Full disclosure, I took part in the crowdfunding campaign for Wasteland 3. Wasteland is a lesser known gaming franchise, but most gamers are familiar with what it spawned. The widely popular Fallout franchise owes a lot to Wasteland, and it would never had been made without the 1988 classic. Four years ago, however, the inactive Wasteland title was revived with ...
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NES Classic Edition Accessories
The NES is arguably the most important console ever created, at least from a history perspective. It wasn’t the first created, that would be the Brown Box, nor was it the first to be wildly popular, that being the Atari 2600. It was, however, the console that revived North American video gaming after the crash of 1983. Gaming wasn’t exactly ...
Read More »Rumors say that Nintendo Switch launches on March 18th
Nintendo held its cards for a long time when it came to revealing its new console, the Nintendo Switch, but everything seems to indicate that it ultimately worked. YouTube views of the first Nintendo Switch trailer are now higher than the most seen Wii U trailer, and general opinion regarding the Switch seems to be fairly positive, with people agreeing ...
Read More »The Odd Nature of EA’s Excuse for Banning Iran and Myanmar from Origin
Electronic Arts, the two-time “winner” of the “Worst Company in America” award, has decided to cut off the countries of Iran and Myanmar from accessing their Origin service. In effect, this prevents anyone in those countries from buying or playing any digitally purchased EA games on the PC, or for that matter, getting a refund for games that they can no ...
Read More »EVE Fanfest 20th Event Details
Milestones and anniversaries are customs that are practiced by the majority of the human race. Birthdays, days of marriage, and years of operation are all given special attention when the anniversary date comes round. Particularly when they line up with a particular milestone. For video game companies, it is no different. In fact, given the youth of the medium, in ...
Read More »Tekken is due to burn up screens once more
The groundbreaking albeit slightly sexist, over-exaggerated, and sinister fighting video game possibly in all of time, Tekken 7, is back on screens in early 2017 on the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The Tekken series has a long history with the first game’s release date dating back to 1994. Bandai Namco Studios initially released it as an arcade game ...
Read More »Are gamers more likely to be better sports betters?
Online sports betting is a pastime that has been gaining much momentum and popularity in recent times. With you now being able to place wages from your smartphone, using the betfair android app, it is a fun activity that people can do on the go, whenever they have some free time. But the question we turn to today is, is ...
Read More »Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct Coming today!
After some teasing last month, Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Direct about Animal Crossing for today, November 2. The Direct will premiere at 7am PDT / 10am EDT. This event will be about Animal Crossing’s fall update, as well as a new version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf that comes packaged with the new update. New Amiibo cards are to be expected ...
Read More »UK: Xbox One’s console sales beat PS4… again
As the months go by it becomes clearer to the general public how much of a good decision the Xbox One S was, the Xbox One had a rough start and it could barely win some months in the United States against the crushingly powerful PlayStation 4, the Xbox division tried its best to improve the console’s image but it ...
Read More »Owlboy has released after 9 years of development
Passion can make a project come to life, but dedication and conviction are the elements that keep it alive after troublesome times, that is the story of D-Pad Studio. Simon Andersen had the idea to make Owlboy back in 2007, and with a team consisting of 4 people (including himself) development of a demo of the game started on that ...
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