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Keeping an Eye on Gamescom 2013 Coverage

by Marti Wormuth | Aug 22, 2013 | Consoles, PC Games | 0 comments

As you likely already know, Gamescom 2013 is this week in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gamecom is a huge international video games trade fair, and this is often the place where titles available for the holiday season for announced. Gamescom 2013 is no...

Lightning Returns…But She’s a Bit Different

by Maria Lacey | Jul 21, 2013 | Consoles | 0 comments

So with the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII comes the option to dress Lightning in a variety of costumes, which I admit is really cool. The game will allow players to customize Lightning as they wish, whether it be her actual look, her weapons, or her battle...

A Brief History of Final Fantasy

by Maria Lacey | Jul 8, 2013 | Consoles | 0 comments

Anyone else excited for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII? Or Final Fantasy XV? I know I am. The Final Fantasy games are widely known and amazingly popular, being the most successful franchise for Square Enix. That’s quite a feat, considering how it started....

Can Video Games Be Art?

by Maria Lacey | Jul 1, 2013 | Consoles, PC Games | 0 comments

I’m going to go down a very interesting, slightly controversial road with this one. It’s been discussed before, but it’s relevant in this interesting space and time of video gaming. As video games are becoming more and more cinematic and as video...

The Zombie Apocalypse In Video Games

by Maria Lacey | Jun 24, 2013 | Consoles, PC Games | 0 comments

With the release of The Last of Us, it’s pretty clear that the zombie obsession is still going strong. Zombies seem to be everywhere – in movies (World War Z anyone?), shows (The Walking Dead), in books, and definitely in video games. While zombies are...

Games Can Tell Stories

by Maria Lacey | Jun 17, 2013 | Consoles, PC Games | 0 comments

On a panel at University of Southern California, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had some interesting thoughts about the nature of video gaming, stating that video games can’t really have a plot and that players can’t really care about the video game...

Will the Xbox One Kill the Used Game and Game Rental market?

by Marti Wormuth | Jun 6, 2013 | Consoles | 0 comments

In another article posted on this site about the Xbox One, the blogger pointed out one of the most important changes that Microsoft is implementing with the new console. From that article: “Once it (a game) has been installed once, a unique identifier on the...

The Xbox One Reveal: Why PC Gamers Should Care

by GameSync Esports | May 30, 2013 | Consoles | 0 comments

Microsoft’s recent unveiling of the Xbox One revealed a device intended to push the definition of “console”. In fact, it isn’t even officially being called a console; instead the official language calls it an entertainment system. Microsoft hopes that they can entice...