SALT FEST Black Ops II - 2v2 Tournament Rules

Not much more needs to be added to this self explanatory title, other than the fact that you can check out these rules by clicking the newly added tab up top, or take the short cut here!

Salt Fest is going to be INCREDIBLE! You won't want to miss out on this, ONE OF A KIND, convention. We're serious. No one in the entire world has ever done a convention quite like this. Take all of your favorite conventions, and put them into one! For all details on Salt Fest, visit their website here! 

See you there gamerz! 

Until next time, keep on gamin' on!

Where Are They Now? Updates and Insight to Some of 2013's Most Exciting Titles

Broken Age, formerly known as Double Fine Adventure looks to be shaping up nicely. 

While there's a lot of talk of indie developers taking over the video game market in gaming forums, and chat rooms, almost all of the profits earned in the video game industry are still made by a small group of major developers, and likely will for some time to come. I've heard numbers thrown around to the effect of "90% of profits are made by 10% of the games", and while this may be a bit of hyperbole, it's not far from the truth. However that's not to say that indie games aren't changing the way things are done. Hits like Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Braid have all changed the way people look at indie gaming and indie development. And with upcoming titles like Broken Age, Wasteland 2,  Project Eternity, Shadowrun Returns and Star Citizen, all having pulled in close to, or over $2,000,000 each in public funding, it's hard to deny the power of an ardent and devoted fanbase ravenous for continuations of their favorite series, or new titles from their favorite developers. Perhaps indie games won't remain indie forever.

Mondays post will be on Tuesday!

Radio the Universe: Still progressing nicely. Thanks Kickstarter!

Thanks for showing up everybody, sorry for a delay. Slight communication let us miss one post, and today's will be delayed one day. We apologize for the inconvenience. Expect some info on Kickstarter titles, and some discussion on what's coming up with our future here at Gaming Cuisine!

Thanks for coming, by and until next time, Game On.

Half Life 3, Sega's New Console, the Spectrum, and Other False Starts

Originally published in 2010, not "this week".  

Source: Librodenotas.com (Google translate may help)

Earlier today I was texted the above image. The corresponding message revealed that "(expletive deleted)!!! A Sega employee leaked this image to an IGN reporter!" After coming home, and using a little internet sleuthing I found this image had been used in an article describing fake console announcements in early 2010. I won't lie, even the unlikely possibility this was going to happen got me pretty excited. However, realizing that this was probably like many other console/game "leaks" that abound on the internet, I quickly calmed down and did what research I could on the issue. That lead me to find the article in question outing this clever, and well made fake. Disappointing, yes, but not terribly so considering how often rumors of Sega's return to the console market surface. Some people may say that this should have been a pretty obvious fake, but as chance would have it a new image of something called the Sega Spectrum recently started making the rounds.

Why are Games Important?

It may come as a surprise to many that my dad used to play text adventures, and can absolutely stomp faces in at Geometry Wars. Don't discount what your elders are capable of kids. 

I was going to put up an entirely different article today, another article on the Indie Gaming scene, and how small teams are starting to gain some incredible popularity, but I think I'd rather have a discussion than an article this time around.

So what does that mean? It means that over the past few years that Mike and I have been working on Gaming Cuisine we've met a lot of really cool people, and made a lot of really great friends. We've exceeded all of our own expectations, and we have you to thank for that. So instead of another industry analysis, I'd like to open up this one to all you out there. We at GC would like to know why games are important to you. And we don't mean, "I really like (insert genre here) because it's so (insert adjective/adverb here)." We mean why do you love games?

For me it goes back to my childhood, I remember walking down the street to my friends house to play Pitfall II and The Cabbage Patch Kids on his Colecovision (yeah, I'm old, I know), spending time with my dad on our trusty old Ti-99/4A Home Computer System, and later on opening a brand new Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on Christmas day with my brother and sisters, and my dad hooking it up to the kitchen TV so we could play for hours. To me video games remind me of my family, and the closeness they brought  us, not just by playing together, but because my parents cared enough to know what we wanted, and used games as a way to bring us closer together. The fact that my mother spent weeks trying to track down a copy of the elusive Pirates! for NES just before Christmas, and even calling Nintendo Headquarters trying to find me a copy will never leave me. That act of love and kindness over something as silly as an NES game remains one of my fondest memories of my mother, because she took the time to listen to me, and care about what I cared about. It may seem a silly thing, but this is honestly one way my family bonded, and I think it's awesome that I can share that with you, and feel a sense of nostalgia when I load up an old game, and remember my mother and all she did for me.

Now that's just my story, and everybody's going to feel different, but to me that's the beauty of games, and gaming, whether they be video, physical, sports, board games, etc.. Everybody has played games at some point, and everybody can make that connection.

So tell us, either in the comments below or on our Facebook wall or both, why are games important to you? We'd all like to know.

Until next time, Game On.

A Broken Record

The Gold Kiss of Death by Michael Baldi.
Not game related, but man that's cool. Click the link for more great art. 

Due to circumstances and scheduling conflicts I won't be able to finish and post the short article I was planning on posting. It will for sure be finished and posted tomorrow. We apologize for further delay, and hope you enjoy this picture of a record that is technically broken due to it's being covered in paint and awesome by Utah artist, Michael Baldi.

Until then, Game On!

Kittens, Sunshine, The Evil Within, and the Nicest Place on the Internet

I know how you feel bro. 

Hey all, due to a bad case of "Life" arising, Mike was unable to post today. I will be putting up a post tomorrow, but for now have some happiness. I just watched Bethesda's The Evil Within trailer, and I found it somewhat disturbing. Being headed up by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami TEW promises to put the horror back in the Survival-Horror genre. IGN got an early glimpse and has a good article, though be warned this game is nowhere near family friendly, and the trailer is definitely not about-to-go-to-bed material. Having watched it just before midnight, I feel it necessary to post some pictures that will bring some peace to my late night brain. If you feel inclined to view the trailer and screens as I did, and also feel the need to make your life a little brighter here are a couple really great sites for making your life seem just a bit better (at least they make mine a bit better).

http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/  The URL sums it up. Thanks Nicest Place on the Internet, I needed that.

Mind Bleach - SFW If the Nicest Place doesn't cut it, then maybe you better step it up to the next level.

I hope you all enjoy, and until next time, Game On.