‘Journey,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ & ‘Far Cry 3’ Lead D.I.C.E. Awards Nominations
You know who does seem to have embraced mobile gaming lately (at long freaking last)? Nintendo, that’s who. A year ago, the idea of a Mario title for phones would have outrageous, unthinkable blasphemy, but Super Mario Run is now a thing. As is Nintendo/DeNA collaboration Fire Emblem Her
Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim dominated the D.I.C.E. awards last year with wins in five categories. Following strong showings at the 2012 Spike VGAs , will Journe y and The Walking Dead be able to keep their winning streaks alive? Will either game earn more awards than Skyrim ? What do you th
In Plants vs Zombies Heroes , you play not with seed packets but a deck of 40 cards. It’s a collectible card game in the Hearthstone mold, in which you take turns placing cards on a five-lane board. As the name suggests, too, there’s a similar heroes mechanic in play too, making this a great one for Hearthstone fans to pick up. It’s light on the microtransactions, too, which is a real p
Ranters, are there any games that you think the AIAS has unfairly overlooked? Do you find any surprises among the nominations? And who would you pick to win the major categories? Let us know in the comments be
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced the nominees for the 16th annual Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (D.I.C.E.) Awards. Leading the pack this year is thatgamecompany’s Journey , which scored eleven total nominations, including Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, Downloadable Game of the Year, Casual Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering, Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and Outstanding Achievement in St
When playing COD: Mobile for the first time it is very important for players to form the habit of having their crosshair in the right position. Most times in the game players run around the map with their crosshairs facing downwards which is really
New areas in the Battle Royale are opening up including Radar Base, Dormitory, Outpost, and Camp. The developers have also added in the airdrop feature from Warzone , allowing players to call in their personalized loadouts made in the gunsmith feat
The collectible card game genre, as we’ve seen, fits the mobile platform like milk fits cereal. Like Beavis fits Butthead. Like alarmingly snug skinny jeans fit those guys you see walking around whose man-parts you really don’t want to be looking at. Along with tower defense games, the touchscreen control format is perfect for these sorts of tit
The awards will be handed out on Thursday, February 7th, during the 2013 D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, and the ceremony will be streamed live on Machinima.com starting at 7:30pm PT. Nerdist head honcho/comedian Chris Hardwick will assume hosting duties for the event, replacing longtime host Jay M
When starting the game newbies tend to play more public matches which does not help that much when it comes to improvement. This is because most of the time in public matches, players go up against bots which aren’t difficult to defeat as they usually just stand and wait to be kil
Players can unlock most weapons, perks, Operator skills and Sorestreaks before level 55.
ICR-1, Cordite, HVK30, GKS, KN-44, Locus, Pharo, KRM262, HBRa3, Man-O-War and Razorback are now player level rewards. Other base weapons can be unlocked by completing challenges in Gunsmith system or within the free Battle
Each of the remaining Game of the Year nominees (all of which placed on Game Rant’s list of the Top 10 Games of 2012 ) earned multiple nominations, as well, with five for Borderlands 2 , seven for Far Cry 3 , eight for The Walking Dead , and three for XCOM: Enemy Unknown . Other heavily nominated games include Halo 4 (six nominations) and Dishonored (five nominatio
The Arctic.50 is probably the easiest sniper rifle to use inside of COD: Mobile battle royale and should be used mainly as a secondary weapon, When compared to other sniper rifles in the game the Arctic 50 has one of the best fire rates , due to this players can deal more damage on opponents at long range because of a very little delay between each s
Something that could have let the developers free up the HUD would have been controller support. Unfortunately, Call of Duty Mobile toyed with controller support, but it has since been removed from the game (or may not have ever been truly implemented at all; there are conflicting reports and by the time we played the game, it definitely wasn’t available). Call of Duty Mobile Frontline Mobile mouse and keyboard support is also technically possible, but we didn’t try it. While some may feel that these extra controller options would give some players an unfair advantage, it seems unlikely, especially if one uses the simple control scheme. Ultimately, it just means less options for players, and so it’s a little disappointing to see controller support remo