Posts Tagged ‘First person shooters’
WorldGaming.com Launches New Promotions and Tournaments
Worldgaming.com has announced a couple of new promotions and tournaments, providing console gamers an alternative destination for challenging other players around the world for real money. To celebrate, WorldGaming will be hosting a 30-day online “Launch Party” (ends May 8, 2009) with daily tournaments, huge cash jackpots, and a host of sign-up bonuses.
Throughout the 30-day Launch Party, WorldGaming will be awarding every new registrant with a 25% deposit bonus and every 100th registrant will receive a $50.00 deposit bonus in their WorldGaming.com account, which can be used on WorldGaming.com to compete in tournaments and one-on-one challenges.
The bonuses will be capped at the 10,000th registrant, who will receive a Grand Prize of “The Ultimate Gamer Gear Package,” which includes the following:
- Choice of either a custom WorldGaming Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360
- $250 gift certificate from GameStop (www.gamestop.com)
- $100 deposit bonus into their WorldGaming.com account
The 30-day Launch Party, which culminates with WorldGaming.com Grand Finale Tournaments to crown WorldGaming’s first-ever champions (various games and platforms), will see winners of tournament gameplay during the launch phase pitted against one another in the grand finales in order to attain championship status and the opportunity to win huge cash jackpots.
WorldGaming.com offers its one-on-one challenges and multiplayer tournaments in a variety of games across multiple genres, from first-person shooters like Halo 3 and Resistance Fall of Man to the most popular sports titles, including Madden Football, MLB ‘09 the Show, FIFA Soccer and many more – with new titles added regularly.
The site offers a quick and easy challenge process, automated results verification, player stat tracking and skill rankings, dedicated game lobbies with live chat for each supported title, and easy matchmaking.
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Raiden X Review–Those Were The Good Old Days
All right you young whippersnappers, with your fancy first person shooters and high-definition whosits and your surround sound whatchamajiggies–listen up. I’m about to give you a lesson in the old-school gaming style, back when we could count the number of bits involved in a game on both hands–ONCE. Back when music was tinny, and the gameplay was measured by how many enemies you could throw onto a single screen without getting crawl effect going.
Geriatric rambling aside, for a lesson in the kinds of games we had to play back in the eighties–and kudos to you if you remember the eighties–all you have to do is cruise on over to XGen Games and cut you off a sweet slice of Raiden X.
Designed as a tribute to Raiden and its sequel, Raiden 2, you play as a small jet fighter with one of three different kinds of upgradeable weaponry. You’ll fly in the classic top-down shooter mode, in an action-packed old-school environment.
This is what gaming used to be–if there was a story to games like Raiden X, you scarcely noticed because you were entirely too busy shooting whatever wandered into view. This is one of those great games where five minutes time invested into it allows you to get a full gaming experience, despite the fact that you really didn’t do much but move left to right and shoot things. It’s lots of fun, and though it might wear out its welcome quickly, you’ll always be ready for another go-round later on.