f8 Means ‘Frictionless’ Gaming

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Written by: Miss Ris

Many have already whined and moaned over the expected changes to Facebook in the coming weeks thanks to Mark Zuckerberg‘s team of geeks. Check your newsfeed, it’s full of them. But with the bad, comes the good and it’s really good for social gamers.

After we all got over the shock of Andy Samberg impersonating the billionaire at f8′s big unveil yesterday, there was good news. A new “frictionless” means of play is coming to all social games cutting out that notorious ‘post to friends’ window.

“Games have been the most successful apps on Facebook,” Zuckerberg said.“We think that [our new technology] is going to take social games to the next level and make them a lot better.”

Previously, if you were playing an app based game, farming for example, with each accomplishment an alert pop up would prompt you to tell all your friends that you have extra lettuce. People with a sense of right and wrong would not agree to overflow their friend’s newsfeeds with the information. And the window slows players down which let’s face it, is a bummer.

Gone are those days thanks to the frictionless play updates. Instead, when the app is initially installed, you will be prompted to set an approval if you want the app to quietly write on only your wall, away from the newsfeed of those who have blocked, I mean friended you. If you choose no, you will not be posting each tomato collected, and the non-farmers thank you for it.

Watch for the changes to take place over the next few weeks.

Top 6 Most Impossible Game Outfits

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It’s as inevitable as the red ring of death: the inappropriately dressed character. For as long as we have been saving worlds and princesses, our heroes have been clad in mini skirts, flowing robes and string bikinis. We thought we would give you the top 6 most impossible game costumes and look upon them with a critically realistic eye. Can you imagine fighting the undead, pirates, an army… or an army of undead pirates… in these crazy looks for real!?

Bayonetta ‘ensemble’
(Self titled) Bayonetta

You’ve never seen a witch like this before. Living up to every boys’ fantasy, she sports librarian glasses and a high pony tail. Her skin tight body suit looks to be some sort of latex, but a closer look reveals it’s actually made of her own hair. Now THAT’S some witchcraft. It has precariously placed holes and a giant medallion around her neck, one can assume only to draw attention to her very voluptuous and not supported breasts.

Bayonetta takes fashion and functionality one step further with pistols built into her stilettos. Killer Style indeed!

Jill Valentine
Resident Evil

So the Umbrella Corporation has released its ravenous zombies on your town, what do you throw on to fight them? A mini skirt, of course!

Jill’s tiny skirt provides little coverage for her nether regions, while also constricting her strides if she breaks into a run. Something that should never be worried about when facing a zombie apocalypse.

To complete the look, she grabs a strapless vibrant blue top. Ladies, strapless? If gravity worked the same in games as it does in reality, she’d be yanking on that top constantly to avoid the dreaded nip slip.

Ezio’s Robes
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Ezio runs around ancient Rome in a fairly bad ass ensemble of red and white assassin attire. As you play through the game, it gets increasingly silly including a wolf head and more layers of capes. Imagine scaling a building in that getup. Now think of bird walking across the upper walls of collapsed houses with a Mercanario War Hammer attached to your waist.

While incredibly useful in taking down guards and pick pockets, it’s over half the size of Ezio and carries some weight. He would look less like a nimble gazelle flying over obstacles in a bound, and more like an oaf-some sloth.

Captain Titus’ Shoulder Pads
War Hammer: Space Marine

Speaking of War hammers, Captain Titus is so confident in his Orc fighting abilities that he has given up his peripheral view thanks to massive shoulder pads. The extreme upper body-ware has the ability to protect his torso and shoulders as well as his head since they extend to his eye level. It can only be imagined that under the sheer weight of the metal protective gear, he couldn’t carry himself, let alone the enormous weaponry he is known for. Just don’t sneak up beside him.

Lara Croft’s Short Shorts and Tank Top
Tomb Raider: Legends

Oh, the classics. Lara sports an array of elaborate costuming through her games. Let’s face it, who wouldn’t need to change it up after ten games and 16 years?

Still her turquoise tank and khaki shorts are a video game staple. While the top may offer her some temperature control for exploring humid caverns, the lack of support gives the privileged spelunker a lovely bounce effect. More iconic than Lara’s tank top are what’s under it as Angelina Jolie learned, playing the character for film adaptations.

“Lara doesn’t apologize for herself, and for having that, you know, recognizable shape, so I’m not going to apologize for her either,” Jolie said. “Personally, I wouldn’t want those breasts; they seem kinda funny to me.”

Spend any time climbing through the jungles of the world in shorts and you will realize the error of your ways with scratches up and down your legs from gnarled branches and jagged bushes.

Ivy (Isabella Valentine) – Tactically ‘Bust’ed
Soul Caliber VI

Are. You. Serious?

The majority of Ivy’s material in her ‘wardrobe’ is in her purple snakeskin thigh high boots. The rest of her nakedness is covered by mere string and sweetener packets sized pieces of material. The barely there look was censored and covered by a lavender catsuit in some arcade versions of the game.

Throwing around her whip of a snake sword and fighting to destroy the soul sword seems dangerous, in that with one accidental cut of a string, she could distract Nightmare with her uber bloated boobies. It could be a great fighting tactic, while avenging her undead pirate father against the male populous.

Ice Princess – Changing The Virtual Hockey Genre

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A 14-year-old New Yorker asked a profound question, “Why aren’t there girls in the NHL video game?”

Lexi Peters, 14 of Buffalo, feels slighted that her gender isn’t represented in sports games. Her father encouraged her to write a letter to game publisher Electronic Arts.

Now the 4-foot-eleven hockey player of 4 years will star in their NHL Franchise game showing that this one’s for the girls.

In her letter, she wrote: “It is unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world, many of them who play and enjoy your game. I have created a character of myself, except I have to be represented by a male and that’s not fun.”

She continued, “My younger brother got to create a character that looked just like him. I had never been able to experience that.”

After weeks of no response, Peters accepted that she would have to play as the male characters and give them ‘hockey hair’ as she calls it. When she finally heard back, the news was bad.

“I heard back a few weeks later and they told me it couldn’t happen because it has to go through the NHL,” she said. While the NHL may not approve of women players, EA heard the plight.

“Lexi’s letter was a wake-up call,” David Littman, Lead Producer told the Globe and Mail. “Here’s a growing audience playing our NHL game and we hadn’t done anything to capture them.”

He told Peters that not only would there be female players in future editions of their NHL games, but she would be the model for the default character.

Something Manon Rhéaume (pictured), the only woman to ever play in the real-world NHL, is proud of.

“It’s a big change and it’s exciting to see, because so many girls play hockey now,” she said. Rhéaume was signed to the Tampa Bay Lightning as goalie in 1992.

Now she runs a foundation to give scholarships to young women in sports, including hockey.

As for Peters, her favorite NHL star is Alex Ovechkin. Would she take him on? No. “I’ll put us on the same team,” she said.