A big part of the original Wii’s success was the way it brought casual and non-gamers into the industry for the first time through games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit. But going forward, Nintendo will focus its efforts on making games for the core crowd, suggests Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created Mario and […]
Small hard drives in game consoles are largely a thing of the past; while storage remains a concern–I know my Being limited to the 12GB of internal flash storage won’t prevent the single-player mode from being playable, but it will mean you’ll be unable to take advantage of any new features or changes introduced in […]
If you want the “ultimate” Destiny experience, you’ll need to play on PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4. That’s the message Sony is trying to get across with a trailer released today that highlights the range of PlayStation-exclusive content for Bungie’s upcoming shooter. Destiny’s PlayStation-exclusive content includes things like an entire multiplayer map (Exodus Blue), a […]
Some people like to accuse Madden of being the same game every year, but that simply isn’t true–players now apparently have the ability to fly into the air, unbeknownst to everyone around them. The video above, posted to Vine by player Grant Tucker, shows a hilarious glitch he encountered in Madden 15. In a game […]
Deep Silver announced today that Escape Dead Island, the upcoming third-person action game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, will launch on November 18. Escape Dead Island is different from the original Dead Island and sequel Dead Island: Riptide in a number of ways, the first of which is price: the game will sell […]
The latest addition to The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red’s digital distribution service, GOG.com, is not an exciting new game, but rather an entirely new medium: film. The Polish company today announced that a selection of feature-length movies are now available through GOG.com, beginning with 20 documentaries about gaming and geek culture. As you might […]
Sony today announced the list of free games that PlayStation Plus members will be able to download in September, and, as usual, you’ll be able to get two games (or more) each for your Velocity 2X As Velocity 2X is a cross-buy (and cross-save, much to my delight) game with Vita, owners of the handheld […]
When it comes toMany regard Nvidia’s GeForce 256 as the first true GPU. “The GPU era was first brought on when we integrated geometry in the same chip with the GeForce 256, around 12 years ago or so,” Nvidia’s senior vice president of content and technology Tony Tamasi tells me. “Part of that geometry processing […]
Microsoft will start selling standalone Kinect cameras for Xbox One on October 7, the company announced today in a post on the Xbox Wire. It will cost $150, but you get more than just the camera. The bundle also comes with a digital copy of Dance Central Spotlight. There was no mention of an Xbox […]
Not only does big-name publisher Activision know how to sell games, but the company is also well-versed in the art of actual game production. That’s according to Bungie director of production Jonty Barnes, who had nothing but praise for Destiny‘s publisher in a recent interview with OXM. Asked if Bungie needed to challenge Activision on […]
