With handheld systems finally practically catching up with its home console counterparts in both power and storage space, a new opportunity for ubiquitous gaming arrived. Many games for the 3DS and Vita can download and upload saved games to the Wii U and PS3, meaning that things like vacations and trips to...

When it comes to most games, what ends up being released is more or less 100% complete, minus any extra DLC that ends up getting released later on. However, there has been a growing trend lately in game development, mostly from indie developers, where the game ends up being “released” in a very...

Will the problems never end for the beleaguered Origin platform? Last week at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam it was revealed that Origin has a security vulnerability that would allow attackers to easily compromise an end user’s machine. From what I can tell the attack isn’t even...

The release of SimCity was quite a bit of a failure, wasn’t it? After the servers all crashed on day one, the news just got worse and worse, from the reveal that the always-on DRM isn’t exactly necessary, to the fact that the company has been censoring instances of the customer care number. The...

When considering a new component for your gaming machine, brand is often an important factor. After all, you’re probably going to want to go with a brand that has a history of making solid products, rather than possibly spending a lot of cash on something that ends up being sub-par. It’s for...

The gaming industry is full of trends, whether it be the influx of FPS games. The surprising number of downloadable tower defense games (seriously, there are tons), and more recently, really really bad customer relations. With Ocean Marketing’s memorable debacle, sending threats to customers, Randy...

Do you remember Surgeon Simulator 2013? It’s the delightfully fun game developed over a weekend for the Global Game Jam where you’re tasked with performing a heart transplant. The only problem, of course, is that you’re not actually a transplant surgeon, but the janitor. If you enjoyed that...

I won’t lie: as a game I like SimCity. But besides the obvious always-online connection problems there are a few other issues with the game. For one, the cities themselves are a bit too small, which gets aggravating when the game keeps yelling at you to zone some more residential districts. The fact...