Licensed games are a pretty divisive topic in the gaming industry. For every five excellent licensed games, there seem to be ten that are absolutely horrible. Tomorrow, Batman: Arkham Knight will be released, and LEGO Jurassic World was released last week. In celebration of the release of these incredible games, I’ve compiled a list of ten incredible licensed ...
Categories: 3DS, ARTICLES, OPINION PIECES, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tags: 3DS, Adventure Time, Arkham Knight, Batman, Goldeneye 007, Kingdom Hearts, LEGO, LEGO Jurassic World, LEGO Star Wars, licensed games, lists, Metro 2033, PS3, PS4, Shadow of Mordor, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Toy Story 3, Walking Dead, Xbox 360, Xbox One
While Telltale has ventured into a number of big-name IPs in the last couple years (Borderlands, Game of Thrones), they’re still very well known for the explosive impact that The Walking Dead made on the gaming world just a few years ago. Personally, I was blown away by Season 1 and have had very few ...
Categories: NEWS, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tags: Comics, Mac, mini series, PC, PS4, spinoff, The Walking Dead, Xbox One
It actually happened. The biggest flaw in this generations consoles, in many people’s eyes, was that both consoles never had backwards compatibility. It seemed like a silly decision, especially because the prior generation had made this possible. For many, those old consoles and their games were either traded in, or sat and collected dust as ...
Remember when Skylanders and Disney Infinity were released, and there were little to no shortages of figures? That all changed when Nintendo tossed its red cap in the ring. For a company that used to make toys prior to video games, Nintendo’s done a remarkably poor job with its amiibos. Collectors have to be dedicated ...
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Tags: amiibo, Disney Infinity, Marvel, Nintendo, skylanders, Star Wars
Major Nelson has just released the Games with Gold list for Xbox users for the month of June. Xbox One players can get Massive Chalice and Pool Nation FX (again) while Xbox 360 players can get Just Cause 2 from June 1st to June 15th, and Thief from the 16th to the end of the ...
Since my article about motion controls has been published a few days a go, Microsoft’s head of Xbox, Phil Spencer has given an interview with Edge where he discussed the Kinect and plans for the device moving forward with the Xbox One. “We’ll continue to build functionality to make it a valuable part of the ...
Like a fart in an elevator, remastered games are going no where, according to Capcom at least. The publisher of the Resident Evil and Street Fighter franchises have recently announced they plan to follow up the successful remastering of the original Resident Evil with more remasters of past favourites. During a recent financial briefing, the Japanese publisher announced, “HD remasters of ...
Christmas 2006, my family and I crowded around the TV after the turkey had been picked clean and watched in amazement as my little brother flailed his arms around hitting tennis balls, and throwing bowling balls, he was having a temper tantrum because I had taken over his brand new Nintendo Wii. It was the ...
Categories: OPINION PIECES, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tags: Kinect, motion controls, Nintendi, PlayStation Move, sony, WiiU
Each year a new Madden NFL game is released and each year a new athlete is selected to don the front cover of the case. This year a vote was held to decide amongst fans who would hold the honour of becoming the cover athlete. The vote was held for two weeks at ESPN.com, Madden ...
It seems as though the eventual switch to new-gen consoles is inevitable. As of today a major company has officially done just that and in doing so has brought the last-gen’s end that much closer. After the official reveal for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate the company confirmed that it would no longer be releasing games for the last generation ...
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Tags: Assassin's Creed, next-gen consoles, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Ubisoft, Xbox 360, Xbox One