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Weekend Game Hunting: Crafting edition
Have you ever played a video game others have been raving about for months, then feel stupid because you held out for so long?
That would be me, and a certain title that landed on consoles for the first time this week. More on that in a bit.
First, if you’re a really big fan of video games and want to chat with fellow readers with the same passion, visit the Game Hunters forum. We have some great threads on Dead Space 3, Borderlands 2 and a host of other games.
And remember, we’re three weeks away from E3, the signature showcase for the video game industry. We have lots of coverage planned, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, my weekend menu includes a game that’s left me feeling like an idiot:
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. Bad enough I played this for the first time this week, but it’s
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Weekend Game Hunting: Countdown edition
In exactly 31 days, the video game industry’s signature event kicks off in Los Angeles.
Are we really one month away from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3? It feels like Game Hunters was just covering E3 a week ago.
Regardless, prepare for another big show, highlighted by a brand new piece of hardware in Nintendo’s Wii U. And let’s not forget the boatload of new games, including BioShock Infinite, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and a host of others we probably don’t even know about yet.
Game Hunters will be in L.A. in June to cover all things E3. We’ll have live coverage from the primary press events, along with previews, videos, photos and more. Details on our E3 plans are coming soon.
Time to focus on the games of the present. Here’s my weekend lineup:
Starhawk. So many things going on with this action title.
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‘God of War’ set to reign over multiplayer
A truly epic multiplayer game is in the works at the Sony Santa Monica studio.
With God of War: Ascension, no release date yet for the PlayStation 3, the third-person action franchise is expanding into multiplayer gaming. Game director Todd Papy unveiled the new mode last week in Hollywood.
Playable by up to eight players, the game’s multiplayer version lets two teams compete, domination style, against each other, but then must ultimately defeat a large God of War-worthy boss for victory.
In the level shown, a gigantic one-cyclops Polythemus pounded and railed over the multileveled map. The camera zoomed in on individual visceral battles. In one, two warriors who look like cousins of Kratos disembowel an enemy and his innards flow out. Later, one combatant cleaves an opponent in half from head to thorax.
Eventually, the dominating team turns their attention to the Cyclops, attach
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Firepower awaits in latest ‘Amored Core’
As with its predecessors, Namco Bandai’s latest Japanese import pits giant “mechs” against one another in a deadly fight to the finish. Players assume the role of mercenaries who climb into mechanized suits calls Armored Cores, or ACs, and must use weapons of mass destruction to take on computer-controlled or human enemies in huge skirmishes.
While it’s quite gratifying to leave enemies in a smoldering heap, the game has its share of random issues.
But first, the good news: If you’re a fan of this third-person shooter series, you’ll likely appreciate the new offering for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as it doesn’t mess much with the formula. That said, it delivers massive online multiplayer battles, maps that encourage more tactics, high-definition graphics and about 500 parts to customize your ACs in various ways.
When
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Weekend Game Hunting: Birdwatching edition
Usually, big video game launches are reserved for the AAA, packaged retail game for a PC or home console.
But, as a group of flustered and feathered creatures has shown, mobile games like Angry Birds Space can debut with a bang (or in this case, a really large catapult). That’s what happens when your games have been downloaded more than 700 million times. Let’s hope more mobile games get big enough to pull off launch events like this in the future.
Before diving in to my weekend game lineup, some housekeeping:
– If you enjoy chatting about video games with fellow readers, stop by the Game Hunters forum. There are some great threads on Mass Effect 3 and adding warning labels to games.
– We are also on Twitter. Readers can follow Game Hunters, as well as myself and
