E3 positions itself as the biggest, most important convention for the games industry. Here is the place where the big announcements are made and the who’s who of the most important game developers, publishers, and console manufacturers come together to not only show us what we’ll be playing over the…
Read MoreIt never ceases to amaze me how games journalists manage to spin a single out of context quote into a click-baiting article, since it rarely leads to a story that provides accurate information to the reader. But it happens, and Ian Livingstone is the latest victim of this “journalistic practice.”…
Read MoreSubsequent to the unveiling of the Microsoft Xbox One, what seems to be the most-discussed feature of the console is its apparent ability to lock out second hand games. Though Microsoft has so far failed to properly clarify what all this lockout means, the technology is in the console. Naturally,…
Read MoreAn interesting little story over at Polygon hints as a possible future for the fighting game genre – the Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate game, due for release later this year, will release in Japan with a free-to-play option. The free-to-play version will come with four characters and all of…
Read MoreHang on… this isn’t Puzzle & Dragons! There was a bit of a stir around some recent comments made by GungHo’s CEO and President, Kazuki Morishita. “I want to top Nintendo’s sales by the time I retire,” Morishita said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. That same story delves quite deeply…
Read MoreOver at Kotaku there’s a story that didn’t really surprise me, but certainly disappointed me. A group of people that seem to think that the only discussions about games that should be allowed are ones that they personally agree with flagged an Anita Sarkeesian YouTube video to the point where…
Read MorePeter Molyneux’s experiment, Curiosity, is over. An 18 year-old from the UK has won the game and a great prize that goes with it – the ability to play God in Molyneux’s next game, Godus, which is shaping up to be just as experimental as Curiosity thanks to this feature.…
Read MoreSome would call it “doom and gloom” reporting. I personally call it click baiting, but yep, Nintendo’s corner of the Internet did indeed explode with the news that EA has formally pulled all development from the Wii U console. It’s actually not that interesting news – EA has been projecting…
Read MoreThe storm of gloom has been really rolling in on the Nintendo front as of late. Anyone who even marginally pays attention to the daily games news has undoubtedly read that Nintendo won’t be holding a major press conference at this year’s E3, and many are interpreting that as a…
Read MoreOpinion by Nick H. I really enjoyed the original Dead Space a great deal. The graphics were excellent, the sound design was appropriately creepy, it told an excellent story and gave you a reason to care about what happened to the lead character, Isaac. I am a huge fan of…
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