Well, it’s a brand new year. Most of us started it off with blinding hangovers but that’s not necessarily a bad start. If you felt like crap when you woke up on January the 1st, I damn well hope you did something really fun the night before to deserve it! As the optimistic ‘this year I will lose weight/stop smoking/write more’ phase is probably starting to wear off by now you’ll probably need something to take your mind off any guilt you might be feeling about that shiny new gym membership you’re not gonna use, and our selection of some of the finest content from the CS network is just sitting here, waiting for you to read. So relax, put your feet up, and get fit next year. I’ll totally do it too… ahem… maybe.
Head over to GamerDork to check out Dezm0nd’s fun interview with Croteam, the developers of Serious Sam.
Q&A with Serious Sam’s Croteam
Delb2k’s latest blog talks about game environments, and how they can be so very effective in helping to create atmosphere or interest in a game’s backstory, allowing players to become more immersed in the worlds they’re playing in.
“Resistance 3 may not be the cleverest shooter to have appeared this year, but it is one that managed to create environments that succeeded in not only immersing the player, but also in adding to the fiction the game was trying to present. At various points of the adventure, there are deliberate pauses for thought, letting the player explore the remnants of humanity and see first-hand what impact this triple-title war has had on the USA and the characters within it.”
If you’re at all excited about the console version of Counter Strike being released soon you’ll want to check out Darren Garret’s ‘Quick Rinse’ gameplay video of the recent beta.
Quick Rinse: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
An interesting article on eSports, originally written by Scott Eunson a.k.a. Darth Cuddles and posted on the Character Select Network forum, was re-posted on Cane & Rinse (with permission) by Jay Taylor, and is a great read for anyone interested in competitive gaming.
“People talk about furthering video games as a medium, But what do they mean by this? Better stories? More immersion? photorealistic graphics? How about the ability to fill a stadium with screaming fans cheering for their favourite player or team? Over the last year or so, I’ve gotten deeply immersed in the Starcraft II community and competitive scene. If you follow me on twitter you will often see me spamming my feed with my opinions on the latest events that are happening, or getting angry because of a certain thing I find imbalanced.”
Make sure you check in on Console Arcade to find out the latest news on VectorCell / Lexis Numérique’s survival horror title, Amy.
Amy coming to PSN and XBLA next week
Available now on PSN and XBLA, Trine 2 looks absolutely gorgeous. Take a look at Jamie Davies’ full review.
“Just two short years after the launch of the original Trine on the PSN (and PC) back in 2009, Frozenbyte certainly aren’t ready to put the series to bed. In what seems like no time at all, they’ve returned with a sequel which, after consternation from XBLA users who missed out on a release of the first title, means this time they also get a piece of the fantasy-adventure action.”
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