I watched a TED talk some years ago, which extolled the virtues of gaming as more than a waste of time. It seems, the science world listened, as scientists now actively use gamers to solve problems they’ve spent years trying to crack.
Many longtime Metal Gear Solid fans, like our own Todd Hargosh, thought that Ground Zeroes was an unabashed mess. Now Hargosh is playing the new Phantom Pain, and it’s slowly growing on him as he works on his final review.
The Ouye (name may sound familiar) is the Frankenstein console from China that combines PS4 and Xbox One stylings. Chella designs her own hybrid console, taking the best bits from today’s machines.
We all know that Todd has been rightly enraged at some of the crazy things retailers tried to bundle with game consoles. However, the new crop of bundles available now offer some really great values in games and peripherals for all consoles.
The news headlines today are all about Chris Pranger, who was fired from Nintendo for speaking a little too frankly on a recent podcast. Chris worked in localisation within Nintendo’s notoriously secretive Treehouse division. Maybe the casual nature of the industry means Chris didn’t take his NDA as seriously as he should have.
Microsoft held back a bit from E3 so that it could really shine at Gamescom. And that might have been a good play, as the lineup of games scheduled for 2015 and into 2016 is looking to be very impressive.
With Sony absent, Xbox One looks set to rule the show at Gamescom 2015. Chella picks the top games to watch out for across the show floor. Things kick off with the Xbox conference on 4 August.
Hargosh is loving all the new features being added to the Xbox One, but one of the most interesting is the fact that Windows 10 is making some console games compatible with PC titles. Will this boost Xbox’s popularity?
The gaming community was dealt a bitter blow this week, when Nintendo announced the death of its president and CEO, Satoru Iwata. Chella looks back at the career of the man who just wanted games to be fun for everyone.
Billy made a New Year’s Resolution to play over 25 games in his back catalog. Now that he’s at the halfway part of the year, we check in to see how he’s doing on this monumental project. We know he beat Final Fantasy III, but has a ways to go. Good luck Billy!
