Star Wars and Electronic Arts. A beloved franchise and a publisher in turmoil. It is an unlikely union to say the least. As it happens they will both need each other in the coming years. Star Wars is going to be revived and reinvigorated in a way never before seen. Memories of fan favorite Jar [...]
Articles By: Mark Gonzales
Electronic Arts: Can You Do Better?
Electronic Arts is one of the biggest game company’s in the world, and one of the most despised as well. Officially so with the recent The Consumerist (a subsidiary of Consumer Reports) poll that awarded EA “Worst Company in America” this past year. This makes history as it has received the award two years in [...]
Beyond: Two Souls, To Control or Not To Control?
Trying to put into words what Quantic Dream is attempting to achieve with Beyond: Two Souls is even more difficult than attempting to decipher what the title is about. With the subject of the afterlife, the soul and the nature of living being posed to the audience. This game can push the medium of gaming [...]
The Last Of Us: Between a Next-Gen and a Hard Place
The Last of Us represents what is the last hurrah and final breath of new titles to come out in the current generation. What has been shown so far alludes to the fact that the game is being lovingly crafted by Sony‘s Naughty Dog studio. The recent trailer really showcases what gamers can expect to [...]
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC Review
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC Edition is a higher-end DirectX 11.1 video card from AMD that utilizes their graphics architecture GCN (Graphics Core Next) that significantly improves performance while reducing power consumption from its previous 6000 series of cards. Codenamed Tahiti, the card itself features an 850 MHz core clock with a 925 MHz [...]
DRM: The Deadliest Acronym
Digital Rights Management (DRM). The three words in the English language that get gamers fired up. With such spectacular debacles in game releases like Blizzard‘s Diablo III (error and disconnects) and most recently Electronic Arts‘ SimCity (same thing). The never ending war between pirates and video game companies leaves many innocent gamers caught in the [...]
Game Management: The Plight of the Adult Gamer
Amidst painful deaths, restarting check points, and frustration with missing a vital jump over and over again. The worst thing that faces older gamers these days is time. Having amassed responsibility and making sure every other factor that pertains to life (social interaction, eating, general health maintenance, brushing teeth) are taken care of, adult gamers [...]
Your Move Microsoft
The next console war has officially begun! Sony made big strides and sent waves around the industry with their recent PlayStation 4 unveiling. They made good moves and ultimately achieved what they needed to do the most, come out before Microsoft. Now, Microsoft has a good amount of time before they launch their barrage of [...]
Dangerous Game: Nintendo Taking Monster Hunter from Sony
Gird your loins. Sharpen those knives. And sit in front of the fire pit preparing that succulent hamhock. Monster Hunter (MH) is coming back, and in a major way for the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. For the uninitiated, Monster Hunter is an immensely popular action role-playing game, where the player [...]
Sony and Microsoft, Show Us the Games
Ever since the next PlayStation and Xbox were projected to come out in 2013, video gamers have been entangled in a massive web of speculation and rumor. At the center of this web, there have been rumors about graphics capability, physical media elimination and of course motion/touch controls. All of this wide-eyed optimism and conjecture, [...]
