Author Archives: Yamilia Avendano
Positive Gamers Episode 4: Watch Your Own Screen
What’s this, a Positive Gamers that’s on time? That’s madness! This one’s on the topic of worrying too much about where others are in life compared to where you are. When you’re playing a game with a friend (the good old fashioned way), you’re not constantly peeking at their screen (unless you’re an awful cheater) because you need to focus on where your character is going. So treat life the same way, kind of. Don’t judge where your placement on the map called [...]
Positive Gamers Episode 3: Healing Yourself
Not that there isn’t any merit in getting help from others (In fact, I think you need to be open to that, but that’s another video entirely), but relying on anything else too much isn’t the way to go. You have to be able to fix yourself up when life gets tough, we’re not always in raids, we don’t always have a team of healers to fall back on. In life, we have to play a plethora of roles, and [...]
Dead Island: Riptide Review – If I Was A Rich Girl
Whereas the premise sounds incredible, Dead Island: Riptide falls short of being a stellar example of how open-world zombie games should be. Its redeeming qualities, however, reserve me from warning all ye who enter to turn back from the island. It may not be incredible, but it’s certainly something that will provide you and a friend fun for a playthrough. I repeat – you and a friend. Alone, I fear, Dead Island: Riptide is simply too taxing to endure with [...]
BattleBlock Theater Review – Cats Suck
Games that are far too serious for their own good flood a large part of the market these days. That’s why I’m eternally grateful for games like BattleBlock Theater, whose idea is to be just plain fun. This isn’t to say I’m opposed to having meaning behind a game, or playing another sequel, but sometimes I just want to put on a duck face and throw my multiplayer partner to their doom. All this is possible (and ridiculous) in The [...]
We Now Have a Store! Get Crazy!
You may have noticed things have changed around here. With a new site comes new responsibility: The responsibility to keep our Twinfiknights nice and warm with the Game Forever shirt. We have a store! Look at us now, mom! No longer will you have to explain what the hell Twinfinite is. Now you can wear the official t-shirt and have to explain what the hell Twinfinite is. We’ve partnered with the fine folks over at Mercury Labs to sell some [...]
PAX East Pictures And Showfloor Walkthrough!
As is tradition, here is the roundup of all the pictures we took at PAX East this year. We had a fantastic time seeing our peers as well as Twinfiknights all over the convention center. The best part? BeatBuddy dancing around the entire hall. Hands down. We’re exhausted and ready to call it a wrap with our coverage, so let’s grab the popcorn and take a look at the last weekend together. Hit the jump for the full gallery.
[News] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Revealed
During a GDC panel, Hideo Kojima revealed that The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid V were indeed the same game. Ending months of speculation from fans as the initial reveal trailer for The Phantom Pain was made at the Video Game Awards last year. No one saw this coming. Holy shit, guys. Jokes about how we all guessed it months ago aside, the entire campaign from Konami was fun and different. We should be glad we have developers that try something [...]
[PAX] Skills No One Told Me I Needed to Cover a Convention
Twinfinite has been at this for a year and five months now, and no matter how much experience we get going to conventions together (PAX East 2013 was our third, big team, convention to cover so far), I always feel like we messed up immensely and that I’m the worst and that we’re completely unprofessional and oh my God. Sit down, let’s have a chat. I want to use my knowledge of how not to be in hopes of showing [...]
[PAX] Positive Gamers: PAX East Edition
I’m convinced there is positivity all around the video game industry and community. So, in an effort to show that I’m not full of it, I took to the halls of the convention center in Boston for PAX East to ask attendees if they would name one positive experience they’ve had within the gaming community. What came out of this was a very positive experience for me (hopefully it was for the interviewees, too). I heard so many cute stories [...]
[PAX] Hands-On Preview: Guncraft – Build It Up, Shoot It Down
I didn’t want to play Guncraft because of its name. I’m glad I did, but I want to start with a mini rant of sorts because I feel like jumping on bandwagons when you have a legitimately good idea is a bad way to go about developing a game. Yes, Guncraft has the same graphics as Minecraft. Yes, it has building gameplay like Minecraft. No, it’s not made by Mojang, rather, it’s made by Exato Game Studios Why then, hop [...]
