Forget hardware stats. Forget price point. Forget RAM, controllers, marketing and fanboyism. All those things don’t matter on who is better or what console is worse. The race is already well in hand for Sony and its PS4 console.
Games Industry International has the report on Chris Mahoney’s talk at the recent Appsworld conference regarding console versus mobile gaming. Though Mahoney freely admits that mobile games are raking in some good dough and it’s easy to publish on the platform, he also suggests that porting console games to phones and tablets can be problematic. Part of the reason why is obvious: the console experience is not like the mobile experience. Even though mobile gaming is on the rise, the [...]
Remember the massively successful Kickstarter for an Android-based console with the funny name? Well, gamers spoke with their wallets ($8.5 million strong), and the Ouya will (hopefully) deliver in the very near future: according to theverge, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman announced today that Kickstarter backers should receive their consoles this March, the Ouya site will begin to sell their consoles in April, and retail chains including Best Buy, Gamestop, and Target will have the Ouya on shelves in June. The [...]
The Pyromania Update recently came to Team Fortress 2, the greatest hat-wearing, gun-slinging, childish-yet-mature first person shooter the world has ever seen. It’s been around for some time now, and whilst companies like EA and Activision are recycling the same old shit year after year, Valve instead builds on Team Fortress 2, fixing bugs and balancing the already gymnast-like metagame to create an incredibly fun multiplayer experience. This is one of the reasons it has kept a very strong player-base [...]
PSBlog released a video documenting their hands-on time with the new Sly Cooper game. This game, made by Sanzaru Games, is the first game in the series not made by Sucker Punch. The game will feel familiar to veterans of the series, and features a number of new additions, like the ability to play as ancestors in Sly’s clan, set in different time periods, all with unique abilities (Sly Cooper meets Assassin’s Creed?). Sly will retain his own unique abilities, [...]
In a recent interview with Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard, he said that reports of bugs in Skyrim were overstated, and not as bad as they seem. Primarily, he argued that a majority of gamers didn’t experience problems: “The game, for the vast, vast majority of people who play the game for 100 hours, it’s fine. But there are certain things we found out that make [...]
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