Today marks the exact one-year anniversary of Ryan Bloom’s debut here at Gaming Illustrated. He quickly ascended from reviewer to Associate Editor thanks to his technical proficiency and hardcore dedication. Over the last year, Ryan’s work has been absolutely phenomenal and frankly, an inspiration not just to myself but for the whole team. If you [...]
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Playing Detective: How Mystery Games Crafted An Industry
In the world of games there are many careers. Among the soldiers, sages and super heroes, which players commonly personify with, another occupation continues to hold the employment and attention of gamers. Since the earliest PC games, players played as a detective. From early ground working entries such as the 1982 command based Snooper Trooper titles [...]
Kalvin Martinez is Going to Rule the World
As we continue the week of appreciation for our Associate Editors, we now look Kalvin Martinez, who has been with Gaming Illustrated for over a year. For those of you not totally familiar with Kalvin, he wears many hats at GI, including being in charge of our Editorials section and team, plus writes up reviews [...]
Ben Sheene is an Awesome Person
Yesterday, Gaming Illustrated celebrated the anniversary of Associate Editor Ben Sheene’s 1-Year stay at our site. He came in as an enthusiastic gamer looking to get a break in the industry and in quick time established himself as a talented, insightful and professional writer who deserves a voice in the gaming industry. I’m writing this [...]
New Game Releases: May 19-25
The most detrimental thing in the world is hope. There seemed to be some light for gamers with a tidy number of releases in the last week of April/first week of May, but game releases have been few and far between recently. Yet there is reason to hope again: Electric Boogaloo. This week sees some [...]
Star Wars and EA…The Saga Begins?
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 [...]
The Last of Us: Now I Have to Buy a PS3
Steadily it approaches…the June 14 release date for The Last of Us. The war between wallet and wants intensifies within me as I confront the realization that The Last of Us is a PlayStation 3 exclusive. I have not owned a PS3 in years. How could I have let this happen? I’m unemployed with no money [...]
Xbox 720: The Next Generation of Gimmicks
Clearly the big news is that on May 21, Microsoft will unveil the successor to the Xbox 360. It is an exciting time for gaming. Exciting for everyone from system and dev fanboys/fangirls to indie diehards and the handheld hardcore. The new era of gaming has either already arrived in some forms or is set [...]
Watch Dogs May Become Ubisoft’s Next Big Franchise
E3 2012 was fairly underwhelming, many developers showed off games that everyone knew about and Nintendo trotted out their next-gen Wii U, but nothing had a visceral feel to it. Unlike prior iterations of the gaming conference, there seemed to be no true surprises. The current console cycle was entering its final hurrah and despite [...]
Mists of Pandaria: Seeing through the Fog of Warcraft (Part 1)
New is not always better. World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, took the world by storm and sold record numbers of copies only to see a gigantic dip in subscriptions months later. Gamers, fed up with Cataclysm, were eager to finally get it out of the way, shoving it onto the back burner [...]
