Latest News
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was a somewhat tame game considering it stars the Mortal Kombat characters. Ed Boon, creative director of the game, tweeted about why they used the title “Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe” and the original, and darker, box art for the game.... [read more]
It would appear that the always-online DRM plan tanked so horribly with the focus groups that Microsoft has admitted that they wouldn't be pushing further with the idea, to an extent. A small compromise seems to have been made which might make both parties happier.... [read more]
It would appear that EA doesn't dislike Nintendo as much as they might have stated. At least, they must have realized that there was some gold in the metaphorical hills that is the Wii U, because it would appear that they're developing for it despite previous statements.... [read more]
Latest Articles
Recently some journalists have been pointing out that companies have been staying silent about recent controversies. That's what they're supposed to do, and it's a good journalist that can get around that silence.... [read more]
Designed as a squad-based MMO, Firefall has a unique PvE side and solid PvP. It’s a bold move to include them in a MMOFPS, but the development team, Red 5, promises it will be an experience unlike anything else.... [read more]
EA’s CEO Peter Moore made a post today on the EA.com called “We Can Do Better” where he defends his company. Although defending your company is always noble, how he defends his company is another example of how some people at EA just don’t get it.... [read more]
Latest Reviews
Set four years after the first game, Zeno Clash II is taking everything that has made the first Zeno Clash great and expanding upon it. The game is now open-world, the controls have been improved, and a handful of additional features have been added. On paper, it looks like ... [read more]
After years of delays, Black Rock Shooter: The Game final gets released here in the U.S. Is it too late for the game or will the game make new fans of the franchise?... [read more]
Arc System Works takes their long-running fighting game franchise and brings it to the Vita with Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R. Don't you love titles that roll off the tongue?... [read more]
Latest Videos
Video game collectors are familiar with The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. It's one of the rarer games for the NES because it was only available at Blockbuster Video. Gnarblast makes his way through the game without dying to get a special ending... [read more]
Originally developed by CTools Studios for mobile phone, Kung Fu Rabbit makes the jump to the Wii U thanks to Neko Entertainment. 8-Bit Eric takes a look at the action platformer to see if it's worth the space on your Wii U's memory.
... [read more]
Gnarblast is back with part 2 of his no death run on Ninja Gaiden on the NES. No deaths, no continues, no codes, just skill. ... [read more]
Halo 4 has been out for two months now and I've been studying how the game play from a casual and competitive perspective. For those of you who don't know, I'm very much into playing with both scenes and one factor that seemed to merge and work with both in Bungie's last game in the franchise introduced in-game challenges. Back in Reach, There were four daily challenges and one weekly challenge. That's completely changed this time around as in Halo 4 there are eight weekly challenges, two daily War Games challenges and one monthly War Games challenge. One of the main reason's why I joined the site was to produce Halo 4 content and though I'm super behind on the game this will be my first time around creating a guide for the Spartan Ops challenges this week.
Over the last month, the challenges have just been "kill x enemies 80 times" or 'kill x enemies 15 times in one online game". The Spartan Ops challenges aren't that difficult this week but if you want to collect a quick 4500 XP plus whatever you would earn normally I got your easy guide right here. This week, all of the challenges are setup so you can kill them offline or in Matchmaking. I'll be explaining which ones will be easiest for you to tackle depending on if you want to earn some extra XP in matchmaking or just play as the lone Spartan of Crimson squad taking down anything that comes your way.
To get prepped for the release of the last five episodes, 343 has been reprising each episode on legendary difficulty. This week, episode four is up and the best chapter to get all of the challenges this week is chapter two. Taking place on the remake of Vahalla which is now called Ragnarok, chapter two Rally Point spawns you in the middle towards the end of the canyon. Simply run towards the base closest to the water and follow the objectives then take out 43 crawler, 7 watchers & 4 knights. If you play with four players, an additional Knight Commander will spawn in. One run through should last 8 minutes if you don't take your time going through the level. Always remember to be as confident going into battle as your online teammates aren't going to wait for you to take the shot. As playing online, you'd have to divide the kills between allies so this would take quite a while but unfortunately chapter two is the quickest way if you want to get the challenges through matchmaking
If you are looking to just jump in an offline game, I'd suggest episode five on chapter two. With the potential of picking up 61 crawler, 19 watchers and 19 knights (20 if you play with 4 players), there is no excuse not to play this chapter to pick up the easy 5k in less than 10 minutes. The map is forerunner base in the middle of the forest on Requiem. For those inexperienced players, you'll definately want to play this mission on normal for your hardest difficulty especially if you are playing by yourself. It's a small map and with over 30 enemies on the map at one time it can get really overwhelming very quickly if you don't know how to handle yourself very well. After two matches at most, you should be fine.
Just a reminder: if you leave one watcher around while you are taking out a group of knights, the watcher will respawn knights once in a while giving you the chance to get more and more kills. Good luck on your challenge gathering and I'll give you guys hints for the other weekly challenges tomorrow. In the future, I will be posting videos but for right now I'm sticking to writing.
