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The Ever-Changing New Zealand Online Pokies Scene
I think it's fair to say that the most popular type of gambling related pastime people have in New Zealand is playing pokies, and over the last few years the online pokies scene has seen some great changes, allowing players even more choice regarding the type of pokies they can now play online.
By New Zealand Slots6 years ago in Gamers
Don’t Feel Bad About the Video Game Getting You Through Quarantine
For years I had watched my best friend play Minecraft and build when he was stressed out. He suggested I try the game, and while I was always interested, I felt like I no longer had the time for games and that my time as a computer enthusiast was dwindling. I felt more attached to the “real world.” When I met my current partner, I watched them play Minecraft so much that the intrigue bubbled up inside me, and I remembered my best friend telling me how much I would enjoy the game. I decided to invest in the game about a year ago, over Christmas, so that my partner and I could play together even though we were a great distance apart. Once I started playing, I was so glad I had invested and downloaded the game. I am someone who finds it difficult to relax, even though I am fond of movement and meditation, like yoga. When I play Minecraft, between the calming music and the ability to be as creative as I’d like, I know it’s my special time with myself to relax. I love playing in creative mode, because I can literally create the world of my dreams, but I’ve even come to enjoy survival mode because I get to spend my life in game harvesting crops and going on adventures, like I would like to in real life. Minecraft has become one of my ways of meditating, and I hope that when creating my world in game, it’s helping me to solidify the type of world I want to manifest for myself.
By Onyx Ocean6 years ago in Gamers
Disco Elysium - Post-Launch Game Review
Publisher: ZA/UM Developer: ZA/UM Genre: Role-Playing Platform: PC T'was my friend, Kabir who suggested me to check this game and now am chirky about it. There aren't many games out there that takes the risk of being a highly multi-faceted RPG/Exploration game and presents itself to be really unique in comparison of others. Disco Elysium adds so much to its compendium of stories that it never wants to let you go, all while the horrors of existential crisis feast upon your main character's ethos.
By EclecticPotato6 years ago in Gamers
eSport Payouts Are Almost as Expensive (And Worthwhile) As Other Sports
Professional gaming also known as eSports, has become more and more popular over the years as technology innovates graphics, digital capabilities, and opens the door for more interactive gameplay.
By Pam Jannes6 years ago in Gamers
Spotting The Best Football Tables
It seems like the love for sports is ingrained in the human DNA. Even if you do not play any sport at all, you will likely have at least one recreation that you would want to follow on the TV or even in live matches. There is just this sheer joy whenever your favorite team wins.
By Pamelagreen6 years ago in Gamers
Sandbox game 'Minecraft' isn't what you think it is.
Minecraft was the hit game of the decade. With 176 million sales, it is a huge game, with "infinite possibilities", as they say. When you think of Minecraft, you most likely think of building houses, castles, breaking trees, and killing cows. Well, that's the most popular and classic mode, survival single player. This means that the player is alone in a journey where they have to fight for their resources, and they have limited resources. But there are a few more modes. One of them is creative single player. Creative single player lets the player have infinite resources, build as much as they want, get anything they want, but most importantly, fly. The player can fly to build, and normally hostile animals who would attack the player in survival don't. But those are just the two most popular modes. In single player. This is just one universe of the two universes of Minecraft. Single player, and Multiplayer. Multiplayer is the mode where there are tons and tons of servers, and I mean TONS because there are literally thousands of them. So you might ask: What is a server, really? Well, a server is a community-run, community-hosted, world of Minecraft, that anyone can join using a specific IP address that the server has. Each server has it's own IP, and these IPs are public information. For example, if you were to join the biggest server in all of Minecraft, you would join The Hypixel Network, who's IP address is mc.hypixel.net. So, what's the advantage of a server? The advantage of a server is that you can play with other people, and you can play new and original games that are built using Minecraft like you would build a game using a game engine. These games, called mini-games, are fueled with add-ons to servers called plug-ins. Plug-ins change the game a lot, or a little. They can add commands, which are lines of code that a player runs to do something, like play a game. Plug-ins can also change how players move, and interact with things. For example, games that involve right clicking items to open a menu use plugins to fulfill that action. You might come across YouTube videos people are playing Minecraft, and they are playing a completely foreign game to what you thought was Minecraft, but you know that the game is still Minecraft. Those games are probably games on The Hypixel Network, who offers over 50 different games like Bedwars, or Skywars, which are both fun. Bedwars consists of breaking someone's bed so that they cannot be revived, and then killing them so that they are eliminated. Skywars consists of killing everyone in the game, eliminating them right away. Skywars and Bedwars are the two most popular modes, since they have upwards of 10,000 players playing each game all the time. But there is one more popular game. This game is rather new, only six months old. This is skyblock. Hypixel skyblock. The basic idea of skyblock is that you are on an island, with or without someone else (your choice) and then you have a tree to mine, and you build survival from there. But Hypixel completly remade this. They made more armor, upgrades, locations, and they added many new things. This game has over 30,000 players all the time. And with quarantine making new players join and play, that makes the count almost 40,000 people. So, there are many people on The Hypixel Network, but how many in total? There are around 90,000 players always on hypixel (In quarantine). This makes the server very laggy, as it is designed to have only 70,000 players online daily. But the player count is going up, and the record of players online at once stands at 92,400.
By Enzo Martinez6 years ago in Gamers
How To Build Batman in The Pathfinder RPG
Perhaps the most famous superhero of all time (and certainly the one with the biggest number of film adaptations under his utility belt) is Batman. A stand-out in the DC universe, Batman has no superpowers barring his colossal wealth and indomitable willpower, but he doesn't let that stop him from taking on challenges ranging from street gangs, to homicidal clowns, to alien invasions. For those who want to bring a touch of the Dark Knight into a Pathfinder game it's actually a lot easier than you might think.
By Neal Litherland6 years ago in Gamers
