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 … Continue reading Google Is Entering the Gaming Market

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 … Continue reading Explicit Content in Video Games

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 … Continue reading Cloud Gaming – The Future Of The Gaming Industry

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 … Continue reading Gamestop Is Up For Sale

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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 … Continue reading Why You Should Be Excited About Kingdom Hearts 3

Remember in the last post I said that gaming companies will continue to find ways to get more money out of consumers? Well Activision did just that with their latest game publishing, Call of Duty: Black Ops IV. Activision has decided that their consumers will be dumb enough to pay $100 for a brand new game. Why do they think this you ask? Because the game … Continue reading Activision Thinks Gamers are Stupid

If you are unfamiliar with microtransactions, they are currently the hot topic in all of the gaming world. In this post, I will describe what has been very good and the increasingly bad about what this pertains to video games. The Good:  In video games, most microtransactions are purely cosmetic. They allow the player to personalize their characters or buy new items that look cool. … Continue reading Microtransactions: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly

In the video game industry, there are superstar developers that have enough clout to call for excitement about a new game. Naughty Dog has Neil Druckmann, Gearbox had Randy Pitchford, and Konami Games used to have the enigmatic Hideo Kojima. Kojima is a creative genius. He was the creator of both the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill franchises that have been the talk of the gaming … Continue reading The Oddity That is Hideo Kojima