Next-Gen Games: Better Visuals – Less Story

The quality of a video game is recognized through various observations regarding, gameplay, sounds, visuals, movement, camera angles and of course story-line. Aaa, story-lines, all good games are based on great story-lines. Sometimes, a great story is what sells a...

Mexican mayor slams GRAW2

Mayor of border town Juárez says new Ubisoft shooter instills poor values and portrays his city as violent. The line between the real world and a digital world based on the real world is becoming more and more blurred as next-gen systems and high-end PCs crank out...

The Light and Dark Sides of 2D Gaming

Castlevania boss talks on preserving a fading format. Konami producer Koji Igarashi has become, perhaps unintentionally, one of two-dimensional gaming’s greatest champions. While the industry marches ahead into high definition 3D, Igarashi’s Castlevania...

WoW: The Burning Crusade – 3.5 Million Units Sold

You know that Blizzard’s MMO has easily reached 8 million subscribers, right? Well, hold on to your pantyhose because with 3.5 million units of WoW: The Burning Crusade sold, the subscriber population has reached the record number of 8.5 million. Here’s...

Rockstar Is Getting Euphoria. Maybe in GTA Too.

No more canned animation data: ‘Every football tackle is your tackle. Every haymaker is your haymaker’ Rockstar is a development division of video game publisher Take Two Interactive. The brand is most known for titles such as the Grand Theft Auto series....

Designing the Sounds of Gears of War

Attempting to convey the feeling of ‘destroyed beauty.’ Fans may be interested to know the visual environments of the game they have come to love held a heavy influence over the sound team’s approach when designing the soundscapes that carpet the...