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The Best of the Rest Game of the Year – Editor’s Choice: Nominees
0By: Moses Abaortae | January 14th, 2013 |Uncategorized
We exclude the Holiday Season releases and take a look at the game released through 2012 as we pick out our Best of the Rest Game of the Year 2012 and the nominees are… 2012 was a solid year for the video game industry and a great one for gamers. Not only were there a number of new IPs but some of the sequels released managed to impress as well. However, we are going to exclu...
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The Best of the Rest Game of the Year – Editor’s Choice: Winner
By: Moses Abaortae | January 14th, 2013 |Featured
With the nominees out of the way it is time to which game came out on top and became our Best of the Rest Game of the year Coming in at third place is Dead Space 2. The game built on the original Dead Space in nearly every way and proved that 2012 was to be the year of the sequel or, in some cases, the three-quel. The second instalment in the series managed to ...
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EA pulls the plug on online support for FIFA and NFL
By: Musa Afridi | January 2nd, 2013 |News
The publisher explains it would be a better use of its resources if they were focused on FIFA 14, Madden NFL 14 and so on. In a statement released by EA, it has announced that it will be ending support for its entire ‘11’ editions of their sports titles. This means that the likes of FIFA 11, Madden NFL 11 and so on will no longer be supported by EA on the online front. T...
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EA announce Dead Space 3 demo
By: Musa Afridi | January 2nd, 2013 |News
PlayStation 3 demo set to hit the PlayStation Network a week after the Xbox 360 demo is released on the 15th of January. No confirmation of whether or not there will be co-op The hype train for the third instalment in the Dead Space series is gathering steam and chugging down the track towards its rele...
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The War Z controversy: a solution in sight
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | January 1st, 2013 |Featured
When you are in the game making business, the first thing that you need to know is that you cannot find long-term success without treating the gamers with utmost respect and giving their feedback and opinions a decent amount of attention. Some companies learn it the easy way, while others, like Zynga, learn it the hard way, where a sort of an uprising against the company starts...
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The War Z controversy: the messy details
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | January 1st, 2013 |Featured
We have seen some crazy game launches over the years, but one that deserves a place right at the top of the list is without any doubt that of The War Z. Hammerpoint Interactive’s zombie survival horror shooter may not have utilised the same amount of resources as a Call of Duty or Mass Effect game, but the sort of impact that it managed to make following its alpha release was...
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The War Z creator apologises to players for controversy, admits becoming blind with arrogance
By: Jason McCarthy | December 31st, 2012 |PC News
Creator Sergey Titov apologises to players of the controversial zombie survival horror shooter for arrogance and ignoring feedback. The War Z has been surrounded by controversy ever since its launch on Steam on December 17, 2012, with the players accusing publisher Hammerpoint Interactive for being misleading and putting up an incomplete version of the game for sale. Sergey ...
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Community management and moderation to resolve and prevent controversy, says The War Z creator
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 31st, 2012 |PC News
The War Z creator admits arrogance caused him to ignore community feedback; focused on resolving issues and brings things back on track. Sergey Titov may not have been properly informed about the feedback that the open-world zombie survival horror shooter The War Z had gotten upon its launch on December 17, 2012, the only reasonable explanation to his statement that a heavy maj...
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Blizzard and its pot of gold Diablo III
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 31st, 2012 |Featured
Diablo III can be aptly regarded as a pot of gold for Blizzard Entertainment, a company that has established itself as the leading brand when it comes to role-playing games (RPG) for the PC. After doing wonders with the World of WarCraft franchise, the company returned to a franchise that had helped it in gaining prominence during its early years, Diablo. Despite the first a...
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Blizzard puts a lid on Diablo III Team Deathmatch mode, duelling option coming with next patch
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 31st, 2012 |PC News
Team Deathmatch mode for Blizzard’s renowned hack-and-slash game shelved for now, PvP duelling mode arriving with next patch. Blizzard Entertainment has been experimenting a lot with its pot of gold, Diablo III, over the last few months, one of which was a Team Deathmatch mode. The fans of the popular action role-playing game (RPG) title would surely have been anxious to f...
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Dead Space 3 may not be for everyone according to dev
By: Musa Afridi | December 31st, 2012 |News
The game’s executive producer talks about how some testers paused the game and walked away during the playthrough and how Visceral Games have to find a right balance The first Dead Space did a brilliant job at keeping players on their toes and making them dread going down narrow claustrophobic corridors, the vast emptiness of space and of course against legions of the hideous...
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Dead Space 3 dev discusses Kinect features
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |News
Steve Papoutsis, the executive director at Visceral Games, gives the lowdown on what gamers can expect with Dead Space 3’s Kinect features and how it will complement the overall experience. Microsoft has been pushing the Kinect to become more an integral part of the core gaming experience as opposed to its reputation being tacked on. Mass Effect 3 was the first major triple-A...
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What does the future of video games hold – Part 2
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |Featured
The concept is simple enough; gamers will be able to download the content they want directly on to either their console or a cloud, making it available on multiple or single consoles or devices depending on the content itself. Games can be purchased or rented digitally and there would be no need to purchase discs, cutting costs for publishers and ultimately reducing the prices of games as well ...
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What does the future of video games hold – Part 1
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |Featured
We take a look at the multiple directions the video game industry may be heading; with an emphasis on free-to-play gaming as well as the potential for consoles to stream games in the future. The video game industry seems ready to explode in a nerdgasm-inducing supernova, which has the potential to change the industry as it matures into more than just the linear and casual mode ...
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Three Zombie games to keep an eye on
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |Featured
Dead Island Riptide, Day Z and The War Z are three games that should keep fans of the zombie game genre interested. Many are of the opinion that zombies have been done to death, especially with the games that have come out in the past year or so with Dead Island, Dead Rising and Call of Duty: Black Ops setting up a platform for future games that had a thing for the undead. Thro...
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Dead Space 3’s co-op focused on making game more accessible
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |News
Visceral Games is hoping that the option to play the game with another person and share the scares with another player will make the game more accessible to more gamers. There may be concerns from some sections of fans of the Dead Space series regarding the inclusion of a co-op mode but Steve Papoutsis, the game’s executive producer, is standing by the studio’s decision to ...
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Tomb Raider gets multiplayer. Yes, multiplayer…
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |News
Lara’s Crew take on the island scavengers in the game’s online multiplayer component which was confirmed on Twitter by Karl Stewart, Crystal Dynamics global brand director. There has been plenty of speculation surrounding the upcoming reboot of the Tomb Raider series by Crystal Dynamics, not to mention contro...
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Dementia is a core part of Dead Space 3 co-op
By: Moses Abaortae | December 31st, 2012 |News
Visceral Games’ executive producer, Steve Papoutsis, discusses how each character in the co-op game mode will experience unique hallucinations which will form a core part of the game. The original Dead Space game was a single player only experience and managed to breathe some life into the flailing survival-hor...
