Sony recently unveiled its new pricing model for its PlayStation Now service. The service is designed to allow PS4 users to stream PS3 (and eventually PS2 and PS1) titles to their consoles through the Internet, much like you would stream movies through Netflix. PlayStation Now is slated to come to the PS3 and PSVita a
There have been plenty of video games based on films, TV shows, and anime. Though it seems few titles truly capture the essence of the source material. One of those rare franchises has been the Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Storm titles from Cyber Connect 2. The games not only tell the story well, they capture every
This past weekend the 2014 Evolution Championship Series, “Evo” for short, took place. Evo, the largest and most prestigious fighting game tournament was hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Westgate Hotel and Casino this year.
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
Ubisoft is a class act as a whole, with a portfolio full of blockbusters, fan-favorites, and a decided lack of shovel-ware. Ubisoft Montreal has a similarly positive reputation, responsible for many of its parent companies greatest triumphs – Splinter Cell (and it’s superlative sequel, Chaos Theory), Rainbow Six: Vegas I & II, the Prince of
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
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
Grand Theft Auto V broke every major sales record in the industry, and was universally hailed as a phenomenal game-play experience. The critical and audience reception was universally positive and it broke new ground in technical and narrative avenues alike. Even to audiences disinclined to interest, Grand Theft Auto V was an in impressive and