This is a guest post from Contributor Derek Grant On Tuesday news dropped, from Kotaku’s Jason Schreier, that EA cancelled yet another Star Wars game. This time it was the open world Star Wars game announced after Visceral Games was shut down in 2017. Keep in mind that this is a different project than the one…
In 2007, Bungie announced to an applauding audience of employees that the corporate yolk of oppression had been lifted. Microsoft, their glaring down corporate overlords, had been appeased. The great departure of this studio that produced the single greatest killer software of the original Xbox in Halo: Combat Evolved had cleared its final hurdle. And with it, they made a new deal with Activision, one that would allow them to keep full ownership of this grand new IP.
As I reflect on how amazing the video game collection I saw was and yearn over having my own collection someday, I fear with the way our industry is going that this is the type of collection that will slowly have fade to memory and become extinct.
Indie game Geneshift, by Nik Nak Studios, becomes the 10th most played game on Steam, ever. It didn’t achieve this status because of any kind of superior design, experience, or underlying feature that Geneshift stands head and shoulders above the thousands of other indie games out there. Instead, Geneshift grew rapidly in player count due to a simple post on Reddit, which spurred a great number of Steam bots to flood into the GTA inspired Battle Royale game.
SNES Classic made me fall in love with the original Nintendo console, but it wasn’t enough. Here’s some thoughts on why I love using original hardware on an old TV, and the thrill of the hunt.
While I love the idea of sampling something early, I’ve never understood exactly how it works. To me, it’s a bit like throwing a party and purposely inviting a few exclusive guests over early. The sun is still out, the floors haven’t been cleaned yet, and I’m still walking around in an unfortunately revealing bathrobe with appetizers in the freezer. Most of those exclusive guests would apologize for showing up early and walk out. And if they were also gamers they’d then complain about my unfinished party on Reddit.
For those who play video games, the holidays are a time of big ticket items (did you think I was going to say peace on Earth and good will toward man? Hah! That too…) For a kid, video games are often too expensive to afford with one’s accumulated summer lawn mowing cash and the odd…
The Game Awards for 2018 brought some incredible surprises, one of the most pleasing being the wicked drop of a new Mortal Kombat. The new trailer is suitably gory, set to the tune of 21 Savage, and features one of our favorite thunder gods beating the hell out of a Shirai-Ryu ninja (and possibly Scorpion?)….
Can you hear the Geiger counter going “tick-tick-tickety?” Cause there is a ton of fallout from the recent launch of Fallout 76. The online-only survival title has generated controversy over the basic concept, the lack of NPC interactions, stability issues, game-play balance, and end-game viability. Add to that the recent scandal over a collector’s edition bag, and Bethesda is in a bad way with its fans.
