Description

A horror game that senses how scared you are, the April Nintendo Direct, Microsoft gives MineCon the soft touch, and games that defined their genre

WRUP

• Joe & Todd: Borderlands 2
• Duane: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Follow-up

• Jeff Gretz (@feralgeek6): "Nintendo games for iOS means my dream of pokemon on my phone may finally come true! #pokemonwhileipoop"
• @linefreeze: "Fun fact: We have now been waiting longer for HL3/HL2Ep3(Liverpool 4) than we did for HL2 (8 years compared to 6)"
• @linefreeze: "The turrets are not man-able yet. Full multi-crew functionality will be in Star Citizen 2.0."
• Virtual Nose
• Crowfall finishes crowdfunding campaign with $1.76M
• SC's secret: never stop crowdfunding

Story of the Week

• Joe: Nevermind, the bio-feedback enhanced horror game, is now on Steam

  • Nevermind Screenshot

• Duane: Nintendo Direct April 2015

  • Polygon's Nintendo Direct StoryStream

• Todd: MS keeping its distance at MineCon

  • Minecraft /w Dazik, Dreggor & SQLCowboy
  • HammerGaming Minecraft page

Focus Target: Games that defined their genre

• RPG / Adventure
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • King's Quest
  • Final Fantasy
• Flight Sims
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator
  • Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
  • Wing Commander)
    • i387SX FPU math co-processor
    • GTA3's Dodo
• Sandbox / Open World
  • GTA
  • Populous
  • Minecraft
• 4X/turn-based strategy
  • Civilization)
    • WTF Is... Sid Meier's Starships?
  • Ascendancy)
• RTS
  • Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
  • Command and Conquer
  • Total Annihilation
  • Age of Empires
  • Empire Earth

Coliseum

• Half-Life 2: Update Is a Community-Made Enhancement Mod
• Asteroids Sandbox Survival Reimagining on Early Access
  • Space Engineers on Steam
• Hundreds of Steam Keys for This New Game Are Hidden Across the US
• Steam Discovery Update Benefits Smaller Games, but Curators Disappoint
• Minecraft player builds walking death robot
• Nintendo Forces Takedown of Super Mario 64 HD Browser Project
• Lanning: Original XBox was Going to be The Casual Gamers Machine
• 'Positive Female Characters' is the New Sarkeesian Series
• Elite Dangerous now on steam and Frontier not sure if they will give codes to existing customers or not.

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