The Tech Throwdown

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All Points Bulletin (APB) Review
By Jordan Davis

Welcome to a world of violence, chaos, and teabagging. No I don’t mean a political conference. I am talking about APB, the latest MMO by Scottish developer Realtime Worlds of Crackdown fame. The streets are full of rampant criminals and the Charles Bronson like vigilantes who are trying to stop them. An amazing amount of customization and play styles allow you to make up for the lack of unique skills and little variety of weaponry.

Microsoft introduces the world to Kinect, a device that eliminates controllers from the game, and surprises the crowd with a new model of the Xbox 360.

Imagine a dark and gritty world inhabited only by robots. Two evil characters, who do as they please, take advantage of the young and the weak. They successfully kidnap your lover and force her into manual labor.

The recent expansion of EVE online; Tyrannis opens the way for the stunning visuals of planetary bodies to be something more than just eye candy.

I recently had the pleasure of playing one of my favorite games to date, Heavy Rain, exclusively on the Playstation 3. This amazing game is made by French developer Quantic Dream, who also made Indigo Prophecy (a.k.a Fahrenheit) and Omikron. This all inclusive drama based game is the accelerant of a flame war on game genres. The main question of that argument being, can a game be art? After playing Heavy Rain my answer is a strong yes.

Even though I consider myself a full-time gamer, I find that I tend to lose interest in games before I get to the end. However there is one developer that has always kept my interest, even in games that have a setting I dislike.