The Sickness of Early Access
The Sickness of SteamBy now pretty much everyone must have stumbled over the one or more games that have been in the state of Early Access.With that being said, I want to make sure that everyone understands my personal point of view with that - in my eyes - a problem Steam has been having for quite a while now.The Early Access state started out small but invaded the entire Steam shop and to be honest it sickens me. It was meant as a specific state developers can publish their games in and customers can help them out by buying the game to fund
Snake's News - Catch-Up Thingy
Well, time to catch up a bit. Work milks me dry.WORLD OF FINAL FANTASYSo THIS is the direction the Final Fantasy franchise is heading? No thanks. Catastrophe.FOR HONOR: CHOOSE YOUR WARRIORWho would win in a Samruai vs Viking vs Knight standoff? Watch all the videos and take your pick.DUKE NUKEM 3D WORLD TOURDuke is back and still looks like he did back in 90s - old, blocky, without any graphical improvements. But with a new capmaign and more voiceover by John St. John.SONIC MANIAThe remaster/remix of classic blue hedgehog games got a 12 minute gameplay made by a person who apparently
Snake's News - Nintendo Direct Things
Things happened (again) and this probably is why you're reading this.TITANFALL 2 TRAILERWhat happens when there's six titans to choose from and you want to get each and every one to know? Well, of course, you get to see the trailer showing each and every one of them!KILLING THINGS IN MAFIA 3How to kill people in Mafia 3 is basically what this video goes down too. Guns, knives, and all that. This game officially isn't a Mafia game at this point, but oh well. It doesn't hurt to watch.GEARS OF WAR 4: HORDE IS BACKAnd of course Run The Jewels has
Can Too Much Hype Kill a Good Game's Reputation?
Hyped games is a sore subject right now after the release of No Man's Sky, a game universally agreed to be over hyped… but is it a bad game? That's hard to tell right now and is something we'll have to judge for ourselves after the dust has settled. Instead, let's take the time to view how it has affected other games in the past. Although I do have my own opinion (both good and bad) on the games mentioned in this article, I'll be sticking closely to the subject... Does too much hype and bad reviews that come as a
Snake's News - Just Two Things
Well, I didn't expect this one to be so short. But it is. No need to stick around for long then.METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE DEFINITIVE EXPERIENCE CONFIRMEDWell, it's confirmed officially. On Konami's website appeared the thing you can see above, thanks to my a-MEI-zing embed skills you can check everything that The Definitive Experience will have to offer. Wonder if owners of the regular one will get it cheaper on Steam.FROSTPUNK: NEW GAME FROM THIS WAR OF MINE DEVELOPERSTrailer is enigmatic, so is the website made for this game. Apparently this game will also have tough moral choices and some
Snake's News - Post-Gamescom Extravaganza
Well, time to write something worthwhile after a long long long time without anything.WITCHER 3: GOTY EDITION TRAILERAll DLCs, a new patch, and Vivaldi's new look - all that in upcoming GOTY edition for one of the best RPG's of the last year. And all of that coming tomorrow.STEEP: HOW TO ROCK THE MOUNTAINUbisoft's remix of SSX shows everything you need to know about it. And boy, I can't wait. I can already hear my favourite snow madness tracks.DEAD OR ALIVE XTREME 3 VR: I WANT THAT SHITThis is an instructing video shown by Koei Tecmo to warn you of dangers
Snake's News - POKEMON GO(NE WILD)
Gamescom drought is in progress, but more news popping up means new post.DARK SOULS 3: ASHES OF ARIADNEL DLCThis mostly PvP-focused addition to the main game just got a trailer. It'll cost $10 for non-Season Pass owners. Get your Farron Greatswords and Uchigatanas ready, cause this thing is coming out on October 25th. Also, grind some souls to level up.POKEMON GO: SNORLAX APPEARS IN TAIPEI, PEOPLE GO NUTSAll in all, Pokemon GO is getting a better and better tool for natural selection. This isn't normal. Also, if you're reading it - TIME FOR STATISTICS!When the game was released, there were almost
Snake's News - STAR CITIZEN EXISTS
After a GamesCom drought in the news - there's something to post, yay. LET'S START.FORZA HORIZON 3 GAMEPLAYAustralian offroad fun? Sounds like Mad Max, but it's just Forza Horizon 3! Still, gameplay's worth watching.STAR CITIZEN GAMEPLAYApparently game still exists and got a proper video. Good to know the money didn't go to waste. *cough* Mighty No.9 *cough*.MADS MIKKELSEN IN DEATH STRANDINGHideo Kojima tweets, fans speculate. Apparently after this photo on his twitter popped up, fans decided to dig deeper only to find out...the rest:Check the outfits. Mikkelsen met with Kojima a couple of times in the past and it just further
Website Updates and Coming Soon
Here at Opium Pulses HQ we're always developing the website based on user feedback and requests. Below we have listed our most recent website updates plus work in the pipeline so you can see what's new and coming up. RECENT UPDATESUser avatars - File uploads now possible! Link to Gravatar is still possible, however this proved less popular than we thought and we had lots of requests for avatar file uploads, so now you can. Commenting system upgrade - You asked us for more formatting tools in the commenting system, and we delivered! Change password on Account page - Previously you had to go via
Snake's News - The Gamescom Report Part Deux!
More trailers.THE CREW: CALLING ALL UNITSWe Hot Pursuit now.STEEP: THE MOUNTAIN IS YOURSA worthy replacement for SSX series.WATCH_DOGS 2 ONLINE MULTIPLAYER TRAILERYOOKA-LAYLEE EXISTS AND IS BETTER THAN CONKER + BANJO COMBINEDAnd I'm sitting here waiting for preorders.SOUTH PARK: FRACTURED BUT WHOLE TRAILERTasteless jokes included.CHAMPIONS OF ANTERIAA 2-hour long demo is available on UPlay right now.GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS - HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR THINGSMake your own atrocity today!GROW UPNo, I'm not telling YOU to grow up, manchild. Sequel to Grow Home got its share of trailers as well.FOR HONOR: FACTIONS TRAILERSamurai, knights, and other freaks. And a gameplay.METAL GEAR SURVIVEAt 0:15 you