Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative, squad-based first-person shooter similar to games like Warhammer: Vermintide and Left 4 Dead. If you’ve ever fantasized about being a dwarf and mining ore in space for a faceless, uncaring, megacorporation, then Deep Rock Galactic may be the game for you. When you first launch the game, you see
Picture this: Sometime in the not too distant future, a game-developer releases the simulation of a digital world. It’s predicated on trustless, blockchain-inspired technology. The world has a set of rules, and they play out independently of any overseer interference. The world has a digital economy powered by blockchain technology and uses a native digital
The modern era is peculiar. Technology is overly complex, poorly constructed, and unreliable. Engineered obsolescence is built into the gadgets we buy, and consumers are cajoled into purchasing ever more expensive warranties for systems that are designed to fail. Video games are no different. Server architecture, reliability, and gameplay have been sliding ever downward as
Doom Eternal is a stunning game with a frenetic pace that will both challenge and titillate first-person shooter fanatics. Environments are detailed, weapons and effects sound amazing. Enemies explode into a gory mess when felled. The engine is smooth, fluid, absent frame time issues, and micro stuttering that plague many games. The combat is complemented
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
