A light has recently been shined on the problematic development process of Call of Duty Black Ops 4. According to a recent report from Kotaku, the AAA shooter had a difficult development period that ended with the game’s campaign mode being discarded in favor of the battle royale mode, Blackout. The change was made about…
Looking back on 2018, I’ve been constantly exhausted by how long it’s felt. There was a time I felt like the years were just zooming by, but this year was the opposite. Maybe it’s just the constant nightmare that is The World right now, and how every day is often just too much. I can’t…
It feels weird to celebrate how good a year 2017 was for videogames when it was a disaster in just about every other respect imaginable. It all feels so frivolous, you know? But then, given how truly awful and exhausting 2017 was, a distraction of any sort is exactly what we all need. I’ve tried…
After reading through Gareth’s excellent analysis of Hearthstone, I’ve decided to talk about Blizzard’s other hit, Overwatch. Mainly, I wanted to touch upon what bothers me the most about it: the loot boxes. Like a litany of other online multiplayer games, Overwatch “drops” are tied to an acronym whose mention sends shivers down the spine…
Injustice: Gods Among Us has just been announced as EVO 2013’s 9th tournament game during Shoryuken’s weekly Wake Up SRK show stream. EVO’s main man, organizer Joey “MrWizard” Cuellar started off the speculation train by teasing a big announcement for a few days over Twitter. Earlier tonight he finally revealed what many had already guessed…
