Will you be playing anything else on Wii U this year? 2014. That’s what I heard over and over again in an E3 presentation from Nintendo that promised almost nothing we hadn’t already known about. The good first – Smash Bros (2014) is happening and includes fan favourite, Mega Man,…
Read MoreDear EA: No one outside of the USA cares about UFC After sitting through EA’s show at E3 2013, a couple of key points really stuck out to me; the company is increasingly American-centric and as such what it offers is less and less of value to everyone else. The…
Read MoreI will start right off by saying this one left me feeling much better about the direction of the Xbox One than Microsoft’s initial conference did. When one of their opening comments is “it’s all about the games” – well, I feel like is back on the right track. About…
Read MoreE3 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.…
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