It’s a bit like a rolling stone down a mountainside – though the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot didn’t cause a massive controversy in E3 (after all, we had Hitman for that), in the days since that rolling stone has become an avalanche of complaints over the extreme violence (including sexual…
Read MoreTwo interesting bits of news regarding Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U platform and its online and social structure hit the news feeds today. And I am not amused. The first is that friends codes will return. Nintendo of America managing director, Reggie Fils-Aime, has promised that the system has been revamped…
Read MoreSo, it’s been revealed that Lollipop Chainsaw is “only” four hours long. And, predictably there’s been Twitter chatter about how much of a “ripoff” it is for a 4-hour long game to cost $60. I’ve already discussed this in a previous post, but $60 for a four hour game is…
Read MorePeter Molyneux is a true champion of games creativity, but in the world of gaming mixed messages, that means he is also quite possibly the least popular high profile developer. As an observer of the industry for some 20 years, one of the persistent commentaries I’ve seen in recent years…
Read MoreOne of the things we learned from E3 is that the games industry has an appetite for hyper violence. It’s also going to collapse the entire industry. In business circles, what is going to happen very soon is something that sounds decent enough – “consolidation” – but that’s merely a…
Read MoreAnother E3 has drawn to a close, the journalists have all packed up and gone home. We return to regularly scheduled viewing from tomorrow. Of course there’s going to be a lot of discussion in the press and in the forums about who ‘won’ E3 2012, and there were a…
Read MoreThe Nintendo Direct conference featured several newsworthy announcements prior to the actual E3 event. Easily the chief among these though, was “Miiverse”. If you didn’t catch the live stream or our coverage earlier, we’ll let you in on a few details about it. The second you turn on the Wii…
Read MoreAs many would have noticed, Nintendo has run its own pre-E3 show to show off a couple of neat things before the main event starts tomorrow. There’s some really great stuff in there – the Miiverse, especially, looks like a great take on a gaming social network and precisely what…
Read MoreSo I got my copy of Atelier Meruru today. I love the game, it’s pure, unadulterated fun, and you’ll be able to see my review on Otaku Gaming shortly. The point of this piece is not to discuss the game, though. It’s to point out how absolutely inconsistent the Australian…
Read MoreOne of the more intriguing pre-E3 rumours has been that one about Sony forming a Cloud partnership with, well, someone. Personally, I’m rather hoping it is OnLive so I can say “I called it,” but pettiness aside, this is possibly the best thing to happen to Sony in a long…
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