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Slide 1 Black Hawk Online Games Online gaming -- from all sorts of multi-player online games to offline ones.   Slide 2 About Us Black Hawk Online Games has your back covered when it comes to online gaming -- from all sorts of multi-player online games to offline ones. Our constantly updated Blog features game reviews, console updates and latest installments (and cheats, when we feel extra generous).  We have info on racing, shooting, adventure, RPGs and all-in-ones like the BlackHawk Striker (we do tend to steer clear of cutesy games).   Black Hawk Online Games also provides an avenue for you to get in touch with fellow gamers from all over the world. Black Hawk Online Games encourages interactive communication along with the reminder that we should keep it nice and clean (read: no  flaming or spamming).  Black Hawk Online Games is committed in helping y'all the best gaming experience so feel free to browse everything on our archives. Slide 3 Terms and Conditions Like most standard Website servers, Black Hawk Online Games use log files. This includes IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are linked to personally identifiable information to help identify you. Black Hawk Online Games use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. These cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information.

Self-confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has been found to be addicted to computer games (spending thousands of hours playing war games) years prior to his bombing and killing on July 22. Authorities have discovered computer logs that show Breivik has spent 8,700 hours playing war games from 2006 to 2010. In fact, records show that he played 500 hours of World of Warcraft between November 2010-April 2011 alone. Aside from playing WoW, Breivik was also into Elder Scrolls, Modern Warfare, Warhammer and Dragon Age. According to him, he spent all his time playing in the months prior to his July 22 attacks. Breivik started playing WoW in 2006 and authorities are inclined to believe that he played the game for up to 12 hours per day in a 2-year period. It should also be noted that he used terms from the game in the 'manifesto' he wrote. According to Breivik, playing war games was only to hide his terrorist plans.

Ouya, a USD 99 TV game console project using Android 4.0 has made a stunning debut on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter - hitting a million dollar mark after just 8 hours. The game console is slated for a March 2013 release and the team behind it promise that it will offer a flexible and open gaming environment that the market wants, which will bring back the good old days of console-TV gaming. As of now, the sleek silver and black cube along with its equally cool controller are just on their prototype stage. Ouya founder Julie Uhrman said, "It's ironic, all the growth in gaming is moving to mobile platforms, we're seeing a lot of AAA developers leaving their console shops to go to mobile, yet three out of every four dollars is still spent in the living room, a majority of gaming time is still spent on the TV, and if you survey any gamer they'll tell you their No. 1 platform is the TV." Ouya is now the fastest project in Kickstarter to reach the million dollar threshold in just 8 hours of going live. The team has initially hoped for USD 950,000 pledges in one month for the consoles to be produced. Support for the project has been huge that as of the time of this writing, barely 3 days of being online, the amount of pledges reached USD 4 million already. "We never anticipated that it would blow up like this," said the Ouya founder to Black Hawk Reviews - Online Games.

Ouya, a USD 99 TV game console project using Android 4.0 has made a stunning debut on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter - hitting a million dollar mark after just 8 hours. The game console is slated for a March 2013 release and the team behind it promise that it will offer a flexible and open gaming environment that the market wants, which will bring back the good old days of console-TV gaming. As of now, the sleek silver and black cube along with its equally cool controller are just on their prototype stage. Ouya founder Julie Uhrman said, "It's ironic, all the growth in gaming is moving to mobile platforms, we're seeing a lot of AAA developers leaving their console shops to go to mobile, yet three out of every four dollars is still spent in the living room, a majority of gaming time is still spent on the TV, and if you survey any gamer they'll tell you their No. 1 platform is the TV."

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency has decided that a system widely adopted by online game operators on SNS websites (social networking service) violates a law on sales methods. In the said online games called complete gacha (kompu gacha), players could win a rare virtual item or a prize after he buys a specific number of items required. The agency started the probe on the game services following complaints of extremely high payment charges on players of SNS sites like Mobage and Gree. This gaming system was first introduced in online games by SNS last year. Kompu gacha is an advanced level of gacha where players can get rare items after collecting a specific combination of objects available in the games.

Black Hawk Online Games has your back covered when it comes to online gaming -- from all sorts of multi-player online games to offline ones. Our constantly updated Blog features game reviews, console updates and latest installments (and cheats, when we feel extra generous).

Black Hawk Online Games has your back covered when it comes to online gaming -- from all sorts of multi-player online games to offline ones. Our constantly updated Blog features game reviews, console updates and latest installments (and cheats, when we feel extra generous).

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency has decided that a system widely adopted by online game operators on SNS websites (social networking service) violates a law on sales methods. In the said online games called complete gacha (kompu gacha), players could win a rare virtual item or a prize after he buys a specific number of items required. The agency started the probe on the game services following complaints of extremely high payment charges on players of SNS sites like Mobage and Gree. This gaming system was first introduced in online games by SNS last year. Kompu gacha is an advanced level of gacha where players can get rare items after collecting a specific combination of objects available in the games. However, the gacha games have continuously been criticized for banking on the players' gambling tendencies, especially then the specific item they will get is not known at the time of purchase, which makes it similar to a lottery. The gacha game was supposedly inspired by vending machines that sell small toys inside capsules. But in this case, online players are buying virtual items for hundreds of yen, which they can use in the game, as opposed to physical, real ones.

"How incredible Hollywood stories played out in online games for real.Ever thought about how unrealistic the plots of some of your favourite films seem? Think again - they happen all the time, and in the virtual world as well as the real one. Online games have played host to all sorts of bonkers storylines and events that their developers never intended to happen, or ever even saw coming.Here, we take a trawl through the archives to look at the movie plots that really played out in your favourite games."

"How incredible Hollywood stories played out in online games for real.Ever thought about how unrealistic the plots of some of your favourite films seem? Think again - they happen all the time, and in the virtual world as well as the real one. Online games have played host to all sorts of bonkers storylines and events that their developers never intended to happen, or ever even saw coming.Here, we take a trawl through the archives to look at the movie plots that really played out in your favourite games."

PopCap has two important announcements this week: a sequel for its most popular game and staff layoffs. It has announced the Plants vs. Zombies 2 launch will be on the spring of 2013 and promised new stuff in the game where you combat a horde of zombies by planting stuff. "The sequel to Plants vs. Zombies is expected to launch by late spring 2013, and will include a bevy of new features, settings, and situations, designed to delight the franchise's tens of millions of fans around the world," according to PopCap. However, it did not go into details about the platforms where it will be available. It was also unconfirmed if PopCap plans to make the sequel a separate game version or be an update to the current one. PopCap, now a division of EA has released the following statements from two of its game characters regarding the sequel's release: "Spring is crullest curlie ungood time, and plantz grow dull roots. So, we are meating you for brainz at yore house. No worry to skedule schedlue plan... we're freee anytime. We'll find you." "There was a time we relished a bracing, hearty blend of zombies, in the morning. But first, a brisk shower and some strategic pruning are required. Tomorrow is near!" On the other hand, PopCap offices are not in the mood to celebrate as it was announced on the same day that some of them are going to be laid off, which surprisingly includes the creator of their flagship game himself. Senior game designer George Fan, the brain behind the smash hit game is confirmed to be included in the job cuts in PopCap offices in Ireland and Seattle. PopCap asserts that reorganization is a must considering the fast-changing game market and that PopCap would do well to invest in new game platforms and expand its market further in Asia. Apparently, if PopCap did not become part of EA, the job cuts could have been worse but choosing some other rip-off over Fan might be a mistake.

PopCap has two important announcements this week: a sequel for its most popular game and staff layoffs. It has announced the Plants vs. Zombies 2 launch will be on the spring of 2013 and promised new stuff in the game where you combat a horde of zombies by planting stuff. "The sequel to Plants vs. Zombies is expected to launch by late spring 2013, and will include a bevy of new features, settings, and situations, designed to delight the franchise's tens of millions of fans around the world," according to PopCap.