Retro Round-Up: Why Backwards Compatibility Matters

Retro Round-Up: Why Backwards Compatibility Matters

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog, Console News, Gaming News, Wii U, Xbox One On: 23 May

Retro Round-Up is a regular feature that takes a look at what’s new in the world of old games. This week: why backwards compatibility matters (despite Microsoft’s claims otherwise,) Fatal Frame 2′s removal from PSN, and the usual run-down of this week’s retro re-releases.

Share

Read More No Comment
EA announces Need for Speed Rivals

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One On:

EA has unveiled the latest title in their long running Need for Speed franchise, entitled Need for Speed Rivals. The game is being co-developed by EA’s new Ghost studio and Criterion Games, the studio behind the Burnout series as well as the recent Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

Share

Read More No Comment
Remedy director says no Alan Wake sequel “until the time is right”

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Xbox 360 On: 22 May

Yesterday Remedy Games announced that they’re working on Quantum Break, a unique action game that might be one of the launch titles for the Xbox One. While Remedy’s new IP looks interesting, a lot of fans began to wonder if Remedy had given up on their current-gen action-horror franchise, Alan Wake. In response, Remedy’s creative [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Latchkey Games: Akai Katana

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog, Gaming News On: 21 May

Latchkey Games is a weekly column that takes a look at games that perhaps didn’t quite get the amount of love they deserved: whether it was a game that was panned on its initial release only to become a cult classic, one that stirred the ire of series fans, or simply a game that fell through [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Arkham Origins will have playable Deathstroke, might feature 2 voice actors for Batman? [UPDATE]

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 20 May

The weekends are usually pretty light on news, but two interesting tidbits about the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins were revealed on Sunday: the game will have DLC that will feature Deathstroke as a playable character, and contrary to earlier reports, it was announced that acclaimed voice actor Kevin Conroy will once again lend his voice [...]

Share

Read More 1 Comment
April NPD: Injustice Gods Among Us beats down the competition

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 16 May

Has it been a month already? I’m still busy playing through all the games I bought in March, and apparently a lot of you guys are too: according to the NPD sales data released today, April was a pretty slow month for the industry. Only 4 out of the top 10 bestselling games for the [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Final Fantasy 11 is 11 years old today, still profitable

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On:

Today marks the eleventh anniversary of Final Fantasy XI’s original launch in Japan. Since the game’s launch more than a decade ago, FFXI has faced fierce competition from newer, flashier, and more accessible MMO’s, but despite all that, the game has remained a profitable title for Square.

Share

Read More No Comment
Take-Two posts slight loss despite strong performance of BioShock Infinite

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 15 May

Take-Two Interactive announced today that they’ll be posting a loss $31.2 million dollars for the last fiscal year. Despite not quite meeting their goals for the year, the company still has a surprisingly positive outlook: the company’s revenue actually rose quite a bit from the previous year, and with the upcoming release of GTA V [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is the Pac-Man reboot you didn’t ask for

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 14 May

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is one of the best downloadable titles of this generation — it’s fun, it’s accessible, and it’s insanely addictive. It’s what a retro revival should be: true to the original game, while at the same time making it feel fresh and new. Today Namco Bandai announced Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Square Enix planning less console titles, more smartphone games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 13 May

2012 was a catastrophically bad year for Square Enix: despite the release of a few critically acclaimed games like Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs, the company posted an “extraordinary loss” of about $134 million dollars. Following the resignation of Square’s former CEO Yoichi Wada, the company announced that it plans to return to profitability by [...]

Share

Read More No Comment
Defiance renewed for a second season

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 11 May

Defiance, the SyFy Channel TV show that ties into Trion Worlds’ MMO of the same name, has been renewed for a second season. Filming for 13 new episodes of the show will begin in Toronto this August.

Share

Read More No Comment
Battlefield 3 double XP event postponed due to massive DDOS attack

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 09 May

Somebody has been trying to take down EA’s Battlefield 3 servers, and so far it seems like they’re doing a pretty good job of it: following a server crash on Tuesday night, the game’s servers across all platforms have suffered numerous outages, which EA says is the result of an on-going, targeted denial of service [...]

Share

Read More No Comment