Win some BioShock 2 DLC codes for the PS3!

post from Destructoid on 19 March 2010 11:20:00 AM. © Destructoid

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BioShock 2's "Sinclair Solutions Test Pack" DLC offers new playable characters, a third weapon upgrade level, five more masks, 20 new trials and the level cap has been raised to 50. The extra content is going for $5 and we have ten codes to give away this weekend for the PlayStation 3 version of the game!

All you need to do to enter is leave a comment with either your favorite character, weapon or Plasmid ability that has appeared in either the original BioShock or in BioShock 2. You can enter as many times as you like and contest is open worldwide.

You have until Sunday at 11:59PM CDT to leave a comment below. Good luck!

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Doors of the Mind: Inner Mysteries Review

post from Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More on 19 March 2010 11:17:32 AM. © Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More

There is little more frustrating than an interesting premise, executed poorly. Doors of the Mind: Inner Mysteries should be one of the most interesting hidden object games I?ve played recently, since it takes place primarily in the main character?s subconscious. There is a certain dreamlike quality to the item-stuffed tableaus that most HOGs present to a player, so making an HOG that?s literally a trip through the protagonist?s mind should make for some brilliant casual gaming.

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Rock Band gets punked next week

post from Gaming Nexus on 19 March 2010 11:16:00 AM. © Gaming Nexus

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NEWS - Rock Band DLC next week is packed with a slew of tracks for you to download. Coming to you in packs are are 80s punk rock tracks from X, and three tracks from British-based rockers Little Fish. Harmonix and MTV Games also have singles from Ace Frehley, Carrie Underwood and OneRepublic.

Read on for release dates on specific platforms as well as the track and pricing information.

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Hidden Numbers - Toy Story

post from Escape Games 24 on 19 March 2010 11:08:00 AM. © Escape Games 24

Hidden Numbers - Toy Story is another point and click type hidden object game from Games2dress. Examine your observing skill by finding the listed numbers which are in different forms. Avoid clicking unnecessarily, as otherwise your score will get reduced. Good luck and have fun!Play This Game

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Import Review: Flying Hero (Super Famicom)

post from The BBPS on 19 March 2010 11:02:11 AM. © The BBPS

It's pretty easy to pick out which imports to buy when the Internet is at your fingertips. But when you're at the store, it's hard to figure out what games you're looking at if you can't read the three alphabets of the Japanese language. That's when you take a shot in the dark and hope for the best. I gamble on a Super Famicom cart featuring a white blob with wings on his head. Lucky for me, the game turned out to be Flying Hero, a cute 'em up from Sofel. Flying monkeys, giant robots, and oodles of cupcakes ensued.

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For Friday: Pixar's Terminator

post from Cathode Tan on 19 March 2010 11:02:00 AM. © Cathode Tan

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Why you need to be excited about SpyParty

post from Destructoid on 19 March 2010 11:00:00 AM. © Destructoid

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There has never been a videogame like SpyParty.

Most videogames deal in the epic, the explosive, and the impersonal. SpyParty deals in subtlety, misdirection, and observation. Many multiplayer games ask the player to expend thousands of rounds of ammunition toward the destruction of the player's enemies; SpyParty gives you only one shot, and you'd better damn well make it count.

On the surface level, SpyParty is a two-player game about a sniper and a spy. The spy's job is to walk around a party, completing missions without breaking cover. The sniper's job is to identify the spy, and kill him. It's the simplest setup imaginable, but I was positively blown away by the game's depth and nuance after spending an hour with it at GDC.

Hit the jump to find out why it deserves to be on your radar.

(Don't mind the ugliness of that screenshot; though the basic mechanics are there, SpyParty is still a good two years away from release. Hecker promises that a sizable amount of that dev time will be devoted to making the game look like not-ass.)

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SpyParty isn't just a game about shooting people and completing objectives. If you want to look at it in the kookiest way possible, it's actually a game based around the Turing test.

The game takes place in a party, full of about a dozen AI guests. As the spy, your job is to not only complete a bunch of arbitrary objectives (bug the ambassador, meet with a double agent, move a book from one bookcase to another), but to do so while appearing to be an AI guest yourself. If you do anything a bit too human -- if you start walking around in circles or choose a weird path to one of your objectives -- you run the risk of getting identified by the sniper.

Thus, the experience of controlling a spy is very much like that of being an actor: you try to suss out exactly how an AI character would behave, while also trying to find the right moment to complete your objectives. You'll find yourself doing totally mission-unrelated things like staring out of windows or talking to other guests solely to keep your cover intact. Every moment of the spy experience drips with tension: did he notice that little stutter in my walk animation as I turned around? Am I standing too close to this bookcase? Oh god, his laser sight is pointed right at my head -- does that mean I'm about to die, or is he just testing to see if I flake out and walk away?

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Conversely, the sniper experience is much more about perception and deduction; if playing the spy is like being an actor, then playing the sniper is like being a detective. As the spy can choose as many or as few missions as he wants, the sniper has to be careful with where he focuses his attention. You can spend the entire round focusing on the ambassador so you can watch for someone to bug him, but what if the spy didn't choose the ambassador mission? What if you try to focus on the entire crowd at once, at the risk of missing the incredibly subtle physical tells that every spy makes when completing a mission? Do you focus on only one or two people, possibly letting the actual spy get away with whatever he wants just outside your field of view?

As the sniper, you have to read the movements and actions of the entire party, narrowing down the number of possible spies until finally firing your sole bullet. If you hit the spy, you win the round. If you waste your bullet, the spy gets away. The sniper experience is one of constant uncertainty, making it that much more satisfying when you win.

SpyParty is as cerebral and personal experience as I've ever had with a multiplayer game. The mechanics are so straightforward that, after only a few rounds of play, I was already beginning to metagame. As the sniper, I'd aim my gun at the outside wall of the party, so the spy wouldn't be able to tell where I was looking and adjust their behavior accordingly. As the spy, I'd constantly try to use other members of the party as cover so that even if I blew my cover, the sniper would still run the risk of shooting the wrong person and losing the round. Between rounds, Hecker told me that one sniper he'd playtested with actually started listening for the clicking of his opponent's joystick, at which point he'd focus on any of the partygoers who started moving. Noticing this, the spy waited for an AI partygoer to start walking, then flicked the right joystick -- the one controlling the camera. Hearing the flick of a joystick and seeing a partygoer suddenly start moving, the sniper aimed, shot, and lost.

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Even in the early build I played with just one map and only four possible spy objectives, no two rounds ever played out the same way. Far as I can tell, SpyParty isn't a game about memorizing map layouts or nailing an optimum strategy. It's about improvisation, and reaction, and reading your opponent, and behaving unpredictably. Despite being two years away from completion, the early version I saw still remains one of the most subtle, enjoyable, and surprisingly playful multiplayer games I've yet played.

You can follow its development here.

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Free Rescue Boat download pack available for Ship
Simulator 2008!

post from Gamezplay.org - Video game news daily on 19 March 2010 10:41:10 AM. © Gamezplay.org - Video game news daily

VSTEP continues its weekly release of free download packs for Ship Simulator 2008. The next...

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Team Fortress 2 just got a bunch of user-created
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The latest update to Team Fortress 2, which is now available for download, added a bunch of fan-made hats, weapons, and items -- hell, I think I even saw a chocolate bar. All of these ideas were submitted to Valve via the "Contribute!" Web site, in case you were wondering.

Over on the official TF2 blog, the ever-vigilant team at Valve had this to say: "Starting from our core belief that entertainment products should be services, we've tried to increase the set of ways our community can impact our games, and the ways in which we can reward you for it."

"This update represents the next step in that process. The line between developers and players is getting very blurry, and we think that's a great thing."

A great thing, indeed. Especially when there's a filter to prevent our unsuspecting eyes from seeing, well, normal (creepy) Internet stuff. For the curious, user internet112 on the Team Fortress 2 forums has a nice summary of the newest in-game additions. Alternatively, you could just boot up the game.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tops March Sales
Charts - Over 2.3M Units Sold Mark Battlefield: Bad Company

DICE, an Electronic Arts announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is on pace to be the top...

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