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What you’ll initially notice about My Ex-Boyfriend The Space Tyrant is one of two things: the “Approved for distribution by the Ministry of Homosexual Pornography” screen on the trailer, or sometimes nearly naked hot men prancing about. This, I assume, is intentional — the recently-launched Steam Greenlight page boasts that My Ex-Boyfriend is the “gayest game ever made”.
The users on Steam Greenlight have noticed, and the game’s page is full of people arguing about homosexuality. Here’s a small sample of the responses, which range from endorsement for the game to disgust that something like it could exist. SupportTrizworld: Games are meant to be diverse, and I so I would much like more games to embrace subjects like these in different ways. A comical/sketched way like this is pretty entertaining, but other genres should have their way with this as well. Wouldn’t have minded gay marriage in Skyrim, or development in relationsships in that game in general. Upvoted. Rovanus: Unless someone can give a specific reason why this game, and it’s gay theme, should NOT be on Steam, upvote it. Give it the same chance any “straight” game filled with babes and tits has. Gunnar Clovis: Haha; I’m not homosexual, but I am all for this game. Good for you; the world needs some gayness in gaming, as it is so dominized by this noninclusive game design. This is just, fantastic. I’ll play it; as it appears to me to simply be just homosexuality in a comedic storyline, not a “gay porno” as Blujay puts it. Yes, heterosexual males typically are not expected to enjoy a homosexual piece of pornography, but this is a humorous point-and-click adventure game, not porn. Neutral:☥Imi-ib☥: I just have to say, as a gay gamer, no. Why? Because he’s “that gay guy”. You know the kind- that would wear daisy dukes in space. I could be wrong. You might be that type of gay yourself, and would like to see a gay hero in a video game like that. However, until we have a gay character in a game that is there with a purpose, and not there just for the sake of being the queer one in, this just will not do! I don’t agree that the first gay game should involve gay romance. To me, it’s the same sin Tera holds. When WILL we, as homosexuals, EVOLVE. Our sexuality is a sum of our parts- it should not be the whole. I feel bad for “Brian”, the gay male that waited all his life to play this game. Long wait. All I’m saying is, do you REALLY think Dr. Martin Luther King JR would have been taken seriously with short shorts and pink angel wings on his back? This feel more like “a background with a character” and not “a character with a background. Blujay: This looks like this will be a gay version Leisure Suit Larry which is why I won’t buy this no matter how smart or dumb the humour is. While I don’t condemn Homosexuality but lets be honest, a strait guy wouldn’t enjoy a gay porno unless the porn stars were women or it had a really good story. The devolopers are probably not intending for strait people to like game. Resolute: Upvoting just to piss off the right wing religous nutjobs out there. Hate + WTF responses:Master Zone: This game makes me want to projectile vommet… If it did not, then I would be gay, but I am not gay. chonhode: If this was lesbians it would be awesome, but its not. Get this shit off steam please. Benson: Get rid of this fag shit. dropbear: this game is not for me, and by that i mean full of simple primary colour art and pop culture references… oh and it looks pretty gay The responses go on for dozens of pages, with some folk going so far as to report the game for its “sexual content”. Judging from the trailer alone, their reaction refers to the scantily clad men in the game. Last year, a “sex game” got pulled off Steam, because, according to Valve, “Steam has never been a leading destination for erotic material.” If you’re curious about My Ex-Boyfriend, there’s a freely available demo here. Source - PATRICIA HERNANDEZ - Kotaku Looks like the PlayStation 4 will be taking a page from the book of Wii U: according to Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, almost all PS4 games will support Remote Play on the Vita. In other words, you’ll be able to play PS4 games on your handheld, so long as the tech works.
At the PS4 reveal back in February, Sony promised that thanks to their new streaming technology, the Vita will be able to play PS4 games. Today, Eurogamer came out with a report saying that the Vita will be able to play all PS4 games — Sony is making it mandatory for developers to implement the Remote Play functionality in any games that don’t require the PlayStation Eye camera, the report said. Yoshida confirmed this on Twitter today: “Yes, it’s true unless the game requires specific hardware like the camera. It will be great to play PS4 games on PS Vita.” Question is, how well will it work? If you can actually stream PS4 games to your handheld with no hiccups — or if you could switch back and forth without missing a beat, like you can on Wii U — this could be a serious game-changer (and bathroom-enhancer). Source - Jason Schreier - Kotaku When you think of Japanese music games, you probably think of people doing elaborate dance routines. If you want to rack up a high score, you need to move. Or do you? Above, you can see YouTube user Aicecream777 dancing her heart out while playing Dance Evolution Arcade, the Japanese arcade version of the Kinect original. It’s OK if you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons before. You can still appreciate Borderlands 2 shoved into a fantasy-trope skin. Why? Because the whole thing is narrated by Tiny Tina with a few eye-rolly comments from Lilith or an adorably clueless remark by Brick. And chances are you’ve played some variation of a fantasy game before, and can find a reason to chuckle at the poofy outfits or the overly dramatised dialogue Borderlands 2 uses to poke fun at the genre. Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep sets you out on a mission to assault the Dragon Keep (surprise, surprise). You’re basically acting out a real-life (well, real life in the game) board game a la Dungeons & Dragons that is led by dungeon master Tiny Tina and played between the original vault hunters. As you wander around and set out on missions, you’ll hear Tiny Tina’s booming, god-like voice from above, which is fitting since she is the god of your board game realm. And why is all this happening? Because it’s cool, of course! But, actually, when the DLC opens and you watch a brief cut scene before the fun begins, you soon realise that Tiny Tina isn’t dealing with some tragic events from Borderlands 2 quite well. (Spoilers: Roland’s death. /spoilers.) It’s her method of coping. That’s the gist of the new DLC but let’s get into some other basic details that you should know about that I learned while playing the game a few weeks ago. Inside Jokes Make Me Feel Warm And Fuzzy Inside Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep — which opens in a new area, favouring a dark blue colour palette, called the Unassuming Docks — is the fourth piece of downloadable content that adds to the Borderlands campaign. It is a self-aware game made by people who love games. It’s full of inside jokes and digs at video game staples you’ll all likely recognise. There’s a quest that makes fun of the fake geek girl trope. Except instead of a girl having to prove her nerd cred, it’s the male vault hunters in Borderlands 2 who can’t step up to the likes of Tiny Tina and Lilith. Then there are quests that are references to specific games. Lead writer Anthony Burch tells me Dark Souls is one of the more notable ones. More Of Everything Than In Any Other DLC I’m told there are more new enemies and more content and even more music in this DLC than in any other one released for the sequel in this series. There are trolls and treants and skeleton enemies. There are skeletons with shields. The immortal skeleton has a sword in his back that you have to pull out first in order to kill him, because otherwise he’s immortal. There are golems, and their elite version, unchained golems. Treants can level up as you injure them, so you better kill them quick. It’s a similar concept to the goliaths that turn into badass versions of themselves the slower you take to kill them. There are pixies that are neutral until you activate or shoot them. Shooting them makes them your enemy. Activating them with the tap of a button turns them into your friend, and they’ll fly around and give you buffs like to your health and ammo regeneration speed, and even attack enemies for you. There are also giants. And knights with flaming arrows. And probably a bunch of other creatures and soldiers that I didn’t get a chance to bump into during my hour-ish session with the DLC. Remember the Dark Souls quest I mentioned earlier? And all the other game references embedded into quests? Burch tells me the developers were so excited about the prospect of creating quests to represent their favourite games that everyone wanted a shot at it. So there are more quests in this DLC than any other. And the music? Well extra content needs extra music to support it. And composer Raison Varner is quite the talented person for the task. I wish I could share it with you, but it reminded me a lot of of Hans Zimmer’s score for The Last Samurai. But it’s appropriately moody and whimsical for the fantasy setting. A Gun That Shoots SwordsMy favourite part was something I didn’t even get to actually see. While I asked lead writer Anthony Burch what sort of new weapons we’d be seeing in this new content, he mentioned guns that shoot objects. Like swords. A gun that shoots swords. Also: grenades that set off massive, elemental explosions. I didn’t get many other details than that, but I certainly can’t wait to kill every boss and ransack every loot chest in search of these wondrous and mystical weapons. All The Little Details To go along with the theme, you’ve got reskinned everything. Some loot chests are decorated with dice. You can roll for legendary weapons, but it’ll cost you eridium. On the other hand, there’s an increased drop rate for eridium. Which goes perfectly with the semi-recent update that lets you increase your ammo upgrade an extra tier for all your weapons. I mentioned new weapons, right? Well how about Tiny Tina-themed weapons. There are slot machines around the new level — which I haven’t seen with my own two eyes just yet — that will get you some of those crazier ones. This is also more than likely the last campaign DLC. Of course, if they do decide to do another after this one, it wouldn’t be the first time Gearbox decided, what the hell, here’s more content for you. For now we can guess it may very well be the last. It is, after all, a new console cycle. So Gearbox may want to look ahead by now. Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep will come out on June 25 for around $10. Source - Tina Amini - K Though it may seem ridiculous that Microsoft would name its new console without already owning the domain name for it, there are a couple of mitigating factors here. One is that the guy who owns XboxOne.com registered the name almost two years ago. That’s some good guessing!
Fusible reports that Microsoft has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum over the domain name to thwart the lucky cybersquatter, whom records say is a resident of the U.K. and registered the name in December 2011. XboxOne.net also is covered in the same complaint, indicating it is owned by the same person, Fusible notes. Domain registrations are public (indeed, Fusible sniffs out all of them for clues on upcoming games, movies and whatnot). Worse, to have entered into a legal dispute over ownership of a domain name for which no product or service currently existed, would have tipped off everyone what Microsoft was going to call its next console. So the company probably figured it just had to suck it up and battle this thing out after they announced the device. Microsoft seems to have done well in these disputes anyway. Microsoft files dispute over XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net domain names [Fusible] Source - Owen Good from Kotaku As some of you know, the Xbox One was revealed by Microsoft in an official capacity last Tuesday on May 21st at 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. The console was received, initially, with disappointment from the core gaming community over a lack of games showcased. However, many were willing to wait for E3 to see the exclusives.
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