Gaming is big business and, as such, it is any developer’s, publisher’s or console maker’s main goal to sell as much of whatever they are putting out there as possible. Because of this, sometimes they overplay their hand and try and sell things to people who simply don’t want them. This is most true about [...]

Perhaps a sticking point for gamers since the earliest days of gaming but, with the economic downturn lingering above us all, it seems like I have heard more and more about how long any new release takes to complete. This is almost always brought up as some factor in the calculation of the value of [...]

Over the past week or so, two issues have bubbled up and they have put many gamers on different sides of the same fence. It all has to do with publishers and developers and how they are reimbursed for the content they provide us. It seems like a combination of feelings of protection for the industry we [...]

It used to be that you and your buddies would have to crowd around a TV, or two TVs in separate rooms connected by a long Ethernet cable to avoid screen watching and the less notable screen listening, to play console games together. In 2009, those days seem like ancient history but it was a [...]

Since 2001, one franchise has been the bane of Sony’s existence in the video game market due to the fact that, unlike most other genres, they have been unable to equal or eclipse its quality or success. That franchise is Halo. When the Xbox was launched, Sony was the undisputed champion of the video game [...]

Horse armor. Those two words conjure images of everything that is wrong with downloadable content more than almost any others. Paying for items that no one needs or wants, new costumes, codes which could have been had on last-gen consoles for the price of a magazine or access to the Internet and items which are [...]