Marty O’Donnell, the former composer for Bungie that was perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the pre-343 Industries Halo series, has won his lawsuit against Bungie. The lawsuit was brought about when Marty was fired sometime in April 2014, 5 months before Destiny came out, and had his stock in Bungie taken away. As it was stated in the court papers ...
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Is Destiny’s The Taken King Worth The Cost?
There’s been a whole lot of controversy surrounding Destiny’s new expansion, The Taken King. After a horrendous interview by Bungie employee Luke Smith (which he gave a public apology for), people both in and out of the fanbase were up in arms about the blatant disrespect for customers. Since then, many people have been using The Taken King as another ...
Read More »Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 Announced
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is back! A recent feature by Game Informer (published May 5, 2015) includes an exclusive announcement from Activision, Robomodo, and Disruptive Games. The announcement confirms that a new Tony Hawk game is coming very soon: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. For a while, the Tony Hawk series was unstoppable. With a strong debut in 1999, Tony Hawk’s Pro ...
Read More »Guitar Hero Live: A Brand New Experience
Remember how you felt when you first played Guitar Hero? You felt like a rockstar, right? The crowd cheering as you aced every riff, the familiar rock songs, even playing side-by-side with your best friend. It was a wonderful, innovative feeling. However, the weak spin-offs caused the series to lose it’s charm. Future games were nothing more than clones of their predecessors. ...
Read More »Destiny’s ‘House of Wolves’ DLC dated
Bungie sets the date for the second DLC for Destiny as May 19. You can watch the cinematic trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 What’s even more interesting is that the ‘House of Wolves’ DLC will not have a Raid activity. Instead, there will be a new mode called ‘The Prison of Elders.’ In a post by Bungie, ‘The Prison of Elders’ will be ...
Read More »Bungie tweaks Destiny multiplayer
Get your guns ready Guardians, because Bungie’s Destiny gets a few changes to its multiplayer. Update 1.1.2 will bring quite a few changes to the sci-fi shooter. This week’s Weekly Update highlights tweaks to the PvP Crucible mode. In the past, Destiny players would have Special ammo loaded into their secondary weapons from the start of each match. Crucible Designer Kevin Yanes ...
Read More »Activision May Announce New Guitar Hero at E3
According to sources, Activision currently has a new installment of Guitar Hero in development, presumably to be announced at E3 for a release later this year. The last Guitar Hero game, Warriors of Rock, was released back in 2010 for PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. By that time, the music game fad was fading out and Activision chose to ...
Read More »New Call of Duty Confirmed for 2015
Activision on Thursday announced that it will release a new Call of Duty game this fall, and will be produced by developer Treyarch. This is Treyarch’s first Call of Duty game to be developed on Activision’s new three-year, three-studio development schedule. The developer’s most recent game was 2012’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and they first developed Call of Duty: ...
Read More »Advanced Warfare: Havoc DLC on PC Dated
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Havoc DLC on both PC and PlayStation (PS3, PS4) has been slated to release on Thursday, February 26th.
Read More »Amiibo vs Skylanders vs Infinity: A Comparison
Recently we saw the release of Nintendo’s line of interactive toys, the Amiibo. These are not the first “Toys to Life” figures to see release. For a few years now, we have had the Skylanders series, which introduced the concept with Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures. There is also the Disney Infinity series, which entered the genre in 2013. Since, then, the toys ...
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