Ok BioWare – It’s Time We Had A Serious Talk About SWTOR
Let me start off by saying that I wanted Star Wars: The Old Republic, from the first time I heard of it being in development. I looked forward to playing it for years and when it finally arrived, I was fairly impressed with the attention to detail in the story, the way things were laid out with character progression, how the game had so much promise for the future.
Now, it seems you’re doing every thing you can to wreck that future.
‘Soul Calibur V’ Review – Stabbing Its Way To My Heart… Sort Of
Once more, it seems, we must delve through space and time, taking on one’s preferred armaments to battle in the undying war between Soul Edge and Soul Calibur. But is it worth the 60-dollar price tag indicative of all games of this generation, or is it just another foot-note in the grand schemata for a long running series. Well, I can tell you for certain, what it does do, it does well, and feels good in the process.
EA To Release 3 Themed Expansion Packs For Battlefield 3
As many of you already know, we weren’t terribly impressed with Battlefield 3 when we had a chance to play the demo and were likewise fairly unimpressed with the final release of the game, as were many.
EA has announced, however, that they are rolling out 3 expansions to the game and, after reading a bit…well, I’m still not impressed but is there hope on the horizon?
Should X-COM Fans Be Mad?
I suppose it was inevitable: whoever wound up with the X-COM property and the desire to do something with it would ultimately fall under the pendulous blade of the long-time fans, like me. It’s not that I don’t have faith in 2K Marin and Firaxis, the dual studios in charge of the series’ reboot, but it comes off as a cruel joke when the developers explain that they are ‘long-time super huge mega fans’ of the franchise and they proceed to show you something that isn’t like what you were a long-time super huge mega fan of in the first place. With 2K upping the ante on the released media for these two titles – XCOM and XCOM: Enemy Unknown – it’s easy to see how the X-COM fanboy’s ire might be inspired (they even cut the hyphen out of the title in a JJ Abrams-reboots-Star Trek-fashion!), but should we be so quick to judge and trample these games? Is 2K jabbing a wasp’s nest by trying to re-invent X-COM nearly twenty years after it changed the world?
2011 A Record Breaking Year For Video Game Sales
The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a not-for-profit, industry-led consortium dedicated to driving the worldwide growth of PC gaming, today unveiled its third annual “Horizons” research report. Prepared exclusively for PCGA members by market research firm DFC Intelligence, this timely report covers 2011 year-end sales figures and encompasses major aspects of the PC gaming software industry worldwide through 2015.
Assassin’s Creed III Officially Announced, Trailer & Screens Inside!
Awww yeah! The newest installment of Assassin’s Creed will take place during the Revolutionary War. The game will release October 30th of this year and I can’t wait! One of the things that will be interesting is how Ezio Ratohnhaké:ton, with his American name of Connor, will be hiding in plain sight with the clothes he wears. I swear I better be able to wear the same pimped out cloaks I’ve been wearing in the previous games. Read the rest of this article…
Valve Making A Gaming Console Is The Stupidest Idea Ever
This morning, Joshua Topolsky screamed across the internet his site’s latest exclusive: apparently Valve is producing (well, co-producing) a console based on the online gaming service we all love. There’s a lot of excitement around the platform’s rumored GDC unveil, which is mere days away now, but while the internet was collectively hooting and hollaring, I was shaking my head in frustration. A Steam Box is a terrible idea that I hate it to death.
‘SSX’ Review – A Tricky Refresh
I never played the SSX games. Well, I should say that I played a little of each demo and decided they just weren’t for me. The series’ arcade-y controls and presentation just couldn’t hook me. As an Xbox guy, what really turned me onto snowboarding games, when I’d never played them before, was Amped’s open mountains and more accurately modeled controls. While SSX sold bajillions of copies, Microsoft’s series did not, leading developer Indie Built to tone down the hardcore approach a bit for the overly-comical Amped 3, a launch title for the Xbox 360. Well, that was six years ago and the snowboarding genre has been bone dry since, so how does EA’s SSX fare all those years later for an Amped fan?
Really well, actually.
Now I Remember Why I Don’t Buy PS3 Games
Yes, I admit I’m an Xbox guy. Despite showing up six years later to the console wars and winding up in a distant second place behind Sony’s PlayStation 2 console, they seemed to create a more elegant presentation with their hardware than Sony ever did. Tonight I went out to buy SSX and wound up with a copy on the PlayStation 3. Somehow I can handle Sony’s clunky interfaces and impersonal interactions, but I really am getting tired of dealing with the PlayStation 3.
Blacklight Retribution Heads Into Open Beta
Perfect World Entertainment has announced the release of their upcoming free-to-play Online FPS title “Blacklight Retribution” to open beta.
Here at FEZ, we’ve reviewed quite a few shooters, from Gears Of War 3 to Modern Warfare 3 to Crysis and I have to tell you that I am looking forward to getting my hands on this one and doing a review as well.
In the mean time, check out the press release and open beta trailer, below!
