By Ron Duwell |
While Medal of Honor: Warfighter continues to get whipped by the critics and fans, the NAVY is also coming down hard on the soldiers who acted as military consultants for the unpopular shooter. Seven members of the legendary SEAL Team Six, one of whom was…
By Ron Duwell |
Nobody could match the popularity of SquareSoft in the 1990s. Nintendo’s 16-bit classics often find themselves at odds going toe-to-toe with Square’s SNES masterpieces, and their weight was obviously felt when they shifted loyalty to Sony and trounced the Nintendo 64. Between refining old series…
By Ron Duwell |
Square Enix has never been one to cave into market demand. While the most average games spiral around the $1-$5 range in the mobile marketplaces, the Japanese RPG giant continues to charge anywhere from $18-$44 for the most expensive in its line up. Not surprisingly,…
By Ron Duwell |
Wedbush Securities video game analyst Michael Pachter is at it again. This past week, the often quoted analyst used his weekly “Pach Attack” segment on Gametrailers.com to call out the “whiner BioWare fans” and even sites them as the reason the popular doctors Ray Muzyka…
By Joey Davidson |
Typically, when readers yell about how twisted and broken the gaming criticism industry is, I often take time to speak up and suggest otherwise. Sure, there’s some funny business when it comes to blacklisting outlets, requesting higher scores and running ad content alongside review coverage;…
By Joey Davidson |
Let’s play catch-up before you hit the link and head to Game Informer in order to read this utterly mind-blowing interview. A few years back, Jason West and Vince Zampella (former heads of Infinity Ward, the studio famous for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) were fired.…
By Joey Davidson |
UPDATE: Absolutely not. The company guilty of false advertising? Sketchers. The shoes that tone your body, totally bogus. Original Story: The FTC posted an announcement today that could potentially stir a lot of things up inside the gaming industry. The headline of the announcement runs like so:…
By Joey Davidson |
OMGPOP, the studio behind Draw Something, was acquired by Zynga for around $200 million in the last two weeks. During that purchase, one OMGPOP employee decided to walk away from the company in order to keep making and supporting his own, independent games. That dev is Shay…
By Joey Davidson |
BioWare Co-Founder Dr. Ray Muzyka has released a lengthy statement for fans both in support of and against the conclusions of Mass Effect 3. In it, Muzyka discusses his teams drive to make the game and responding to fan feedback, both negative and positive. He…
By Joey Davidson |
Zynga’s been wrapped up in a whole lot of not-so-awesome news as of late. The tumble in the eyes of gamers restarted most recently when the head of NimbleBit, the developers of Tiny Tower, drafted up an open letter to Zynga that accused them of…
By Joey Davidson |
A few weeks ago, NimbleBit posted an image that accused Zynga of copycatting Tiny Tower with the creation of Dream Heights. The comparisons are evident, snarky and a little upsetting. Now, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has come out and responded to a bit of the accusations…
By Joey Davidson |
Yesterday, the Internet got a heaping helping of drama courtesy of one frustrated customer and the behavior of one PR and marketing “expert.” Paul Christoforo took the concept of even bad publicity being good publicity and completely ran off a cliff with it. You can…
By Joey Davidson |
Update: Paul Christofolo has now changed his Twitter name from @OceanMarketting to @OceanStratagy. No. Seriously. We wrestled with posting this story for your perusal this morning for at least an hour or two before figuring we’d best type it up. On one hand, a consumer…
By Joey Davidson |
Buying or selling Battlefield 3 in Iran is illegal. The software has been, effectively, banned from sale throughout the middle eastern country. EA, in fact, has no official resellers in Iran. However, Battlefield 3 has been available around Iran in an illegal, pirated format since the game’s release.…
By Joey Davidson |
Telltale Games have just published their video game take on the Jurassic Park brand. Jurassic Park the Game is the studio’s effort to combine the action of the films with their own penchant for character dialogue and game pacing. However, it seems their work hasn’t been enough…
By Joey Davidson |
THE VIDEO CLIP ABOVE AND THE TEXT BELOW ARE CONSIDERED SPOILERS. You have been warned. Editor’s Note: The video has been removed multiple times by Activision. We’ll replace it for now, but we will not continue to do so forever. Here comes another reason for…
By Joey Davidson |
If you accept the most recent system update for Sony‘s PlayStation 3, you’ll have to digitally acknowledge their newly updated terms and conditions. Part of those conditions stipulate that by agreeing to them, you will not be able to join in a class action suit…
By Joey Davidson |
Team Bondi, the studio that developed L.A. Noire and brought the crime solving title to release with Rockstar Games, is supposedly going bankrupt and has sold off their assets and IPs 9intellectual properties). This news comes after a lot of noise and fallout in connection…
By Joey Davidson |
EA has gone and made the rumor from a few weeks back official: players will not be able to download and play Battlefield 3 over Steam. The brief, concise word came from @Battlefield, the official Twitter account for the Battlefield franchise. The team behind the…
