Author: Rae Michelle Richards
Minecraft Creator Notch To Receive Pioneer Award At GDC 2016
This year at the Game Developers Choice Awards Marcus “Notch” Persson will be receiving the Pioneer Award for 2016. The Pioneer Award is given tho individuals who help develop breakthrough technologies and game design that set a new standard for the industry. If you’re not aware of Notch’s multi billion dollar success story Minecraft then […]
Layoffs Rock Activision’s Guitar Hero & Skylanders Franchises
Yesterday was no party for the folks who work hard on Activision’s long running Guitar Hero and Skylanders franchises. As first reported by game informer via an anonymous source, it appears that the layoffs have specifically affected the development staff based in Minneapolis Minnesota. The first entry in the Guitar Hero franchise in a number […]
Street Fighter V | Review
Review by special guest editor: Robyn Robo Almost exactly 7 years since Street Fighter IV came out for PS3, Xbox and Windows, Street Fighter V has released. With support for only two platforms at launch, PS4 and Windows, this is a more limited release. SteamOS support is coming “this spring” apparently. Sorry Xbox gamers, I don’t […]
Did An Accidental Slip up Out Skate 4 For PS4 & Xbox One?
According to a now delisted item on Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi Electronic Arts could be poised to release the first current generation entry in their long-running Skate franchise – Skate 4- as soon as this August. Alongside the supposed release date of August 23rd 2016 the website entry also featured cover-art for the game that […]
AMD Reveals Which CPUs They Recommend For Use With Oculus Rift
Owners of AMD hardware have been kept in the dark in terms of detailed specs for the upcoming Oculus Rift headset. Officially Oculus recommends that potential owners have a “Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater” but that does very little except give the reader the exact processor that they might need if they were gaming on […]
Beta Report: Hitman on PlayStation 4
Square Enix’s closed beta for their upcoming next generation Hitman title went live over the weekend and I got the chance to play around with the game on PlayStation 4 over the last couple of nights. Fans are calling 2016’s version of Agent 47 a return to form combined with some worries that IO Interactive’s […]
Rumor: New Round of Nintendo Selects To Hit Canada On March 11th
Canadian retailers might be receiving a new round of permanent discounted Nintendo titles thanks to the ‘Nintendo Selects’ label. Originally posted on the twitter account for retailer Video Games Plus before being permanently deleted. The below image has been making the rounds and if it’s accurate than games once considered rare, one off prints, like […]
Game Developers Choice Awards & IGDFA Open Up Audience Voting
This year at the 30th Game Developers Conference the Game Developer’s Choice Awards & Independent Games Festival Awards will announce this years slate of winners on Wednesday March 16 in San Francisco, California. Now both organizations are asking their audience for their say – with the Audience’s Choice awards. Here are the finalist for the […]
Capcom Releases Street Fighter V DLC Roadmap To Fans
Capcom Releases Street Fighter V DLC Roadmap To Fans The long running Street Fighter franchise gets turned on its head with the release of Street Fighter V next week. Sure gameplay additions like V-Triggers and V-Skills are going to force long time fighters to adapt to a new flow in combat but there’s something even […]
Megadimension Neptunia VII | Review
The Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise has kept my interest for the past seven years thanks to creative writing, absolutely adorable characters, clever tongue-in-cheek lines and an intriguing battle system. With the latest adventure, Megadimension Neptunia V.II (that’s Vee two not “version 2”) the folks at Compile Heart have done an excellent job retaining what has made the series […]
Idea Factory International Announces Release Date For Trillion: God of Destruction
Do you have what it takes to best a boss with one trillion hit points? That’s the question that Idea Factory International’s upcoming PS Vita exclusive strategy RPG Trillion: God of Destruction. IFI has announced that the game will be available both physical and digitally on March 29th in North America and April 1st in […]
ASUS & Alienware Unveil First Oculus Ready PCs
2016 may very well be the year that virtual reality hits the mainstream with the impending release of both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. With the Rift set to ship to customers who pre-ordered starting later next month, March 28th, ASUS and Alienware have unveiled their lineups of “Oculus Ready” PCs. Both manufacturers will […]
Unravel Impressions: A Wooly World For Xbox & PlayStation Fans
When EA unveiled Unravel to the world last year during E3 I wasn’t exactly enthralled with the idea of yet another side scrolling platformer featuring a main character made out of cloth. To be honest, I always kind of pegged that as Sony’s thing and comparisons between Unravel and Little Big Planet are almost inevitable […]
Mad Catz Laying Off 37% of Their Workforce Shows What’s Wrong With AAA Publishers
Bad news for Mad Catz the folks behind last Fall’s Rock Band 4 peripherals as well as the Heavy Precision Control System which was aimed at the hardcore Farming Simulator crowd. President / CEO Darren Ridchardson resigned ahead of the company reporting a profit of $1.2million for the last quarter of 2014. This quarter was […]
Ubisoft Announced Open Beta For The Division
We’ve got one last chance to try out Tom Clancy’s The Division before the game’s official launch on March 8. The open beta will be available to all PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. In the past Ubisoft has said that some game modes will be locked out for agents who do not subscribe to PlayStation […]