By Ron Duwell |
The first PlanetSide is finally going to catch up to its sequel’s free-to-play plan. It was originally released in 2003 during a huge MMO boom that was based heavily on subscription payment plans. However, this is now a different time and age, and subscriptions are…
By Ron Duwell |
The Japanese fighting game scene is a very VERY exclusive club. Walk into any arcade in Japan, and more than likely you will only find fighting games that originate from within its own borders. Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters, BlazBlue, and a…
By Brandon Russell |
When you’re not using the Xbox One to switch between live TV, video games and music, Microsoft envisions the console controlling your entire home: lights, garage, washer/dryer, etc. If the thought of Microsoft’s new Kinect listening and watching you at all times creeps you out,…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft must think there are some very popular gamers out there. It is expanding the number of friends a gamer can have through an Xbox Live account from 100 to 1,000 upon release of the new Xbox One. The original 100 friend limit had held…
By Ron Duwell |
One can only hope that Microsoft is set to relaunch an old Rare IP as awesome as Killer Instinct. Polygon caught up with Microsoft Studios Vice President Phil Spencer and pushed for some information on the future of Rare Ltd. after the Xbox One reveal yesterday. Spencer commented…
By Ron Duwell |
EA has posted a not so mysterious picture on its official Need For Speed Facebook page. A single insanely-detailed car is all that can be seen, but that image alone speaks a novel. This newest Need For Speed is most likely the first entry is…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft and Turn 10 announced Forza Motorsport 5 at the Xbox Reveal conference yesterday. The latest in Microsoft’s premiere racing series will bring the franchise into the next generation for the first time. Today, we have a full trailer. The Forza Motorsport racing series has been Microsoft’s…
By Ron Duwell |
Battlefield 4 will be available for purchase on October 29th, and to nobody’s surprise, it will be gracing the Xbox One. EA confirmed the release shortly after the console’s reveal yesterday. EA and DICE had already confirmed a PlayStation 4 and PC launch for the…
By Roy Choi |
Overall, I’m pretty excited about all the cool features the Xbox One is bringing to the living room. Most intriguing to me is the integration of everything (music, TV, fantasy sports, communication, gaming) coming together into one device that not only replaces multiple devices, but changes the…
By Joey Davidson |
It looks like the brand new Kinect announced during yesterday’s Xbox One presentation will eventually make the jump from being exclusive to Microsoft’s new console. The next-gen Kinect will eventually see a release on the PC platform, as well. The news comes from two separate…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment announced their newest narrative packed game yesterday at the Xbox Reveal conference, a psychological thriller called Quantum Break. The last time Remedy worked hand-in-hand with Microsoft was with Alan Wake, a charming love letter to Stephen King novels and Twin Peaks wrapped up…
By Ron Duwell |
Following the announcement of the Xbox One, all of the major video game publishers quickly fired off in rapid succession which games they are working will be available for the console. Ubisoft, Activision, EA and SquareEnix are the biggest third-party names to have confirmed titles.…
By Ron Duwell |
Call of Duty is making another setting change for its leap into the next generation. The series has evolved from a World War II shooter into a modern warfare shooter before Black Ops II finally closed out the console generation and a near-future sci-fi shooter.…
By Ron Duwell |
Two of the biggest companies that will be affected by Microsoft’s announcement of the Xbox One have seen their stocks fluctuate since yesterday’s press conference, only just in totally opposite directions. GameStop, the world’s largest used video game retail chain, took a serious hit to…
By Ron Duwell |
EA is still making Wii U games, according to the company’s CFO Blake Jorgensen. His statement counters that of spokesperson Jeff Brown who claimed that EA is no longer developing games for the latest Nintendo console. Jorgensen made his comment during that Stifel Nicolaus 2013…
By Eric Frederiksen |
The Xbox One conference, as we now know it, answered a few questions. What does the console look like? A home theater PC, I’d say. Will it do live TV? Yes. Will it require Kinect to function? Yes it will. Hopefully we can throw a…
By Joey Davidson |
Target has dropped the price of the Basic version of the Wii U from $299.99 to $239.99 in the face of exceptionally slow sales. The discount is good both in physical stores and through their online service. It appears that the price drop is not…
By Joey Davidson |
Tearaway, in case you haven’t been following the game, is a papercraft adventure exclusively for the PS Vita. This charming little title comes from Media Molecule, the same studio that gave the world LittleBigPlanet. Today, Sony and Media Molecule elected to drop several brand new media…
By Ron Duwell |
We’ve seen a lot of Grasshopper Manufactures’ Killer is Dead ever since the announcement, but each new batch of screenshots adds another complicated element to the mix. This latest is the most bizarre yet romantic images of a tattooed man riding a tiger, a talking…
By Joey Davidson |
After the Xbox One was unveiled, news hit that each game would be tied to your user account when you purchase it. You can only play it on your Xbox One… …unless you pay some sort of fee. Want to bring the game to a…
By Joey Davidson |
In Splinter Cell: Blacklist, agents will once again have the option to take on the world of high risk espionage in pairs. Ubisoft has released a brand new cooperative play trailer for the upcoming entry in the much loved Splinter Cell franchise. They’ve also tossed…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft was brave enough to show off what its next-gen console, Xbox One, actually looks like, while Sony is content with a mere teaser. Less than a teaser. We’ll find out more when E3 comes around, or not. One individual—even with little information to go…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed users won’t be able to replace the Xbox One’s built in 500GB hard drive. Unlike the Xbox 360, which had an easily replaceable HDD, the internal storage for the One is much less accessible. 500GB might sound like a lot initially,…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft’s Xbox One looks… I can’t quite decide how I feel about it. In pictures, as far as I can tell, it looks large, and much different than the company’s previous efforts. That’s good. You don’t want everything always looking the same. I suppose the…
