There has been a lot of rumours surrounding Microsoft’s next foray into the console market and, as it turns out, not many of them were true. But the dust has settled and Microsoft has officially pulled the curtain back on the Xbox One. Read More »
With 25 million physical copies sold The Elder Scrolls has become one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, dwarfing Demon’s and Dark Souls humble 4 million by six-fold. But sales play no role in determining which RPG classic will advance to the 2nd round of this elimination tournament, this is all about the games themselves. Read More »
I once wanted to be a game developer, no really I did. When I caught a glimpse of Game Dev Tycoon I couldn’t help but wonder what life would’ve been like had I decided to pursue my dreams of becoming a … uhh … game dev tycoon. Read More »
I wrote a question piece a little while ago asking where the place of violence was in video games in response to the few critics that jumped on Their Little Ponies and said that “Hey, BioShock Infinite didn’t even need to be violent!”. More often than not, these same critics had previously shouted praise at Tomb Raider and the love they felt for her because she was ‘vulnerable’ and ‘just trying her best’. Read More »
When I heard about Persona 4 Arena, the only things I really knew about it was that it was being developed by Arc System Works (the brilliant team behind the BlazBlue series). However, Arena turned out to be more than just an excuse to get my arcade stick out – it was a surprise present that gave me something new in a genre I’d felt had gotten almost too comfortable with itself. Read More »
Ahh, the Cold War. Colder than the Eastern Front, some might say. From Eugen Systems comes the sequel to their 2012 game Wargame: European Escalation. Wargame: AirLand Battle, subtitled after the US Army’s Cold War fighting doctrine of the same name, features extremely deep realism that sets it apart from a genre somewhat lacking diversity. Read More »
I’m not going to blame you if you haven’t paid much attention to Insomniac’s brand spanking new multiplatform IP, Fuse. After first being revealed under the title ‘Overstrike’ way back at E3 2011, and then becoming rebranded in Augst 2012 as Fuse, the game has kept a fairly low profile. Upon its reveal, I almost immediately classed it as “another generic third person shooter I’ll never play”. Read More »
It’s not every day that you get generalised under the blanket term of ‘mediocre’ by someone who created a game as insipid as Epic Mickey, but that might change if Warren Spector’s weekly column becomes a daily one. In a column attempting to address the problems with Metacritic, Spector has stumbled headlong into a multi-faceted fallacy of assumptions and half-baked thoughts. Read More »
