Bastion (PC, 360)

January 22nd, 2012 by

bastion

Developer: Supergiant Games
Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment (WBIE)
Genre: Action RPG
Players: 1
Console: PC (Steam/Chrome), Xbox 360
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10+)
Hours Played: ~10-12 hours
Progress: Completed game with a good ending, completed all weapon challenge levels and fully upgraded most weapons

With the fairly easy availability of development tools for current generation of systems (particularly the PC), indie games are both figuratively and sometimes literally a dime a dozen.  On occasion particularly exceptional indie games are picked out by publishing firms and given releases that rival that of AAA games in both scope and presentation.  After being shown at the PAX Expo in 2010, Bastion became one of the lucky few as Supergiant Games struck a deal with WBIE that saw Bastion released on Xbox 360 as a headlining title for their “Summer of Games” promotion and on the PC soon after through both the Steam distribution platform and just recently as a browser game for Google Chrome.  Does the final version of Bastion deserve the laud that provided it with a wide distribution and the full support of a large game publisher?  Read on to find out.

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It’s Survey Time!

November 30th, 2011 by

Want to earn yourself some extra GP?  Well, you’ve come to the right… page.  Below there are links to three surveys.  The first survey is from Game Usagi and will help us find out what you think about our new features.  The next two surveys are from the University of Saskatchewan regarding what you as a gamer think about Food and Gaming, which are obviously two of the most important things around.  So, if you complete the Game Usagi Survey you’ll get 15 GP, if you complete the two UofS surveys you’ll get 40 GP and if you do all three you’ll get a whopping 60 GP!  (Email miyamoto [at] gameusagi.com after you’ve completed said surveys and the appropriate points will be added to your account.)

Game Usagi Survey:  http://gameusagi.com/?page_id=2157

UofS Gaming Food Survey:  http://homepage.usask.ca/~roo083/TPBSurvey.html

UofS Fast Food Survey:  http://homepage.usask.ca/~roo083/RestSurvey.html

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The Most Expensive GIF(s) Ever [UPDATE]

November 8th, 2011 by

 

[UPDATE 2: Things are generally working alright now on COD Elite, but everyone should take a lesson from this and remember that however many servers you have, you'll always need more than twice as many. ^_^]

[UPDATE: Call of Duty Elite is still mostly down, but an update was posted that says that paying members will get an extra month of the service for free and the timeframe to register as a "founder" has been extended to the end of the month.  Also, now they've implemented a waiting system that makes you wait in line to access the website's error page.  With this comes another GIF (!) so now users are getting twice the value for their money, huzzah!]

Behold the most expensive GIF available to gamers today.  Normally to see this you have to pay for a $50 membership or buy a $99 game bundle, but Game Usagi has managed to get a hold of it for you for free!

For those of us who have yet to get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), the prognosis for Beachhead’s premium stat-tracking and content delivery system Call of Duty Elite is rather bleak.  The website that costs essentially as much as a game for premium access has basically been entirely down since the game’s launch at 12:01 AM this morning.  When trying to access the site you just spent upwards of $50 for, all you currently see is a message saying that the site is down temporarily and the GIF that encompasses the whole of the website’s current features as shown above.

From my playing around in the game thus far, it’s been pretty good.  I’m still getting my mind around the several extra layers of complexity and leveling that they’ve added, but overall I think this will be a worthy game once people who fork over extra money get more than a 2-frame animated web image to look at.

The official word right now is that they’ve been receiving more registration requests than they could have imagined in their wildest dreams and that has apparently completely shut them down.  As we’re waiting with baited breath we have to wonder just how much money they were trying to save by skimping on the servers and hope that we get some kind of token apology for all of this when it’s over.

You can check the site’s status here or on their Twitter feed.

 

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Game Usagi 2.0 (kinda)

October 26th, 2011 by

points-store

You may have noticed the changes that have been popping up around the site.  Well, here is a full description of all the new site features for you so you can be fully aprised of all the cool new things you can do around GameUsagi.com:

Sidebar

First off, all of the new features that I’m going to discuss can be easily and quickly accessed in the sidebar.  All of your personal pages and settings can be accessed through the Control Panel at the top of the sidebar (when you’re logged-in).  Things like Rank & Point descriptions as well as the Point Store can be accessed through the navigation buttons in the sidebar.

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WR: Resistance 3 (PS3)

September 21st, 2011 by



Developer: Insomniac Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Players: 1 – 2, 2 – 16 (online)
Console: PS3
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Hours Played: 12
Progress: Finished the campaign

Now a staple among Playstation 3-exclusive titles, the Resistance franchise epitomizes all that a quality FPS title should be. Awesome weapons, frenetic pacing, well-tuned controls and non-stop action. With so much to live up to, can this third iteration in the franchise succeed? Read on to find out…

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WR: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

September 19th, 2011 by



Developer: Eidos Studios – Montreal
Publisher: Square Enix
Genre: First-Person RPG
Players: 1
Console: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Hours Played: 20
Progress: Completed game and all side quests

The holiday parade of high profile video game titles starts this year with Deus Ex: Human Revolution by the talented people at Eidos – Montreal. This famed, futuristic role playing franchise sprang into being over 10 years ago on PCs and has become one of the most innovative RPGs in recent memory with a first-person perspective, futuristic setting and abundant freedom of choice. Now on “next-gen” consoles, is the latest iteration of the Deus Ex franchise worth your attention? Read on to find out…

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