview.

Bald protagonist!  Rejoice!  Also others:

In the past, players would have controlled a lone character all the way through the game. Here, you have three, switching between them at will. Alongside Michael, there’s Franklin, a young kid working in vehicle repo for a bunch of Armenian gangsters, and the fascinating Trevor, a psychotic career criminal with a shady military background.

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