Last year saw the release of two widely anticipated Action RPGs, Dungeon Crawlers, or whatever you want to call then with Diablo III and Torchlight 2. While I’ve written about both games and feel that each has their own unique ups and downs, to me Torchlight …
Say what you like about their games (I have on many occasions) no one quite puts a cinematic together these days like Blizzard. In fact, they’re the ones who really pushed the envelope on in-game cinematics years ago. It’s no surprise that after almost 20 years …
Bloomberg, and others, are reporting today that Atari’s U.S. operations, owned by French parent company Atari, SA, have filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Although it sounds pretty bad, given Atari’s checkered corporate past it could just be another in a long line of legal moves to …
In a message today on the Battle.net forums, Jay Wilson, Diablo III’s Director, said that he will be stepping down as Director, moving to another un-named project inside Blizzard. He did acknowledge some of the problems that have plagued Diablo III from the start, namely the …
It was looking pretty grim only a week ago for Peter Molyneux’s Project GODUS Kickstarter, since then, however, the project managed a last minute surge of funds, making roughly $75,000 more than the $450,000 they were looking for. I have to admit that I had my …
Much like a fictional undead apocalypse, the controversy over War Z is spreading rapidly. The catalyst for the controversy, the patient zero if you will, was a YouTube video from TotalBiscuit aka the Cynical Brit called “The Bore Z” which outlined many of the game’s flaws …
The Gears of War franchise is pretty much the reason I own an Xbox. I purchased my original Xbox (I’m on my 5th now, thanks RROD) so I could play GoW multiplayer online with my friends. It was like nothing I had seen before and I …
It was only a few weeks ago that we were taking bets as to when THQ would either be acquired by another company or simply collapse all together. It seems, however, that the floundering company still has some fight left in them, raising over $5 million …
In the beginning of the Kickstarter revolution, every game which made it to the crowdfunding site was news. Now however, just having a Kickstarter isn’t enough to hit the front page, there has to be something news worthy about the pitch otherwise no one will notice it. The …
In case you were wondering whether or not Riot’s League of Legends Tribunal was actually capable of enforcing its own rules, yesterday Riot’s VP of eSports, Redbeard, announced a one year ban for Christian Rivera or IWillDominate, a professional LoL player from Team Dignitas. In a …