This year’s nominees into the Video Game Hall of Fame have been announced, and they stretch from that one game you always find yourself clicking away on when your boss isn’t checking up on you through to a need to catch ‘em all.
With the Wii U a failure, Nintendo needs to find a new way to be relevant, and it's looking at your body.
The Wii, in its standard definition, waggle-filled lifetime has become the home of the “party game.†De rigueur collections of mini-games that are designed to be simple slices of gaming, cut up and served for general public consumption. They are sometimes, as is the case with Warioware, deliciously addictive morsels; while more often than not, they’re the scrapings of the …
You know how it is, you get home from actually working for a living, boot up the 360 or PS3 and try to unwind to MW2 or your gaming drug of choice. Within 10 minutes you have some 12 year old brat screaming how he owned your ass grandpa and that he wants to stick something somewhere that isn’t pleasant …
EA banked quite heavily on the Wii. With the magic of hindsight, this can generally be accepted as a “bad idea,†considering the system still only seems to be generating games sales revenue based on first-party titles. EA head John Riccitiello is rather unhappy with the situation, one that’s undoubtedly contributed to the company’s reported losses "To be honest with …
The biggest and most jaw-dropping gaming milestone has just been smashed in the most arbitrary fashion. Wii Sports, the game bundled with the Wii, has beaten the long-standing record held by Super Mario Bros on the NES. Super Mario Bros, also a bundled game, sold a staggering 40.24 million units. Wii Sports has sold, as of the 27th of December, …
Movie theaters can give commercials instant atmosphere, but they also introduce real production risks. …
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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