Two big pieces of Sonic the Hedgehog news have emerged this week from Sega, but not both were explicitly detailed.
In a move that will no doubt delight fans of the series here in the western world, Capcom announced yesterday that they plan to launch Ace Attorney 5 outside of Japan.
This week marks the beginning of the funding drive by developer Precursor Games, who are aiming for a total of $1.5M in order to create what has been dubbed the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube.
After something of a lull, games developer 22cans have returned to the forefront of late with two pieces of important news: “Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube?” (their first “experiment”) is nearing its mysterious conclusion, and the Alpha release of their upcoming god-sim “Godus” is rapidly approaching.
It isn’t often that you experience two wonderful twists of fate in a single day. For Greenheart Games, developer of the newly released Game Dev Tycoon, they can probably count themselves very lucky that just such an event occurred.
The games industry today is abuzz with talk of the next generation of gaming. With the WiiU already with us, the Playstation 4 having been announced a while ago and, by the time you read this, Microsoft being about to or having just announced the next Xbox unit, you can’t move around the gaming web [...]
Computer games, as much as any other medium, are mysterious things. They can stir our souls, hotwire our adrenaline glands or disappoint us to our core. For every person who plays a game there is a valid and varied opinion. It’s one of the things that make the subject of a game’s relative quality a [...]
Across every genre of entertainment there are specific titles or releases that become synonymous with failure, that in the eyes of fans and critics alike embody the worst that the genre has to offer. They become the universal butt of any joke in that medium, the yardstick against which every other poorly-received release is measured. [...]
Over recent years there has been a shift in the focus of the gaming industry towards online multiplayer as a gaming model. Indeed, the biggest sellers of this generation of titles have been primarily online competitive titles, such as Halo 4 & Call of Duty. Over this time there has developed a very distinct separation [...]