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Wednesday 11 June 2014

Top 3 Most wanted games of 2014

Top 5 most wanted games of 2014

3- Half Life 3: Many people is wanting this game because is the third part of the Half-Life series, which the last part was launched on  2004. Because of this, many players are annoyed because have passed 10 years and there's no third part yet.



2- Super Smash Bros. 3ds/ Wii U
 The two games represent the fourth instalment in the Super Smash Bros. series of games, in which characters from various NIntendo and other companies franchises fight against each other. The 3DS version will be released in Japan on September 13, 2014 and North America on October 3, 2014 and 
the Wii U version will be released in 2014. 

1-Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
The ones who played the original ruby and sapphire, are the most interested in this game, a remake of the Hoenn region. The original games were launched on 2005 and now, in 2014, these remakes are in process. These games will combine the graphics of the latest XY Pokémon, with the temathic and history of Ruby/Sapphire. You will explore this entire region capturing old pokémon with the 3d graphic. 
  

Tuesday 10 June 2014

POLYBIUS:
There is an urban leyend of an arcade game of a game center in Portland,and it was programmed by Ed Rottberg.The game consisted in a spaceship that had to destroy different enemies in each level.The game became so popular,and some people were adicted to it.In some time,the people that played the game started to experiment some symptons like neurological afections,dizziness and vomits and also subliminal mensages like "kill yourself","no thought","honor apathy"and "no imagination".
People that went to that game center,often saw two men in black,that when the game center was closed took notes of the effects of it,this made people suspect that the teo men in black were part of the government.
One day,it was comfirmed the death of a player of Polybius,and a few days after,the videogame dissapeared from the game center forever,maybe because of the men in black,that it is supposed that they stole it.


The grand debate of the influence of videogames:
Nowadays,people spend a lot of time playing videogames,as muchas as we are spending more and more time on it,we want to know if it is good or bad to us.
Scientist have found some interesting information of it:
It is proved that it teach to have more attention,speed,accuracy and multi-tasking.
But there are also some negative effects of them:
-Some of them areadictive.
-Many people spend so much time with them.
-In some cases attention problems.
Some videogames are educative,this means that it teach us something,but some people mantain that all the games,educative or not are bad,they are not true because they can:
-Transmit valours.
-Tech people to share.
-Encourage to be imaginative.
-Develope activities like superation.


Here is the official website of Nintendo.


Wednesday 21 May 2014

Curiosities:
Grace Hopper y el primer bug informático de la historia-The first BUG:
This informatic or software error was discovered in 1944 by Grace Hopper .She was investigating an electromagnetic error in a relay,and she discovered that a moth was obstructing the relay.Like this error was made by a moth,she called this type of error "bug".
-The holy grail of NES:
Thia is the most valoured game of NES,it is not a very good selled game of the age,in fact,it had not been commercialised.The name of this game was "Nintendo World Championships 1990,and was created for competitions,it consist in do in 6 minutes and 21 seconds:
-Catch 50 coins in Mario Bros.
-Win an especific race in Rad Racer.
-Play Tetris.



Thursday 15 May 2014

PS4 vs Xbox One vs Wii U

Xbox One:

It is the third console produced by Microsoft. It actually competes with PS4 and WiiU. Will we see its characteristics:

- Graphics: are 10 times better than its antecessor, Xbox 360.
- CPU: AMD Custom x86-64 to 1,75 GHz by nucleus (8 nucleus)
- Controls:  Xbox One Controller /  Xbox One worldwide controller / Kinect 2.0
- Online sevices: Xbox Live
- Sales: 4.5 millions
- Most sold videogame: Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Antecessor: Xbox 360

PS4:

It is the fourth console of the model Playstation y the company Sony Computer Entertaiment. Competes with Xbox One ( from Microsoft ) and Wii U (from Nintendo). Its characteristics are:

- Graphics: It shows the effort for improve the fails in the PlayStation 3.
- CPU: AMD x86-64 Jaguar 8 nucleus of 1,6 ghz
- Controls : Dual Shock 4 / Playstation Move / Playstation Vita
- Online services: PlayStation Network / PlayStation Plus ( this one costs 399$
- Sales: 7 millions
- Most sold videogame: Killzone: Shadow Fall
- Antecessor: PlayStation 3

Wii U:

Wii U ( with its code name " Proyect Cafe " ) its the sixth table console made by NIntendo. Competes with Xbox One and PS4. The characteristics of this console are:

- Graphics: HD graphics ( 1080p ) In fact, it has a tactile screen with HD graphics, also that you can continue playing if the TV is off.
- CPU: 1,25 ghz
- Controls: Wii U Gamepad / Wii U Pro Controller / Wii Remote / Nunchuk / Wii Balance Board / Wii Classis Remote
- Online services: Nintendo Network / Miiverse
- Sales: 6 millions
- Most sold videogame: New Super Mario Bros. U
- Antecessor: Wii



 


Interesting links:

Xbox: http://www.xbox.com/es-es/#fbid=P4UDKIzncJh
PlayStation: http://es.playstation.com/
Nintendo: https://www.nintendo.es/

- Hecho por : Paz Morales Mata 3ºA ESO