If you haven’t been keeping up with Charr Week over at the official ArenaNet blog, the grand event erupted yesterday with the release of “The Domain of the Charr” video. It’s loud, it’s industrial and it’s bombastic, conjuring feelings of Isengard. Hit the jump to view the video at the bottom of the page, as well as some delicious new wallpapers. Email the author of this post at lewisb@tap-repeatedly.com
There’s something bothering me about Guild Wars 2 and it’s a stumbling block many game developers trip over, and one which is undoubtedly a very expensive problem to rectify…
From the Land of Ill-Advised comes a report that the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, the official games rating system in North America, has decided to stop doing its job. Because its job is hard. Thus in what I deeply hope is an elaborate and belated April Fool’s trick, the ESRB is switching to a computer-based system with little or no human intervention. Games will now be rated by algorithm and, apparently, a questionnaire that draws …
Mortals, behold the Alliance of Awesome! Tap-Repeatedly. Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming. Electron Dance. We three have joined forces to be ever more awesome! Three great sites that share community and ideals, and eventually world domination, piped now into your home via the interwebs. What does it mean? We’re going to share content from time to time, pimp our respective sites, and we’re recording podcasts and stuff. Our first podcast lurks below. Highlights: Armand of BnB …
ArenaNet, after what felt like a lifetime, have just announced Charr Week will be the third installment to their ongoing series dedicated to the races featured in Guild Wars 2. Beginning Monday, ArenaNet will take a closer look (as they have with Human and Norn Weeks) at the feline-like Charr and highlight how they came to be. Charr week, according to the press release, will provide an insight on writing and developing them as a race, …
Via Steam. First with Armand, then with Dobry. Who still owes me a Shogun 2 review.
Given that speculation has been rife about a potential HD successor to the Wii for some time now, news of Nintendo’s next home console may or may not come as much of a surprise. Taking into account the absolute drought of first party Wii support recently, it might not be a surprise at all. Even so, the internet is currently exploding at the news that Nintendo may be preparing to announce it’s next system as …
The International Game Developers Association has published an open letter to developers warning them of potential pitfalls in Amazon.com’s new Android App store. It would seem that Amazon’s Distribution Terms, which seem innocuous on the surface, have some hidden language that could seriously impact a developer’s freedom and income potential. Fine-tune your content and keywords with seo tools online.
Yeah, it’s me with another post about zombies. Yawn, yawn bloody yawn. I just can’t get enough of the buggers, you see. Shambling about as they do, hunting for the next trace of human flesh to gnaw on.. aren’t they just adorable? Aww.. Fellow zombie enthusiasts can today feast their eyes on some new footage of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. First revealed last month alongside a slew of other new announcements, REORC (I know, …
Fans of doing awesome stuff for charity and having a great time doing it, take note. The third installment of the phenomenally successful and fantastically good willed Humble Indie Bundle is now live. For fifteen days only, charitable gamers can once again pay what they like for a selection of indie gaming goodness, with each of the latest offerings coming courtesy of Finnish developers Frozenbyte. In return for your generosity, you’ll bag highly rated action-platformer …
I came away from my interview with Daniel Dociu enlightened and with a greater respect for the concept art he and his team produce at ArenaNet. Having discussed at length his opinions on the industry, the games he plays (or doesn’t play) and his role within Guild Wars 2, it’s apparent he has a unique approach to managing those around him. There’s an overriding sense that he’s a man of heart, feeling and gut instinct; …
“Well I did it,” begins a recent post on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft forums. We often discuss here at Tap-Repeatedly how killing, in its many forms, has long been the predominant form of expressing progress in the medium of video games. Today it is such a given to seasoned gamers, most of us would never give pause to even consider what we’re doing. Although the how has evolved — from the hell-spawn in Doom, to …
Two divorces, a mid-life crisis, and only marginal educational skills? Check.
Getting involved in teenage dramas? Check.
Reading my class’s private emails and social networking messages? Check.
Nearly slept with a 16 year old student? Check.
I am the worst teacher ever.
This is a belated quickie: Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming, a fellow gaming site that Tap likes to flirt with now and then (and home to Tap regular Armand), have recently posted up a collection of top 5 female game characters lists as selected by the BnB Gaming staffers as well as a few guest writers. Amongst those guest writers you’ll find myself, Matthew ‘Steerpike’ Sakey and Joel Goodwin a.k.a. Harbour Master of Electron Dance (obligatory …
I’ve come to the conclusion I hardly ever complete games. I’m not even sure why. I suppose some of it must stem from my years within online universes that have no ‘end’. That perhaps single player games just don’t grip me in the way they should, through one thing or another. Either way, looking through my Steam account it’s apparent I’ve a mountain to climb and there aren’t enough hours in the day to work …