Almost all Star Wars fans were on the verge of falling to the Dark Side when Disney announced that they were shutting down Lucasfilm’s video game division Lucasarts. And for a good reason. Apart from the odd blip here and there, Lucasarts [...]
These days it seems like we’re always waiting for the next epic RPG, the next finely tuned shooter, the next edition of Madden. But I happen to think some of the greatest, most unique ideas for games have already come [...]
Wolfenstein, robots and Jimi Hendrix – that’s a pretty awesome combination to show off a new game, no? Having been secretly under development at MachineGames for some time, Wolfenstein: The New Order is an action-adventure shooter in the same vein [...]
EA Sports and FIFA released a joint statement today declaring that, unsurprisingly, their partnership with regard to the FIFA video game series has been extended until 2022. In the press-release the companies went into greater detail about quite exactly what [...]
2013 is a big year for gaming. The year is marking the return of some major franchises like Grand Theft Auto and Arkham, some long promised games like The Last Of Us and Watch Dogs, while throwing out interesting editions [...]
As gamers we often long for franchises that stop producing games before we were happy to let them go. Whether it be because the story simply came to an end like in the case of Time Splitters, or because the [...]
Joystiq.com and other outlets have picked up on the announcement made last night that Electronic Arts (EA) and the Walt Disney Company, which obtained the Star Wars franchise as part of its $4.05 billion acquisition of LucasFilm last year, have signed a multi-year exclusive licensing [...]
There was once a time when all video games were happy-go-lucky affairs, where good triumphed over evil, a hero vanquished a villain and everyone lived happily ever after. Those days are now gone, with “edgy” (read darker) writing replacing happy [...]
The representation of women in video games has been quite a pertinent issue of last year or so. Issues like Anna Saarkisian’s Women vs. Tropes, The Hitman Absolution trailer, comments about Remember Me and most recently, the Dragon Crown controversy about the [...]
The cult of the Easter Egg shows no signs of abating. As long as there are gamers to pick up controllers and explore the bold new worlds within new games, there will be someone somewhere willing to add a joke [...]
Nearly a week has passed now since Rockstar Games unveiled their three new character trailers for Grand Theft Auto 5, thus bringing to an end the lengthy wait for material fans had previously endured. Nearly a whole 6 months had [...]
Video games are a form of media that has rapidly expanded within the last two decades. We’ve gone from grainy 8 and 16-bit displays of Mario jumping on yet another tur- err, I mean Koopa, to the 64-bit Cloud drifting around through Final [...]
