January 15, 2016

Dev Talk: Building and Managing Your Team – Renee Gittins


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Renee Gittins

Renee Gittins discusses how to recruit a team and lead them to help you create the game of your vision. Balancing your own preferences and desires with theirs, you can build a strong team that respects each other and works well together towards a common goal.

Renee covers details such as compensation methods, communication and management tools and other items you need to transform your personal project into a full team project.


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Nintendo Warm-Up Sale for January 14th, 2016


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jason Nason

Nintendo is putting a selection of games on sale each week for the next few weeks, above and beyond the regular sales that we feature each week here. Dubbed the Winter Warm-up Sale the sales will save you up to 30% off select games. While Nintendo.com isn’t showing the actual savings on the games themselves right now, check out this week’s list of games below.

These sales are effective from now (January 14th) until January 21st at 12:00pm.

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Pokkén Tournament launches for Wii U on March 18th


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jason Nason

The wait is almost over. Nintendo announced today that Pokkén Tournament, the upcoming game that lets players battle as prized Pokémon in fighting arenas, will launch exclusively for Wii U on March 18 at a suggested retail price of $59.99.

Pokkén Tournament brings high-definition game play and over-the-top action to never-before-seen battles between some of the most recognizable Pokémon characters.

People that buy the first production run version of the game will also receive a special Shadow Mewtwo amiibo card, which can be tapped to the Wii U GamePad controller to unlock the Shadow Mewtwo playable character in the game.

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Ocean Runner | Review


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jason Nason

Endless runners are always hard to gauge. Will they be just mindless and endless running or will they have some substance to them. As easy as it is to just play an endless runner they tend to wear away at me very easily. But Ocean Runner looked like it might have had something more than meets the eye. Boy was I right.

Here’s the story of the game. Yes, there is actually a story in the game.

Meet Gilbert, a bachelor fish who has fallen deeply in love with the beautiful Pearlina. Like all stunning fish, Pearlina’s one and only dream is to have the largest pearl in the ocean and like any love struck fish, Gilbert is on a mission to find it!

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One Punch Man: A little bit of this and that make a great anime


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Where do I start? One Punch Man is not your typical anime, it’s not about school girls, it’s not about a group of friends overcoming ever more difficult challenges, and it’s not about training or getting better. One Punch Man is what happens after the training. It’s primarily a comedy anime, but it also has some of the best choreographed amazing hand to hand combat I have ever seen.  If you took the non-stop, heavy hitting, terrain destroying, combat from the later DBZ arcs, and injected it in to the funny slice of life type of comedy that was featured in The Devil is a Part Timer, you might start to get close to this shows vibe. One Punch Man Is anime that doesn’t take it self seriously, and I think part of this can be attributed to how it came to be. It was first created as a webcomic then serialized to Shoen Jump, and finally adapted this year to an anime. One Punch Man spends its time alternating between setting up extremely powerful villains which Saitama (the shows protagonist) defeats with one punch, and chronicling the difficulty of living on a small income in a rundown apartment. This creates this hilarious dynamic where several other “professional heroes” will try to fight a monster and be defeated and Saitama who is “just a hero for fun” will show up punch the monster once, and in a fantastic fountain of gore defeat them.

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One of Saitamas two faces

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Final Splatoon Weapon Drops Tonight


Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jason Nason

The end is near. The final new weapon will splash into Splatoon today making a total of 74 weapons available in the game.

The final weapon is called the Custom Hydra Splatling and will arrive tomorrow. While no time was mentioned in the announcement, the last weapon was released at 9:00pm so that is likely the time that the new weapon will be released.

Fans of Splatoon have had a great run of original DLC being released for the game, and kudos to Nintendo for keeping the content coming and keeping it free. Many games go the DLC route and can end up costing fans the cost equivalent to another full game.

The new weapon coincides with the latest Splatfest, which asks the question would you rather visit the past or the future.

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