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  • Jurassic Life: A Jurassic Park Half-Life 2 Mod That Is A Wonder To Behold

    Hold On To Your Butts.

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    A team of programmers have spent over six years developing this [amazon_link id=”B004KKXMSI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Jurassic Park[/amazon_link] mod for Half-Life 2 called Jurassic Life. Now six years is a long time to be working on the game but when you take into account how small the group developing the mod is then it is truly amazing how this game is coming along.

    They have just released a new video on their website showing off some of the locales and dinosaurs that you will be coming across.The video is also accompanied by John Williams’ iconic score which makes this mod even greater. And let’s be honest, we haven’t had a good Jurassic Park game since the SNES version (crappy Mode 7 and all) so let me just give encouragement to the developers and say we JP fans can not wait to play this when it is done.

    http://youtu.be/lTPk4iO47RQ

  • VGA 10 Awards Rundown

    Unlike The Oscars, They Got It Right.

    OK, I can admit when I am wrong. I can be the bigger man (not just body wise) and say that while I did make fun of the VGA’s in last Friday’s post I actually enjoyed watching this year’s show. True they did not give out a lot of awards but they did place a good importance on the awards that were given out. It seems they heard the cries of years past that the show was merely a bloated preview special. Don’t get me wrong, it was certainly bloated but not to the point of being useless.

    Three things that I took away from the VGA’s:

    1. It was a breath of fresh air to see a deserving game like The Walking Dead win Game of the Year over the more obvious choices.

    2. The Last of Us is coming out on May 7th. I think I lost man points with the excitement I showed in front of my girlfriend when this was announced.

    3. Although Zachary Levi had a reason for his blonde hair (filming the Thor sequel) there was no reason for what happened to Alison Haislip’s hair. Not being too critical because she is uber-hot but….dang.

    Here is the rundown of all the winners from VGA 10.

    • Game of the Year- The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
    • Game of the Decade- Half-Life 2 (Valve)
    • Studio of the Year- Telltale Games
    • Best PS3 Game- Journey (thatgamecompany)
    • Best 360 Game- Halo 4 (343 Industries)
    • Best Wii/Wii U Game- New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo)
    • Best PC Game- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis)
    • Best Handheld/ Mobile Game- Sound Shapes (Sony/Queasy)
    • Best Shooter- Borderlands 2 (Gearbox)
    • Best Action/Adventure Game- Dishonored (Arkane Studios)
    • Best RPG- Mass Effect 3 (Bioware)
    • Best Multiplayer Game- Borderlands 2 (Gearbox)
    • Best Individual Sports Game- SSX (EA)
    • Best Team Sports Game- NBA 2K13 (2K)
    • Need For Speed: Most Wanted (Criterion)
    • Best Fighting Game- Persona 4 Arena (Atlus)
    • Best Adapted Video Game- The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
    • Best Independent Game- Journey (thatgamecompany)
    • Best Graphics- Halo 4 (343 Industries)
    • Best Song in a Game- “Cities” by Beck for Sound Shapes
    • Best Original Score- Journey (thatgamecompany)
    • Best Male Performance- Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2
    • Best Female Performance- Melissa Hutchinson as Clementine in The Walking Dead
    • Best Downloadable Game- The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
    • Best Social Game- You Don’t Know Jack (Jellyvision Games)
    • Best DLC- Dawnguard for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda)
    • Most Anticipated Game- Grand Theft Auto V