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A full playlist of videos from the epic Titanfall, made by @moobit for @gamerdadsUK.
Contains:
*EXCLUSIVE press access behind the scenes from last year’s announcement launch
*A vlog regarding the game and commentary on the state of FPS games and originality in the industry today
*A guide on what to expect in YOUR first game Titanfall
*How to play Hardpoint Capture mode
*Footage from Gamerdads Last Titan Standing game night
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Footage and commentary from @moobit of the first @Gamerdads TITANFALL game night, held this week. Join us via the links below for loads of Mature Gamer shenanigans, and check out @moobit YouTube channel for more footage from the night!
A vlog/commentary over a session of Hardpoint Capture on the excellent TITANFALL on Xbox One. Footage was recorded on the @gamerdadsUK game night and shows you some tactics to use in game, as well as showing off some of the epic mayhem that you will encounter in an average game!
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In this weeks gaming themed THOUGHT FOR FRIDAY VLOG, I show you a walk through of the training mode from the new TITANFALL videogame (available 14 March 2014 on XBox One and PC), whilst discussing a question that this very game brings up…
In the modern world of Films and Video Games, releasing known franchise sequels and relatively minor updates tends to take priority over originality and innovation (at least in AAA titles) – there are obvious marketing and profitability reasons for this, but it can mean that the true pioneers in the genre don’t get as much of a look-in with casual audiences.
Where have all the Codeboys gone?
Taking video games into account: I grew up in the era of the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and C64 – a time where you could open a magazine and find ads for both AAA titles from the likes of Ocean and Codemasters right alongside ads for Indies and “Bedroom Developers” – the same was true in the shops – everything was clearly on view for all to see, and new styles of games were getting published and more importantly noticed all the time.
Due to my blogging for websites and Media Production, I am lucky enough to work within the games industry itself to an extent and therefore get to see details of all sorts of games from all genres. There are also many “Hardcore” gamer fans out there who eat up every morsel of gaming information on the net and frankly take it for granted that everyone knows what they know…
However; look from the perspective of a “casual” gamer and you realise that many people for many years in the last generation of consoles only “see” the big name games out there – the Call of Duties, the Battlefields, and the FIFAs of this world and don’t get to see the hidden gems buried deep within the pages of Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, and Steam – and that to me is a crying shame for the entertainment industry as a whole.
Hello? It’s good to be back!
However, as mobile technology started getting more sophisticated and more importantly cheaper, and with the rising popularity of Android games consoles, we seem to now be in the opening years of a resurgence of smaller dev houses and even the “bedroom developers” of old – we only have to look at the most recent example of the worldwide mobile smash “Flappy Bird” taking the world by storm and then just as quickly being taken down by it’s own creator who claimed he couldn’t cope with all the attention he was getting.
This isn’t to say that tablet and mobile gaming isn’t without it drawbacks, or that every game is truly original (Since Flappy Bird was taken down, hundreds of clones are now available to download from the app store), however apps do offer the best chance of a true original “game changer” to get noticed by the crowd.
Game fashions fit? Put it on the risk!
I believe that via a combination of a direct response to this and also the latest console hardware advances, we are beginning to see AAA companies taking a couple of risks too – Titanfall does seem to be amongst the first of these new IPs to try something new, albeit no MASSIVLY new – and for the most part is succeed brilliantly…
I just hope that this is a sign that there is more change to come and that the latest generation of big consoles are not doomed to yearly update mediocrity like (with hindsight) the last generation mainly seemed.
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A quick overview of what you will find in your first game of Titanfall on Xbox One and PC.
After my first evening out with my lovely wife since Christmas (Yey for In-Laws! :D), I jump into the @gamerdads Titanfall online party a little tipsy (hence the crappy settings on my PVR, LOL!).
The Titanfall Beta is available to ALL Xbox One owners to download for FREE right now via the Xbox Live Marketplace, and (as long as you registered for the PC beta prior to 4pm PST, 15th February) on PC via your Origin account .
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Yesterday I was lucky enough to sit-in with the brilliant Kev Castle at Nottingham Hospital Radio as he interviewed Strictly Come Dancing’s LEN GOODMAN and also the wonderful professional Mentalist AARON CALVERT.
In today’s episode of #Awesomesauce, we join the pair halfway through the interview as Aaron reads the mind of host Kev live on air:
You can get links to the full interview with Aaron Calvert, along with links to Kev’s interview with the legend that is Len Goodman via the NHR Facebook page – links are below.
Kev Castle interviews Aaron Calvert on @NottsNHR
I’d like to say a big thank you to Kev from Nottingham Hospital Radio for inviting me down to the studios to see what goes on down there – he is a true professional, very talented, kind, and a great mentor – he has definitely inspired me to chase a second career in radio and has cemented in my mind just how much I love producing podcasts, etc.
You can check out Kevs live shows EVERY SUNDAY MORNING via a stream embedded on the NHR homepage. It is an interactive show, so please do contact him via Twitter and Facebook with requests and suggestions for his “Worst Songs” segment!
If you like what you see from the very charming & charismatic Aaron Calvert, then as mentioned in the video he has three city shows coming up in Derby, Nottingham, and Manchester – check out his website for full details and to buy tickets.
Also hit him up on Twitter and Facebook via the links below and tell him how you heard about him!
*GET TICKETS FOR AARON CALVERT:MIND GAMES 2014 HERE.
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I meet up with the team from Quatum Tiger Games to discuss their in-development steampunk RPG “STEAMSAGA”. Get more information HERE and look for the Preview soon at Gamerdads.co.uk.
*GamerDads Geocaching Social Group: get in the great outdoors with the kids on this international Treasure Hunt game! Details of the game and our FACEBOOK GROUP can be found HERE: http://tinyURL.com/gdsgeo
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WE’RE BACK!!!
@moobit and @joeyP63 return to entertain you with more randomness and gaming awesomesauce from the perspective of a group of honest, mature gamers and the biggest Mature gaming community on the web – @gamerdads!
This week we discuss were we’ve been and what we’ve been up to in the past few months, our review time with the PS4 and Xbox One and their respective launch titles – which one should YOU buy? We also discuss sexy Pokemon, warn the world about “Mr Mime’s” peeping tom tendencies, and get excited for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary episode “Day of The Doctor” and moobit has to teach Joey WHO John Hurt is…
Continuing on today’s theme of Parental Responsibility in gaming (see my vlog on the subject HERE), here is an example of a child friendly educational app that I reviewed for the Gamerdads Network..
The video shows part of a self-made “bring your Daughter to work day” that I decided to do during my Daughter Half-Term holiday week. It shows a Father-Daughter trip to the Nottingham Gamecity 8 Expo, where I teach my eager Daughter how to be a camera operator for the day.
In one of the venues we speak to the Developer of the rather good educational/creative/story time app “Night Zoo Keeper” – look for a full review on Gamerdads.co.uk and a discussion on the Gamerdads Podcast very soon.
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