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SpiderMan Homecoming Virtual Reality Experience

 
Gaming industry pays tribute to comics legend Stan LeeNov 13, 2018 - EurogamerThe video games industry is paying tribute to comic book legend Stan Lee, who died yesterday, aged 95. Alongside Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Stan Lee helped create some of Marvel's most popular heroes, including the X-Men, Hulk, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil and Doctor Strange. A younger generation of fans will know him simply as the figurehead of Marvel Comics - and famously for his cameo in every Marvel film. Read more… How game design encourages order and chaos in equal measureOct 20, 2018 - EurogamerA while ago I've had a discussion with a certain Spelunky-loving editor of this website in which I argued that most roguelikes, Spelunky in particular, were too chaotic for me to handle. I like the orderliness of a JRPG or a round-based strategy game, games where after a while things follow a reliable pattern. However, there's a flaw in my argument, which is that game design, no matter what type of game you prefer, is all about learning patterns. It's only through learning these patterns that emergent play, the chaotic and unexpected stuff, can actually happen. On the box, The Banner Saga, Spelunky and Spider-Man have nothing in common, but they all introduce you to their own set of rules before letting you explore what to do with them. This is most obvious in the beginning of every game you play. JRPGs are notorious for having text-heavy tutorial sequences at the start of the game, which can be overwhelming even when you get to try the moves you've just read about. Resonance of Fate for example has a tutorial you can spend over half an hour on, since everything is cramped into one single arena. It's not only confusing due to large walls of text, but also because you're introduced to many different skills at once and are expected to use all of them immediately to be successful in battle. Read more… Shadow of the Tomb Raider physical sales down on Tomb Raider rebootSep 17, 2018 - EurogamerShadow of the Tomb Raider's launch week physical sales were down 70 per cent on those of the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. Lara Croft's latest adventure failed to top the UK chart, too - held off by another amazing week of sales for PS4 exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man. Of course, Shadow will likely have sold more digital downloads now than 2013's game did (as ever, UK numbers company Chart-Track does not count these). But Shadow also only posted a meagre gain in sales on the more recent Rise of the Tomb Raider, which unlike Shadow was initially released only for Xbox One. On the topic of console exclusives, Spider-Man continues to sell phenomenally well. It is top of the chart again this week, and in its two weeks of release has already almost matched the lifetime sales of this year's God of War - which didn't do shabbily either. Read more… Spider-Man PS4 is the fastest-selling game of the year so farSep 10, 2018 - EurogamerPlayStation 4-exclusive Spider-Man has sold brilliantly. The web-swinging Avenger shifted more copies in his launch week than any other game this year so far. In fact, UK numbers company Chart-Track reported it is the fastest-selling individual format release since the PS4 version of Call of Duty: WW2 last November. That means ol' Spidey sold more than fellow PS4 exclusives God of War, Detroit and Yakuza 6, and more than any other exclusive on any other platform. Read more… Spider-Man VR now gumming up cybergogglesJul 4, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunSpider-Man, they say. Spider-Man, they repeat. He does whatever a spider can, they tell us. Alas, spiders are incapable of releasing games on PC, so we’re not getting the Batman-lookin’ Spider-Man PS4 game that Sony flashed around at E3. Nope, our fanciest modern-day Webslinging option is a new virtual reality doodad promoting that there new movie Ian Hollywood has made. Spider-Man: Homecoming – Virtual Reality Experience is out now, a little doodad free for gogglenauts, and its launch mostly reminds me how much I like other games about swinging around. …