OPINION PIECES

Between the upcoming Rainbow 6 Siege, Star Wars Battlefront, and Call of Duty Black Ops III for the last generation of consoles, it seems like more and more developers are starting to consider ditching single player campaigns in favor of multiplayer exclusive games. Whereas it was once a practice to tack on multiplayer onto games that didn’t need them, nowadays ...

Not too long ago, Nintendo announced that they have shipped around 10.5 million Amiibo since their launch late last year. However, we’re all aware of the issues surrounding the availability of Amiibo figures. Some figures are damn near impossible to find, and even if you can find one for sale, it’s probably from a scalper who’s going to charge you way ...

By now, you have probably collected a large number of the 50 calcified fragments if you wish to obtain one of Destiny’s newest exotic weapons, the Touch of Malice. With each calcified fragment, you open up another chapter in the Books of Sorrow, a collection of stories that detail the origin of the Hive and Oryx, the Taken King. In ...

Still on the fence on whether or not you should continue your adventures in Destiny with The Taken King? Wondering how much of the base game can you still play even without the DLC? Then you’re in luck, because for the sake of science, the changes that came with the Taken King are fairly easy to catalog. What you are ...

Every story has to have a beginning, every character their origin story, every tale its shred of truth. With Achievement Hunter’s Let’s Play Live, the origin story of the next generation of movie stars and rock bands has been written, and it is only a matter of time before that story is spread. A decade ago, most people would have ...

Like almost every other game these days, Destiny just got a major update to prepare for the upcoming Taken King expansion pack. Weighing in at around 18 GB, a substantial amount of content was added and tweaked, especially in regards to the Crucible PvP mode. But the question is, is it enough to bring back people who may have left ...

The holiday season of 2015 promises a lot for Star Wars fans, especially with the reboot of the much beloved Battlefront series. Of course, by now you probably have heard about all the differences between the old and new versions of the game, especially the lack of a single player campaign. To be fair though, it is stated that you ...

In an article by Colin Campbell of Polygon (which can be found here), the appearances of various female game characters were adjusted to more closely resemble “average” women. Of course, there’s a certain irony in how the parties involved in the article are all men, but let’s put that aside and focus on the point being made. It is essentially argued that the ...

(This is an opinion piece meant to be an end to the series of articles Is Bungie’s Destiny falling apart? and The Devil’s Advocate: Bungie’s Destiny isn’t falling apart) Destiny. It is supposed to be Bungie’s 10 year project, a decade long endeavor to follow in the steps of their last great series that revolutionized gaming. For it to last the ...

(This is an opinion piece meant to offer some balance to the issues raised in the article ‘Is Bungie’s Destiny falling apart?‘.) Contrary to what some may say, Destiny is a perfectly fine game. Sure it has its rough spots, all games do, but compared to many other games out there, Destiny is hardly crashing and burning. If anything, it ...