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Hawken (video Game)
''Hawken'' is a free-to-play multiplayer mech first-person shooter video game. The game features five game modes: Team Deathmatch, Deathmatch, Co-op Bot Team Deathmatch, Siege, and Missile Assault. It follows the freemium model of game monetization—with in-game purchases as the main source of revenue. Hawken had closed alpha and beta programs that took place before the official PC open beta release on 12 December 2012. The game had been constantly updated with new content and balance changes in the form of a game patch until Spring 2014. Following Reloaded Games' acquisition of the game's IP and assets in March 2015, the developers launched the game on the console platforms in early July 2016. On October 2, 2017, the developers announced via the game's Facebook page that on January 2, 2018, the PC servers will be permanently shut down, along with it the PC platform and any DLC/purchasable content. The developers cited a need to "refocus our development efforts". The game is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
505 Games
505 Games S.p.A. is an Italian video game publisher based in Milan. It was founded in 2006 as a subsidiary of Milan-based Digital Bros. History 505 Games was founded in 2006 in Milan as a subsidiary of Digital Bros. The company found its early success through its video games such as ''Cooking Mama'' and '' Zumba Fitness''. In April 2012, 505 Games took over publishing duties from THQ for the fitness game ''Adidas MiCoach'', following a lawsuit between THQ and Adidas. In April 2013, they acquired the license of ''Drawn To Life'' series. The purchase included rights to the franchise as a whole. In November 2013, it canceled Ashes Cricket 2013 and issued refunds. In April 2014, 505 Games announced a publishing agreement with Adam Orth's Three One Zero of the game '' Adrift''. The game is described as a first-person experience, where the player controls an astronaut exploring debris of a wrecked station in outer space. In January 2015, 505 Games confirmed the acquisition of the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person (video Games)
In video games, first person is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player's character, or a viewpoint from the cockpit or front seat of a vehicle driven by the character. The most popular type of first-person video game today is the first-person shooter (FPS), in which the graphical perspective is an integral component of the gameplay. Many other genres incorporate first-person perspectives, including other types of shooter games (such as light gun shooters, rail shooters and shooting gallery games), adventure games (including visual novels), amateur flight simulations (including combat flight simulators), racing games (including driving simulators), role-playing video games, and vehicle simulations (including sailing simulators and vehicular combat games). Game mechanics Games with a first-person perspective are usually avatar-based, wherein the game displays what the player's avatar would see with the avatar's own eyes. Thus, players typical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massively Multiplayer Online First-person Shooter Games , a blog about MMOs
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Massively may refer to: *Mass *Massively (blog) ''Joystiq'' was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL. It was AOL's primary video game blog, with sister blogs dealing with MMORPG gaming in general and the popular MMORPG ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Shooters
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre, sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a First person (video games), first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the player character in a three-dimensional space. The genre shares common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action game genre. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D computer graphics, 3D and 2.5D, pseudo-3D graphics have challenged hardware development, and Multiplayer video game, multiplayer gaming has been integral. The first-person shooter genre has been traced back to ''Wolfenstein 3D'' (1992), which has been credited with creating the genre's basic archetype upon which subsequent titles were based. One such title, and the progenitor of the genre's wider mainstream acceptance and popularity, was ''Doom (1993 video game), Doom'' (1993), often considered the most influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Video Games
Numerous video games were released in 2012. Many awards went to games such as '' Borderlands 2'', ''Far Cry 3'', ''Journey'', ''Mass Effect 3'', ''Dishonored'', '' The Walking Dead'' and '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''. The year began with the worldwide release of Sony's handheld game console, the PlayStation Vita, originally launched in Japan in December 2011. The end of the year marked the worldwide release of Nintendo's home game console, the Wii U. Critically acclaimed titles Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. Highest-grossing games The following were 2012's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). Events Hardware releases The list of game consoles released in 2012 in North America. Series with new entries Series with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K2 Network
K2 Network, Inc. was an American producer and publisher of video games based in Irvine, California. It pioneered the use of the free-to-play (or " freemium") business model among North American and European MMO game publishers in 2004. On July 5, 2012, the company merged with Reloaded Games, and the merged entity ceased its K2 Network branded operations. History K2 Network was founded in 2001 on the belief that "the community experience of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG’s) will become one of the most significant forms of entertainment in the 21st century." The company initially licensed games created by Korean development studios, and localized and serviced those games in North America, South America and Europe via its portal GamersFirst.com. In 2007, the company raised $16m USD in a Series-B financing round led by Intel Capital. Licensed MMOs K2 Network's licensed titles included '' Knight Online World'' for which it acquired the Western territory rights in 2003 and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reloaded
Reload or Reloaded may refer to: Film * ''Reloaded'' (2009 film), a Nigerian film * ''Reloaded'' (2017 film), a Hindi-language film * Reload (film), a 2019 Sri Lankan comedy thriller film Music * Reload, project by Mark Pritchard Albums * ''Reloaded'' (DJ BoBo album) (2013) * ''Reloaded'' (Green Apple Quick Step album) (1995) * ''Reloaded'' (Alexz Johnson album) (2011) * ''Reload'' (Tom Jones album) (1999) * ''Reloaded'' (Roc Marciano album) (2012) * ''Reload'' (Metallica album) (1997) * ''Reload'' (EP), a 2020 EP by NCT Dream * ''Reloaded'' (Rascalz album) (2002) * '' Reloaded: 20 Number 1 Hits'', a 2015 album by Blake Shelton Songs * "Reload" (Sebastian Ingrosso and Tommy Trash song) (2012) * "Reload" (Wiley song) (2013) * "Reload", a 2003 song by Rob Zombie on '' The Matrix Reloaded: The Album'' Other uses * ''Reloading'', the act of requesting the displayed web page again from a server, typically to look for changes. * Another term for Handloading, the small s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act Of Valor
''Act of Valor'' is a 2012 American action film produced and directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, and written by Kurt Johnstad. Starring Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano and Emilio Rivera, as well as active duty U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, the film was released by Relativity Media on February 24, 2012. The film opened to negative reviews from critics, but was well-received by audiences, grossing $81 million worldwide and being nominated at the 70th Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song. Plot In Manila a terrorist assassinates the United States Ambassador to the Philippines, and also kills his son and dozens of children at an international primary school, using an ice cream truck to lure the children then detonating. The mastermind, a Chechen terrorist, Abu Shabal, escapes to a training camp in Indonesia. Elsewhere in Costa Rica, two CIA officers, Walter Ross and Lisa Morales, meet to consolidate intelligence about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Comic-Con International
San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC. The convention was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans that included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Ron Graf, and Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention", Dorf said during an interview that he hoped the first Con would bring in 500 attendees. It is a four-day event (Thursday–Sunday) held during the summer (in July since 2003) at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the official opening, professionals, exhibitors, and pre-registered guests for all four days can attend a pre-event "Preview Night" to give attendees the opportunity to walk the exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Waxman
Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. Biography Sharon Waxman is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and the founder and editor-in-chief of TheWrap. She is also the host of “TheWrap-Up” podcast, creator of TheGrill business conference on the convergence of entertainment and technology as well as the creator of the Power Women series focused on women’s leadership, including the Power Women Summit, the largest annual gathering of women in media and entertainment. A leading authority on the entertainment business and media, Waxman was the Hollywood correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and a correspondent for eight years for ''The Washington Post''. She started out as a foreign correspondent, covering Europe and the Middle East for a decade. She is the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Interactive
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media Group, CBS Interactive, ViacomCBS Streaming), a division of Paramount Global, oversees the company’s streaming technology and offers direct-to-consumer services, free, premium and pay. These include Pluto TV, which has more than 250 live and original channels, and Paramount+, a subscription service that combines breaking news, live sports, and premium entertainment. History As CBS Interactive On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008, CNET, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV.com, and Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired video game-based website Giant Bomb and comic book-based website Comic Vine from Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to BermanBraun. This occasion marked the return of video game journalism, video game jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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