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Time of Defiance Shutting Down

Time of Defiance, a game that was one of OMGN's first reviews on our archived website, is shutting its doors. The game will be taken offline at the end of this month to make room for technological upgrades for Nice Technology Ltd. The company says these upgrades aren't compatible with Time of Defiance and that the time and effort required to make Time of Defiance compatible is unreasonable. The upgrades in question are for the company's newest...

OMGN Forum Launched

The old OMGN had a forum installed for our users to, well, use. The old Forum was actually the basis for membership on the site. We simply tacked on an internal hook to the Forum's user management system to enable extended user functionality across the entire website. Obviously we haven't had a similar Forum since our relaunch over a month ago. We felt it was in our best interest to have a custom forum for the new OMGN for a variety of...

Beat Hazard Review

Independent companies often have smaller budgets, which means cheaper, lower quality games, but of course that depends on how you see it.  A trend I noticed is that, usually, it's these type of games where you won't find gameplay of its kind anywhere else. Preety colorrrs. Beat Hazard, made by Cold Beam Games, is an arcade twin shooter.  You've probably played these games before.  Robotron, Geometry Wars, Zombie Apocalypse, etc....

All Points Bulletin Review

Ever since Grand Theft Auto 3 was released, the gaming industry exploded into a whole new industry of open world games. It also brought itself along a lot of unwanted controversy, but that's another story. Enter All Point's Bulletin, a game that's title at first sounded really odd to me, (until I actually looked up the term, sorry I don't know local police vocabulary), and is made by RealTime Studios, also makers of Crackdown. APB takes the open...

Interview With Nuno of Astro Empires

This exclusive OMGN interview concerns the space strategy game Astro Empires at http://www.astroempires.com/ OMGN: Let's start with a self-introduction of yourself, the person behind the Game Master NUNO: Hi, my name is Nuno Rosário, and I’m the creator and director of the game Astro Empires. I’m a normal person but with a passion for computer games and programming. OMGN: What was your experience as a gamer before Astro...

MLB 10: The Show Review

Every year, a new batch of updated sports games get released for all the major consoles and occasionally, the PC. With these new editions come updated team rosters and the occasional new mode or play mechanic. Well, the latest in Sony’s Major League Baseball games do just that and then some. MLB 10: The Show brings all of the features from previous entries and brings much more to the plate. The gameplay in The Show is pretty simple and...

Final Fantasy XIII Review

Final Fantasy is a game series of legend, now with its thirteenth iteration. Gamers have seen the good and the bad come from this series as time has gone on, so does Final Fantasy XIII deliver? Well yes, it does. But it's not spectacular. You may be asking yourself something along the lines of "Why such a late review of this game?" Well, aside from the fact that OMGN does not represent the day job for any of us, we also want to be able to play a...

Steam: Massive Summer Sales

The good thing with Steam is that it quite often has sales far better than what retail stores would ever get to, let alone afford. Some deals are as high as 80 percent off of select titles, or 75 percent to 50 percent off games that are only a year old. The bad thing is that these sales are often unannounced ahead of time and usually for only a weekend or a single day, so it pays to log in daily. So just a heads up to all Steam users, from June...

StarCraft II Beta: First Impressions

One of the most highly anticipated sequels of all time is upon us with the release of "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" next month. A lucky few, however, were given a sneak peak of what to expect when they were chosen to give the game a go in beta testing. I was fortunate enough to wake up about a month ago to an e-mail from Blizzard inviting me to participate. I'm proud to say that the wait, SC fans, will likely be worth it. If you were worried...

Crimson Moon Interview

OMGN: Let's start with a self-introduction of yourself, the person behind the Game Master. DELVAGAN: Well most know me as Delvagan or BigD. I'm the owner of Crimson Productions, LLC, who owns and operates "Crimson Moon." I've been coding in some form for the past 15 years or so. I started out coding basic HTML when the web was young. In college, I specialized in more application based programming learning languages like COBOL and Visual Basic....

OMGN Launches User Blogs

While we only relaunched a couple weeks ago, we understand that our readers would like more features on the site. During the last two weeks, in addition to working to bring you content to read, we've also been working behind the scenes to continue to upgrade the feature set on OMGN. Today, we get to release one of those features to you. We've rolled out user blogs today for all OMGN members to use. All you have to do is have a registered account...

Core Exiles Starter Pack Offer

Here at OMGN we want to try to give back to our readers. Well here's a great opportunity for us to do just that! We are working with Core Exiles, a free space-based, browser-based trading and warfare game, to offer our readers some unique content. We have 1,000 serial codes to give away to our readers for use in Core Exiles. These serials, when applied to a new account in the game, will give you a Starter Pack, which contains: Premium Time Core...

E3 2010: Nintendo Keynote Wrap-Up

With our coverage of the keynotes for Microsoft and Sony already wrapped up, we turn our attention to Nintendo, the last of the Big 3 hardware manufacturers. Opposite Sony's three-pronged approach and Microsoft's 360 Slim (and Kinect) announcements, Nintendo simply stood pat with one new piece of hardware and a slew of games. 3DS Nintendo unveiled its new 3DS, a variant of its popular DS portable gaming machine. This 3-D-enabled DS utilizes two...

E3 2010: Microsoft Keynote Wrap-Up

It's that time of year again. All the big gaming companies are now in Los Angeles, ready to bring us wonder and joy. Unfortunately, I'm not lucky enough to be there, and yet I still have the latest news from the Microsoft Keynote at E3. Let's take a look, shall we? Project Natal No-More: Microsoft Kinect it is, then Somehow, I knew Project Natal just wouldn't cut the ice. It was announced that "Project Natal" is over, to be replaced with ...

E3 2010: Sony Keynote Wrap-Up

With Microsoft and Nintendo having held their press conferences already, Sony seemed to have its work cut out for itself at its own press conference. While it might not hold up that well to its two rivals of the "Big 3," Sony had a good press conference for itself. The biggest news coming out of Sony's press conference are details on the Sony Move, 3-D support in upcoming Playstation 3 games and the creation of a new paid tier of its Playstation...