Earlier in the week NVIDIA announced that they were releasing the NVIDIA Shield in June, their own entry into the handheld market dominated by the likes of Nintendo, and intended to give gamers a bit of a different choice. After all, the Shield isn’t just another old handheld console: it’s got the ability to link up to your computer and play many...
If for some reason you’re still playing SimCity then you might be glad to hear about the latest bit of DLC coming to the game. Called the “Amusement Park Pack”, this bit of DLC will allow you to build a park and lay it out as you wish. In other words, it’s like adding Roller Coaster Tycoon to the game, except that Roller Coaster Tycoon...
I’m not a guy who likes commercials. After all, they’re trying to pander to me, to try and get me to buy something I don’t really need, and usually they insult my intelligence while they’re at it. That’s why I liked theInjustice: Gods Among Us pre-order commercials, featuring a Russian superhero telling the world...
With over 70 million copies sold across the series, Gran Turismo is the most successful PlayStation franchise ever. Featuring tons of cars, locations, races, what-have-you, the series has always attracted the car aficionado from its early days on the original PlayStation. It’s no surprise to see that Sony will be releasing Gran Turismo 6 this holiday...
Major publishers have had a problem with used games for awhile now. After all, if a game is sold as used by a store like GameStop, the publishers don’t receive a single penny of the sale. One of the ways they’ve tried to combat this “loss” in revenue is by including free “Online Passes” to their games, a one-time use code...
When it comes to consoles there’s usually a pattern of where and when they’re released. Usually, they’re released first in Japan, then in the Americas, and then usually they’re released last in Europe, sometime up to a year after the original Japanese release. Over the past few years, however, that trend has started to die down a little...
It’s pretty easy to say that 2013 could be considered the year for new consoles. From the PS4, to Microsoft’s next console, to the OUYA and the Steam Box, this year is absolutely jam-packed with new hardware releases, and that can lead to some hard choices. Should I get the cheap, $100 OUYA that got its start on Kickstarter? Or maybe I ought to go...
The AO ESRB rating is practically a myth. Having only been given out to 32 games over the last 19 years, the AO rating is like the movie industries NC-17: it’s a death sentence for any game that receives it. However, a free-to-play online game is flaunting its AO rating and the ESRB isn’t too happy about it.
That’s becauseWartune, a...