Last week Walmart joined the used video game business by offering gift cards for old games. Since there are already several other major players in the biz, especially GameStop, it’s not exactly a game-changer although it’s a wiser move than Microsoft trying to strip gamers’ inalienable right to sell their own property. It’s great that… Read More »
Enemy Front is a blast from the past. The trailer’s out this week and the FPS reminds me of the first Medal of Honor game on PlayStation fifteen years ago. There are different moves like holding an enemy soldier hostage, but the play is essentially the same as other WW2 FPSs that have come before.… Read More »
Disruption is as common in Silicon Valley as screenplays are in L.A. You can’t walk into a coffee house without hearing how some new thing will change the landscape of some old thing. In downtown Mountain View, there are hideously ugly bikes waiting to be rented with your credit card because apparently walking and driving… Read More »
Studying video gaming in college will make the world a better place. Here’s how. Koreans are top-notch gamers, and soon it will be even more difficult to beat them. Starting next year, Chung-Ang University will accept eSports applicants who will then be eligible to apply to the school’s Department of Sport Science, which is already… Read More »
How do you create a likable hero? You take an average Joe, or Abe, and you make him go-lucky, a bit goofy, with big eyes and no shirt. Then you give him a worthy cause. In Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, the remake of the 1997 classic, Abe’s Oddysee, the cause is freeing fellow Mudokons from… Read More »
Metrico is a game I don’t want to know much about until I play it. I know it’s a game about infographics, which is solid marketing considering the large “niche” community. It reacts to the environment: how you hold the PS Vita, how much light, and so on. The trailer shows a ‘60s-trippy scene of… Read More »
Gauntlet is another GenX classic brought back to life. The trailer is out for Arrowhead Studios’s dungeon crawl, which is out on Steam this year, and it doesn’t look all that different from the original, which is a good thing. Better graphics, of course, but the same four characters (Warrior, Wizard, Elf and my fave,… Read More »
You’re a two-year-old in Among the Sleep, a new game by Krillbite Studios from Norway. The new gameplay trailer is out ahead of the game’s release later in 2014 on Windows, OSX, and Linux. It’s disappointing that the entirety of the 83-second trailer is spent in an attic. The child wanders about touching things like… Read More »
Video games are first and foremost a form of entertainment. That is, it’s a way to suspend reality, entertain the mind, and escape for a while. Like movies or novels, games can sometimes be more than that, but usually they’re not. We play Call of Duty not because we want to replicate the experience of… Read More »
What is Destiny? Better question is what isn’t Destiny? It’s an RPG FPS MMO. The developer, Bungie (of Halo fame) is calling it a “shared-world shooter.” It’s also got speeder bikes like the ones from Return of the Jedi. And character art that reminds me of Robotech, especially The New Generation, which also had a… Read More »