VIDEO GAMES

miércoles, 18 de septiembre de 2013

League Of Legends

League of Legends (LoL) , is a game of the genre MOBA developed by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and OS X . At first the servers were housed in the company GOA and recently announced sale to Chinese company Tencent Holdings Limited . On October 7 of 2008 was announced the launch scheduled for September 2009 . Finally the game entered beta closed on April 10 of that year . The game was designed for the operating system Microsoft Windows and Apple released a beta for OS X leaving shortly after the draft next one . This beta has been improved by the users of the game, making it possible to play an updated version of League of Legends. It is also possible to play it in the operating system GNU / Linux through third party applications. In October 2012 , already has 70 million registered players. It is a highly competitive game being one of the most popular games of electronic sports (e-sports).

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General:

Players are formed into 2 teams of Champions (Champions or champs), 3 on 3 or 5 on 5. A July 22, 2013 there are 115 champions available, but this number increases regularly. Each team starts at opposing sides of a map in an area called Spawn , near what is called Nexus (or Nexus). The object of the game is to destroy the opposing team's Nexus. To destroy a Nexus, each team must reach eliminating the enemy base turrets that protect it.

Each player gains levels from killing subjects ( NPCs that constantly spawn and attack the other team) the opposing team and defeating neutral monsters. Killing monsters and pull enemy champions gold provides turret Champion needed to improve and facilitate the battles.

Game modes and matchmaking:

The game can currently be played in five different modes: Tutorial, Custom, op VS AI, Normal and Qualification:

Custom Mode : allows players to manually create custom game sessions that other players can find in the game list and join.
Normal: Two teams compete to destroy the opposing team's nexus.
Co-op VS AI: players compete against a team of BOTS.

Qualification : Only available to players of level 30, the maximum possible. This game mode has special characteristics, for example at the end of each game will give or take away points to players, ranking them in an online ranking. In addition, each team can see the champions that selects the opposing team and can veto a 3 champions, with a maximum of 6 champions banned per game. Is the gameplay used in competition.
Tutorial: Explains the controls and goals of the game for those who start.

The Matchmaking is the matching system, ie determines which players play against one person. This system is based on MMR, hidden numbers determined by wins and losses, and against whom they played. The MMR indicates your level as a player, and the system matches you with people with like MMR. This also applies to the computers, where the team MMR is the average of the respective MMR players.

Fields Of Justice

5VS5 MAP Summoners Rift

3VS3 MAP The Twisted Treeline

Maps in League of Legends are called "Fields of Justice". Currently there are four Fields of Justice that the players can choose from three different maps of 5-on-5 and a single map to 3-on-3. A match puts two teams with a fixed number of players against each other. Each team has its base, which contains the re-spawn point, shop, 11 towers, 3 inhibitors and nexus. The two bases are connected by lanes. Periodically, waves of minions (called minions) leave the nexus, AI controlled by 3 lanes, attacking enemies that are (either minions or champions). In each lane there are a total of 3 towers that attack enemies within range. A turret once destroyed, it can be reconstructed. Each lane has an inhibitor at both ends. The inhibitor is a building that keeps out the enemy team "super minions" who follow the same logic as the common but have more damage and are harder to kill. The team that destroyed an inhibitor will gain a temporary advantage, but the inhibitors reappear after 5 minutes. Besides the lanes, the maps also contain an area called "jungle", which contain neutral monsters that give bonus gold and experience. Some powerful neutral monsters grant the murderer a plus temporary help them in the battle. Another feature is the bush land where blocking the line of sight of units, allowing champions to hide and set up an ambush. The objective of each team is to destroy the enemy Nexus.The first team to achieve this is the victor. The victory also achieved if the opponent surrenders, using a voting system where 70% of the team must agree (May 4 players usually), but only after 20 minutes has passed since the start departure.

Dominion: The Crystal Scar

The domain is a game mode released by Riot Games in September 2011. Domain brings the action to a faster pace and gameplay different tactic. The map is called "Crystal Scar" and has a new capture and play. Inhibitors and Turrets have been removed - instead, the map has five Capture Points. Capturing one of these points become a turret and allow start minions output. The availability of the item varies on this map. A new summoner spell called Garrison was set for this game mode. The Teleport summoner spell is not available in Dominion. This game mode is meant to be much shorter than conventional games 30-45 minutes as the dominion lasts an average of 15-25 minutes duration.

Aram:

ARAM stands for "All Random All Mid" is the latest game version released by Riot for which he developed a new map called "The Howling Abyss" or "Wailing Chasm". In this game mode face 5 on 5 in one street in which you must destroy four towers, an inhibitor and nexus. What really makes this game special is that you can not return to base to buy items and heal, only be after death, healing that applies to the champions is reduced, the increased mana recovery and also account with gold and experience segundo.En ARAM should take into account the difference in power of the champions on each side, as can occur in both teams inequality.

Persistence and meta-game:

The Summoner acts as the persistent element in the game, used to track statistics and scores for each player. Summoners gain experience points and "points of influence" (game currency) for each battle they participate. They level up by getting enough experience. The caller can choose two summoner spells. These spells have a significant implication in the game, and have a high cooldown no mana cost. All spells can be improved by masteries, taking place in a skill tree. The masters are benefits that affect gameplay, structured in a skill tree. All masteries are passive effects although some may increase summoner spells, which can be activated. They are grouped into categories offensive, defensive and utility. The master can be redistributed at will between the two battle. As with the master, the runes do not affect the game much. Runes are categorized into Marks (offensive), Seals (defensive), Glyphs (magic) and Quintessence (utility). Runes must be unlocked in the store and may have more than one more of the same. The player must arrange their runes in the Runebook to adapt its use. The Runebook has limited number of slots for each rune type, but more rune pages can be purchased with Influence Points or Riot Points. Combining two equal level runes produces a random rune of the same tier, while combining 5 equal level runes produces a higher level rune. The League of Legends Store allows players to purchase additional options through Riot Points (RP). Riot Points must be bought with real money, while Influence Points are earned by playing the game. The moderation is conducted through a democratic system known as The Tribunal. In this system, players reporting (those reported) are reviewed by other players on a case by case basis. Players must revise and submit their opinions on the legality of the behavior demonstrated. A consensus makes the final decision. It is notable that players are unable to be permanently banned through this system, since "all permanent bans are distributed manually." Reviewers receive a grade of Justice on the basis of their accuracy, if the right choice is rewarded with points of influence.

Tournaments:

League of Legends has long been a focus of public competition. The 2010 World Cyber Games Grand Final in Los Angeles organized a League of Legends tournament, in which teams from China, Europe and the United States competed. CLG Team North America won the tournament, winning a prize of $ 7,000. The competitive game reached new heights in the first World Championship in June 2011. The event, held at at DreamHack in Sweden, USA offered $ 100,000 in prizes. The European team Fnatic defeated teams from Europe, USA and Asia to win the tournament and received U.S. $ 50,000 in prizes. Over 1.6 million viewers watched the streaming broadcast of the event, with a peak of over 210,000 concurrent viewers in a semifinal. After season 1, Riot announced that the U.S. $ 5,000,000 would be paid over Season 2. Of these 5 million, 2 million is for Riot partners including major eSports IPL and other associations.Another 2 million will season 2 playoffs and championship Riot. The end of one million is intended to apply small organizers to hold tournaments Riot League of Legends. After a series of network problems during season 2 on the eve of the World Cup qualifiers which led to several matches being delayed, Riot revealed on October 13, 2012, a special LAN-based client had developed rapidly, designed for tournament use in environments where the effects of lag and other network problems can be detrimental to the proper organization of an event. The LAN client was deployed first during the first quarter-and semifinal matches played following the re-scheduled, and was in use during the finals. The October 13, 2012, the professional team Murderers Taipei Taiwan (TPA) surpassed South Korea Azubu Frost 3-1 in the final of the World Championship season 2 and said the $ 1 million prize. From 2013, League of Legends is the most popular game e-sports in South Korea. The March 23, 2013, the film studios in Rome hosted the presentation Italian League of Legends, more than 1,500 people were present, along with Riot Games developers, journalists and several guests. The show schedule included a cosplay contest and challenge match between two Italian clans.

Development:

Riot Games was co-founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill. He teamed up with Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the previous designer of the popular Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map Defense of the Ancients, and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon, the administrator of the former official support base for the map (www. allstars.com endowment) to develop League of Legends. Using the original DotA created by Eul (the original Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) as a base, Guinsoo made DotA Allstars by inserting his own mix of content, greatly expanding the number of the heroes, and adding recipes, numerous items and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed version 6 of the map to a new developer, IceFrog. The idea of a spiritual successor to Defense of the Ancients that would be its own standalone game with its own engine, instead mod of Warcraft III began to materialize in late 2005. League of Legends was born "when a couple of members of the very active DotA community believed that the game was so fun and so innovative that it represented the spawning of a new genre and deserved its own professional game with significantly enhanced features and around- gaming services. " Riot Games officially opened its office in September 2006 and currently has about 100 people working on League of Legends ", including their robust technology platform to address and manage the game, and a team dedicated to relationships the community. " According to Marc Merrill, when creating the various champions in the game, instead of letting the champion creation to a few people, they decided to open the champion creation process to everyone in the company based on a template where they could vote in which were champions in the game. The game was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009 to October 22, 2009. Then the transition to open beta until release. In March 2013, Riot Games released a beta version of a client of OS X, in addition to its Windows client.

Some characters:

Ashe:

Soraka:

Nasus:

Cho'Gath:

Katarina:

Warwick:

Kayle:

Ryze:

Rengar:

Renekton:

Annie:

Nocturne:

Lucian:

Teemo:

Garen:

Aatrox:

Jarvan IV:

Kha'zix:

Varus:

Jayce:

Brand:

Rumble:

Talon:

Udyr:

Twisted Fate:

And there are a lot of characters left...

jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2013

TERRARIA

TERRARIA:

Terraria is an action adventure / RPG indie game, released by independent game studio Re-Logic, available through the Steam Store, Xbox Live and Playstation Network. The exploration of the game's features, design, construction, and combat with a variety of creatures in a randomly generated 2-D world.

Released for PC on May 16, 2011, the game is estimated to have sold about 50,000 copies in its first day of release, with over 17,000 players online at the same time during the peak of the first jornada.Durante the week, 200,000 copies of the game were sold, making it the best selling game on Steam for the week, ahead of The Witcher 2 and Portal 2. was maintained number one on Steam for the first six days of its release, and from January 2013 will have sold over 2,000,000 copias.El game was released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade (Worldwide except for Europe and Australia) in late March 2013, with unique content. The date in Europe and Australia PS3 launch was the May 15, 2013. It was announced on March 28, 2013, that Terraria is coming to the PS Vita in the summer of 2013. On 31 May 2013 it was announced Terraria for phones and tablets in the summer of 2013.Siendo developed by Dutch studio Codeglue and include improved touchscreen controls and integration with Facebook to share screenshots.

GAMES MODES:

A Player: If this is the first time a player starts a game must create a character, choosing his appearance, and then select and create a world (Large, Medium or Small) To start the game, in this game mode the player apareccera on a screen with a Pico , one sword and ax copper and get resources such as wood, stone, and extensive mineral that extend from the copper to the Adamantite (strongest material in the game), but first must make a home to protect and to protect various NPCs.

This game can be played with your Friends ONLINE

GAMEPLAY:

Terraria is known for his classic style exploration adventure game, similar to titles like Metroid and Minecraft. Basic gameplay features day and night cycles, and underground night attackers, the elements of the world-building and character advancement. The game has a style reminiscent of mosaics based graphical 16-bit sprites are on the SNES.

In creating characters, each player has a copper ax, copper peak and a short sword with 100 health cobre.Empiezan. When the character first appears in a new world, an NPC, the Guide appears close to explain the basics of the game. There are three difficulties Character: Soft, Mediumcore and Hardcore. They vary only in the death penalty. In Soft, characters leave half of their currencies. In Mediumcore, the characters drop all their items such as coins and ammunition. In Hardcore, characters die permanently, dropping its entirety and becoming ghosts, unable to alter the world. When a player dies Hardcore difficulty, your character is deleted.

ENEMIES:

At night, things may look different, as Zombies and Demon Eyes, constantly attacking the character until morning. At dawn, they all leave, although they are still attacking the character.Diurnal creatures are limited to soft silt. However, the different biomes may contain powerful monsters like giant worms and hornets, while enemies get progressively harder as you get into.Every night, given certain requirements met, there is a one in nine will be a blood moon. Blood Moons generate more enemies and more rare, additional ones as well (as the groom) and give zombies the ability to open the doors, and many other subtle changes, like the NPC dialog and store inventory. For example, female characters seem more moody, and Dryad NPC sells damaged items rather than reduce corruption elements, and may include: "I sell what I want If you do not like, too bad."

Characters can also summon powerful boss monsters, like the Eye of Cthulhu or the Eater of Worlds. Regardless of the chiefs summoned, each map has a dungeon that contains rare and unusual enemies, and you can safely enter only after defeating the dungeon boss Skeletron save on the map. The defeat wall of flesh becomes HardMode today's world, which contains new enemies, blocks, biomes, articles, and more. Heads HardMode are more or less mechanical and more versions of the original heads. HardMode also quickly bring about the elimination of most forest biome and replaces hallowed biome or damaged. Weapons for HardMode also are much more powerful and / or sophisticated.

THE UNIQUE FEATURES:

Beyond the basic functions of the game, Terraria has several elements that are not present in the games which it takes its inspiration. By completing specific objectives (such as defeating a boss, or gaining an extra heart), characters can attract NPCs to occupy structures or rooms that have been built, as the Merchant, Dryad, demolition, arms dealer, clothier, nurse , mechanic, assistant Goblin Tinker and Santa Claus. Santa Claus is available only during the Christmas holiday season (December 15 to 31). Some NPCs have to be unlocked by finding them and untie them first, but also must have a valid home to live under construction by the player. Characters can then buy equipment or miscellaneous items with coins obtained from defeating monsters, selling items, smash the pots, or finding hidden treasure chests in the world. Each map also partly randomly generated biomes with unique monsters and surroundings, as the Underworld (chthonic lava one filled area full of demons and skeletal serpents), Santos, a biome of colors, but dangerous that is generated after that the wall is dead meat, corruption (a dangerous desert full of deadly creatures sick and potholes filled rare items) Islands, containing a chest of different quality, deserts, jungles and floating above and below the ground.

Random events may occur in the course of the game, such as the invasion or the Legion Frost Goblin, which sends a goblin army or dolls (respectively) to lay siege to the houses of the characters, although the latter is only available to fight December along with Santa Claus NPC only. Events such as meteorites that fall, generating meteorite ore can also be caused by destroying shadow orbs in corrupted map areas (biomes) and creating certain boss summoning items on the altars of the devil, etc. . There are also some monsters considered the mini bosses, as Tim's assistant, the groom, Dr. Bones, King Slime and HardMode, Wyverns.

COLLECTING RESOURCES:

Player characters mainly gather resources in Terraria using three basic tools. Blocks of solid brick floor and base that make the world of two dimensions can be extracted using a peak, trees and other structures can be cut with an ax, and wall tiles background, accessories (such as the development of the stations), and other objects "placed" can be deconstructed with a hammer. The Hamaxe is a combination of a hammer and an ax, but it is also a good weapon, so it does not need a sword, which can only be made of some of the rarest materials, but it saves inventory space, eliminating the need for all three tools separately. The speed and capacity to deconstruct certain objects (such as iron ore) with which each tool can be used to extract resources from the environment depends on the quality of the material of the tool is made of and the modifier (generated assessment random from the weapon, tool or accessory as "legendary" or "broken") applied to that item. Wooden tools and copper (low quality materials) very slowly harvest resources, but the tools made of high quality material (eg Demonite, Gold, Hellstone etc) can reap most of the resources in one or two changes. Therefore, like characters acquire better tools, the rate of resource acquisition potential increases. In order to make better products and materials, better tools are needed. After defeating the wall of flesh, improved mechanical versions of the above tools are available. The drill replaces the pick and ax chainsaw replaces. Finally, the functional combination is Hamdrax a hammer drill, saw. Through the goblin tinkerer Reforging gives random a new modifier for the item at a cost of five times the price of the object in coins. Characters can also get resources from dead enemies, from inside chests and clay pots found in the subsoil, and most NPCs.

Harvested resources can be made in new items and equipment through the inventory screen standing in front of the station and selecting appropriate elaboration the right recipe, you are always carrying with them the right ingredients for that recipe. While the ingredients are present, new elements can be done by simply clicking on your recipe, unlike the often-game compared, Minecraft, in which there is that view and "extract" the article with the ingredients. There are several types of crafting stations, and most items must be created in a specific processing station. Some important and powerful elements are available only through the development. As in Minecraft, Terraria crafting system is very "deep" and multilevel. If provided with a possible ingredient in the game guide shows all possible items that can be manufactured from the ingredient or players can mix and match the elements to discover new recipes.

CRAFTS:

Terraria has a manufacturing system the various elements, tools and weapons used by the player. When the player is in the right workstation, like an anvil or drafting table, and has all the necessary components to be produced item, the item can be created in a vertical scrolling menu items available for processing. Often crafting ingredients needed can send the player in long and difficult missions / travel to find specific items used in the production of - for example, the player can go to the forest to develop various jungle-themed items. Other recipes may require the player to defeat the powerful boss monsters to collect the resources offered, while others require extensive mining to gather the resources needed for processing.

DEVELOPMENT:

Terraria was developed by Re-Logic, in development since January 2011 and was built on the Microsoft XNA framework. The game was released on May 16, 2011. Re-Logic consists of Andrew Spinks, who designed and programmed the game, and Finn Bryce, who along with Spinks did the graphic design for the game. The music was composed by Scott Lloyd Shelley through his study resonance matrix.

In February 2012, developers announced they would not be continuing the development of activities, but release a final patch, error correction. However, 505 Games is porting the game to various game consoles and adding new content .505 Games does not have the rights to update the PC version. The January 24, 2013, Andrew Spinks requested functionality suggestions for possible future updates of the PC version. This question was posed to people in the official forum Terraria. On April 3, 2013, Andrew posted a spoiler on possible Terraria update, showing the possibility of the update. More information about upgrading PC 2013 can be found in the FAQ.

Version 1.2 (PC only), which contains many new items and features, is currently projected to be released in late July 2013 to mid August 2013. This update is free for current owners of the PC version of Terraria.

RECEPTION:

Terraria has received rave reviews a Metascore 83/100 on Metacritic. A review of Destructoid praise included for Terraria as "full of depth." Fumble Gameblog.fr reviewer gave the game four out of five estrellas.Otra critically praised "s integration of some of Minecraft 'Terraria concepts in two dimensions. GameZone gave the game a 9 out of 10. GameSpot praised Terraria exploration's and the feeling of accomplishment but criticized its lack of tutorial or specific instructions. Terraria received the # 1 2011 Indie Choice Player of the Year in IndieDB. Spike Chunsoft released version of PlayStation 3 in Japan, including unique features such as a suit based on Monokuma of Danganronpa: happy cause chaos.

PICTURES OF THE GAME:

viernes, 30 de agosto de 2013

XBOX ONE

XBOX ONE

Information:

The Xbox One, called Durango and 720 when it was in development, was presented in Washington DC in the Xbox Reveal on 21 May 2013. In that event, was the console command, the device Kinect 2.0 , different services and some games. At the end of the event, it was announced that the June 10, 2013 at the convention E3 will give additional information on the new console, as well as presenting new games.

On June 9 , 2013, he price and date of Xbox One, cost US499 in the U.S., and 499 Euros, but you can book now and will launch in the United States on November 21 of 2013 . The price may decrease when the console is released in every country in which Microsoft sells, also when you submit a new version of the Xbox One like the 360 is expected to lower its price. The new version is expected in 2015.

HardWare:

Feature	Xbox One
Optical Drive	Blu-Ray/DVD
Game DVR	Yes, Upload Studio
HDCP Encryption	No for games
RAM	8GB DDR3 + 32MB eSRAM embedded memory
CPU	8 Core AMD custom CPU
GPU Clock Speed	853 MHz GPU [n]
Storage	500 GB Hard Drive, External Hard Drive [n]
Second Screen	SmartGlass App on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8
Cloud Storage	Yes, Free Unlimited
Mandatory Game Installs	Yes
Required Internet Connection	After Day One patch, No
Used Game Fee	No
Backwards Compatibility	None
Cross Game Chat	Skype, Party Chat [n]
Motion Control	Kinect
Voice Commands	Yes
Subscription Service	Xbox Live
USB	USB 3.0
Live Streaming	Yes, With Twitch.TV
Reputation Preservation	Achievements will be ported
Web Connection	Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi
Wifi Direct	Built-in (A/B/G/N dual-band at 2.4ghz and 5ghz)
A/V Hookups	HDMI input and output (4K support)
API	DirectX 11.2

Command:

The console command maintains a continuous line in relation to the Xbox 360 . Its cast of buttons, joysticks and triggers is largely similar to its predecessor but it does show some novelties. The main thing is that the triggers have a vibration.
Xbox button does not appear so focused, standing at the top of the peripheral leaving in two new buttons: Menu (which includes the old start and select) and View that allows access conceptual windows related to the game in use. Power is still carried out using AA batteries but has redesigned the compartment in which they are located.

Kinect:

Xbox One features a new version of Kinect that greatly improved Kinect called 2.0. It has a 1080p resolution camera with a level of accuracy and recognition than current Xbox 360. Allows process 2 GB of data per second and captures 30 images per second. Operation by voice command has been enhanced to the user can perform more work in this way.

Technical Specifications:

The console consists of a processor AMD 8-core Custom 64-bit based on Microarchitecture Jaguar and an estimated speed at 1.9Ghz initially thought to be serious speed of 1.6 GHz, 8 GB of RAM DDR3 ESRAM over 32MB, [10] 500 GB hard drive and a DVD Blu-ray 6x. [4] Integrated graphics also run by AMD to be 8 times more powerful than Xbox 360 and composed of 5,000 million transistors, ten times more than Xbox 360. At the moment it is unknown the exact model of the graphical Xbox One will also include USB 3.0, HDMI in-out and 802.11n Wireless. Also the Kinect 2.0 , with a 1080p camera that processes 2 GB of data per second with a response time of 13 billionths of a second. The operating system consists of a kernel of Windows that has several multimedia and Internet Explorer , another dedicated to the console and a third that will manage both aspects simultaneously. It has an optical drive Blu-ray Disc and includes cloud storage system online.
Xbox one also can receive television signals via cable TV system coaxial cable or pay satellite decoders moving pay TV companies.
Spite of all these developments, it is not compatible with CRT TVs will only be possible to connect to TVs and HDMI monitors with this console hardware brings new specifications and especially top.

Software:

The console will have access to movies, live TV, music and web browser. The TV has a similar look to Google TV. The console uses the signal from the cable box and passes through the console over HDMI. Voice control is similar to Siri of Apple. The player can control the console with voice commands. These voice commands responds Kinect 2.0. It also has Skype. The new controller has 16% more battery life and touch-sensitive area, this area will be used for other functions of Kinect and also as a keyboard with one aspect of the traditional pad. He has a new system called Pulse Impulse Triggers . The new Kinect is wake with voice . Camera has a Full HD (1080p) compared to the previous VGA sensor Kinect. Processes 2 GB of data per second with a response time of 13 billionths of a second. There are three operating systems:
Xbox OS, an operating system based on Windows kernel and other operating system that allows the other two to communicate by virtualization. This integration will include Skype calls while you are playing. The Xbox Live will offer storage cloud.

GAMES:

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