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Microtransaction is defined as a business model where users can purchase virtual goods via micropayments. This idea has become quite the buzzword in gaming, but what does it mean for the state of gaming?
Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’
A Macro Problem with Microtransactions
Posted: April 20, 2015 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video GamesTags: Add-Ons, Fees, Gaming, Microtransactions, Video Games
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Jumping into RIVE
Posted: March 16, 2015 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Gaming, Indie, PAX, PAX East, Rive, Two Tribes
At PAX East, G&C had the opportunity to sit down with the team behind RIVE, a fast-action, quick thinking, robot shooter:
Mayan Death Robots Comes to PAX East
Posted: March 9, 2015 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Sony/PlayStation, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Gaming, Indie, Mayan Death Robots, Microsoft/Xbox, PAX, PAX East, PS4, Review, Sileni Studios, Steam
Combining the lore of an ancient civilization with turn-based robotic face-offs comes Mayan Death Robots:
HD Retrovision Brings Retro Games To High Definition TVs
Posted: November 10, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, NintendoTags: Gaming, HD Cables, HD Retrovision, Nintendo, Retro, Sega, SNES
Say you are looking to crack open a can of nostalgia by plugging in your old video game console, but alas, your patience is quickly tested with blurry graphics, flickering backgrounds, and frustratingly unclear images. That is why HD Retrovision, a company founded in March 2014, has made it its mission to preserve retro gaming history while improving the retro gaming experience:
Original Cooperative Teamwork: Black Hat Oculus
Posted: September 22, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: BFIG, Black Hat Oculus, Boston Festival Indie Games, Gaming, Indie, Mac, Oculus Rift, PC, Steam
This year’s Boston Festival of Indie Games featured a stellar lineup of developers showcasing their hard work and dedication to making a game they can call their own. We got to sit down with Team Future, the group behind the very intriguing Black Hat Oculus, which is taking two-player cooperative gaming to a new level:
Godfire: Rise of Prometheus Brings Greek Mythology Action to iOS/Andriod
Posted: April 24, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Android, Gaming, Godfire, iOS, Mobile, PAX East, Rise of Prometheus
Developed by Vivid Games, creators of the award-winning Real Boxing, Godfire: Rise of Prometheus puts players in the armour of Prometheus as he battles through a rich and detailed world to retrieve the Godfire Spark and bring its fantastic powers to humanity. With a fully voiced cast of mythical characters and a story by Steve Ince (writer of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and Broken Sword), the game brings the full triple-A experience to iOS and Android:
SoundSelf Creates A Psychedelic Gaming Adventure
Posted: April 17, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Gaming, Indie, Oculus VR, PAX East, SoundSelf
G&C’s Ian Gaudreau Demoing SoundSelf at PAX East 2014
Amidst the wide variety of indie games at PAX East 2014, one of the most unique games we demoed was SoundSelf. “SoundSelf is the collision of centuries old meditation technology with the video-game trance. Turn off the lights, amp up the volume, and use your voice to fall through an odyssey of light and body”:
‘Out There’ Receives 9/10
Posted: April 10, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Android, Gaming, iOS, iPhone, Mi-Clos Studio, Mobile Gaming, Out There, Review, Space
You are an astronaut awaking from cryonics not in the solar system, but… out there… in a far and unknown place of the galaxy. In Out There, you will have to survive, patching your ship with what you can gather drifting in the void, and spot garden planets to refill your oxygen supply.
Space is an hostile place ; dangerous and mysterious adventures will mark each step of your travel. You will not only meet intelligent species that won’t care about you, but also deal with ancient powers linked to your destiny and the fate of mankind itself.
Survival and understanding of what is really at stake in the galaxy is the core of what Out There has to offer.
Titanfall Beta Released This Week
Posted: February 18, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Beta, Gaming, PC, Release, Respawn Entertainment, Titanfall, Xbox One
This week marks the release of the beta test trials for one of 2014’s most highly anticipated games, Titanfall. Developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, Titanfall will officially release on Xbox One and PC on March 11 (North America) and will later be available for Xbox 360 on March 25th.
Want to write for IGN? Now you can apply!
Posted: February 13, 2014 by Ian Gaudreau in Gamenomics - Video Games, Microsoft/Xbox, Nintendo, Sony/PlayStation, Steam, PC, & Indie GamesTags: Gaming, IGN, Journalism, Reporting, Writing
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