Month: June 2015

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General: Passing on Pre-Orders

Passing on Pre-Orders

On Wednesday, June 3, RPG fans were treated to their first official look at Fallout 4. There’s no feature list, in-game footage, or release date, but pre-orders are already open. Is pre-ordering now really a good idea?

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Get Your Party On at the Official Pre-Evo 2015 Bash

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While most folks will be partying for the entirety of Evo 2015 weekend (it is Las Vegas, after all), visitors who want to get a head start will definitely want to check out the official pre-party hosted by the tournament organizers, GameWorks and Gouki.com, on July 16.

Much like previous venues, GameWorks Las Vegas offers a variety of entertainment, including drinks, food, video games, bowling, and more. Additionally, casual stations will be provided for every Evo game, and an as of yet unannounced lineup of exhibitions are planned for the main stage.

Tickets for the event come in two flavors, one for 18+ and another for 21+. Both will run attendees $30 (until June 24 when the price raises), but the latter offers drink tickets alongside the four-hour open arcade pass, half-price bowling, and more.

More details and ticket purchasing is available through Eventbrite

Source: Eventbrite

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General: The God Complex

The God Complex

MMOs aren’t what they used to be in both good ways and bad. This week in Player Versus Player, we look at MMO storytelling and how every player is the hero. We call it, "The God Complex" and ask, are we losing the core of MMORPGs because of it?

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General: 3 Steps to MMO Happiness

3 Steps to MMO Happiness

I think I have always been a happy MMO fan. I have even been accused of being sappy or of wearing rose-colored glasses when covering MMOs because I tend to, well, enjoy them. I will give it to those who make such a suggestion: playing an MMO primarily through its systems (meaning grinding) is one way to find happiness, but I didn’t think that my distaste for the grind should disqualify my particular joy.

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Fortnite: Mac Closed Beta Coming This Fall

Mac Closed Beta Coming This Fall

Epic revealed its plans to bring Fortnite to Mac during this week’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference). The plan is to begin closed beta testing in the fall of 2015. As part of the presentation, Epic revealed a new trailer. Check it out and see what you think.

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Saturday Morning Scrublords Kick it Old School with Super Fighter

Ah, the 90s–they were a simpler time: a time when ISPs charged hourly fees; a time when you could wear your neon shark swimming trunks to the grocery store without passersby averting their gaze; and a time when every company that had anything to do with video games wanted to get in on that sweet, sweet fight money. Naturally, the desire to do what Capcom did so well with Street Fighter II was more evident in some of these attempts at printing money than others, but few took such an unapologetic approach to stealing the Street Fighter spotlight as Super Fighter.

We’re talking fonts, sound effects, fighting stances, animations, hadoukens, and the list just keeps on going. The only aspect of Super Fighter that is most definitely its own is the platform that saw its initial release: MS DOS.

In the most recent episode of Saturday Morning Scrublords, the Super Best Friends sat down with this game and gave it an honest shot. You’ll likely notice–as the guys did–that the game’s copyright comes from just two short years ago. It turns out that a retro publishing company, appropriately dubbed the Super Fighter Team, picked up the rights to Super Fighter from its original owners, C&E, at some point in the early 2000s. What we’re looking at in the video below is the most recent update to the game.

If you like to see lesser-known retro fighters in action, be sure to check out the video below.

Source: TheSw1tcher via Super Best Friends