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PlayFire: Gamers Social Community
Nov 17th
If you’re a videogame enthusiast, aren’t you looking for the perfect forum to join forces with gamers from around the world? Social networking is great, but sites like Facebook and Twitter are too broad to serve the gaming community. Something special is needed. Which is why Playfire was created.
Playfire is an amazing social networking website for gamers! Creating an account on Playfire means being able to create an awesome profile which shows your all time favorites videogames, the ones you’re currently playing, a wonderful icon-list of the games you’ve played, and a lot more stuff about the gaming aspect of your personality. In short, your profile is your ultimate statement as a gamer!
There are no restrictions about what gaming console you use. Be it a computer, an Xbox, a Playstation, or a Wii, Playfire will still help you connect with people who are using the same console.
After creating a brilliant profile, you can move on to the social networking part: create a free clan website of your gang, meet gamers with similar tastes, and expand your gaming network. Link yourself with other gamers and take your gaming to the next level.
Just like in any online social network, you can also join groups and communities on Playfire. Discuss the awesomeness of Fallout 3 or the eeriness of Doom 3, simply by joining their respective groups.
To keep things interesting and entertaining, you can also take quizzes regarding your favorite games and test how extreme your game knowledge actually is.
If you’re a gamer to the core or just casually play videogames, you will surely enjoy Playfire a great deal. Head on over there and create yourself an account, see what the hype is all about.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Oct 26th
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Arcade Game (known in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shin Seiki) is a 1992 arcade game released by Capcom. It is a beat ‘em up based upon the comic Xenozoic Tales which was created by Mark Schultz in the late eighties. A TV series made after the game was released, though it wasn’t a major success, and the Capcom game didn’t have any relation with it as it was based entirely on the comic series.
Not to be confused with the console and computer game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm made by Rocket Science Games but based on the same license, this time on the TV series rather than on the original comic. Despite its success and popularity, the Capcom arcade was never released in home systems.
The game-play is like that of many other side-scrolling beat’em up games of the time, such as Streets of Rage or Final Fight. A distinctive feature of this game is the frequent use of firearms, rarely seen on other games of its kind, which normally favored weapons such as bottles and knives. There is also a sequence in which the player can get control of the titular vehicle by radioing for it. It is difficult to keep the car intact for long, because the boss at the end of the sequence (Hogg) is armed with grenades.
In Cadillacs and Dinosaurs the player has access to several special attacks. They are done in the same way for all the characters, but have varying degrees of effectiveness per character. By pressing attack and jump together, the player performs a 360 attack with momentary invulnerability that knocks down nearby enemies. By pressing forward, forward then attack, the player performs a dashing attack that can easily take down crowds of enemies. Mustapha’s dashing attack is particularly effective, as it has long reach and priority. By pressing down, up then attack, the player will perform a rising attack that hits multiple times, but can leave you vulnerable. Unlike most other Capcom beat’em ups, you cannot fluently chain a rising attack during a combo, but you can perform one while holding an enemy.
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