When I started playing video games I was maybe 5 years old. Ever since then I have always played games. Specifically, I have always completed the games that I had. From classics like Jak and Daxter to broken messes like Sonic the Hedgehog, I have somehow completed these games. It was always something I have found a way to do. There was a portion of time that I had every game but…

Video games have evolved in terms of story writing; the medium has crafted a variety of memorable stories over the years. Developers such as Naughty Dog, Bungie, Rockstar, and Sony Santa Monica Studios are at the forefront of narrative stories. Games are no longer just about the total points earned at the end. Award-winning writers have been tasked to pen original stories that video games can only pull off. But…

Getting into the video game console market is incredibly hard. Ask the Ouya if you have any doubts about that. Heavy hitters like Microsoft and Sony have been around for so long people tend to forget that all of them had to start somewhere. The original console to massively sell was the Atari. That soon evolved with a wealth of new companies trying to jump into the market with the…

As many of you are aware by now, there is a heated debate surrounding the topic of video games. This discussion is nothing new as violence in this medium has been discussed over decades. However, it has also expanded into topics like sex, nudity, profanity and other forms of explicit content. From the media stating that first-person shooters were to blame for the mass shootings in the Columbine and Virginia…

I commented about the cloud and what it could do for gaming very briefly in a previous post. I wanted to elaborate on it even further because it is a large topic for those inclined toward the more technical aspects of the industry. As I stated before, cloud-gaming is making a system render a game off of a cloud server that does the heavy lifting. It is currently in the conceptual stages…

Well, well, well. How the tables have turned. Various news sites have reported that GameStop, the most popular video game retailer, is looking to be bought out. After years of people like myself have tried to get decent deals out of selling old games to GameStop, the giant needs a bailout to stay alive. Memes abound have been posted about what people could put down to buy the company. “Best…

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For fans of JRPGs (that’s Japanese Role Playing Games if you don’t know your gaming acronyms) a familiar title is set to finally release on January 29, 2019. That title is Kingdom Hearts 3. After 13 years, numerous questions on whether it even exists, waiting to see if Square-Enix is still continuing to make the game, and years and years of waiting, it has all culminated to this moment. The moment that…