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On October 17th publisher Electronic Arts announced the closure of one of its studios, Visceral Games. The studio was working on an unnamed Star Wars game with an anticipated release date of late 2018/early 2019. The project was headed by Amy Henning, ex-writer and co-creator of the Uncharted Series for Naughty …

Friday’s a venerated day in our workaholic culture. Friday is traditionally when many of us check out during the afternoon and our weekend begins. Goodbye work, hello fun! Friday afternoon is also highly regarded in the press and public relations industry, because that coveted time slot is when bad or …

I click on my ^ button, the one nestled by the date time, in the lower left-hand corner of my screen. A wave of nausea comes over me. Look at them, all those stupid little distribution applets crowded together. Like little leeches whose sole purpose is to await the opening of …

MOBAs? Got to love them. I play MOBAs daily, along with millions of other gamers worldwide. One MOBA that appeared on my radar over a year ago was Epic Game’s Paragon. At first glance, I thought Epic was demonstrating Unreal 4 Engine’s potential for building MOBA games; not an actual …

UPDATE: Along with today’s EA release a massive 2.8GB update followed for those where alpha testers. There are now more mission types, co-op and multiplayer options, and numerous performance enhancements. It does not change the potential and good things we have already seen. On the contrary, we plan on writing …

Introduction Four online team based shooters, each vying for player attention have been in the works over the last two years. Development houses Blizzard, Gearbox, Hi-Rez, and Motiga have been hoping to add their own defining stamp on the FPS/MOBA-lite genre. They are each distinct and different, although you might not …

This week Rise of the Tomb Raider released a DirectX 12 API update. It joins Hitman, Ashes of the Singularity, and Descent Underground as DX12 enabled games. With it’s release gamers’ reactions to performance has been varied. It has become a hot topic item for enthusiasts in discussion forums. Does …

  The foundation has  been laid for months; 2016 will be the VR battleground year. Will it become as common as tablets and smartphones? Or go the way of 3d Televisions and HD-DVD? We won’t know the answers to those questions anytime soon. However we do have some answers in …

Movies and games, everyone has an entertainment budget and both industries want the most of it. Decades ago there was no doubt who the king of the entertainment dollar. Movies set all major records for revenue and sales. Today, the battle-lines are blurred. Game companies rushed to recreate popular movies into …