Aren’t you a little short for a Samurai? My household had an N64 for the late ‘90s, so all of my PS1 experience was had on a close friend’s console. However, they weren’t as focused on video games as I was in my youth, so I mostly just got to play the really big titles.Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater,Twisted Metal, and whatever could be found on demo discs. I’ve been making up for lost time, recently....
–Black Red Gamingsees similarities betweenTrackmaniaand the sport of Rock Climbing. –Humantofulooks at the post-ActivisionDestiny 2DLC Expansions. –Shoggoth2588is in the runoff stage in his Decade in Review blogging series. -Gamingnerdthinks you should wait on buying a next-generation console for now. –Reiley1sCoolwrites about the dilemma of ethical consumption and buying games you like. –Black Red Gamingdoes a number of mini-reviews of some indie games. –PhilsPhindingsdiscusses the similarities between several David Wise Rare soundtracks and mostly synth-pop music....
Le grande legacy? Hearken back to the early 00s with this contest forLegrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds. Remember the days when you’d go to the store, pick a game off the shelf, and know you were about to experience 50+ hours of RPG goodness without any DLC, updates, or microtransactions in sight? I miss the early 00s, man. Come win a copy of Switch RPGLegrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds, and transport yourself back to those days of glory....
You’ll find this collectible hard to let go We like to keep our contests simple and clean. Enter this one for your chance to win this collectibleKingdom Heartskeyblade replica! It’s crazy to think that I was still a teenager whenKingdom Hearts IIreleased. For reference, I’m now 31. Man, that’s a long time. Let’s bring back that teenager in all of us by giving out a replica keyblade, courtesy of our friends at PDP!...
Any reader who consistently tracks the political side of videogames should be aware of Hal Halpin. President of the Crest Group, the games industry consultancy that managesThe Electronic Consumers Association, Halpin is frequently seen at the forefront of the battles between videogames and their nemeses. In fact, the ECA is a body set up to deal with this very battle. The ECA represents us, the gaming consumers, the ones who are told what we should and shouldn’t buy by attackers of the games industry....
Yes, it is officially anAmnesiagame. The rumors are true, and the first official details aboutFrictional and thechineseroom’s upcoming horror gamehave dropped, courtesy of an interviewover at Joystiq. The game is set in 1899, sixty years afterAmnesia: The Dark Descent. Though there’s no direct connection with that game, it will share “the same universe”. It stars a “rich industrial tycoon” named Oswald Mandus, who wakes up on New Year’s day in London with a bad case of (you guessed it) amnesia....
A quantum leap forward in games marketing From the shy, but devilishly good-looking people at Devolver Digital and Croteam’s department of theoretical philosophy comes a brave new thought experiment in games marketing. Rather than relying on the tried-and-true methodology of heavily marketing season passes for future downloadable content, Devolver and Croteam are boldly blazing trails down intellectual roads less traveled. This innovative new experiment, quaintly referred to within the department as a “free demonstration” is unique in that it is a condensed version of the final product, but available to the public well ahead of the product’s launch and at no charge....
It sounded good announcing it on stage That’s basically all the info we’re getting for now.Beyond Good & Evil 2exists, and Ubisoft can cook up some cool looking trailers for it (anyone else feel like they toned down the “I just found out what curse words are” writing from the first video?) — but beyond (ha) that we’re basically in the dark. Hopefully it’ll deliver when it’s released during the era of flying cars....
The Cole Palmer Make Your Mark item is one of the most fun cards I have played with inEA FC 24. Not everyone scored the card back at its debut, but now you’ve got a second chance to recruit Palmer for yourself. I was thrilled to get the card when it was released as part of the Make Your Mark promo back in Season 7. If you didn’t have that same luck, Season 9 has some good news for free....
It launched on Steam today Daybreak Game Company couldn’t makeEverQuest Nextwork andformally canceledthe MMORPG in March, but work has continued onLandmark. The online sandbox building game, at one time a precursor toNext, released today on Steam for $9.99. DisappointedEverQuestfansjust aren’t having it. “Many of us bought this game because it was a promise of something greater to come,” reads one Steam user review. “We funded this game because we wantedEQNext. They strung us along for 3 years with a carrot on a stick routine....
It came out around 10PM ET last night We don’t really know what the future holds forFallout 76beyond more microtransaction-laden seasons and the “Fallout 1st” subscription service: but for now, we havethe new highly anticipated free Steel Dawn update. Yes, after much ado since its May unveiling,the Brotherhood of Steelis stomping along West Virginia’s country roads. Funnily enough, there was a classic Bethesda error when it was rolled out that ended up working in Xbox owner’s favor....
Back whenFinal Fantasy XIVannounced that they were altering the Blacklist system, some players pointed out that the new system could enable players to access information that shouldn’t be for their eyes. Worryingly, this prediction has come true in the form of the PlayerScope plugin. FFXIVis strictly against any use of plugins or mods. Anyone caught using any type of game-changing software is permanently banned, which should be enough to put anybody off....
‘I don’t think that all systems we have are going to be perfect for players who want to enjoy the game in the moment’ Years ago, Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida quietly changed the perception ofFinal Fantasy XIV. I was there at E3 whenXIVdebuted. I saw the grimacing faces of press and players alike, and witnessed the rocky launch. I was also there when it was quite literally “reborn,” and experienced the drastic upgrade myself....
