Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw is a straight shooter. She’s also a very brave soul. Having to come out in front of millions of disgruntled SimCity fans and explain that their game is broken can’t have been easy. That said, she’s also become our direct line of communication with Maxis — explaining the developer’s line of thinking as it concerns SimCity. Today, she talked a little more in detail about SimCity’s always-online requirement....
Bethesda created an open world sandbox experience with easily hundreds of hours for players to explore when it released the fantasy dragon-slaying title The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This still wasn’t enough for some gamers. though, and many took it upon themselves to modify the game’s coding and share their enhancements with the gaming community. These Skyrim mods are created to enhance the player experience with higher texture graphics, increased number of quests and some even modify the character models to replace dragons with cartoon characters....
In case gamers hadn’t heard, StarCraft 2 is pretty popular. It’s first expansion, or rather the first proper release of the game, sold extremely well, and now its predecessor, StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is following a similar trend. Just today Blizzard Entertainment announced that Heart of the Swarm has sold some 1.1 million copies spread out over both physical and digital sales. Blizzard did not provide a breakdown between digital and retail copies, however....
Alien monsters or monstrous Mechs, it’s ‘pick your poison’ where the next generation of sci-fi shooters is concerned. In the one corner we have Titanfall, weighing in at trim 3 billion tons, and boasting a hype man in Microsoft worthy of its outstanding talent. Debuting March 11, 2014 this robotic wrecking ball has yet to endure its date with Destiny, Bungie’s latest, potentially greatest multi-platform prospect. Set for release in September, the title, like its challenger must first enter a prolonged period of training, a Beta testing phase intended to trim off unnecessary fat....
Microsoft’s XBLA House Party 2012 just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago with the release of I Am Alive, but time waits for no one, and the next Xbox Live Arcade event has already been announced. Hurry up and finish Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, Warp and Nexuiz, and make room for Trials Evolution, Bloodforge, Fable Heroes and Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, the four games that collectively comprise Arcade Next....
Welcome to our regular gameplay impressions and video post where we record our first 10-30 minutes with a new game, and provide some general impressions on that early playthrough. Today’s game is: Volgarr the Viking from Crazy Viking Studios and Adult Swim Games. It’s important to mention first and foremost that Volgarr the Viking is an extremely difficult game. That’s not because the game has any noticeable control problems or graphical hiccups — it’s actually quite polished mechanically — but purely intentional....
The Batman Arkham saga was a beloved series that followed the brutal adventures of Batman in Gotham City as the likes of the Joker, Ras al Ghul, Bane, and Scarecrow did everything in their power to take over the city and bring down Batman. Throughout these games, particularly in City, Origins, and Knight, the players were offered an exciting assortment of Batsuits to don. Between this, the Injustice games, Justice League: Heroes, DC Universe Online, and other Bat-inhabited videogames, players have been able to use several different Batman costumes....
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is still a very popular video game to this day. This was the time when the Call Of Duty storyline was so epic and irresistable. This game was interesting, tense and emotional to say the least and the end of the game left the players wanting more like any good game should. The storyline in this game has given rise to so many hilarious memes that only those who have played the game will truly appreciate....
The horror genre makes up some of the greatest and most legendary gaming franchises of all time. However, some gamers do not want to be too scared to turn off the lights at night. For the more squeamish players, any of the ten games below will help them experience great horror franchises without being scared out of their skin. With that being said, some of the games offer thrilling experiences that might still prove too intense for some....
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, was released in three region-locked versions between the years of 1990 and 1993. Despite its late start, relatively small games library, and stiff competition from Sega, the SNES was the most successful console of the 16-bit era (although some of its titles actually performed better on the Sega Genesis). It even managed to maintain relevance well into the 32-bit era. Though it didn’t have the largest variety of games, it did boast a lot of classic titles that are beloved to this day, such as Earthbound and Super Mario World....
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX remade the classic game duo of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team Red and Blue for modern consoles in what would be the first main console line in the game series, but it didn’t stop it from having some internal issues. It kept the story intact that everyone who played it loved but added very little and failed to make itself enough of an upgrade in many people’s eyes to truly say that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon was brought to the modern era....
The battle between Pokémon Vs Digimon is one that has been raging for what feels like a millennium (or about 18 years or something). The sheer number of friendships this feud has shattered is simply too great for our primitive brains to conceive of, lest your fragile mind be shattered in the process, leaving you to die alone a shell of the anime appreciator you once were. It’s a battle that will surely wage on for another zillion generations, or at least up until the day we mercifully meet our end....
The ambitious live service pirate game by Rare, Sea Of Thieves, has just reached 15 million total players. One of the first major first party titles to get a simultaneous release at retail and on Xbox Game Pass, Sea Of Thieves had a rocky launch. Microsoft had purchased the studio in 2002, and were mostly relegated to Kinect games until moving on to develop this new pirate-themed IP in an attempt to return to form....
While I understand why some have called 2021 a “slow” year for video games (the challenges of developing during the Covid-19 pandemic delayed numerous games and clearly impacted the quality of others), a quick look at the sheer number of underrated games that managed to sneak under the radar this year reveals how deep the modern gaming industry really is. While it’s understanable that the average gamer doesn’t have nearly enough time or money to play every game they might enjoy even during a “slow” year, there’s alawys been something sad about the idea that there are games out there that you might absolutely fall in love with but may never even hear about simply becasue there is only so much time in the day....
Fans of looting in post-apocalyptic wastelands have a lot to look forward this month. While Borderlands 2 will be bringing more enemies, loot and weapon combinations than even the most completionist gamer can hope to attain, all the game has to offer won’t be shipping on the disc. The ‘cutest’ character class, the Mechromancer, won’t be finished by the time the game’s ship, coming sometime around this November free of charge to those who pre-ordered a copy of Borderlands 2....
Although most hard to believe headlines were actually not true yesterday, there are some bizarre stories that ended up being real. A few games dropped some April Fools’ ridiculousness into patches this week and gamers have been having a good time discovering and exploring them. It may not be directly tied to the psuedo-holiday, but the Exo Zombies DLC for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has an easter egg that is weird enough to sound like a prank....
From the undead infested setting of DayZ, to the nuclear war ravaged world of Wasteland 2 and the survivalist horror gameplay of the Metro games, the post-apocalyptic genre is everywhere. Released all the way back in 2008, Fallout 3 is widely believed to be the game that thrust the genre into the limelight, the weight of the Fallout brand and the skill of Bethesda’s team leading it to be a critical and sales success....
Telltale’s Game of Thrones series features their most ambitious storyline yet. The season premiere focuses on the happenings of Westeros, alongside the events of season three in the HBO show. The game assumes the player is familiar with the canon Game of Thrones events and characters, so anyone new to the series is in for spoilers and a bit of a confusing experience - but for those familiar with the show, the game picks up at a recognizable and terrifying time....
In 1997, GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64 took gamers by storm as one of the most acclaimed multiplayer first-person shooters ever. Fourteen years later, Activision, with the help of Eurocom’s development, aim to reignite the spark of your childhood with GoldenEye 007: Reloaded. If you own a PlayStation 3 and the Move you will be lucky enough to get the chance at owning the PS3 exclusive GoldenEye 007: Reloaded Double ‘O’ Edition....
While we haven’t heard much about Grand Theft Auto 5 in going on a month or so now, three new screenshots have just been released that tease some of the many ways in which players will be able to zip around the city of Los Santos. As with past GTA iterations, there are some clever new additions for gamers to play around with, but nothing all that unexpected. Perhaps the most unique new addition to Grand Theft Auto 5 is the bicycle....
