State of Mobile Gaming Looking Good as Big Name Developers Embrace the Small Screen

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While consoles might have gotten much of the attention at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, mobile games still made a splash on audiences. With so many AAA titles set for 2016 and reports of new consoles, it seemed as though traditional modes of gaming were set to reassert their dominance over mobile games. However, the opposite is true. This might be the year that mobile and consoles finally learn to get along as marquee publishers are beginning to prepare their own offerings for small screens.

While Nintendo chose to use the E3 conference as a platform to promote its upcoming Zelda title, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it still had some time to showcase its fledgling mobile division. When considering that mobile gaming has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry it should come as no surprise that companies such as Nintendo are finally starting to take advantage of the new market. The legendary game company finally entered the mobile world with Miitomo earlier this spring. While the app got off to a good start, the interest of fans quickly began to wane, and fans are more excited about the impending release of Pokemon Go. Miitomo was more of a social networking experiment rather than a proper game, so gamers are understandably pumped for a new, honest-to-goodness Nintendo game for mobile devices.

The augmented reality game promises to allow Pokemaniacs to “catch ’em all” in the real world as specific creatures will “appear” at real-life locations where they can then be battled and caught. It’ll be the second of five apps that Nintendo has planned to release by 2017, and it’ll be available for Android and iOS this July.

Where mobile was once considered the territory of indie developers, big name companies have realized the financial potential and are getting in on the action. Bethesda Softworks, developers of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls franchises, already dipped their toes in the water of the mobile marketplace with the Fallout Shelter app last year. Now the company looks poised to build on that initial success with a collectible card game, Elder Scrolls: Legends, based on the popular fantasy franchise. This mobile installment comes hot on the heels of the announcement that Bethesda remastering its smash hit, Skyrim, for PS4 and Xbox One.

Much like Bethesda, Square Enix has experienced a fair degree of success in the mobile market, success they hope to continue in 2016. Hot off the critical and financial achievements of Hitman GO in 2014, Square Enix is doubling down on its own winning mobile strategy. After five long years, the company is finally releasing a sequel to the 2011 hit, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, with the upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (due August 23, 2016). And sure enough, it’ll be accompanied by the first mobile title for the franchise, Deus Ex GO. The mobile game will follow the same formula as the Hitman spinoff, featuring a top-down perspective with simplified graphics and turn-based, puzzle-themed gameplay. While they certainly haven’t given up on consoles—as evidenced by Deus Ex and the long-awaited Final Fantasy XV—Square Enix has definitely renewed its push toward mobile. The company recognizes, like Nintendo, that the mobile market is an excellent way to provide a monetary windfall for big budget console and PC titles.

It would appear as though fewer and fewer titles are being released for traditional consoles without some kind of mobile companion. It’s also looking like the new Spider-Man game for the PS4 will be no exception. Sony’s Spider-Man was another one of the highlights of the trade show with a new look for the current-gen consoles. Marvel has already long made the character available for mobile devices with through the inclusion of the character in fighting gamers and action-adventure RPGs. By providing so many options that appeal to so many different styles of gamers, Marvel is able to greatly expand the visibility of one of its biggest brands. Presence in pop-culture will come in handy as the company prepares for two big investments in the character with both the aforementioned console title and the highly anticipated film, Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Contrary to what you might have heard, mobile is doing just fine. The devices have a significantly larger user base than consoles, numbering in the billions as opposed to millions, and they appeal to everyone from kids to parents of varying interests, not just gamers. The market is estimated to reach $35 billion in 2016 compared to $28 million for console titles. Much of the reason for this disparity between the two is that there are significantly more mobile developers than there are console developers with thousands of companies creating new games for mobile devices.

To give you an idea, there were an estimated 800,000 games available for mobile devices at the beginning of the year compared to a mere 17,000 available for both consoles and PCs. Helping to flesh out that mobile number is the fact that there are platforms offering tons of games to potential players. Just look at the casino portal for Betfair, which alone has more than 100 available titles for browsers and mobile devices. These feature a variety of slot-reels with themes for just about everything, from sports to movies to superheroes. These multi-game collections provide hundreds upon hundreds of casual options for players looking for a quick game or two. And thats without even getting into the app stores. With so many titles available through so many different platforms in the market place, it’s easy to see why mobile games make up such a large percentage of the market share.

As smart phones continue to become more ubiquitous, the available user base will only keep growing. If anything, the increased interest in console titles will only help as console gamers will look to mobile to further enhance their playing experience. You can see this with Uncharted 4 and the accompanying mobile title, Uncharted: Fortune Hunter. The mobile game actually unlocks certain items on the console version, providing even more incentive for console gamers to play on their mobile devices as well.

Companies like Nintendo aren’t getting into the mobile market because it’s doing poorly—they’re doing it because it’s the best and most efficient way to make money in the gaming industry today. As more big name developers enter the fray, this competition should only serve to help introduce more quality titles such as the Hitman and Deus Ex games. If one thing is clear, it’s that the future is looking mighty bright for mobile gamers.

Resident Evil: Origins Collection – Fear Revisited

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Resident Evil 0 was released as a prequel to the 2002 Resident Evil. Both the games created ripples in the gaming community with its incredible graphics and outstanding fear-inducing atmosphere. The Resident Evil – Origins Collection combines Resident Evil 0 with Resident Evil in stunning HD graphics. With better sound, new controls and enhanced graphics the game is just spectacular.  It was released on January 19^th, 2016 in North America and on January 22^nd in Europe.

What to Expect?

The old story gets a revamped look with better graphics and high resolution. Now you can play the game in the usual 4:3 and in the wider 16:9 screen as well. You will find this to be perfect if you are going to play the game in a wide screen TV. The game also introduces new controls. For those who prefer the traditional controls, Capcom gives you the option to play it with the old controls as well. You can achieve the perfect sound environment by setting the controls to match your needs.

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New Features

A new game mode has been added which is known as the Wesker mode. Once you complete the game, the Wesker Mode is activated and you can then play as Wesker in his Resident Evil 5 incarnation. This new mode is amazing with Wesker’s outstanding abilities to take down enemies with ease.

Storyline

In the year 1998, an Umbrella owned train is attacked by a swarm of leeches. The city’s Special Forces division, Special Tactics and Rescue Services (STARS) is sent to investigate some unusual murders that have occurred in Raccoon city. Rebecca Chambers is a part of the six members of the team. On their way to the murder scene, their helicopter crash lands in a forest because of engine troubles.

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The team finds an upturned prisoner transport vehicle and finds cruelly murdered bodies of police officers. A piece of document found on this site shows that a prisoner was being transported who was wanted for murder. The name of the prisoner is Billy Coen who is an ex-lieutenant. The team decides to split so that they can capture the murderer.

Rebecca set out alone to search the forest and finds the same train from earlier and enters to find zombies in it. She teams up with Billy Coen. The two are confronted by a strange man who had overseen the attack on the train by the leeches. A group of Umbrella soldiers are taking the train to an unknown location, but they are killed by an attack of leeches. Rebecca and Billy apply the brakes on the speeding train to avert the train from colliding with a building.

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They find out that the abandoned building is a training facility for future executives of Umbrella Corp which is a pharmaceutical company. The two find out that the founder of the facility, Dr. James Marcus, had been successful in discovering the Progenitor virus in 1960s and he had found it to be capable of becoming a biological weapon. He used the virus to create the T-virus by combining it with leech DNA. The T-virus caused rapid mutations in living organisms leading to the creation of zombies and monsters.

Rebecca and Billy after a series of events, find the leech controlling man and identify him as Marcus. A decade ago, Marcus had been assassinated, but during the last moments of his death, Marcus’ queen leech entered his body and he was able to live again. Marcus mutates into a gigantic leech monster. Rebecca and Billy kill Marcus by exposing him to the sunlight. The two run into the forest and find an old mansion. Billy escapes after thanking Rebecca and Rebecca walks into the mansion to investigate the whereabouts of her team members.

The game ends here and leads to the beginning of Resident Evil which shows how the player goes through the mansion finding out different documents about the experiments using the T-Virus. The game ends when the player manages to escape the facility on a helicopter as the entire building is destroyed by explosives through self-destruct.

Conclusion

The Resident Evil – Original Collection is being played by Resident Evil fans who enjoy the game at a whole new level. With the stunning graphics and amazing sound, the game renders a superior gaming experience for players. As modern technology meets one of the most amazing games ever designed, the result is spectacular. Released on January 19, 2016, Resident Evil – Original Collection is being talked about and revered by gamers worldwide.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain- Packed With Excellent Features And Mature Themes

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the sequel of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zero was released on September 2015 and it received perfect review score from various publications upon its release. The gameplay is featured with several mechanisms, emotional power, and exploration of interesting mature themes is the reason that made it popular worldwide. The Metal gear series have always brought complex plots, interesting, unexpected twist and this sequel also maintained that tradition. The voice acting echo, top-notch cinematography and various extra ordinary characters will provide exact fun to the fans. This phantom story has a very little humor though you will get to face some elements in the world that will draw a chuckle.

The Phantom story is made up with a combination of historical events of the 80’s, some of the James Bond story and bit of sci-fi dressing. This mixed up world will provide mix feelings such as sometimes it will take you to the grounded reality while it takes you high sometimes with several great effects. Here in this game, you need to go behind the enemies and penetrating the hideouts for carrying out recon and assassination. It allows the players to roam along countryside while they can also walk, crawl, climb up and sprint if required.

Why it is the highest ranked game of 2015?

Ground Zero, the previous version of this game gave us an interesting taste, but this new version ‘The Phantom Pain’ comes with more variation and cool features to make you engage for a longer period of time. It is the cool features that made this video game the highest ranked game of 2015. The reason why it is ranked highest is discussed below:

It comes with a variety of tools, though they are optional but are really varied and interesting that the players will want to try them at least once. They can be configured in multiple ways as well. Numerous weapons are there to choose and each of them brings some differences in the game. In case you are looking out for low recoil to use in the machine gun, you will get option for that also.

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The Phantom Pain comes with two-fold mission. First, it requires you to build a military force that is completely free from any of narrow-minded world powers and secondly, destroy all those selfish minded-people who take advantage of the broken global politics. It lets you experience various sub plots as well such as child soldiers, torture and the human cost of nuclear explosion that are hardly seen in any other gaming.

Gameplay

The gameplay elements of this Meta Gear Solid V are very similar to the ground Zeros where the players are required to sneak from various points in the game avoiding the enemy guards. Here you will play the role of Bigg boss with a nickname “Venom Snake’ in the open environment.  Binoculars, pistols, assault rifles maps and explosives are carried by Bigg boss. The phantom pain urges players to grow across the game without killing and using any non-lethal weapons. Even you can traverse the game by making use of cars or tank along with traveling on foot or horseback. The players can call many companions such as Quiet, the silent female sniper featured with supernatural abilities, D-walker, D-dog whereas these companions’ ability and effectiveness will completely depend on the relation of them with the players.

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Plot

In Ground Zeros, big boss went to coma after the destruction of MSF. But in this version Bigg Boss wakes up after 9 years to lead a mercenary group named Diamond dogs to trace the person who was responsible for the destruction of MSF. His group enters into Afghanistan and gets reacquainted with Ocelot, his former rival and meets Quiet, the female with supernatural abilities along the way. As they move forward, Bigg Boss unearths a plot to develop ST-84 ‘Sahelanthropus’, a new model of Metal Gear system.

Characters

Kojima Productions, the developer of this game has declared that they took help of English-speaking actors and stuntmen for the voice acting and motion capture. It is actor Kiefer Sutherland who provided Snake’s voice and carried out motion capture work in the game. Other voice cast members are Troy Baker as Ocelot, James Horan as Skull Face, Jay Tavare as Code Talker, Christopher Randolph as Dr. Emmerich, Robin Atkin Downes as Kazuhira Miller, and Piers Stubbs as Eli.

Conclusion

The mission is enthralling and takes the players to a new dimension in gameplay You will be able to enjoy a lot in the game in case you can complete it. This is a game that draws your attention in multiple directions at the same time by its open world gameplay feature.

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Batman: Arkham Knight – A Perfect Ending to the Arkham Trilogy

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The final chapter in Rocksteady’s Arkham Trilogy surpasses the previous games and emerges as one of the most graphically pleasing games. The entire city looks spectacularly designed and Batman, who is a slick and scary as ever, glides from the rooftops giving you the feeling of soaring above the skies. Players are bound to be immersed in the graphically alluring Arkham city. The open-world structure of the game allows you to tackle side missions and you can choose to take them up in any order. The strong storyline complements the gameplay and the graphics in every step of the game. The game was released on June 23, 2015.

Plot

Joker has been dead for nine months and crime rates have declined in Gotham City. Joker had sent his mutated blood to Gotham’s hospitals. Many people have been infected and start to act and look like joker.

On the other hand, Scarecrow brings his latest fear to a diner on Halloween’s night. It is a fear gas that he threatens to release throughout Gotham. While most of the civilians evacuate the city, the villains stay behind. Commissioner James Gordon and his team of police officers are outnumbered. Batman tracks Scarecrow and is able to rescue Poison Ivy from the rooftop of a safe house where she was captured and kept by Scarecrow’s henchman.

Barbara Gordon, James Gordon’s daughter is collecting information on the toxin which is being used by Scarecrow. She traces it to Ace Chemicals where Batman goes to gather more information. The mysterious “Arkham Knight” confronts Batman. Batman soon finds out that Scarecrow has set the building to explode, and Batman is exposed to the fear gas which reacts with his mutated blood.

Batman finds out that Barbara has been abducted by the Arkham Knight and he is compelled to inform James Gordon of the abduction. This outrages Gordon who decides to find his daughter without Batman’s help.

Batman continues in his efforts to stop Scarecrow and Arkham Knight. He gets a message from Scarecrow that Barbara is being held captive in the same safehouse where Poison Ivy was kept. Barbara shoots herself after being doused in the fear toxin.

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Alfred Pennyworth tells Batman that Gotham city will be flooded with the fear toxin with the help of Cloudburst. Poison Ivy takes control of a tree that produces massive flowers which can neutralize the effect of the toxin.

In another part of the city, joker’s mutants are being gathered by Harley Quinn to keep joker’s legacy alive. Batman and Robin capture Harley and free the hostages. Henry Adams who is also infected, has succumbed to the mutations, and kills all the hostages. He shoots himself when he is confronted by Batman. Robin realizes that Batman is also infected so Batman puts him in a cell to avoid being apprehended before he stops scarecrow.

Arkham Knight has spread the toxin in Gotham city using the Cloudburst device. Poison Ivy is not able to withstand the enormous amounts of toxin and she dies. Batman fights the Arkham Knight and the identity of the Arkham Knight is revealed. He is Jason Todd, the second Robin. Batman believed him to be dead. Jason drops his gun in shame after fighting Batman for a short while.

Batman and Gordon proceed to the rooftop of a building where Scarecrow meets them. After a series of events which reveals that Barbara is still alive, Scarecrow uses the fear toxin on Batman, injecting him again and again to break his spirit. Jason comes to rescue Batman and injects Scarecrow with the toxin rendering him harmless.

After neutralizing all other supervillain threats, the story shows Bruce Wayne arriving at Wayne Manor when it blows up. Time has passed and Jim Gordon is now the mayor of Gotham city.

Gameplay

Batman: Arkham City takes place in Gotham city. The city is new compared to the previous ones in the trilogy. Players will be able to drive the Batmobile for the first time in the series. You can also use gadgets, your gadgets in mid-air now giving you better opportunities to target enemies.

Reception

Batman: Arkham Knight has been commended for its gameplay, storyline and graphics. Players have enjoyed the game for most of it while many found the ending to be a little predictable. The latest update to the game was released on November 24^th and it adds support for DLC. The latest update handles some bug fixes and includes a

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How To Fix Game Of War

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Today marks the 500^th straight day I have logged into GOW. In those 500 days GOW has really changed. When I first started playing GOW I was amazed to see a player over 100 million. As of today the largest player in my Kindom of Etumos is 250 billion. There are currently over 150 players over a billion.

I have never spent a dime on GOW. In 500 days of continual playing I am always been researching and building. I am currently at 56 million and level 21.

Problem

Over the last two months there are a couple of players from the top two alliances in my kingdom that stay at our hive all the time. I am in the 8^th largest alliance, so we have several players over a billon. However, the threat of being attacked does not phase these opportunistic, large players that are generally around 2 billion in power. Our bigger players would take a major hit if they retaliated and possibly bring on the full wrath of the top two alliance. If a member of our alliance loses their shield for 5 minutes they are attacked. These two players must sit and watch our hive constantly. Amazing they have nothing better to do than sit and wait for shields to drop and then they pounce.

For about two week the top two alliances where tile hitting everyone. Our alliance leaders prohibited us from farming. My theory was that if watched my troops farming that I would have plenty of time to recall them before I was attacked. However, the attacking players were porting next to my farmers and were attacking before I could recall them even though I was watching them farm. Amazing.

So in theory I had to be shielded all the time and could not farm. I was beginning to wonder what was left for me to do in GOW.

How To Fix GOW

In reality I think it is time for the GOW folks to divide the kingdoms based on size. I think all players over 1 billion should be in their own kingdoms and only compete against other 1 billon in power kingdoms during KVKs. A kingdom filled with billion power players would give the guys that want to spend thousands of dollars on GOW a real challenge. What challenge is if for a billion power player to attack me at 56 million. That is like shooting ducks in barrel.

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I think the next division should be at 100 million in power. Players from 100 million in power to 999.9 million in power would be competing against each other.

The lowest division would be from 0 to 99.9 million in power.

With this three-division system players would be competing against players similar in size, which would force players to change their strategy and work together more effectively.

GOW is all about making money. I argue that players evenly matched would spent more money on the game to get an edge on their competitors. GOW would win and so would their hoards of players.

To make this transition into three divisions I would give a month’s notice to all players to give them a chance to form alliances filled with players their size. That way when players are realigned in their respective divisions they are already in alliances for protection.

New Strategy

Luckily the constant tile hitting stopped, so I now can farm again.

Several of the players in my alliance stopped making troops. Honestly if your under 100 million it doesn’t make sense to make anymore troops than you need to farm. You are too small to not be shielded. Even if you found some weaker prey, unshielded you would quickly become the hunted in a matter of minutes. Under 100 million you are way too small to participate in KVKs.

The smaller players in my alliance have stopped making more than 250,000 troops. It takes 250,000 troops to use resource shields and it should leave a player plenty of troops to fill their five marches if they are level 21. Troops eat food and players needs food to continue building.

All good in theory, but in reality I will remain shielded at all times and hope like hell I don’t get tile popped while farming.

When it was still possible to remain unshielded, several months ago for our kingdom, I was constantly trying to build hospitals to heal my troops if I got attacked.  If I am shielded all the time what is the point of hospitals?  I have started eliminating hospitals and replacing them with more silver production. Silver is essential in higher level research.

In the last 500 days GOW has changed dramatically.  The change of strategy is what makes the game fun and challenging.  Personally I get a real kick out of playing the game without spending money.  Sure I will never claim the wonder, but I guarantee you I will make 1,000 straight days of logging in.

Always keep in mind this is just a game, have fun, and remember Don’t Be An A-Hole!

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