Forte, the Ripple powered digital games marketplace, recently signed partnership agreements with five new gaming studios. Netmarble, Magmic, nWay, DECA, and HI-REZ studios will each integrate Forte’s platform into one of their games. Some of these partnerships are very promising; others are substanceless hype. The blockchain gaming space has been largely hype-driven, with several studios
If there’s one game that sticks out in my memory as being underrated, it is Spacehulk: Deathwing – a first-person shooter that takes place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. In the 40k universe, a spacehulk is a derelict hunk of twisted metal that forms from abandoned spaceships that fuse together and are ejected from the
Customs is one of my favorite Escape from Tarkov maps. It’s a very easy map for a new player to learn, as the exit points are straight forward, and the action is funneled into a set of key areas. As such, it is easy for a player to predict where conflict will occur. The high-value
Fields of Gold is a continuation of my previous post, Diary of a Wheat farmer. Day 3: One of my fields is growing weeds, which I need to deal with, or it could impact my crop yields. And if there’s one thing that I cannot tolerate, it’s low yields. So I thought to myself, this
I remember the day Pokémon came out – the first two, red and blue, for the Gameboy. I was very young, but it was all my friends could talk about. They brought it to school, and we’d sit in the hallway during lunch, scarf down our food and play. One of us even bought that
Ever since I was a boy, I wanted to be a farmer – plaid shirt, suspenders, big red tractor, the whole nine yards. Nature, though, had other plans: seasonal allergies. I can’t even look at a canola field without tearing up, and Durham wheat, forget it. Instant clogged nose. If you happen by me when
The gaming industry is no stranger to niche hardware implementations and devices that have failed to capture consumer attention. The most obvious example of this is the repeated failure of 3D gaming to gain traction with consumers. The earliest version of 3D tech that I can remember was Nintendo’s Virtual Boy console. Years later we
My very first post was an Escape from Tarkov review. Tarkov, at the time, was a niche game, but as it was one of my favourite shooters, I thought it would be an interesting debut to the Coil platform. Escape from Tarkov’s popularity has since exploded, and it now regularly tops the viewer count list
In a blog post released on November 8, 2019, Josh Sawyer of Obsidian Entertainment indicated that the RPG series Pillars of Eternity may not see another sequel due to the poor sales of Pillars of Eternity II: Dreadfire. Sawyer suggests that Obsidian would be hesitant to fund another sequel without knowing why Dreadfire sold so
I have been playing around with Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming platform for the past week. The games are run on a high-end computer in the cloud, rather than a player owned console or gaming PC. Stadia functions more like Netflix than traditional download, install, and play services that are currently found across a variety of
