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Violent games not behind the growing violence in America
0By: Jason McCarthy | December 28th, 2012 | Featured
The deadly shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, has triggered a heated debate about the effect of violent video games and their possible contribution to the tragedy that resulted in the death of 20 children and six adults. Ever since it has been discovered that the shooter was a huge fan of Activision’s first-person shooter Call of Duty, ...
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BioShock Infinite’s character was the hardest to write – dev
By: Musa Afridi | December 28th, 2012 | Featured
Ken Levine, the creator of the series, talks about the process that goes into writing the characters for the game and how this time around things were more challenging than usual. Our coverage of Irrational Games upcoming eagerly anticipated third instalment in the BioShock series continues as the creator the game sheds some light on how he found it easy to connect with previou...
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Killzone Mercenary voted PS Vita’s most anticipated game
By: Musa Afridi | December 27th, 2012 | Featured
The PlayStation Blog recently held a poll for gamers to choose their pick of titles in various categories and Guerrilla Games entry seems to have generated the most hype. The PlayStation Vita has not lived up to the expectations many had for the portable console on the sales front. In fact, the Vita is often foun...
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Wii U in wake of Sandy Hook Elementary shooting
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 26th, 2012 | Featured
Nintendo has established itself as a source of entertainment for the entire family instead of a specific target market, such as hardcore gamers or the more contemporary casual gamers. Where other console and video game making companies focus on graphics and performance, the Japan-based company has always kept gameplay and content on top of the priority list, something that has ...
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Connecticut shooting a wake-up call for game makers
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 26th, 2012 | Featured
The outburst by the National Rifle Association (NRA) vice president Wayne LaPierre has attracted a lot of criticism from the media, video game industry, film industry, music industry and even the general American public. Instead of blaming the deadly weapon that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in the tragic incident of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday,...
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Americans say no to games with guns
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | December 26th, 2012 | Featured
The tragic incident of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, December 14, is something that the world and especially the American people will not be forgetting in a long time. The deadly incident claimed lives of 20 children and 6 adults, affecting so many families while sending a fresh wave of fear through the entire nation, which has sti...
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EA missed an opportunity with FIFA 13
By: Moses Abaortae | December 25th, 2012 | Featured
The PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 partnership could have been explored by the developer, much in the same way MLB ’13 The Show is planning on. One of the PlayStation Vita’s greatest strengths is its ability to link up and connect with the PlayStation 3 console and do a host of different things that not many developers have taken advantage of or demonstrated the potenti...
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Games to look forward to in 2013 – Part 3
By: Musa Afridi | December 25th, 2012 | Featured
The first two games in this series, Dead Space and Crysis, were both three-quels but it is time to change the pace a bit with a prequel or rather an origin game. Chances are that if a gamer ever owned a PlayStation One, PlayStation 2 or a PC around the time of those consoles, then they have either played or heard about Tomb Raider. The series spawned a number of titles and spin...
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Games to look forward to in 2013 – Part 2
By: Musa Afridi | December 25th, 2012 | Featured
Dead Space 3 is set to get the next year going but it will be followed soon after by another title from EA, one that PC gamers will be looking forward to for sure. So Dead Space 3 is all set to bring a number of changes to the series; from a change in setting to the introduction of co-op as well as a new weapon creation system but it seems that EA seems to want to keep ‘space...
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Are multiplayer games killing their single-player counterparts
By: Moses Abaortae | December 25th, 2012 | Featured
We take a look at and analyse whether or not we could be seeing the last of the triple-A story driven games. If one takes a look at the best selling games in the past five years then the Call of Duty games rank number one by a country mile and then some. The series has perfected a model for financial success which every other studio is trying to replicate, more often than not b...
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