Articles by: MichaelTJohnson

Carnage in E Minor | Skullgirls Review1
by / on September 23, 2013 at 9:09 am / in PC, Reviews

Carnage in E Minor | Skullgirls Review

  Take ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, ‘Mortal Combat’  and ‘Dragon Ball’. Now put them all into a game about mutilating your opponents through varies violent methods, complete with a robotic child who smokes cigars, a half-cat woman who can pull her head off at will and a girl with demon-hair that cuts people in half. Sound interesting? That was only […]

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Infinity Ward Shows Off ‘Dynamic Maps’ in New Video0
by / on September 3, 2013 at 11:16 am / in Featured News, News

Infinity Ward Shows Off ‘Dynamic Maps’ in New Video

Infinity Ward has released a new video, showcasing one of the newest Call of Duty: Ghosts maps, Freefall, in which players will battle for control over the  area while the level itself (taking place inside a sky scraper) progressively falls closer and closer to the ground. Mark Rubin explains the idea behind Dynamic Maps in which the map itself changes […]

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Microsoft Retires Microsoft Points0
by / on August 26, 2013 at 9:40 pm / in Featured News, News

Microsoft Retires Microsoft Points

Many Xbox gamers have found themselves frustrated, having Microsoft Points available but not enough to buy anything. Gamers may be happy to hear that Microsoft have thrown in the towel for Microsoft Points and all current Microsoft Points will be swapped for digital currency. Those who still have an outstanding code or Microsoft points to redeem can still redeem said […]

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Infinity Ward Talks Dedicated Servers for Call of Duty: Ghosts.0
by / on August 22, 2013 at 3:35 pm / in Featured News, News

Infinity Ward Talks Dedicated Servers for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Executive producer for Infinity Ward, Mark Rubin, sat down with Gamespot to discuss dedicated servers for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts. In the interview, Mark Rubin explained that during the initial release of Call of Duty 4, server technology at the time could not keep up with the sheer number of players. He explains that server technology has greatly improved […]

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Never Say Die | Immortal Empire Review0
by / on August 21, 2013 at 9:00 am / in PC, Reviews

Never Say Die | Immortal Empire Review

There are a few ways a developer can approach turned-based combat; whether it is the Knights of the Old Republic approach, combining a real-time hybrid with 3D-based combat, or the Final Fantasy system where you are locked into combat and each side takes turns pummeling each other until one side falls over. Those are the right ways to deal with a turn-based […]

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Grand Theft Auto V Achievements Revealed0
by / on August 19, 2013 at 9:54 am / in Featured News, News

Grand Theft Auto V Achievements Revealed

According to Xbox360Achievements, The unlockable achievements for Grand Theft Auto V have been revealed; this news surfaces with little under a month before the games official release. The achievements include standard ’100% completion’ as well as a plethora of humorous unlocks. The list of achievement can be viewed below. Grand Theft Auto V is the sixth game in the Grand […]

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Battlefield 4 Stats Will Carry Over to the PS40
by / on August 14, 2013 at 9:57 pm / in Featured News, News

Battlefield 4 Stats Will Carry Over to the PS4

In a recent blog post, Playstation announced that any Battlefield 4 playerswho buy the Playstation 3 version of DICE’s latest Battelfield title will be able to transfer their account stats over to the Playstation 4. Given that Battlefield 4 is being released on both Playstation 3 and Playstation 4, many Battlefield fans were concerned if their time spent playing the […]

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Fist Full of Credits | Shadowrun Returns Review0
by / on August 9, 2013 at 2:03 pm / in PC, Reviews

Fist Full of Credits | Shadowrun Returns Review

Take a trip back to the mid 90s, back to what many would call the ‘golden days’ of RPGs. The genre saw an influx of isometric RPGs that stressed tactical and team-based combat. RPGs during the 90s also stressed unrelenting challenge, such as Baldur’s Gate, and if you lost a companion during combat, that was it. Just like that, companions […]

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New Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Video – “Origins”1
by / on August 7, 2013 at 9:13 pm / in Featured News, News

New Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Video – “Origins”

Infinity Ward is no stranger to adding fictional elements to their wildly successful Call of Duty series. Most notable of these fictitious elements are the zombie DLC packs of the original Black Ops game. But Infinity Ward seems to be brewing something else to give Call of Duty players; A trailer by the title of  ’Origins’ gives fans a cryptic […]

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Total War: Rome 2 Extended Game Play Demo0
by / on August 2, 2013 at 9:58 am / in Featured News, News

Total War: Rome 2 Extended Game Play Demo

Creative Assembly has released another game play demo for the upcoming title ‘Total War: Rome 2. This particular extended game play demo walks fans through the prologue, which also doubles as a tutorial for newcomers, complete with developer commentary on new features and changes coming to the Total War series. PC Gamer’s ‘Evan’ and ‘T.J.’ interviewed Creative Assembly’s ‘Al Bickham’ […]

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