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Checkpoint 11/24/14

Gamestop pranks its customers, game in the works to increase blood donations, and a professional StarCraft player disqualified for tweet about rape.




Bargain Bin: Ultimate Spider-Man

Cost: $8.50 and 8 hours Year: 2004  All right ladies and gents, time to dust off that PlayStation 2 or Xbox that’s been sitting in your closet and swing into a comic classic.



Checkpoint 11/10/14

Bungie executive gets surrounded by police after prank call, Blizzard announces its first person shooter game, and Pokemon receives changes to its Eon Ticket distribution.


CHECKPOINT: Star Wars' subtitle, 'Majora's Mask' to 3DS

Star Wars: Episode 7 gets its subtitle, Call of Duty is declared 'the best video game series ever,' and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is coming to 3DS. Producer: Travis Robinson Camera & Editor: Kelsey Hayes Graphics: Meghan Duffy, Lauren Lucas, Sam Noble Music: Lex Bravary Hosts: Andi Tolentino & Travis Robinson


Indie Spotlight: Gods Will Be Watching

Devolver Digital is never boring. They really burst onto the scene with the incredibly difficult and ultra-violent Hotline Miami. Hotline was a tense and fast-paced puzzler with a heavy element of social commentary. On what can be considered the opposite of the gaming spectrum, Devolver then worked on the post-apocalyptic pigeon dating sim, Hatoful Boyfriend. Devolver also worked on the very well-received Luftrausers, an airplance-based shoot ‘em up that featured full 360-degree movement. Despite the success that all three of these games attained, Devolver’s masterpiece might be the less-knownGods Will be Watching. Gods Will be Watching is a brutal sci-fi puzzler with a heavy emphasis on sheer luck. From the very first scene, a hostage situation where you are holding the hostages, it’s clear that this will not be an easy game: both emotionally and in terms of challenge. It took me about 70 tries on normal difficulty to even complete the first of the eight total levels.