Before I first started the game, I was more than a little skeptical that a video game could make me express emotions the way everyone had previously said The Walking Dead would.
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Sex sells. So do robots. Alien invasions, while cliché, have proven to be tried and tested selling points for movies and video games alike. So if you put these three factors together, you should have the formula for a blockbuster MMORPG, right?
2008 was arguably one of the best years for video games. We saw incredible titles that changed everything for the gaming industry. But what made these games so great, and can we do it again? I believe only one thing will make that happen.
Amidst the smoke, rubble and blood that was the THQ auction , one curious property remains unsold. Many are left wondering…why?
Some of the staff from Leviathyn share their personal Top 10 lists for 2012. Which games made the cut?
One the things you’ll hear from gamers on the Internet is that certain things “pull them out of the game.”. Weather it has to do about cut scenes, graphics, QTEs, and so on, some things just break immersion for some gamers, I understand this completely, I appreciate escapism and immersion, but to me, immersion isn’t about makign the game feel or look realistic.
As I’ve mentioned more then once, I do Let’s Plays on my YouTube channel of games via emulators, downloadable games, and RPG maker games like The Witch’s House. There are some things about Let’s Plays that you should know if you ever consider doing them yourself.
I love Ape Escape more then any other series, and I want a proper fourth game for the PS3 and I have few niffty ideas for it.
Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar games, said in an interview with the Guardian that during the “Hot Coffee” scandal of 2005 “We never felt that we were being attacked for the content, we were being attacked for the medium, which felt a little unfair. If all of this stuff had been put into a book or a movie, people wouldn’t have blinked an eye.” The whole thing about sex and sexuality in video games has always been issue, and while the intensity of just how much of an issue it is has changed for better or worse, it has always been there. I’ve pondered this again and again but never really found the right words for it, but Dan Houser saying that they were being attacked for being in a video game was just what I was looking for.
A subjuct a of speculation amoung anime fans and Avatar fans is wether it should be considered an anime or not. There are opinions on both sides, but the main arguement for the no side is that because Avatar is made in America, not Japan, it’s a cartoon not an anime. but here’s the thing: Cartoons and anime are the same.










