Anyone who has played a traditional RPG knows that as you level up your characters, typically, enemies will become easier (at least until you move to a new area). This was not the case with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion — instead, enemies leveled alongside players, often leaving them frustrated at how difficult the game [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Bethesda Casts Away Level Scaling Woes In Skyrim
Sunday, January 9th, 2011According To Best Buy, Gaming Is Down
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Best Buy is easily one of the largest brick and mortar retail chains, offering everything from appliances, consumer electronics, and of course, video games. Yesterday, Best Buy released their overall sales figures for this past December, and even with the holiday sales rush, sale were frighteningly disappointing compared to the previous year. Many things attributed [...]
Possibility of Torchlight on the PS3 Looking Grim
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Torchlight took the PC world by storm when it released late in 2009. Offering a Diablo-style of dungeon crawling and loot collecting, it was an instant success. Now, with the 360 release on the horizon, PS3 owners want to know when will it come to PSN. var _CI = _CI || {}; (function() { _CI.counter [...]
Snakebyte Universal Remote Is a PS3 Home Theater Enthusiasts Dream
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Sunflex USA is one of the first companies to attempt to release controller that offered all of the features found in Sony’ Dualshock 3 with their Snakebye controller. The company is also releasing alternatives to both the PlayStation Move and Nav controllers, as well as the PlayStation Eye. Recently, at CES in Las Vegas, they also [...]
The Favorite Son of Metropolis is Ready for the DC Universe
Sunday, January 9th, 2011With a new Zak Snyder/Christopher Nolan Superman Film coming in 2012, the end of Smallville, and the latest DC Hardback Superman: Earth One, the favorite son of Metropolis is all over current pop-culture. With DC Universe Online launching in a few days, Sony Online Entertainment has put the spotlight on the Man of Steel.
New Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Details Emerge
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was both a favorite, and an award-winning title earlier this generation, and fans have been begging for a follow-up while Fallout 3 keeps hogging all of the love. Finally, the silence was broken at the VGA’s when Bethesda announced Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Until now, we were only left with a [...]
SSX: Deadly Descent Details Slalom to the Public
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Prior to the VGA’s last month,we received word of a brand new SSX game called SSX: Deadly Decent, and then were treated to the teaser trailer the next day. However, for those that weren’t satisfied with simply a tease, today we have a large amount of new information on this extreme snowboarding game.
Deus Ex Grants a Huge Assortment of Decisions
Sunday, January 9th, 2011One of Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s level designers, Steven Ciciola, has decided to talk a little bit about some of the challenges he and his team faced while working on the game. Throughout the design of their levels they have tried to consistently work in “multi-path, multi-solution” scenarios, some of which has been shown off [...]
Star Wars Blu-ray Complete Saga Announced at CES
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Star Wars is easily one of the most recognizable franchises in history, and many have been waiting for a blu-ray release for the titles. CES 2011 made that finally happen, and those waiting only have a bit longer to wait.
EA CEO Sees Digital Distrubution as the Future of Gaming
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Unlike previous generations of console hardware, this generation has really started to focus on digital distribution. As each year passes, the amount of content gamers buy is swinging increasingly towards digital over retail. Whether that be on PSN, XBox arcade, Steam, or even mobile games, the digital offering is expanding at an incredible rate. According [...]
Starhawk Readies for Deployment with New Build
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Sony has a remarkable schedule of exclusives this year, and the PlayStation 3 isn’t done yet either. Lightbox Interactive, a team of developers who migrated from the Incognito Entertainment team, has publicly shared for months now that a big exclusive is in development. Fans have been calling the title Starhawk, and while the official name [...]
Buzz! Dev Exclusivity Runs Out, Looks Toward Digital Pastures
Saturday, January 8th, 2011The PlayStation exclusive trivia game series, Buzz!, from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been around since the PS2 days. Although the property itself is under Sony’s control, the development exclusivity by Relentless Software with the publisher has ended. Now that they are freed from Sony’s leadership, what’s next for the Buzz! developers?
Experience Modern Warfare at its Best for Under $30
Saturday, January 8th, 2011The Call of Duty series has consistently received not only high remarks for each title since the fourth installation of the series, but each release has managed to one-up the last title’s record-breaking sales figures. While Call of Duty: Black Ops is the latest and greatest from the series, Activision has released a collection of [...]
Bulletstorm Started Life A Bit Different
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Bulletstorm is poised to take the FPS genre to a whole new level when it releases next month. Instead of the typical run-of-the-mill FPS, Bulletstorm offers a unique point system that rewards creative kills — you can just run around shooting everyone in the head, but hit him with a sticky grenade and kick him [...]
LittleBigPlanet 2 Features On-Disc Extras
Saturday, January 8th, 2011LittleBigPlanet 2 is going to be a massive game when it releases on the 18th with tons of depth and content to keep us all busy.
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