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11May
Dragon’s Crown: Two Big Bouncing Problems for Gaming?
About a month ago, Atlus confirmed the localization of Vanillaware’s Dragons’ Crown for North America. Many gamers like myself, who loved Odin Sphere for the Playstation 2, and Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Wii were absolutely thrilled. Vanillaware’s character designer, George Kamitani has always had a very distinct style, which I have personally loved since as far back as Princess Crown for the Sega Saturn. Dragon’s Crown most noticeably features an evolution of his usual art style; The characters are more dramatically proportioned, with ridiculously mythologized body types. Rather than the daintier frames of Gwendolyn and Oswald, we now have the obscenely muscled Dwarf, and the notoriously buxomed Sorceress. And this has caused quite a bit of controversy amongst gamers with very vocal opinions. It all started with Kotaku’s Jason Schrierer stating Kamitani’s work embodied the “drawings of a fourteen-year-old-boy.” Kamitani fired back on his Facebook, with this image;
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10May
Make a Pinnatta interactive card for the Mommy in your life
Hi everyone! It’s getting close to Mother’s Day and if you haven’t found a card yet, I have a great FREE interactive card solution! Pinnatta.com has a free app for iOS and android that allows you to create and send a message to your loved ones (cough Mother..cough). Remember e-cards? I used to send those all the time. But they are clunky and made in Flash and that doesn’t run on most phones. These messages are not only fun, but they look good too! This year they even made the First year Mom card shown above! As a first time mom, I appreciate the effort! I don’t think you can even find a regular card for first time moms! Pinnatta has a card that can work for any holiday and they are constantly adding new ones! Follow them on Facebook and
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02May
Nintendo hires Robyn Corr as VP of Human Resources
We try to feature Women that work in all areas of the Games Industry. It’s been awhile since we featured anyone, but today we received a press release that Nintendo of America has hired Robyn Corr as VP of Human Resources. She’ll be working at Nintendo of America’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Corr holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and marketing from Prairie View A&M and an MBA from City University in Bellevue, Washington. She comes from Starbucks Coffee Company where she helpd the position as vice president of Partner Resources. “Robyn Corr brings a wealth of experience to Nintendo,” Morse said. “Effective human relations is vital to growing and maintaining any organization, and we’re lucky to be able to access her years of excellence in this field.” For jobs at Nintendo use their search tool here. Also follow @jobsatnintendo to see the latest postings.
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29Apr
Can Candy Crush Saga keep King at the top?
For the most part I hate Facebook games. That is until I had pumpkin. Now I find myself obsessed with a Facebook game. But I also refuse to play by the typical Facebook game rules. Candy Crush Saga is a Facebook and mobile game. I have to admit that I found it first on mobile before I realized it was also a Facebook game. I found out because it asked me to do that thing that I hate most about Facebook games…ask my friends. Yes, one of my pet peeves about Facebook games is the constant “poking” or messaging to friends in order to get something you need for the game. I close my Facebook tab when I see too many messages about how friend A reached reached a certain level or score. These “social” games make money. Most Facebook/mobile games live on a micro-transaction model. This means you pay
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27Apr
Own Mass Effect 3 weapon replicas
I know the GamingAngels audience loves Mass Effect and so I had to post about these amazing replicas. Triforce is creating replicas of the Mass Effect 3 M-6 Carnifex Pistol, M-77 Paladin Pistol and The Geth Pulse Rifle. Pre-orders for all three started on Thursday, April 25th. The replicas are sculpted and cast in polystone. The M-6 Carnifex and the M-77 Paladin measure 12.5 inches in length and weigh in at 7 pounds each. The Geth rifle has a bit more heft to it coming in at 20 pounds. That’s some serious weight to carry around all day. The replicas are not just for looking good though. They have working LED effects too. In case the guns are not just for sitting on a cabinet (looking at you cosplayers!). Unfortunately these will all be limited runs with the Paladin only being made to 200 units. The M-6 Carnifex and the
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17Apr
Girl Scouts of LA gets video game patch
I am so excited to be writing about this announcement! At GamingAngels, we have volunteered with many groups to encourage young girls to explore STEM careers. While the Boy Scouts have a technology badge, the Girl Scouts never have, until now. Women in Games International is working with Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles to create the first video game patch for Girl Scouts. WIGI hopes that the partnership will end up creating a nationally recognized badge for the Girl Scouts The patch will use Gamestar Mechanic, which is a development tool used for the National STEM Video Game Challenge. The platform has already helped over 350,000 youth explore what it’s like to create games. “Our ultimate goal is to create a STEM-aligned video game badge for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America,” said Amy Allison, vice president at WIGI. “Creating this badge will get young girls
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15Apr
Video Game Design camps double across US
Parents everywhere are starting to look into where they send their son or daughter to summer camp. It’s a summer ritual, but it looks like instead of camps focused on archery, or swimming, more and more camps are focusing on science and math. The ESA sent a press release stating that this summer over 690 summer programs will be offered in video game design! That is amazing! The number has more than doubled since 2012. This is great news for the gaming industry as it can work to help interest kids to a career in the game industry and bring new and innovative ideas with them. “The increase in video game design summer programs reflects parents’ growing recognition of video games’ potential to excite kids about educational concepts,” said Rich Taylor, senior vice president for communications and industry affairs at ESA. “These programs not only offer students a fun opportunity
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05Apr
Join the Party with GameStop & enter to win an Xbox 360!
Join the Party with GameStop and you will be part of something exciting! By visiting GameStopJoinTheParty.com you can help unlock exclusive content from the upcoming game, Injustice: Gods Among Us. This includes an early premier of the game’s opening cinematic and you could also win one of ten Battle Editions of the game along with an Xbox 360. If you pre-order Injustice: Gods Among Us atGameStop.com/Injustice, you will get an exclusive Red Son Pack which features bonus missions and skins for Superman, Wonder Woman and Solomon Gundy. I cannot wait to play Injustice:Gods Among Us. We’re so excited at GamingAngels that we are giving away a copy of Injustice: Gods Among Us and a brand new Xbox 360. There are many ways to enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Good luck and JointheParty so we can unlock the opening cinematic! a Rafflecopter giveaway We’re so excited at GamingAngels that we
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30Mar
Grab the family & a board game on #TableTopday!
Today is #TableTopDay! I know I didn’t give you a ton of advanced notice, but I have baby brain so I forget easily. But this morning while pumping, I saw the hashtag #tabletopday and looked up the information. The day is hosted by awesome geek channel, Geek and Sundry. The idea is to grab your family and friends and spend the day playing any board games. If you are in need of ideas, Geek and Sundry has approved board games at Target stores. Most recently we received Star Trek Catan and plan on diving into that today. DriveThruStuff has 20 free RPG books for today. Your local comic book or tabletop gaming store is probably sure to have an event. Head over to TableTopDay.com to put in your zipcode and see what is happening locally. Or you can just tune in to http://geekandsundry.com for link to the live stream event
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28Mar
Create LEGO Star Wars-inspired Easter eggs
If you have to do Easter eggs, why not do them on your terms? The great folks behind LEGO Star Wars sent us some steps on how to geekify your Easter. Following the steps below you can re-create all your favorite LEGO Star Wars characters including Yoda, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. If you are looking for a gift for an Easter basket, The Empire Strikes Out – LEGO Star Wars dvd is available now. STEP #1 Hard boil your eggs To save a lot of mess and wasted time make sure you hard boil your eggs before decorating them. STEP #2 Choose your characters There are plenty of Star Wars characters to choose from, favourites of ours include Yoda, C-3PO, Darth Vader, R2-D2 and Darth Maul. STEP #3 Prepare your paint and colors To decorate your LEGO Star Wars inspired eggs it is best use either poster or acrylic
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