Eric Frederiksen is an anime, yakuza and crime geek. Most of all, he's a video game geek. When he's not fixing computers, he's playing video games or talking about them. Eric has written for several sites over the last five years, and he takes up his keyboard and mouse now to bring you gaming news and opinions at TechnoBuffalo.
By Eric Frederiksen |
While some of us were at E3 in person, not all of us could make it. Someone had to stay back and write the stories, right? And further, not every game at E3 was playable. Some of the most exciting games were simply trailers without…
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The hope of a sequel is always one of balance; a balance of new and old, of the things you loved about the original being kept and improved upon, the things you hated being replaced with something new and interesting. GRID 2 has done a…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Say what you will about the Late Night landscape, but Jimmy Fallon has definitely carved out a niche for himself. One of the ways Jimmy differentiates himself from the late night vets is through video games. This week on Late Night, it’s Video Game Week.…
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It’s tough to tell which games are coming to which consoles during E3 press briefings. Unless you’re willing to take the time to check the end of every trailer to see which badges pop up, it can be tough to keep it straight. The list…
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Get your mathbrains ready: Fez II is coming. Announced initially at the Horizon indie game press conference at E3, word went public via the Polytron website and Phil Fish’s twitter. The announcement is short and sweet, just a quick sound clip by Fez‘s composer, Disasterpeace,…
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One of the most confusing elements of any E3, but most especially this year’s, is discerning which games from which conferences are coming to which platforms. When we saw Mad Max at Sony’s show, the instant assumption was that Avalanche’s new game is heading directly…
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According to a story by the Wall Street Journal, the Xbox One will be heading to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and India in late 2014. A later update regarding Japan was even less specific, stating that release dates and details will “be announced at a…
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Keep an eye on those Microsoft Points you’ve been saving for a rainy day, because they have a countdown on them now. One of the changes to Xbox Live coming along with the Xbox One is a change from Microsoft Points to real money currency.…
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No one would blame you for thinking Kingdom Hearts 3 was a PlayStation 4 exclusive. The only time Kingdom Hearts has ventured out of the Sony garden is to appear on Nintendo handhelds. Surely, if Kingdom Hearts 3 was going anywhere else, it would be…
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Fans asked for it, and this time EA delivered. And not in some kind of twisted genie way like it did with SimCity. One of the big reveals of the conference on Monday was the trailer for Mirror’s Edge 2. Tagged with the line “Coming… when…
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In the trailer for timed PS4 exclusive Transistor, SuperGiant shows off the penchant for beautiful, haunting music and gorgeous artwork they first displayed in Bastion a couple years back. Even if most of the footage previous made Transistor look a lot like Bastion, the trailer…
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If two game trailers went in, and only one could leave, it would be Avalanche’s Mad Max trailer. No chance for a good look at Max’s face to find out if they’re modeling him after Mel Gibson or not, but the world itself is a…
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Even if you watched the full Nintendo Direct video, your quota for adorableness has not been fulfilled. To do that, you’d have to watch this Yoshi’s Island 3DS trailer. The same adorable art is back with an updated look and the game looks cute as hell.…
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Along with all the new games from Nintendo’s Direct show, Platinum Games’ The Wonderful 101 was also present, sporting a September 15th US release date (August 23rd in EU). The trailer shows how to use the Wii U gamepad to direct your heroes into various…
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The incredibly brief peek at Microsoft’s show a few weeks ago didn’t tell us much about Quantum Break, the newest game from Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake). While this trailer isn’t gameplay, it lets us in on a few key elements of the game: Stopping…
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One of Microsoft’s big grabs yesterday was Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall as an exclusive to the console. The foot soldier and mech hybrid combat looks unique and has a lot of potential. Most, if not all of the trailer, is running in-engine and some is actual…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Sony’s initial showing of Infamous: Second Son kept the main character mostly in shadows, but the trailer they showed during their E3 conference shows off the main character, whose primary power centers around using smoke, and his straight-laced brother who might end up being his moral and…
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Debuted officially a few weeks ago at Microsoft’s initial Xbox One briefing, Forza Motorsport 5 was one of the chief games at their press briefing yesterday. For the first time, video officially confirmed as being in-engine graphics was shown. It’s not actual gameplay footage, but…
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Nintendo announced today the development of Mario Kart 8 for Wii U. Set to launch in Spring 2014, Mario Kart 8 will feature “anti-gravity racing,” which will allow players to race on walls and ceilings. It made me think of those race tracks I built…
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With the display of Metal Gear Solid V‘s open-world gameplay this week, the voice of Snake should no longer be an issue for most gamers. The trailer shows off the different ways to getting around the game world (set in Afghanistan, at least in this…
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At today’s Nintendo Direct event, Satoru Iwata introduced Bayonetta 2, presented a short cutscene and the first video of actual gameplay, which the trailer above expands on. The game is still full of bloody finishers and over-the-top moves. It looks When Bayonetta returns to consoles in…
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If you’d told me last week that Battlefield 4 would be one of the most impressive things to come out of E3 this year, there’s no way I would’ve believed you. Another military multiplayer shooter? No thanks. The sheer scale and destructibility demonstrated in EA’s…
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Sony destroyed Microsoft in their conference today with announcements of no DRM, a backwards compatibility solution using Gaikai, and a $100 cheaper price tag on their console. They didn’t stop there, though. They followed it up with a hilarious video demonstrating how to trade PS4…
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I think Microsoft’s gotta be a little sore right now. They just got sick-burned at Sony’s E3 conference worst than I think I’ve seen one company attack another in a good decade of E3 announcements. Now, check out Sony’s Used Game Instructional Video. It’s pretty…
