Happy Winter-een-Mas from MMGaming!
As defined by Urban Dictionary: Winter-een-Mas is a gamer's holiday. The Winter-een-Mas season lasts all of January, but the holiday is the last week of January, January 25-31. It emphasizes the companionship of gamers. However, gift-giving is not recommended, as it may ruin the holiday spirit. Small, handmade gifts are quite alright, though.
Celebrate Winter-een-mas by playing videogames with your friends, by wearing interesting gaming clothing/accesories, and especially by writing letters of thanks to those wonderful developers who make the games!
Dead Island DLC
Some new DLC for Dead Island will be hitting the Island on the 1st of February. Apparently featuring the main game's original antagonist, Colonel Ryder White, it makes for an interesting idea for some DLC. Perhaps it's a prequel of some sort... I don't know enough about Dead Island to be able to say...
What I do know, is that there is a trailer, it's pretty cool and the DLC will probably be full of even more awesome and gruesome bashing and slashing of zombies to bits. And disembowelling. And electrocuting. And shooting. Hell how many ways are there to actually KILL a zombie?!?
Minecraft – Now for crazy cat ladies
A new update for Minecraft is coming soon (well, in fairness there is ALWAYS a new update for Minecraft coming soon). This one will introduce a couple of new items including EXP potions, a new AI for the Skeletons, some new looks for some blocks and Ocelots.
So now those of us who want to get a cat rather than a wolf can do so by taming a wild Ocelot with raw fish! And then if you have two... You can breed them with raw fish! And then you get a kitten, which is absolutely ADORABLE!! They also come in three different colours! I didn't know my cute reflex could be combined with my Minecraft reflex... Anyway, you can check them out in the video after the jump!
Terraria coming soon to a store near you
Merge Games have announced that they are going to be releasing a boxed version of Terraria, so those of you without internet connections can now finally play this wonderful game after it's release on the 16th of March. Although how you are reading this without an internet connection is a little beyond me...
ThatForrow’s Demo Time – The Darkness 2
ThatForrow, international funny man and game player has brought us the second in his series of Demo Time. This, the second episode, features the upcoming horror/shooter The Darkness II by 2K Games.
So sit back, relax... Well actually... You'll find it difficult to relax here... It's creepy and amusing in spades! So sit forward, tense up and have a wee chuckle! Here's Master Forrow's Dem Time!
Song of the Week – Cello Wars
I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if something awesome is fast approaching and there is nothing we can do to stop it... I fear it's going to be Legen wait-for-it-until-you-hear-this-piece-of-music DARY! Legendary!
Today something that I've never believed was possible has happened. Today, someone made a cover of some of the Star Wars music that is as awesome as the original. I know guys! I can already hear you yelling that the original soundtrack is some of the most awesome music in existence and changing it in any way is to make it worse. And yet somehow... These guys... The Piano Guys have done just that. Trust me right now when I say this is unbelievably awesome and you should watch this right now...
Quantum Conundrum – We like that feeling of our minds being blown
Today's final batch of awesome, before I OD on awesome, comes from Airtight Games and Square Enix. The awesome in question is an eight minute long video featuring gameplay from the upcoming XBLA/PSN Game Quantum Conundrum. It features a voice-over from the game's creator and shows you around some of the mind-blowing puzzles that the game will feature.
The game is a puzzle game which features some dimension bending, time fiddling AND gravity twisting all in one! Because you know... all those Indie and Mainstream games which have involved ONE of those things? Pffft... Amateurs...
Warface Trailers and New Screenshots
While perhaps not as innovative as Binary Domain (see the previous post) Crytek's shooter Warface which has been in development for some time now does look really, REALLY good. Plus, this is going to be a free-to-play online game rather than a story based, squad-based shooter. I think with this in the works and it looking so damn good Modern Warfare 3 ought to go into a corner somewhere and quietly eat it's heart out...
Anyway you should definitely check after the jump for some brand new screenshots of the game and for a snippet of the Alpha gameplay footage. Which actually looks astounding as well despite the footage having been made in 2010! I think Battlefield 3 might have to go eat it's heart in a corner as well...
Trust me, it does look THAT awesome...
Binary Domain – Two trailers for the price of one
Here are a couple of trailers for Sega's upcoming game Binary Domain. With a release date of the 28th of February this year it's a third person, squad based shooter where you will be up against robots that are indistinguishable from humans. For some information about the game and some awesome trailer's you should jump into the article here!
A Walk in the Dark – Sidescrolling has never felt this emotional
What we have here is a trailer for an upcoming sidescroller called Walk in the Dark (it features gameplay footage) which actually did leave me feeling oddly emotional after watching it. The combination of sad music and creepy graphics just give it an impressively eerie feel, even if the gameplay itself doesn't look all that special.
With a release date of sometime this year, this is another indie game that might be worth checking out folks. Check it out after the jump.