Archive for the ‘Games’ Category
Posted by Kent Ward on March 3rd, 2010 under Games
Tags: Ignition, kof, SNK, The King of Fighters XIII, Year of the Fighting Game •
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This was already assumed but now it’s topical so I will talk about The King of Fighters XIII. SNK has announced that they will have a play test in April in Japan which leads me to believe that it’s been worked on since the last one came out.
I expect that it will be based on [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on February 4th, 2010 under Games, Geekin Out
Tags: Dynasty Warriors, Fist of the North Star, Hokuto Musou, Juza of the Clouds, Koei Tecmo, manly •
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New screens of Hokuto Musou(that Dynasty Warriors game about Fist of the North Star) came out and Juza of the Clouds is in it! For those of you who don’t know, Juza is a fucking badass, a pimp, and a troll all at the same time. He was one of the five Nanto Chariot [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on January 28th, 2010 under Current Projects, Games
Tags: Global Game Jam •
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The second annual Global Game Jam begins tomorrow! Once again, I will be participating in the Orlando session. I’m pretty pumped because I’ll get to work with a lot of the Full Sail homies (how come nobody from the other game schools go to this?) and make something awesome! Last year, I got to work [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on January 16th, 2010 under Games
Tags: Banzai Pecan, Brotha Kyo •
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Brotha Kyo’s Banzai Pecan finally has a recording session underway! It looks like 3-5 characters in the game shall be recorded today, which is excellent news as it has taken many months for this session to come to fruition. One of my Propeller Anime Club members, Emilio Lopez-Centellas, is handling the session as the audio [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on December 31st, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out, Life, Work
Tags: 2009, AFO, Anime, concerts, Dethklok, Down Right Fierce, drinking, family, full sail, Global Game Jam, manly, Mastodon, Muay Thai, Propeller Anime Club, Swords of Orlandia, Thanksgiving, Twelve Laws of True Man, Year in Review, Year of the Fighting Game •
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I must say 2009, you were a year that started off with a lot of promise and I used that to bring myself to the point I am at now. I really feel like I won this year. As the last decade was ending, I was just some punk kid with a bunch of dreams, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on December 27th, 2009 under Games, Geekin Out, Life
Tags: arcade, hangouts, Rocky's Replay, The King of Fighters XI •
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A cornerstone of my life in Orlando is back in a new location after a very long hiatus! Rocky’s Replay, which was pretty much Orlando’s only legitmate arcade is back and bigger than ever! There is a lot more space in the location and additional spots to actually lounge and hang out. Anyone who went to [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on November 3rd, 2009 under Games
Tags: fighting games, kof, SNK, the king of fighters XII •
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Back in the summer, SNK Playmore released The King of Fighters XII to both Japan and America and the response from gamers and reviewers have been very negative. Sales have been poor and it has just been reported that the game got dropped to under the equivalent of $11 at a Japanese retailer in order [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on October 19th, 2009 under Games
Tags: action-adventure games, Beyond Good & Evil, french games, games I beat, Ubisoft •
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A little over a week ago I was grocery shopping at Wally World and for the hell of it, I looked into the videogame bargain bin they had in electronics. To my delight, they had a brand new copy of Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil for the Playstation 2. Despite the fact that I have [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on October 8th, 2009 under Conventions, Games
Tags: AFO, game design, live action games, postmortem, Swords of Orlandia •
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Introduction:
Swords of Orlandia III is a live-action game that took place exclusively at Anime Festival Orlando 10 this past summer. Over the course of the weekend, Hundreds of people played for either the evil Shadowfowl or the less evil Anarchs to see who would control Orlandia once and for all. Players would participate in quests(both [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on October 2nd, 2009 under Games
Tags: action games, Bioshock, Bioware, easy games •
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I got Bioshock for Christmas last year and recently I became determined to actually play through it and complete the game. I got a bunch of cool magic spells, stat buffs, and badass weapons. I even did some of the extra stuff too, like inventing a bunch of ammo, doing all the camera research, and [...]