When finding success with certain franchises, many major game developing and publishing companies decide to keep pushing out sequels, to the point that the original quality and uniqueness of the first titles in the series fade away. We’ve seen this happen countless times, with the latest installments in franchises such as Call of Duty or Assassin’s Creed being disappointments. CD ...
Read More »Playable Female Characters Are Important
Playable female characters in games are currently a novelty. The vast majority of games cast players as a male protagonist, and it doesn’t surprise anyone. However, when a game allows players to play as a woman, it is delightfully surprising – and that’s what’s wrong with it. We shouldn’t be surprised by the presence of playable female characters – we should ...
Read More »Gears of War Remastered Announced
A remastered edition of the first Gears of War has been announced for the Xbox One. News of this came about from gaming website Polygon, who has reportedly seen screenshots of the multiplayer. Coincidentally, this defeats the rumors that a Marcus Fenix Collection would be able for the Xbox. On their second update of the article Polygon said, “We’ve seen some multiplayer ...
Read More »In Defense of Easy – Thoughts on Difficulty
Difficulty settings are commonplace in modern games, but it wasn’t always that way. In 1974, Speed Race showed up in arcades. This was one of the very first games (if not the first game) to include difficulty settings. Since then, a large majority of video games have included difficulty options, and this has created something of a rift between gamers with different tastes. I ...
Read More »Just Cause 3 Gameplay Revealed: What’s New?
The new trailer for Just Cause 3 has been recently revealed, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it below. According to the Just Cause Facebook page, this trailer features, “No cut scenes, no scripts, no staging. Just gameplay and great camera angles.” So as you can expect, the game-play is light on narrative and heavy on action…but then ...
Read More »Black Ops III Reveal: A Titanfall Clone?
After a series of leaked details and images, Treyarch and Activision decided to go the extra mile and revealed their trailer for the next installment of the Call of Duty franchise: Black Ops III. In lieu of the advanced warfare idea, players will be given futuristic toys to play with, but at the same time, it seems as though someone ...
Read More »NA LCS Summer Promotion Preview
The Spring Split of the 2015 North American LCS concluded last weekend when Team Solo-Mid clenched their second consecutive LCS title after defeating Cloud 9. With the year’s first Split in the book, most teams are looking forward to some time off before they begin to prepare for the upcoming Summer Split. However, this is not the case for a ...
Read More »Square Enix Hosting It’s Own E3 Press Conference
Square Enix has hopped onto the bandwagon with Besthesda, and Ubisoft, in providing their own press conference. This is the first time, since 2012, that Square Enix has done this. The last time they hosted a press conference, they were announcing the Luminous game engine. What do they have in store for gamers? So what do we know about Square ...
Read More »Skyrim Outmatched by Witcher 3?
May 19 is only a few weeks away. Anticipation couldn’t be any higher as CD Projekt’s The Witcher 3 promises to outdeliver Bethesda’s classic, Skyrim. By learning from it’s mistakes in The Witcher 2, CD Projekt has given new life to the world of Geralt, as an army known as The Wild Hunt invade the Northern Kingdoms. Players, old and new, will be ...
Read More »Releases for the Week of April 26-May 2
As we all have experienced, it is nearly impossible to keep up with all of the games that are released each week. This series focuses on spotlighting some of the major releases of the week as well as providing some information about them. The release dates listed are for North America. Monday, April 27th Releases Cloud Knights for PC. Cloud ...
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