Gaming Chronicles

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NEXOMANIA IS HERE!!! #heroesofthestorm #hots #blizzard #nexomania #sonya #diablo #warcraft #starcraft #overwatch #loot #event

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THE BLOCK PARTY MARATHON

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GC MARATHONS RETURNS!

GIVING AND BACK AGAIN, A GAMER’S TALE

Gaming Chronicles marathon games for Child’s Play Charity

(Ocean County, New Jersey) – Starting Thursday, April 16th at noon E.S.T., members and friends of GamingChronicles.com (http://www.GamingChronicles.com) are once more plunging into their hobby of choice and (with you help) coming out on the other side with donations for charity. The gamers hope that they can ride the successes of last year’s marathon by raising more money than ever.

Once again, the GC Marathon will be a full eighty-four hours of gaming. This year’s theme, The Block Party, will highlight “blocks” of games separated by genre. For example, the horror block will feature creepy games like Five Nights at Freddy’s, Outlast, and Lone Survivor. While the rhythm block will include Rock Band, Just Dance 3, and Retro/Grade.

Viewers can donate through the event to Child’s Play in order to prolong the playing of a specific title, include a different game into the marathon, or even win one of several grand prizes. The event will stream live and allow viewers to participate and communicate with those in attendance via chat, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. On-air call-ins, prize giveaways and raffles, and the standard fanfare will be included (sing-a-longs, Q&A, shenanigans, etc).

The Child’s Play Charity (http://www.childsplaycharity.org) is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of hospitals worldwide. Since 2003 the charity has distributed over $45 million worth of toys, games, books, and cash. Gaming Chronicles is excited to help. “Every year people help us raise more and more,” says event coordinator Matt Siciliano. “We’ve managed to raise almost $8,000 from the previous three marathons, with last year doubling our lifetime total alone. Child’s Play is a fantastic organization and we can’t help but be excited to raise awareness as well as money to support their efforts. This year is going to be our best yet.”

Look for updates and watch the event live on www.GamingChronicles.com, starting at noon on April 16th!

THE WEBSITE IS UNDERGOING SPECIFIC MAINTENANCE PENDING THE MARATHON! PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS THIS CHANGE OCCURS!

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MISTY REMATCH!!! TAKIN' IT TO THE EXTREEEEEEEMEEEEE... We aren't ready, are we?

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Make him play! Play all day! Hey hey hey! What did you say?

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More of the action of the eryi

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Jobeno and the Pokemon Challenge continue! Murder them trainers and their 'mon!

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Movin' on up to Bill's place.... FIGHT ALL THEM PEOPLE AND SING SONGS FROM FROZEN THE WHOLE WAY!

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He just keeps playing!

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April Fool's Day kind of backfires as Capital M gets Grenn Balze to play Eryi's Action, a terribly frustrating side scroller... And he loves it!

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Well... it ends here...

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I'm Magikarp

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Pokemon Rumble U continues! In this episode we MURDER MORE TOYS!!!!

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Pokemon Defined

Pokemon (poe-kay-mon)

(noun) Poketto Monsutā

1. Pocket Monsters.

2. Collectible monsters used for battling.

3. The biggest damned franchise since Super Mario Bros.

We have to start somewhere, why not at the beginning? Created by Satoshi Tajiri, and published by Nintendo, the Pokemon franchise came from a modest start. As a child, creator Satoshi Tajiri had a passion for bug collecting. Later in life, while writing for his own gaming newsletter, Satoshi became interested in the portability and function of the Game Boy hand-held system. Having worked with Nintendo before, he and partner Ken Sugimori, pitched the concept of catching creatures to raise, train, and trade on the Game Boy console. Eventually Nintendo approved and gave Satoshi the opportunity he needed. Development started in 1990, and the years of work saw many changes come and go within the game. Released in Japan in 1996, and stateside in 1998, the dual cartridge release (Red and Green in Japan; Red and Blue in North America) found many people attempting to capture them all.

Why do we like the games so much? At their core, they’re the most basic of RPGs. You battle for experience, level-up, and learn new fighting moves in an attempt to become the best pokemon trainer in the world. The game uses a basic rock-paper-scissor style type system in order to offset weaknesses and strengths, allowing the player to come up with a useful strategy when building a team. The team consists of up to six of the hundreds of monsters in the game, and here’s a huge plus: who’s on the team is solely up to you. If you can catch it, you can train it. Complete customization of your roster is the kind of thing most RPG fans pray for. There’s no silent protagonist with crazy, spikey hair that has to lead the party. There’s no obnoxious blonde that needs to be in the group for a dungeon. You pick your six; you call the shots.

It may be a basic RPG, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an entire layer of depth to the game. There are a plethora of advanced notions you need to be aware of if you’re planning on battling other players. There are base stat values, effort values, natures, special abilities, and inherited moves that come from breeding your monsters. All of this just adds to the strategizing.

It has to be said: The Pokemon franchise is one of the most fun game series of all time. Join us here at GC while we celebrate and commemorate the Pokemon craze!

(Originally posted during the first PokeMarch in 2011)

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