The Battlefield franchise is near and dear to my heart. I have incredibly vivid memories of the huge hype leading up to Battlefield 1942, the bewildered excitement, the confusion. What do you mean I can be a soldier and drive a tank and steer a battleship? HOW? Battlefield 1942 and its slew of excellent successors – Vietnam, 2, and especially
I find Harvest Moon a fascinating game, as it continues to survive the onslaught of various Facebook Farming games. After the last iteration (Harvest Moon A New Beginning for the 3DS) it seemed Natsume had found the sweet spot. Its mix of both farming and customization led me to wonder what innovations or direction the
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Nintendo going into E3 2014. After hearing the rave reviews of the Mario Kart 8, I had hopes that this would be Nintendo’s turning point. I don’t yet own a Wii U. Would this be that title that would finally push me to the purchase?
There are some video games that you just want to be amazing. From the first trailer for Alien:Isolation I was very much hopeful, that we’d finally get a true Alien game. Knowing that I would be on the floor at E3 2014, as a fan of the series of movies and a gaming journalist I
Nintendo surprised a good many people today. The first Nintendo Direct conference that was worth the time it took, the first conference of the show that was predominantly first-party products and the first time Nintendo has truly given us more than one reason to own the Wii U. Nintendo, in the shortest conference of show, presented
Like it or not, the Toys-to-Life category is here to stay. Between the financial titan that is Skylanders and the license to print money that is Disney: Infinity – particularly with the new Marvel license and the inevitable Star Wars tie-ins, these collectible cross-media figures aren’t going anywhere. Nintendo knows its audience, and
In a sense, the interactive entertainment based on the Alien universe have translated that universe quite well: some of them were solid and workmanlike, and some of them were complete train-wrecks – an almost-perfect parallel to the film series. Some of the Alien games were mindless, idiotic action-fests with little in the way of subtlety or pathos,
The last few years have not been kind to id. Rage, a labor of great love and the freshman outing of the idTech 5 engine was met with something short of all-out enthusiasm. Wolfenstein was met with rave reviews and great audience response – but Wolfenstein had far more to do with Machine Games than it did id. DOOM
With many conferences of E3 2014 finally over, it’s time to digest what we got to see. After last year’s Microsoft E3 snafu it was interesting to see what titles they were going to bring to the table. What better way to make your pitch for the Xbox One than the very franchise that made