Last week, Warner Bros. finally announced that a sequel to Batman: Arkham City is in the works and is actually primed for release later this year (they also registered over a dozen Arkham related domain names as well). This latest [...]
When Game Informer magazine released their hotly anticipated December issue featuring an 18-page spread on the equally as fervently anticipated Grand Theft Auto 5, fans across the globe clamoured to see just what Rockstar Games had up their sleeves. A [...]
Hearthfire, the second piece of Skyrim DLC, is out on the PS3 in North America from today.
Movies inspired by video games are well-known for their ability to disappoint their audience. Movies like Mortal Kombat, Doom and Max Payne didn’t live up to their hype. People were expecting a movie that did justice to their respective games – [...]
One of the most anticipated games of the year, Crysis 3, finally hits stores today, and after two entries that have proven compelling but not quite fulfilled all that potential, we get a third installment that is unquestionably the best of the [...]
Remember those old commercials featuring the family sitting down to enjoy a relaxing afternoon of video games? Oh sure, you may have noticed odd things, like how this particular bunch of people had the really expensive, elite edition console. You [...]
Online multiplayer – one could argue – is a fantastic step in bringing players from round the world to enjoy an experience as one big happy family. On the other hand, it’s a needless, forced attempt by developers to create [...]
Regular readers of What Culture will remember my article last month after having played the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance demo and being none too pleased. I remarked that the gameplay was clunky and the visuals didn’t pop in the way [...]
After finally getting to watch Wreck-It Ralph, I started to appreciate what every video game bad guy goes through. Sure, the vast majority of them are downright evil and want to rule the world or enslave humanity, but there are [...]
The debate surrounding video game violence continues to rage as games become ever-more realistic, and even as hardened gamers, we often find ourselves shocked by the gratuitous, often provocative violence we see on screen. Though the majority of games teach [...]
When tragedy strikes, the media goes into a feeding frenzy and always come to the conclusion that video games are the cause. Of course, our gaming culture knows better than that, but whoever really listens to us? Who is going [...]
Ah, gaming, that wonderful past-time that so many people view as “pointless”, yet one which those of us reared on it from birth can’t bring ourselves to stop obsessing over. In recent years, video games have become a far more [...]
