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 |
When designer Andrew Kim started a three-day experiment on his blog to come up with a new brand strategy for Microsoft, I doubt he imagined just how far it would take him. The project, which went viral this summer, managed to catch the attention of…
By Eric Frederiksen |
We’re almost a month into 2013; time to leave 2012 behind and look forward. There’s one part of last year’s video games that I can’t seem to leave behind, though. Even if I’m mostly finished with last year’s games, I’m still listening to the music.…
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Diablo III director Jay Wilson announced today that, after seven years on the game, he is stepping down. Unlike so many announcements across the industry in the last year, though, Wilson isn’t retiring, but rather moving on to something new within Blizzard. In a post…
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If you look way back in the depths of the internet to May 10, 2011, when news hit the internet that Microsoft had purchased Skype, the big words you see are things like “overvalued” and “why?” Since the purchase, little things have trickled out here…
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The downloadable gaming revolution has been a boon for many companies and game designers. We’re at a place in gaming now that we could’ve only imagined five years ago and wouldn’t have dared to ten years before that. It hasn’t, however, been kind to everyone.…
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While we were building our Game of the Year lists here at TechnoBuffalo, I was, without much thought, crossing off anything that had been released on other platforms previously. And there’s a good reason for that: we like rewarding originality and newness. Is Okami HD…
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Here at TechnoBuffalo, we want to give you every opportunity to read our newly overhauled site; on your desktop and laptop computers, of course, but on your tablets and phones, too. But we also want to watch out for you, because you know what? We…
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This year saw the revival of a number of long-dormant franchises. Along with series like Max Payne and SSX came Hitman. Agent 47 has been in hiding since 2006′s Hitman: Blood Money, but he hasn’t aged a day. If anything, it seems like the barcoded assassin is in better shape than…
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On a fanciful whim, TechnoBuffalo’s Senior Gaming Editor Joey Davidson asked me, “Would you like to stare at a spreadsheet for 8 hours?” Well of course I said yes. But no, I wasn’t playing Disgaea. Instead, I was data-mining Wikipedia’s various lists of games by platform…
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Being entirely honest with everyone, I need to say that I liked Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 way more than I thought I would. The multiplayer is some of the most fun I’ve had playing a game online. In the background of the multiplayer…
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After hitting five million users at the beginning of the year, Valve announced Steam has passed six million concurrent users this week. This is, of course, boosted by their seasonal Steam sale, pulling in users for ridiculous deals of half-priced new releases and five-dollar anthologies,…
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More and more frequently, games are being made by a bunch of studios rather than just one. Different studios work on different parts and someone in a dark room with weird magic stitches them together and hopes players won’t notice. Call of Duty: Black Ops…
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We love Thanksgiving, and many of us will be sitting down to a table full of turkey, stuffing, and everything else. Over decades of gaming experience, we’ve digitally eaten more than our share of food, and when we invite our favorite video game characters over,…
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The first thing I did upon hearing about Uncharted: Fight for Fortune was ask my buddy what popped into his mind first when he thought about Uncharted. This is a surprise to me and you both, but “Turn based card game” wasn’t the first thing he…
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Part 4 is the best time to get into something, right? It worked with Star Wars.For whatever reason, I never got into the Halo games. I never really had anything bad to say about them, but they just never caught me. I did play through Reach, but Halo 4 is the…
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Assassin’s Creed III is so close. So close to being Game of the Year material, and so close to being what anyone who loved Assassin’s Creed II knows the series is capable of. So much of it works, but more of it is broken than it should be.…
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Some Nintendo games I remember liking the first time around. Others I didn’t appreciate until much, much later. Shadowgate definitely falls into the second category. It was utterly incomprehensible to my 9-year-old brain and didn’t make a lick of sense until almost ten years later…
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Assassin’s Creed III isn’t the only game coming out today, but the others are sure to get buried under all the assassins and their creeds. So make sure not to miss Okami HD, hitting PSN today. Released originally for the PlayStation 2 in 2006, Okami…
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I don’t usually put Facebook games on my “Must Check Out” list, but Ghost Recon Commander was there. Sadly, creator Brenda Romero (formerly Brenda Brathwaite) announced today that the isometric tactical combat game has been cancelled by Ubisoft with several members of the team laid…
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Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata announced during an earnings call yesterday that the Wii U will be selling below production cost, though he didn’t go into just how far below cost. Historically, Nintendo has sold consoles and handhelds at a profit while its competitors sell at a…
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Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks have announced the first round of DLC for Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials. Set to release in December for $4.99 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Dunwall City Trials adds a new mode to the game with 10 challenge maps…
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After taking some heat for on-disc DLC following the release of Resident Evil 6 earlier this month, Capcom said that the content, an additional difficulty called No Hope, would be free to players. Capcom has announced additional changes that will accompany what they’re calling a…
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This spring, Polish developer CD Projekt Red announced their next RPG, this time based on the Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG property. Yesterday, finally, came the formal announcement: CD Projekt Red is working on Cyberpunk 2077. Working with Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith, CD Projekt Red will…
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Last week at New York Comic Con, United Front Games talked about the upcoming downloadable content for their open-world crime game, Sleeping Dogs. The download, set to be released on October 30th, is a horror-themed story mission. Today, they debuted the trailer above which gives…
