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Leviathyn.com's Travis Freese examines EA's Origin and how it was impacted Valve's Steam platform. Both digital distribution giants have their ups and downs but so far Steam has reigned king. Could that be changing?
Why can't we have great blockbuster AAA titles released during the spring and summer seasons. For whatever reason, this is a quick look at some of the reasons this may happen, as well as a couple suggestions to deal with the perennial summer gaming drought.
""...You awoke from cryosleep in a familiar, but dilapidated, environment. With nothing more than a specialised gun you had to navigate whats left of the factory and solve dangerous puzzles to escape the facility in which you are entirely alone, save the surviving AI...""
With 2011 wrapping up, PushStartSelect takes a look at the previous year in gaming, and the handful of games that suffered from overhyping. They were not necessarily bad games, but they failed to live up to all the expectations surrounding them.
PSBeyond compares FPS franchises including Modern Warfare, Half-Life, Battlefield, Operation Flashpoint and Crysis to their closest cinematic equivalents
MP1st editor David Veselka comments on Crysis 2's multiplayer community. He weighs in on the potential Crysis 2 had to become one of the staple FPSs along side Call of Duty and Black Ops, how it fell short.
The games you know from the article you'd be more than familiar with the skills they possess and really wish you had those skills. Definitely some skills there that would be fantastic to possess.
Writing a good review or holistic critique of a video game is easy, because that analysis feeds off interesting subject matter. Writing an interesting video game product review, on the other hand, is extremely difficult.
"Time and time again we look into how video games are not adapting well to film. We dive down into the cracks and explain how we would fix it. We talk about games that would make fantastic movies, (and directors that should stay away from them). However there is one key aspect people seem to be missing. Video games are starting to become better story tellers than many Hollywood movies, and at the end of that road maybe a video game will be the front runner to a film."
"It’s been a little over a week since the release of Crytek’s latest shooter and despite whether you like the game or not, everyone seems to be having their say. It’s quite sad to see the sheer overwhelming amount of negativity hurled towards the title. But are people simply whining for the sake of whining, or is there justification? I’ve been playing a lot of the game recently and have come to the conclusion that the more I play it, the closer I come to the realization that it’s not only a di..."
This post presents the very last news about the upcoming Engine: Cry Engine 3, Unreal Engine 3.975, Frostbite 2. It's now your turn to consider which is the best engine according to you and according to the very last demonstration of these engines.
"That was the general consensus and everybody seemed fine with it. Sure, pirates out there made justifications for why they were downloading it while other people got somewhat holier-than-thou about it all and decried them all, screaming that pirates should burn in hell. No matter what, nobody thought this would do anything but hurt Crytek."
"Who really didn't see this coming sooner or later? News recently broke out that an "unfinished" version of Crysis 2 has been leaked and is now dripping through the internet connections of many hungry thieves all over the world. This leak contains not only what is presumably the full single player campaign, but also multiplayer with serial key included. This news will surely make pirates cream from their eyeballs and knock their wooden legs together, but ultimately comes a really low blow to C..."
"In 2011, two shooter heavyweights go to head to head; id Software’s RAGE and Crytek’s Crysis 2.
id are the veritable granddaddy of the first person shooter. Way back in the 90s, the Texan software house–now owned by ZeniMax–made the genre what it is today with their pioneering games: Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D."
Young gamers perspective on whatlays ahead for gamers, be they young, or old is always an interesting topic to view.
Here young writer from OXCGN takes a look at what 'Innovations' are heralding into the gaming arena, looking at the motion controls from Sony, Microsoft, the 3D gaming and more. Well worth the time to read.
head over there now and take a squiz . . .
People love Crysis, but why? Is it the gameplay, the story, the graphics or the controls? Will people just buy any shooter on the 360 or PC? Well Jim Sterling has an opinion on the matter.
GameZone's Dakota Grabowski explores the reality of a free agent market for the video game industry and three developers that would most likely receive a lot of attention from publishers.
Alex Baldwin takes a satirical look at modern day game journalism, in 10 simple steps.
The art of journalism has slumped in the last several years, and many bloggers have contributed to that. Especially when they quote developers or game artists/publishers 'out of context' in order to gain views or traffic for $$.
COme check out how one writer sees how the industry is going on a more lighthearted approach. Well worth the read, be warned, it is satire - okay.
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