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Massively received a whole mess of gameplay details and screenshots from Bigpoint's promising browser-based MMO,
Battlestar Galactica Online. Players will be able to choose between the Human and Cylon factions, will be able to create their own out-of-ship avatars, and will progress through individual quests and story-based missions exclusive to their own factions. For instance, Cylons might be tasked with preparing a fresh slice of toast. (Because Cylons look like toasters.
Obviously.)
For more details, check out the info
Massively managed to glean from Bigpoint. For
visual images you can see
with your eyes, check out the gallery below.
Browse these new details and screens from Battlestar Galactica Online originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The film which critics are hailing as "the muscliest video escapade in the whole of cinematic history" now has a similarly masculine video game adaptation.
The Expendables - an upcoming summer blockbuster starring Sly Stallone, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Brock Stonejaw and Mickey Rourke - now has a free-to-play
Contra clone on its
official Facebook fan page. (Also, one of the actors listed above isn't real. Can
you guess which one?)
Take heed: You'll have to "Like" the
Expendables fan page in order to gain access to the game. We realize that some people might not feel comfortable broadcasting their endorsement for what is clearly the
movie of the decade, though, for the life of us, we can't imagine why.
Expendables gets retro-inspired Facebook game originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Though a game simply titled
Coma likely doesn't sound like the most engaging ludological venture, you must take a few minutes to check out Thomas Brush's beautiful little browser-based platformer. It's short and sweet, featuring hand-drawn graphics, a lovely soundtrack and a plotline that's absolutely
pregnant with artistic ambiguity.
Though that last sentence was also pregnant with pretentiousness,
Coma is not. It's just a pretty, simple game, and it's free to play
on Newgrounds right now. If you've got a half-hour to kill, we strongly advise you go check it out.
Coma: A playable essay on things that are pretty originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Zynga recently learned a very profitable lesson from the launch of its newest casual networking game -- people aren't obsessed with
Farms, as it turns out. What they can't get enough of are
Villes. The player base for
Frontierville, a browser-based family-raising (and, yes, farming) sim set in the Wild West, is evidence of this assertion -- Zynga emailed us earlier today, announcing the game has racked up over 5 million "
daily active users" since going live June 9.
Now that we know the keyword capable of attracting millions of potential consumers, we're wondering how we can cash in on its potential. We know we just went through a
pretty major relaunch, but we're wondering if its too late to rebrand our humble news site as 'Stiqville. We'll talk to the people upstairs.
Zynga's Frontierville already has 5 million daily active users originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We've been flipping through the ol' Joystiq archives, trying to find precedent to post about an update to a Flash-based game, but, well, we came up empty-handed. No matter -- we wouldn't be able to sleep tonight knowing that we'd kept the news of
Super Mario Crossover's upcoming additions to ourselves. On June 25 the game will be updated, adding some new features and new equipment for each hero, and introducing
Ryu Hayabusa as a playable character.
Check out all the new features and abilities coming in the update in
the video posted after the break -- or, if you've yet to experience the magic of
Crossover, you can see what all the fuss is about
over at Newgrounds.
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Super Mario Crossover update coming June 25 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Browser game developer Quick Hit, Inc. has
announced that it has secured the rights to use NFL teams, logos, uniforms and all other trademarks associated with the league during the next "season" of its flagship online sports title,
QuickHit Football. The game will also feature current NFL coaches and players, as well as legends, like Barry Sanders.
When the license goes into effect this fall, users will be able to play through a season or go head-to-head using their favorite professional teams and will have the ability to customize the rosters and sign new -- and
old -- players using Coaching Points they've accrued over their careers. You can check out the current version of
QuickHit for free on the game's
official site.
Clarifying that Quick Hit's deal does not violate EA Sports'
exclusivity agreement with the NFL, an EA representative told Joystiq that "the exclusivity agreements we have with the NFL and NFLPA have always been specific to football simulations on video game consoles."
Hopefully 2K will get this message and start working on one of those electric, vibrating football board games.
Browser-based QuickHit Football catches NFL licensing deal originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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For all the vitriol we hurl at Wii shovelware and farming-centric Facebook games, we often forget the class of electronic entertainment most deserving of scorn: The Flash promotional game. No, not a game promoting The Flash (honestly, dude could use some love right now) but rather those diminutive, ugly trifles that litter official sites of movies and (in some cases) fast food restaurants.
So understand when we say, "
This Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Flash game is actually kind of good!" it comes from people who expect the worst from this particular breed. That said ... it
is kind of good, right? In an a over-complicated
Canabalt sort of way?
Prince of Persia Flash game is better than you think originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 May 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA Sports head Peter Moore has announced on
his company blog that the label will be bringing
FIFA Superstars to Facebook. The game is being created by social games developer Playfish, which EA
purchased for a cool $300 million last fall. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal
reported that the developer was working with a "well-known EA brand" for social networking platforms, and
FIFA would certainly qualify as that project (despite
The Sims being the best guess at the time).
Moore didn't offer up any concrete details about
FIFA Superstars' gameplay in his post, but did comment that additional information would be coming "soon." Seeing as how the
World Cup kicks off in just a month, on June 11, it's reasonable to assume we'll hear more from Moore on the topic before then.
'FIFA Superstars' Facebook game is first big EA-brand social game created by Playfish originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 10 May 2010 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EA's latest attempt to rejuvenate the
Ultima franchise, the browser-based MMORTS
Lord of Ultima, will exit open beta and go fully live on Tuesday, April 20. The game breaks from the franchise's usual norm of medieval vigilante heroism, and places you in the fur-lined boots of an up-and-coming ruler, who must build his kingdom through trade, diplomacy and neighborly acts of sabotage.
If you're curious how the game operates, you can check out some gameplay clips from the beta
on YouTube. Or, alternatively, you could just
hop into the beta yourself. Or you could just be patient -- it's coming out in a week. Can't you wait a single week?
Geez.
EA's Lord of Ultima browser-based MMO officially launches next week originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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No, no, no. This simply will not do. There are so, so many things in this world worth buying with money you don't
technically have, that we can't sympathize with a 12-year-old boy who, according to the
Guardian, ran up a £905 tab (something like $1,380) by purchasing
FarmVille funny money through developer Zynga. Since the boy lives with his (unknowing) mother, the company reportedly refused to refund the money, leaving the boy's life savings and the mother's credit card account in a world of hurt.
There are a handful of burning questions at the forefront of our minds with this story, the most pressing being: What was the endgame, here, kid? Was your sizable initial investment going to be completely recouped with this season's bumper crop harvest of
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