The gaming industry has been around for well over 30 years and in that time many genres have been born and many lifetimes have been spent both developing and playing these great adventures. But while games were once singleplayer affairs or restricted to couch multiplayer, they eventually took advantage of the internet…
Being a gamer is great. There are so many experiences to have and a lot of them are unique. Unlike movies, you can get a whole novel series worth of content in a single game and spend upwards of 50 to 100 hours on it. It’s a major time sink, and expensive at that, but totally worth it in the end.
I had told myself that I wasn’t going to play any of the DLC chapters until they were all released, but I just couldn’t resist playing Episode Prompto. Why? Because I already knew his story, and I knew it was sad and that is what drew me to it. I like when characters have depth to them beyond their initial…
A few months ago, Bandai and Sunrise announced that Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis, a sequel to Gundam Unicorn with nods to Gundam F91, would be receiving an anime adaptation starting this month. It was also announced that it would be comprised of five 3-minute episodes and one 8-minute episode for a total runtime…
Mass Effect: Andromeda is now three months old. Hard to believe we waited years for it and a lot of us were, quite frankly, really disappointed with the final product. Kotaku’s recent article on what exactly happened over the course of its development brought it to the forefront again. In the aftermath of its release,…
The topic of game localization has become something of a hot discussion over the last few years. Many gamers see trailers for Japanese games and then beg the publishers to bring them west, only to find that while the publisher gave in to the demand and released the game, it is not entirely the same. The image on the…
Up until now, Bethesda Game Studios has been known for two big RPG franchises: The Elder Scrolls and Fallout(Starting with Fallout 3). Naturally, fans expect these two franchises from Bethesda, but as it was put in a recent interview, Bethesda isn’t content to just cycle between those two franchises for the rest of…
I’ll admit that I’ve never played a Professor Layton game, perhaps I should, but it’s always music to my ears when I hear that a handheld-only series is coming to the Nintendo Switch. In this case though, the developer, Level-5, needs to solve a gameplay issue. Because the series exists on the Nintendo DS family of…
Okay, so I have yet to see this news get the proper attention it deserves from major outlets. Maybe I missed it somehow, but it seems very few outlets have noticed it, probably because it was kind of a low key announcement during E3, specifically in a magazine. So, I figure I might as well make a dedicated article for…
Yesterday I gave my verdict on who won E3 2017 overall. Now, I’m going to dive in and tell you the games I’m most excited for that appeared at E3 2017 during the conferences or were revealed/given trailers/given news separately from the event, but still E3 reveals technically. So lets not waste time on idle chatter.
The big publisher press briefings have concluded as of today, and while I’m sure there are no doubt a few more announcements that will be made over the coming days as E3 proper begins and comes to a close, the storm has passed and we can now nail down who exactly came out on top in this years battle of the publishers.…
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 has arrived, or at least, the press briefings from major publishers have. No one really cares about E3 proper, it’s all about the juicy game reveals at the publisher conferences that take place before E3. Said conferences began two days ago with EA’s press briefing and continued…
Leaks are one of those things that are just inevitable around this time of year. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or at least the publisher conferences, begin this weekend on June the 10th with the EA Play event. Following them on June 11th is Microsoft. Over the past couple of months we’ve heard four things…
(SPOILERS AHEAD!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)
The Electronic Entertainment Expo is right around the corner and Nintendo has a new piece of hardware that needs as much promotion as it can get. The Nintendo Switch is off to a great start, but everyone is thinking about its future and that goes doubly for Nintendo themselves. We all know games are coming to the…
So by now everyone is familiar with the fact that Microsoft has a bit of a firsty party development problem when compared to its competitors. Sony has a constant stream of exclusive titles, many of which come from Japan where the Xbox One sold like complete crap, and Nintendo has built up a stable of first party IP’s…
For the last few months, Nintendo has been putting Switch units out as fast as they can have them produced and they sell out instantly due to the high demand for the Switch. This isn’t the first time that a Nintendo product has been in such high demand and, consequently, hard to find for a long stretch of time. From…
Having grown up in the late 90's and early 00's, I have a fondness for old-school JRPG’s. I didn’t play many back then, but that style of game was all over the place and every time I see it in newer games, I’m reminded of my childhood and Square Enix knows damn well what they’re doing.
After spending a ton of time in State of Decay’s Breakdown mode, I’ve come to just absolutely love the game and can’t wait for State of Decay 2 this year. Having said that, it isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination. It reeks of a limited budget, but one that was used to create a competent game. With…
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a strange beast. Announced at E3 2015, it was part of Sony’s 1-2-punch that consisted of The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Shenmue III. Interviews with the developers revealed that the game has entered some form of development in 2014, meaning it has been in development for 3…
