With a mere five days under our belt, the TechnoBuffalo Minecraft server has enjoyed a heck of a first week. 24 hours a day there are people on the server mining and building their little hearts out, and if you haven’t been there yet, you absolutely have to swing by to even just check out some of the amazing things being built. First up is the spawn area. You first enter the world in...
The TechnoBuffalo staff meets and talks a lot. Conference calls of the weekly variety are a constant. The doughnuts promised by a certain Noah Kravitz, however, are not. More than that, though, are all of the interactions that go on every day. We chat with one another all the time. It was in one of these discussions that Sean Aune pitched me an idea for editorialization. Will the next...
You spoke, we listened. TechnoBuffalo now has its own Minecraft server. Starting Sunday, July 10th, 2011 at 8:30PM EST, the server goes public. The multiplayer IP address: Minecraft.TechnoBuffalo.com Why a Minecraft server?We actually have a few reasons, and I’m willing to share a couple with you here and now. You folks asked us to do this. In several of the posts about Minecraft, we...
Video games used to suck from January 1st to August 31st. We're talking a good nine months of suckage. In the time between the big blockbusters, you could have a baby. From September 1st to New Year's, though, was insane. You knew the next Zelda, Halo, Half-Life and Grand Theft Auto were all going to come out within the same 16 week period. And now? There isn't a video game season at...
Move vs. Kinect is the focus of Console Wars Season 2, and in this fourth round, LP takes a look at the impact E3 2011 had on the latest generation of motion controls. The Sony Move and Microsoft Kinect were released within just a few months of one another, and that immediately set up a Move vs. Kinect argument amongst gamers. The first round of this season was all about the actual...
Microsoft has made the decision to fuse its two online gaming portals and house them under one intuitive roof, Xbox.com. The news broke when a statement appeared on the Games for Windows homepage, explaining that the move is being implemented to consolidate the studio’s gaming services. “Games for Windows Marketplace will fully transition over to Xbox.com,” reads the gaming service’s...
Maybe this is just me being an old curmudgeon (get off my lawn, etc.), but I don't think the title screens of today are at all as good as they used to be. I could sit here and prattle on about every single ancient title screen that tickled my fancy over the years, but I can't do the same for current games. In fact, outside of the Resident Evil series, I don't really think any of them...
New data from market research firm Newzoo has found that United States consumer spending on video games in 2011 will reach a total of $21.6 billion, just a bit lower than 2010’s statistics. In addition to this statistic, The 2011 Games Market Revenue Report, due to be released on July 5th, notes that 145 million people in the U.S. will spend money on games in 2011, with most of this...
I'm calling it a "Twitter Debacle" simply because the headline doesn't allow space to properly describe what went down. To sum it up, Jim Redner, head of The Redner Group, made a bad move on Twitter. His company represents a host of 2K Games releases. The most recent of which was Duke Nukem Forever. Redner Tweeted that some reviews were too venomous and that he'd be reconsidering which...
What games are coming out this week? Let TechnoBuffalo help you keep track with all of the new releases for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWIINintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII is an aerial shooter for Nintendo Wii which places players in the vanguard of Allied forces in the most crucial air...