8-Bit District 12 takes over the RPG market

Porting a game a successful as Minecraft onto the Xbox 360 may seem like a daunting task, because the hardware itself is so familiar to the user that they will spot the differences and hardcore fans will be all over you if you get one thing wrong.  Minecraft is not the case however.  The game is very easy to learn if you have played the PC version, however it is based off the engine that was done over a year ago, which is a time machine for many of us, and is a good thing and a bad thing.  The addition of ravines and abandoned mineshafts was welcomed in the PC format and this being absent in the Xbox version makes the game feel limited on the underworld setting.  However, the limitations are many and yet none at the same time.  You have infinite resources to build whatever you want but you are limited by the physics system, where the game is full of "if only I could get up there" moments.  You can play the game however you want but the limits are truly in the variety of items, plausible items are deliberately left out of the game.  The crafting system not only sets up the item for you but makes it as long as you have the materials, which is a welcome change from the system of guessing how to make the item that you want to make.  All in all this is a very successful port which lacks some of the more annoying features brought into the modern game on PC.    

You are in the future, things are very SHINY here

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is becoming one of the largest projects that the developer, Treyarch, has ever made. Treyarch has made such games as Spider-Man on the Play-Station 2, Call of Duty 3, World At War, and Black Ops.  The studio head announced that many of it's game modes are going to be totally revamped to fit with the futuristic Cold War setting.  However, the Zombies mode is the most exciting thing about it.  Speculation on the setting on the next map has come from such successful youtubers as The Syndicate Project, WhiteBoy, and many others.  None of these have been officially confirmed, but Treyarch has confirmed some things.  It has been confirmed in an interview that Treyarch gave its zombie team a chance to do whatever they want with the mode.  It is also rumored that the Zombies will be contained on a separate disc, which gives room for more game modes.  Treyarch released the image above as a Zombies concept art, and has confirmed a larger and more in-depth game.  Similar to some custom maps for World At War on the PC, there will be a campaign style game where the players will complete objectives, similar to the Easter Eggs on Moon, Shangri-La, and Ascension, respectively

Mario, Sonic and RON PAUL?

Ron Paul is going to war against the federal reserve, MARIO STYLE. His new game, The Road to REVOLution, is a side scrolling, platforming game, similar to Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. The objective of the game is to fight through the 50 states collecting delegates and gold, which give you the presidency and the branches of the federal reserve, respectively. There are 13 bosses slated for release in the game, including British economist John Maynard Keynes. The game was given a beta release of mid June, with an Alpha release in July

iPad 3, enough said

GUESS WHAT

Your Super expensive iPad 2 is already out of date

New Features

Higher Resolution screen

4G LTE Network Connectivity

AX5 processor (Faster than iPad 2)

5 Megapixel Camera

1080p Video

Updated versions of iPhoto and GarageBand

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Less than a millimeter thicker than the iPad 2

Same battery Life (10 hours of Wi-Fi and 9 hours of 4G LTE)

Same price as the iPad 2 on launch ($499)

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Assassin's Made Our Country

Ubisoft's Flagship Product, Assassin's Creed, a series with 4 installments on consoles, many random installments across handhelds, and a few books, has been confirmed, announced, and some information was given.  It started with a Best Buy employee leaking concept art from the game's new protagonist.  This is a welcome change because the last installments have been in foreign countries, from Israel to Italy.  The most recent one will be in America during the American Revolution.  The concept art released was of the protagonist in front of the colonial flag.  Ubisoft also released the cover art of the game which is shown in the image below. 

China and Apples dont get along

Apple Inc's distributor in China, Proveiw, is trying to get stores in China to stop carrying iPads.  This was caused by a victory in a local court over the copyright to the iPad.  The claim was met by several supplyers to pull iPads from the shelves but no specifics were given as to the stores that do this.  The article is


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Google's move to Cloud Computing

• Google's long rumored product, GDrive, has been reported to be close to launch
• GDrive is a rival to Dropbox as a file cloud for easy storage
• it will allow access to files through an app on smartphones, kindle fires, ipads, that sort of thing
• GDrive is rumored to have similar file capabilities as Google Docs, Google Music, Picasa, and others
• it stores everything in a cloud similar to that on Amazon's Kindle Fire
• It can store up to about 1 GB of space for free and with a payment you can make the limit larger.
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