News Byte: Oculus VR is Working on Ways to End “Simulator Sickness” The virtual reality gaming headset Oculus Rift has been all over the new recently, and the train shows no time of stopping any time soon. But if you’re one of many who sffer from motion sickness, maybe you’re having second thoughts about the…
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Guest Post: More than the Setting
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The Inspiration of Fear
Happy belated first post of Simul-tober everyone! Apologies for the delay but not everything is avoidable unfortunately 🙂 ! We’d like to extend our thanks to Cynenway of A Life With Cyn, (an excellent blog that deals all kinds of little slices of life, games included!) for being the first to trade posts with us…
Today in Gaming History: 10/21/2013
October 21, 1992: The world meets Wario (by name) in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Though he had previously and namelessly been debuted some years before, the character we recognize today as Wario, famed antagonist to that ever-cheerful plumber Mario, was made famous in the Gameboy titled Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. …
News Byte: Jenova Chen and Emotional Games
News Byte: Jenova Chen and Emotional Games At the last week’s Gaming Insider conference, thatgamecompany‘s founder Jenova Chen had a lot to say about the possible future of games, and how part of it may lie in our own emotional needs. But are emotional games little more than a fad, or is there something more…
Today in Gaming History: 10/20/2013
October 2003: Video games and violence argument surfaces again Ten years ago, the families of Aaron Hamel and Kimberly Bede, both shot by teen stepbrothers William and Josh Buckner, filed a $246 million lawsuit against Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive Software, Wal-Mart, Sony Computer Entertainment America. At the heart of the lawsuit was Grand Theft Auto III, which the…
News Byte: PS4 Will Be Costly in Brazil
Playstation 4 sure is costly in Brazil Sony announced on Thursday, October 17, that the PS4 is going to cost around $1,850 (about R$3,999) and games will cost around R$179 (or $83). What’s up with that price? Import fees and taxes mostly. They make up around 60 to 70 percent of the cost according to…
Today in Gaming History: 10/19/2013
1973: 40th anniversary of Gotcha Let’s enter the way-back machine – before Donkey Kong, before Pac-Man, before Space invaders, there was Gotcha. Atari’s Gotcha was an early arcade game and the first commercially successful maze game. Its premise was quite simple: two players weaved their way around a maze, one the “pursuer,” the other the…
News Byte: New Zelda-styled 3DS
According to a leaked scan of Gamestop’s deals for Black Friday this  year, the US may also be getting the Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds version of the 3DS XL that was officially announced for the UK earlier this week. It hasn’t been confirmed by Nintendo yet, but here’s hoping that the rumors…
Today in Gaming History: 10/18/2013
October 18, 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) released After the video game crash of the early 1980s, there didn’t seem be much left to salvage. But what may have been perceived as the end was really only the beginning. After finding success in Japan for several months as the Famicom system, the 8-bit NES hit…
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