Walking Dead Action Figures!

Daryl Dixon

  Today's action figure collection is all about the hit TV series on AMC, the Walking Dead! Since there is now games featuring Walking Dead, and now there is Action Figures as well! Some items have Free Super Saver Shipping, which is free shipping on all eligible products over 25$. Enjoy the collection and if you see something you wish to buy, feel free to do so! See more action figures from the Video Game Cove, as well as other merchandise!!

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Halo Action Figures!

Blue Spartan Action Figure

Master Chief Action Figure

Awesome Halo Action Figures, including new Halo 4 figures!

Today's Action Figure Showcase is about Halo, including the new Halo 4 action Figures! Some items have Super Saver Shipping, which is free shipping on all eligible items over 25$ (see Amazon for details). Highly detailed action figures including Master Chief, Arbiter, Cortana,Elites, grunts, crawlers, and much more! These make great gift ideas for ANY halo fan, and alot of these action figures, toys, and play sets are affordable, and I even featured some exceptionally highly detailed figures such as the pictures above!Check out more action figures, Halo 4 Review, and more Halo Merchandise!

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Halo 4 Review

Master Chief's latest adventure is a great new beginning!

   Halo 4, the first official Halo game created by 343 Studios, is the mark of a great new beginning for the Halo franchise!  The story, game play, high quality cut scenes, and the multi player all comes together to create a spectacular treat for any fan of the series, and I am looking forward to seeing much more of the series by the 343 Studios team and Microsoft.

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   Story (no Spoilers)

The story of Halo 4 is one of my favorite so far, featuring a great plot, good plot twists, and especially better character development. Previous entries in the Halo series had Master Chief with little to no personality, humorously being called a robot, because of his lack of character development and speech. In this game, he has personality and more emotion, especially when speaking with Cortana. 

  

I found the story to be more emotional and intense from the previous entries as well, and features several characters with their own personalities and agendas, which adds to an already great story plot. 

    Game play

The game play is where the game truly shines, featuring the story campaign, Cooperative and competitive game play, the Forge where you can modify and have your own map designs, and the theater, where you save, edit, and share footage from movies and screenshots you have taken! You can play multi player, where you design your own Spartan IV, altering their load outs, customizing their appearance with new armor pieces and colors, and leveling up your Spartan to unlock more options! As you level up you will gain a point, which can be spent to unlock load out items, each with their own unlock points requirements, so you can pick and choose the items you wish, instead of achieving them at a set level requirement.

   Spartan Ops

Spartan Ops is a cooperative game mode featuring a new story, with new episodes being released regularly. Up to 4 players can play this, and you will earn experience and level up, just like in competitive modes, with their own challenges and career stats involved.  With each new episode released, you can continue the ever evolving story of Fire Team Crimson, a team of Spartan IV's deployed on Requiem.

  War Games

War Games is the Competitive mode for Halo 4, featuring a wealth of game modes and types, including Slayer, Dominion, Oddball, Capture the Flag, and much more! These game types have their own rules and setups, such as Dominion being a capture and hold game type, and Oddball being a sports-like game where you carry the ball to gain points, and so forth.  The many variants of game types make the competitive war games interesting and never boring. 

  Forge

Forge is a map tool set, where you can modify existing maps, and use several tools to change them up and create new and exciting map designs, such as objects, spawn points, and many, many more! A person good at map design, can create entirely different designs, and share them with others so that they can play it too!  All game modes can be used for your Forge map, so if you favor a certain game type, you can create some interesting game play from the options available!

  Theater

Theater is the mode where you can save, edit, and share your favorite movies and screenshots from your adventures in any game mode. Got an amazing kill streak or funny accident that happened in multi player? You can go back, watch the film, and record at that particular time, take screenshots, and share them with the community.

  Overall

Overall, the combination of the story campaign's excellent story telling, cooperative, and competitive game play modes, plus the Forge and Theater, makes this game a must have for any Halo fan. I look forward to future installments of this game, and the multi player reminds me of Halo 3's in fun factor. The Multi player in this game offers long replay value, with the leveling up, multiple game modes, and customization options.  Spartan Ops feature new episodes on a regular basis, and multiple challenges and career statistics, you will be playing this game for a long time to come!

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Valve Action Figures (TF2, Half Life, Left 4 Dead)

Team Fortress 2, Half Life, Left 4 Dead Action Figures!

Gordon Freeman Action Figure!

Check out some awesome collectible action figures featuring the gang from Team Fortress 2! Why just collect hats when you can collect the action figures too! Some items come with free super saver shipping, which is free shipping on any eligible products over 25$! Gordon Freeman, The Pyro, The Demoman, The Soldier, Boomer, Smoker and much more! Check out more Action figures as well!

Boomer Action Figure

Pyro Action Figure

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Dark Stalkers Action Figures

Here is a collection of a few sweet figures from the Dark Stalkers Franchise! Felicia, Morrigan, and more! Some items have Super Saver Shipping, which is free shipping on any items over 25$! Check our more Action figures too for more great gift ideas!

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Street Fighter Action Figures

Highly detailed Guile Action Figure

Guile, Chun-Li, and more action Figures from Street Fighter!

   Today's action figure showcase is all about Street Fighter action figures! Guile, Chun-Li, Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Cammy, Blanca, Vega, and many more action figures for the action figure collector! Some items have Super Saver Shipping, which is free shipping on all eligible products over 25$. All proceeds gained from any sales go to help out the Video Game Cove! See more action figure showcases as well!

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Stormfall: Age of War Facebook Review

    Stormfall: Age of War Facebook Game Review

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   Stormfall: Age of War is a competitive war game on facebook where you build up a castle, attack other Lords, steal their resources, siege them, defend and attack outposts, and much more! The game starts off with a decent and length tutorial, teaching you the basics of the game, and all the nuances within. The tutorial quests feature a decent voice actor and a text summary, immersing you into the lore of the game and giving you more detail of what to do and what to accomplish. I found the tutorials in this game to be very helpful, especially to new players of Plarium's combat war games, such as Total Domination and others.

  Gameplay

There is much to do in this game, from raiding, sieges, building units, upgrading buildings, discovering new technologies, and much more! At first you will be building your main resource buildings, which include gold, iron, and food, and all of them are important in their own way. Iron is mostly used in constructing offensive units, gold for defensive units, and food is deducted for each unit and building that exists in your castle. You will also use all 3 resources in construction of your buildings and their upgrades, as well as upgrading and discovering new technologies and units.

  New Technologies will grant you access to more advanced buildings, better trained units, and newer units. Each day you will receive a random scroll, which can be applied to discover a new technology, should you have enough of the required scrolls. If you do not, you can always trade them with other players via the marketplace. Once you have unlocked an unit technology, you can spend resources to upgrade them up to lvl 20, with each upgrade level increasing their overall stats by 2%.

Skull Runes are a commodity given through level ups and other means. These Runes can be applied on a "Tech Tree" of sorts, which will allow you to do things such as increasing their speed, build times, group unlocks, and other attributes. You will see the requirement of skull runes in each tree below going further down on said tree, allowing more customization and diversity from other Lords, based on their own strategies.

Units come in two main flavors, offensive and defense, and 5 sub categories (Infantry, Calvary, Occult Beastiary, and Mountain Dwarves). Each sub categorie is different in their own ways, and defensive units are better at countering specific types. For instance, a Dwarf is a defensive unit suited to countering infantry and calvary units, which adds a unique layer of strategy for a facebook war game.

In this game you can join "Leagues", which are players united in a group, and form alliances with friends. You can also visit friends and create wraiths, which are special units created from friends only and you can summon them yourself with the Crypt, but only 3 a day, everyday. You can also defend your friends with reinforcements, trade, and much more as well, adding a layer of strategy and cooperation with friends, because this a competitive game, and you could use all the friends you can get!

Overall, this is a fun, competitive, war game and if you are into strategy games and player versus player combat. you will enjoy playing this game!

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Assassin's Creed Action Figures

            Awesome Assassin's Creed Action figures!

Ezio Action Figure from NECA

    Looking for some awesome action figure collectibles from the Assassin's Creed franchise line? Look no further and take a look at some of the high quality figures from companies like NECA, who make some of the best quality figures on the market at affordable prices. Some items have free Super Saver Shipping, which is free shipping on any eligible products over 25$ See more action figure showcases as well!

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THQ Bid Winners, prices, and ownership

                     Who won the THQ Bids?

    Courtesy of Joystiq.com, Here is the list of the new owners of the THQ bidding war, the prices, and much more! Click this link to see the full report and more information.

Joystiq has obtained the sales prices of the various THQ intellectual properties and licenses made available during the company's bankruptcy auction. We've listed the winning bids and runners up below.

To clarify, we've noted whether the asset is a studio, intellectual property (IP) or license.

Relic (studio) and Company of Heroes (IP)
Winning bid: $26.6 million - Sega Corporation
Backup bidder: $26.3 million - Zenimax Media

THQ Montreal (studio), with 1666 (IP) and Underdog (IP)
Winning bid: $2.5 million - Ubisoft
Backup bidder: N/A

Evolve (IP) aka Metamorphosis
Winning bid: $10.894 million - Take-Two Interactive
Backup bidder: $250,000 Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.

Volition (studio) and Saints Row (IP)
Winning bid: $22.3 million - Koch Media GmbH (Deep Silver)
Backup bidder: $5.4 million - Ubisoft

Homefront (IP)
Winning bid: $544,218 - Crytek GmbH
Backup bidder: N/A

Metro (license), which includes 2033 and 2034
Winning bid: $5,877,551 - Koch Media GmbH (Deep Silver)
Backup bidder: $5.175 million - Ubisoft

South Park: The Stick of Truth (license)
Winning bid: $3,265,306 - Ubisoft
Backup bidder: N/A

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