Comedy, sketches, gaming, lemmings. You do the math.
“Do you even lift?” It’s the four words that every self-respecting guy dreads, and how many times when playing Call of Duty has some smart mouthed brat with the calf muscles of a Paralympian put you in your proverbial place with such a rhetorical question? Rhetorical because the only way [...] Read more »
Not long away now fellow Indie game connoisseurs! As we all excitedly anticipate the opening of E3 exactly one month from now, things aren’t looking as bright for the Indie genre. Behind the scenes of our anticipation a plethora of Indie game developers are gearing up in the hopes of [...] Read more »
If Resident Evil 4 killed survival horror, then it was little more than the mercy killing of a genre suffering from a terminal affliction: unsustainable gameplay mechanics that were completely at odds with the level of ease and accessibility that is expected of all games released this—and to a lesser [...] Read more »
Back ‘round my parts used to be a babe in the woods outlaw; went by the name o’ Sweet Billy. Now, Sweet Billy was just a naive kid at heart, his eyes opened by the gold one could make from rustlin’ sheep, cows and jimmies, and he used ta be [...] Read more »
Ok, I’ve had enough of reading all of these crackpot articles about how Nintendo is in trouble. Sure, they get hits and some people seem to enjoy reading about Nintendo’s financial woes and how the WiiU is already on the ropes. The problem is the picture they paint is warped [...] Read more »
Remember boss battles? They used to take place not just in RPGs, but most genres too. Even first person shooters had boss battles! Can you believe it? Crazy, I know. But this isn’t about boss battles; this is about the lack thereof. Except to understand the lack thereof, we must [...] Read more »
The last Call of Duty game I finished was the original. That’s not to say that I didn’t play the sequels; I did, but the fact that they were all almost exactly the same as the original put me off from really giving them a proper go. Then along came [...] Read more »
Via Facebook’s Dead Space 3 page, it was announced that the first DLC story segment for the game titled ‘Awakened’, will be released on March 13th. Detailed in an IGN preview here, producer Shereif Fattouh explains the DLCs setting. ‘Awakened’ picks up right where Dead Space 3 ends and takes [...] Read more »
This hasn’t been a good few weeks for EA ever since its controversy surrounding Dead Space 3 and the announcement that all of its future games will include micro-transactions. People haven’t exactly been happy to hear this news, the least EA could do to keep customers happy is to provide [...] Read more »
EA has announced that all of its future titles for PC and consoles will have micro-transactions. EA CFO Blake Jorgensen stated that, “Consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of business”. This move comes after the inclusion of a micro-transaction system put in place in Dead Space 3, and the [...] Read more »