Shooters and sniping have gone hand and hand for years in the world of gaming. As game play advances players are asked to do more on the field with their characters, from snipers, meleeing, scan environments, terms like camping, no-scooping have been bread thanks to this facet of gaming. Yet when we break down a [...]
Articles By: Carl Armstrong
Battlefield Premium Interview with Lead Designer
Battlefield Premium is additional content that takes the Battlefield 3 experience much further than the game does by itself. Included with Battlefield 3 Premium are the Expansion Packs: Back to Karkland, Close Quarters, Armored Kill, Aftermath and End Game. In addition there’s a live stats tracker, ability to browse leaderboards and more at the one-time [...]
League of Legends: “Real Deal, Real Talk”
Is it hard to realize the most played game in the industry today is a game far and few of us outside of the competitive gaming world has knowledge of? YES! Yet here we are and the numbers are out. Dominating the polls is the far from the Little Engine That Could, League of Legends, [...]
Dishonored Interview with Seth Shain of Arkane Studios
Dishonored is first-person action-adventure RPG developed by Arkane Studios and being published by Bethesda Softworks. It’s scheduled to be released in October 2012 for PC, Xbox 360 and for PS3. Leveraging the Unreal 3 Engine, gamers will control “Corvo Atano” who is a legendary bodyguard to the Empress who seeks vengeance against Lord Regent, the [...]
Inversion (Xbox 360) Review
Inversion, available for both PS3 and reviewed here on the Xbox 360, is a third-person shooter that allows for co-op play and attempts to put together big time action with the unique slant of gravity manipulation. When I first saw inversion I thought, ok looks like we got Gears of War meets Inception meets Ghostbusters (from [...]
Fray (PC) Review
Where does one start when they try out a RTS turned based game that lacks in so many categories? For starters, you push on and try to find the good in a game. Every once in a while you try something that’s annoying at first, conceding that sometimes it can be on the player instead [...]
NCAA Football 13 Interview with Designer Christian McLeod
NCAA Football 13 comes back to console systems July 10th, 2012 with a ton of new features including new animations, new intelligence, new graphics and a revamped presentation layer to make this year’s edition the most robust yet. At the recent E3 show we met up with NCAA Football 13 designer Christian McLeodfor a quick [...]
Madden 13 Interview
Madden 13 is closing in on its August release date and at the recent E3 2012 event in Los Angeles, Associate Editor Carl Armstrong discussed the game with former NFL player Clint Odenberg who was representing the Madden team at the EA booth for a brief discussion about what’s new in this year’s game. GI: [...]
MLG Partners with CBS to Broadcast e-Sports
MLG is blowing the competition away in certain aspects, especially in growth. MLG CEO Sundance DiGiovanni announced that CBS will broadcast MLG games this fall via the CBSi network. If you were in the LA area for E3, the excitement level for the newest titles in gaming/hardware was high, at the same time though it [...]
Sony E3 Press Conference Retrospective
As we push forward through the big 5 of the E3 press conferences, Sony had a lot of questions to answer – what’s the future hold for God of War, is the Vita going to matter in a couple of years … many were answered and then some. Here are some of the highlights from [...]
