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10 anti-gravity racing games like WipEout and F-Zero While futuristic anti-gravity racing games aren't extremely popular these days, there are still a few good titles that you might have overlooked.
In the 1990s, games like Wipeout and F-Zero ushered in a new genre of racing games that aren’t confined to the realm of wheels and normal gravity. They’re known as anti-gravity racing games. While futuristic anti-gravity racing games like Wipeout and F-Zero aren’t extremely popular these days, there are still a few good titles that you might have overlooked. I’ve picked out a mix of retro and new anti-gravity racing games that you should check out if you enjoy games like Wipeout and F-Zero. 1. BallisticNG – PC If you’re a fan of the original Wipeout trilogy, then you’ll fall in love with BallisticNG. BallisticNG features many of the elements…
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Game Harassment – I’m just doing my job! Armed with his degree in Professional Douchery, John Storm decides to leave the Ventrilo servers and venture out into the amazing world of GAYming.
Video game research shows you’re past your peak already at 25 Scientists have been using video games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24.
How No Man’s Sky generates life The game generates its universe and the many possibilities therein from a relatively small set of assets.
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Why Super Mario Bros. 3 is still a masterpiece Before Mario had a World, he had the biggest stage on Earth – and played the part to perfection.
Talking about Super Mario Bros. 3 risks devolving into a numbers game. It sold over eighteen million copies worldwide, another million on its Virtual Console re-release, who knows how many if you include pack-ins/re-releases, and still stands as one of the biggest sellers ever twenty-seven years later. Released in Japan on October 23, 1988, it wouldn’t see America till 1990 or Europe till 1991, but Super Mario Bros. 3 was always white-hot. In Nintendo’s western television advert, thousands of children chant ‘Mario, Mario, Mario’ as the camera pans back, the figures morphing into Mario’s face and then the North American continent. Such was the anticipation and profile for this 8-bit…
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Metroid Prime like you’ve never seen it before An extract from the new issue of Heterotopias.
The Destiny clan that saved a family Think of the average bunch of guys in an online clan and the word 'heart-warming' doesn't usually spring to mind. But then most clans aren't the Dads Of Destiny, a 30,000 strong group bound by two common themes: parenthood, and not being a dick.
Inside the troubled development of Star Citizen After five years, more than $124 million in fan funding and nothing close to a finished game, Star Citizen has become a lightning-rod for controversy. What’s really been going on?
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The people obsessed with uncovering gaming’s deepest, darkest secrets For some, playing a video game to completion isn’t enough. They want to reveal the secrets behind its creation.
This article was originally published March 2016. For some, playing a video game to completion isn’t enough. They want to reveal the secrets behind its creation. Turning their fevered gaze towards cut content and cancelled games, these individuals assemble in online communities, their goal being to uncover fresh information about our favourite games and the abandoned titles we never got to play. Unseen64 is one such community. Started by a group of Italian friends in 2001, the website has grown into an international venture, staffed by volunteers from all around the globe. These volunteers are responsible for scouring the web for news about unfinished and rejected games, to archive for…
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The 24-year feud that has dogged Star Citizen The story of two men, several ambitious space games, and an ongoing feud that has rocked a community of over a million fans.
Destiny 2 is practically impossible to play if you’re a parent Bungie can do hunters, titans and warlocks alright, but it really struggles with the parent class.
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Gambling culture across time and place
Gambling has been around for a long time. Before the internet that hosts online gambling today, and even before casinos existed, people were gambling with their money in one way or another. You couldn’t always play no deposit slots — and if this is something you are interested in, check out this page. The age-old game of gambling is treated differently in different cultures, and even the ravages of globalization still hasn’t wiped out the differences. Let’s have a look at gambling throughout time and place. America Let’s start out exploration of gambling in different cultures with the USA. It’s a country that is no stranger to gambling. In fact,…
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Magic: The Gathering has a pedophile problem no one wants to acknowledge Magic: The Gathering is mired in a controversy surrounding allegations that some of its high-level tournament “judges” are pedophiles who were not given background checks by Wizards of the Coast, allowing them to mingle with children who play the game.
Stranger Things portals have started appearing in Fortnite Hide your credit cards, moms and dads of the world.
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The ‘PC Engine Mini’ is a schmup fan’s fantasy This slice of gaming history can finally be enjoyed without hitting eBay and selling a kidney.
There’s something funny about how the modern trend of re-releasing old consoles can reflect something of what those machines were. The NES and SNES Classic were slick, packed full of great games, and flew off the shelves. My favourite thing about the Mega Drive mini, on the other hand, was getting hold of a set of non-functioning accessories to clip onto it: a 32X, a Mega-CD, and a Sonic & Knuckles cart. The Neo Geo Mini? Expensive, desirable, filled with brilliant games I’d never heard of. The Capcom Home Arcade takes the form of the Capcom logo, an aesthetic decision I found bizarre until realising it echoed seeing those same six letters on…
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Confirmed: GOG employee fired after using trending hashtag Casual use of trending hashtag #WontBeErased triggered a doxing and harassment campaign that got social media manager Linko fired.
TrainwrecksTV: Twitch forced me to turn down $1.2 million streaming deal "I was thinking of doing no camera streams and not telling Twitch."
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15 completely awesome old school video game commercials Blast to the past.
Since the dawn of video games there have been video game commercials. These ads were singed to the outside of our tender little brains and put a rage in our bellies that caused a relentless verbal assault on our parents. We wanted these games. These commercials are as classic as the video games they are advertising. Let’s go back to a simpler time. Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Before his giant face tattoo and his hunger for human ear meat, Mike Tyson was one of the best boxers to ever walk the earth. This prompted Nintendo to give this insane bastard a direct window right into the minds of the youth.…
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A conspiracy of silence: How NDAs are harming the games industry Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) have long been a fact of doing business in video games - but their enforcement can have wide-ranging, negative effects.
Paypigs revolt after glitch reveals “cute goddess”‘ real face — and age "Her Royal Highness" Qiao Biluo's false online representation tricked Chinese men out of oodles of cash, and now they're trying to charge it back.
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If you aren’t into mobile gaming you are missing out A device you keep in your pocket will never beat a PC in terms of computing power, but drop the memes for a second and consider these eight points.
If you are a gamer you probably think having a high-end PC is the only way you can enjoy gaming — “PC master race” and all that. A device you keep in your pocket will simply never beat a PC in terms for sheer computing power and the things that can enable for gaming. Yet there is a surprising amount of reasons to be playing more mobile games, and here are eight of them: Variety! In terms of numbers, mobile gaming dwarfs all other platforms by a significant margin. There were over three hundred thousand games available on the Google Play store, with over 20 billion downloads in 2019. Popular…
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Digital Homicide sues 100 steam users for $18M because they criticized its terrible games Because no one is buying Digital Homicide’s crappy games, now they’ve tried changing their name.
Steam game offers 41% discount and now people want the devs dead And the harassment campaign is backfiring big time, with Heartbeat shooting up the bestseller charts after support from prominent anti-bully activist.
Zoe Quinn accuses ‘Bright’ and ‘Dirk Gently’ screenwriter Max Landis of rape She does not claim to be the victim, or know any of his alleged victims, describing only the rumors she’s heard
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You’ll never be able to afford these top gaming battlestations MOM! BATHROOM!
Every gamer has one thing in common: they need a battlestation to pilot. A battlestation is not just about the specs of your gaming PC. It’s also about the comfort of your chair, the serenity of your environment, and achieving maximum aesthetics through decadent amounts of technology and LEDs. There are people with a lot of disposable income (or rich parents) who are passionate about creating the ultimate gaming environment, and who like to show off what they’ve built in battlestation threads on 4chan and on the r/battlestations subreddit. We have collected some of the very best of them. Starting with this absolute beast It even comes with a massage…
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The Destiny clan that saved a family Think of the average bunch of guys in an online clan and the word 'heart-warming' doesn't usually spring to mind. But then most clans aren't the Dads Of Destiny, a 30,000 strong group bound by two common themes: parenthood, and not being a dick.
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Warcraft III: Reforged is yet more proof Blizzard’s not the company it once was User score: 0.5. Beyond the visual downgrades, visual glitches, stutters, crashes, missing features, and connectivity issues, Blizzard now has a total disconnect with its audience.
Blizzard used to be synonymous with addicting and highly polished games, and had Midas’ golden touch for anything to do with entertainment. Now it seems as if the company is almost intentionally trying to show us just how much they just don’t give a shit. The recent launch of Warcraft III: Reforged is just the latest demonstration of the fact. The only reason this controversy has blown up at all is because it’s a remaster of a cherished classic game that was made back when Blizzard still had people with a passion for video games. Media outlets like Newsweek — while acknowledging the sorry state of the game at launch…
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Huge leak reveals Boogie2988 lied about swatting All of Boogie's lies and manipulation should be blamed on anonymous FBI friends, he now claims in damage control video.
Judging by his own Twitter feed — it reads like a constant stream of pityfishing and threats to leave social media and/or commit suicide — there is no shortage of drama surrounding online personality Steven Jay Williams, better known as Boogie2988. But as documented in a huge DM leak on the r/SamandTolki subreddit, the youtuber now admits to making false allegations of swatting as part of a scheme to get back at his “haters.” “Should I finally tell you guys the truth or should I keep milking this one. […] I was shocked to see they latched on to the swatting thing,” Boogie2988 told the “hater” recipient of his flood…
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