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Let's Play: Magicite: Episode 2 - Boaring

Posted on January 06, 2015 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Episode 2 of the Magicite Let's Play series, in which Daniel shows off the cooperative mode of the Rogue-Like RPG Platformer Magicite. No special rules or regulations here, just jump in, kill dudes, eat food, make plop, get killed, rinse and repeat.

Special Guest: Matt

Title Music: "Night Owl" from "Directionless EP" by "Broke For Free" (CC BY 3.0)

End Music: "Simple Hop" from "Slam Funk" by "Broke For Free" (CC BY 3.0)
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Last Week Today: Week 01, 2015

Posted on January 05, 2015 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Last week Aliens: Colonial Marines got delisted from Steam. No confirmation yet if this was due to the pending lawsuit over allegedly false advertising or a licensing issue with the Aliens property. Steam also added a Frames Per Second Counter to the Steam Client Beta. Speaking of Steam and its creator Valve, who also made Half-Life, the fan-made Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a website, BMRF.us. An update posted an image of an Emergency Broadcast System, and it started played a looping message. The transcription comes via Reddit, where people continue to discuss the event.

Skyrim continued to show the PC community why it is still, after fours years, one of the best looking games ever. A leaked software development kit (SDK) has shown that Xbox One developers will soon be able to use another CPU core. As the Xbox One Operating System continues to use less CPU it can be given back to developers. Microsoft also talked about their discontinuation of the original Kinect for Windows, and its studio 343 Industries announced new maps and a new weapon for the Halo 5 Beta.

A new leak for Destiny could potentially be showing the roadmap for the game for 2015 and beyond. A raid in EVE Online cost a player US$1500 when his in-game PLEX got destroyed. Sony announced they would be giving PlayStation Plus subscribers an extra five days and a one off 10% discount to the whole shopping cart due to the PSN Outage. Battle.net, an online service for Blizzard, suffered “unknown slowdown”. World of Warcraft fans posted their theories about The Return of the Lich King. A Cuban refugee got to visit her homeland after fifty-seven years thanks to the Oculus Rift. Finally, a video showcasing  a lovingly restored Dreamcast Kiosk was released.
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Australian Game Releases: Week 02 - 2015

Posted on January 02, 2015 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

No game releases this week.

Sorry.
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Happy New Year! Hello 2015

Posted on January 01, 2015 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Happy New Year from all of us here at Insert Coin 1P.

May 2015 have more games, less bugs, and see you all at PAX Australia!
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Writing Throwback: GP 500

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Here is another old review I wrote over 14 years ago. Man is this short, and bad.

Review

Have you ridden a motorcycle? I have not but know people who have; both said this game is realistic. Who am I to argue? I knew a little about bikes, but I walked away with a lot more. I wanted one. So was I impressed? Yes.

GP 500 simulates the real world motorcycle Grand Prix 500 series. It features such riders as Michael Doohan, Max Biaggi and Alex Criville. So the riders are real but what about the tracks? Well, I cannot say they are realistic because I have not been on the tracks for real. However, they say they modelled the tracks approximately and from what I have seen compared to watching it on the television I think they are spot on visually speaking.

What does the game let you do? Play with a bike, from fiddling with the engine, gears, and tyres to just about everything in between. It plays well too; I love to crash, and this game lets you crash big time. Fiddling with the options let you control things like both brakes independently so you can apply just the front or rear. Doing that opens up a whole new game as you can dive into corners with more precision, and it feels like you are in control of the bike.

This game also features all the courses you know and love like Spain, Holland and Australia. The in-game sound is good too, with the crowd noises fading in and out while going past. Artificial intelligence is good too; they will not just sit behind you but will change racing lines to jump on you when enter a corner too hot and leave you behind.

The graphics in the game are crisp — I ran it on a Pentium III 450 with 128MB of RAM and a Riva TNT2 — and they are fluid. The crashes could be more realistic as the rider stays rigid, but I guess the point is not to crash. I like how you have the choice to choose which team to race for, and the different bikes also feel distinctive.

Is this game a worthy purchase? Yes. I do not know what it is about GP 500, but it is addictive. I prefer four-wheel racing, but this game made me want to play it. Overall very solid and if you love bikes, you will love this even too.
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Let's Play: Magicite: Episode 1 - The Adventures Begins

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Episode 1 of the Magicite Let's Play series, in which Daniel shows off the cooperative mode of the Rogue-Like RPG Platformer Magicite. No special rules or regulations here, just jump in, kill dudes, eat food, make plop, get killed, rinse and repeat.

Special Guest: Matt

Title Music: "Night Owl" from "Directionless EP" by "Broke For Free" (CC BY 3.0)

End Music: "Simple Hop" from "Slam Funk" by "Broke For Free" (CC BY 3.0)
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Last Week Today: Week 52, 2014

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Insert Coin 1P Unknown with No comments

Not much news last week, Christmas can do that. Ok, so there was the whole Xbox Live and PlayStation Network attacks, but overall it has been very quiet. Here are some links we found to be interesting, there is a mixture of news and articles. This is not our usual news rundown format, but we are trying new ways to present the news to keep it interesting.

These should keep you up to date — and busy — for the Holiday period.

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