One of the first things a player will notice about Shogun 2 is the look. The developers have painstakingly recreated the colorful and esoteric art style of Feudal Japan, and in intertwining the art st... Read More
Video game marketing strategies need to grow along with the gamers they target.
There's a trend in the industry that is skewing players toward paying for content that has already been completed. How far are we willing to let that go?
There have been several attempts to translate the elegiac mythology of the Norse culture into games. For the most part, they involve players waving axes and hitting people with them while yelling thin... Read More
Call me an old fogey, but I prefer the Team Fortress 2 of three years ago, when it first released. You know what comprised the core of the experience back then? Getting the intelligence, or pushing th... Read More
Trying to argue the negative impact of franchise gaming is a tough sell. Anyone dumb enough to try is immediately bombarded with the impact of each franchise, the popularity of its main character or t... Read More
When speaking of video game morality, it’s easy to get muddled and lost in the endless back-and-forth about the ethics of the games themselves. For example, does Grand Theft Auto lead to an increase... Read More
Why is it that Video Games never seem to have a good cinematic showing? When novels, comic books and stage plays all have the chance to become blockbusters, why do video games get relegated to the str...
With a heavier focus on action over stealth, are the new generations of old franchises indicative of the death of stealth-action?
Great games generally have similar elements in common; a unique tone, a richly detailed setting, strong writing, memorable characters, the list goes on. One of the simplest ways in which to impact man... Read More
Having unveiled the no-longer-secret name for Project Natal (it’s called Kinect now, which doesn’t sound as secret), Microsoft wasted no time in showcasing its versatility for everything but gamin... Read More
I remember when I was about twelve, I was visiting with a friend who had recently installed System Shock 2 on his computer. It wasn’t long before we were both sitting in front of the not-quite-seven... Read More
