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Our Crysis 2 winners
Took a while to grab hold of the winners, but finally we were able to give them their prizes. Mohammad AlHuraizFounder, editor and host of Lochal Archade. Mohammad has been running Lochal Archade for years and working hard in bringing video game-related content to the UAE and the Middle...
Interactive Mediums: why movies and TV shows bore me
Many artists, directors and writers have found ways to express their artistic expression through many froms of media. No, I am not writing yet another “video game = art” article, there is more than enough of that on internet (and many of them lose the point of what they’re...
Game Standards Getting Higher
Is it true that games affect other games’ scores? A first game of a franchise gets the score of 9.0, and then when its sequel doesn’t present something “new” it’s given scores around 8.0. even though the game is not worse than the first, not by any means. Not...
Case File: NMC VS NTSC
Last year, gamers in the United Arab Emirates all cried in unison after it became apparent from distributors and retailers that the NMC, National Media Council, prohibited the sale of NTSC games in the UAE. For those of you not in the know, NTSC & PAL are TV broadcast standards....
StreetPass Dubai
Hello Everyone! After the little experiment I unorganized last week, I decided to give it another go! Although this time, it’s more organized and focused. Aabo0Website - More Posts
How Achievements Affected Your Gaming
Remember when we used to finish a game once? The time when we played the game over and over was just for its pleasure is long gone. Today, thanks to Microsoft, we’re re-playing the game for achievements. We’re trying to get headshots, collectibles, do 100 times of a certain...
Tekken and Street Fighter showing support for Japan
Ok this is fairly old, but still worth the mention, Capcom released two wallpapers in support for Japan’s current crises, Tekken and Street Fighter characters giving support and aid in Japan’s time of need. Mohammad AlHuraizFounder, editor and host of Lochal Archade. Mohammad has been running Lochal Archade for...
Luida’s Bar – The Dragon Quest themed cafe
Just to make it absolutely clear, we did not have alcohol, we went to the separate food section, all of the pictures in this article are from that section. I realized that we never showed the pictures of some of the things we saw in Japan on the website besides Tokyo...
Game for Japan
On March 11 2011, an earthquake hitting a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred near the Northeastern coast of Japan, causing massive amounts of damage in nearby areas, taking it’s toll in over thousands injured, 10 thousand deaths and even more filed missing. What’s even worse is that there...
Dressup Heroine – Interview with Nashua (cosplayer)
Dubai is very diverse when it comes to its people, it can go down as far as geek cultures too. We are already aware of people who play video games over here (we’re a part of them), but for people like Nashua Abouelola it goes beyond just playing games,...
Game Remakes
Do you like the idea of remaking games? Would you like to see an old game you loved remade? Or would you rather play a game just once and that’s it? Jill ValentineI'm a gamer ever since I was 4, my favorite series of all time is Resident Evil...
Unboxing: Pier Solar
In between all these “HD” nonsense in the current day’s games, comes fresh from our inbox, a Mega Drive/Genesis game that’s been in development for six years and promises “Outstanding 16-BIT graphics”, “huge epic adventure”, and “HI-FI FM”. That game is Pier Solar. KhalidWebsite - More Posts
Arcade Hero: Interview with Hamad Al Merri (arcade owner)
Arcades have been something many video game players are familiar with, in a time when a console has the electronic sophistication no better than a toaster, the more powerful machines were usually found in arcades. A little gaming history lesson to all our FPS heroes and generic space marine...
Quake and its Legacy
I still remember back then. We just bought Quake for our computer in 1996, we let it install and take up a whopping 50 MB of our hard disk, and then started playing. Trent Reznor’s music blasting from the monitor speakers in audio CD quality, dodging enforcers and getting...
