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 [...]
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Call of Duty: Ghosts Dances With The One That Brought Them
Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ existence was leaked a few weeks ago from Target ads and a promotional poster, but Activision finally revealed it with an announcement trailer (read about the announcement here). Well, kind of. The clip gave us little more than some glimpses of warriors from different cultures throughout time followed by an announcement saying that [...]
GTA 5 Release Date PS3
GTA 5 release date PS3 is September 17, 2013. For anyone that has not been living in a cave for the last four months or actively avoids pre-order signs knows that the GTA 5 release date PS3 has changed. Originally Rockstar aimed for a spring 2013 GTA 5 release date PS3. However, at the beginning [...]
Bungie’s Destiny: Promising Lofty and Ambitious Ideas
Bungie‘s Destiny is ambitious. That is putting it mildly actually. The game is promising some insanely zealous goals for players with its story and gameplay. Destiny is a persistent world, first-person shooter where players will explore a shared world with gamers all across the globe. As a persistent world game, the world will move forward [...]
Halo 5: When Will it Come Out?
Halo 4 was a juggernaut success financially and it was critically praised. While the game came out Nov 4 2012, that does not mean people are not wondering when the next installment of the Reclaimer trilogy, Halo 5, will come out. Or at the very least, when will Microsoft announce the next Halo game from [...]
BioShock Infinite (Xbox 360) Review
Most gamers will likely never forget the time they first caught a glimpse of the underwater dystopia that was Rapture. Andrew Ryan’s crumbling city full of plasmids and Big Daddies made the first BioShock a crowning achievement of the first person shooter genre and one of the most recognized games of all time. At first [...]
A Gangster and His Family
(Omerta – City of Gangsters is mobster-sim that allows players to immerse themselves in the game and take on the role of being a mob boss. The game takes place in the prohibition era of American history much like the popular HBO show Boardwalk Empire. Much like the Steve Buscemi helmed show, Omerta takes place [...]
Dear Square-Enix, Please Remake Final Fantasy 7 Now
This debate has been sung by spoony bards plenty of times before but now it is time to dust off our Phoenix Downs and cast them once again at our hopes for a Final Fantasy 7 remake. Why? The landscape for Square-Enix has changed very drastically recently. What was once a financially lucrative landscape that [...]
PS4: Too Little, Too Early
What is up with Sony jumping the gun on their next-gen console? Well, it is not necessarily jumping the gun… The timing is just about right. Late 2013 is a very appropriate time for the next generation of gaming consoles to come out. But, it has been a month now since Sony announced the PS4 [...]
The Revengeance of Action Games
In video games there has been a debate about how to balance story telling and gameplay since games moved from an 8-bit medium to something that could imitate a more cinematic experience. This debate comes down to how much control is given or taken away from gamers. Often developers rely on cut scenes to tell [...]
