Whenever new hardware is announced, it usually takes a while before anyone is able to see, let alone play the damned thing. But Nintendo is doing quite the opposite, promising that their recently announced 3DS will be playable in less than three months. “We wanted to give the gaming industry a head’s up about what to expect from Nintendo at E3. We’ll invite people to play with the new device [...]
The Secret World is still no closer to an official release date, but Funcom is slowly turning the wheels of their PR machine, cranking out artwork and releasing teasers. And one of these teasers will be brought to you today! There’s really not much going on except for a man discussing the “darkness of this world”, the promise that “secrets will be revealed” on March 25, an abandoned town and [...]
This dead horse: we’re flogging it. A few days ago Motomu Toriyama, the game director behind FFXIII said he would very much like to remake Final Fantasy VII, a remake fans have been clamouring for ever since the PS3 tech demo of E3 2005. To add further fuel to the fire that will never die out comes Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada with a statement that is sure to once [...]
It seems to me that after Super Mario 64, your main series Mario games will come with one of two types of level select: hub worlds or world maps. While Super Mario Galaxy was a selection of hub worlds, Nintendo has decided to forego this formula with the game’s sequel. This was confirmed by Shigeru Miyamoto through GameInformer: “You can think of it in terms of something similar to Super [...]
Australian gamers are probably out partying right now, but for the rest of us who didn’t know already, here’s why. The Australian Jack Thompson: South Australia Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has decided to step down from the bench, effenctively ending his status as the face painted on Australian gamers’ dart boards. Atkinson will stay on Parliament until 2014, but for now let’s all be cautiously optimistic about Australia finally getting that [...]
Final Fantasy XIII has been out for about two weeks now and has become a mixed bag among gamers all over the world. Some can’t seem to stop praising it enough while others find it a boring and linear mess that doesn’t live up to the hype or the reputation of the series in general. Highest on the list of critique is the game’s slow pacing, forcing players through lengthy [...]
I’ll save the explanation. Just give this a watch.
Aside from ARGs, Twitter, Facebook and demos website countdowns seem to be the best way to create a buzz about video games, and today is no exception! Shinji Mikami is about to make us all his bitches (maybe), with yet another new project in the works. Mikami is currently directing the new Platinum title Vanquish, but seems to have time for other projects as well. By my calculations the project [...]
As the lucky bastard that I am, I got my hands on a Starcraft II beta key. Initially, SCII wasn’t the Blizzard game I was looking the most forward to (because let’s be honest, Diablo III!), but the more I kept hearing and reading about how amazing the beta was, the more I started wanting in. So I used my extensive contacts network (*ahem*), and secured myself a place in [...]
I’m forty nine years old and I play MMO’s. Happily, I’m not alone. You can find my kind of player in just about all games from World of Warcraft, to Eve Online, to Star Trek Online. We tend to help out players in game and be a moderating influence on the forum boards. Well sometimes we’re a moderating influence. Other times we’re the worst bunch of flame warriors you’ve ever seen. We [...]
