Thank goodness for video games, movies and comic books then, brief respites from a world that is unjust and unfair on multiple levels. Imagine if we could bring some of that magic back home with us though. What if you had a chance to bring an aspect from your favourite video games back with you? What would you choose?
The conversation around loot boxes and in-game transactions is changing. While many players have always grumbled about their inclusion, people have accepted them as a necessary evil – even defending those that aren’t the most egregious. Consumers are slowly starting to realise they’re being taken for a ride.
Imagine you spent over three decades collecting everything. If you did just that, then you might have a library of games and consoles that rivals that of New Jersey resident and video game author Bill Loguidice, who has decided to sell a massive chunk of history in an upcoming interactive entertainment auction.
With E3 around the corner, May is usually more barren than my fan club on any given day. That’s not to say that there aren’t any games coming out, but the biggest guns are usually reserved for the months following the annual gaming extravaganza. Where one side of the industry refrains from going all out, another side takes the opposite approach as this year’s May-day celebration is crammed to say the least.
A terrible story emerged this weekend where a 13 year-old girl was shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother over an argument over a video game controller.
US president Donald Trump met with games industry executives and some of the most vocal critics in the land to discuss the fictional link between video games and violence. So how did the meeting start? With Trump pressing play on a sizzle reel of video game bloodshed.
The decidedly inferior Xbox One version of the game has received its ninth update, and it brings a host of changes and fixes. The most notable is that the starting island has been nixed, as it uses up too much in the way of server resources.
Someone's to blame for America's recent spate of mass shootings that have claimed dozens of lives. And by someone, I mean the bigly and YUGE controversy that is video games. They’re the worst, totally. Listen to me, it’s going to be amazing how we solve this issue.
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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