Sony has confirmed the closure of Evolution Studios, the development team behind DriveClub and MotorStorm. The move comes after Sony laid off 55 Evolution employees last March nearly half the studio’s workforce. They also announced that Evolution was to “focus on DriveClub as a service going forward.” DriveClub was an optimistic-but-troubled project with a launch that didn’t go especially smoothly, creating another question mark […]
When Intelligent Systems made Fire Emblem Awakening a few years ago, they decided to make it the best installment yet. It wasn’t because they were pumped about making a new Fire Emblem on the Nintendo 3DS or that there was a big marketing push for it, it was quite the opposite. See, throughout the years, […]
Ever since Pokemon debuted 20 years ago at Japan, fans have been clamoring for battles to feel more like actual battles than being treated as a RPG. The Pokemon Stadium series was the first step, but they were basically the handheld battles on the big screen and better looking Pokemon. In other words, a true […]
Shadow Complex is a Metroidvania platformer that came out in 2009. It was released by Epic Games. People loved it. This isn’t a surprise because it is a well-made game with plenty to do and Peter David wrote it. He’s one of my favorite writers, he’s written for Hulk, Star Trek, and he had this […]
Tom Clancy’s The Division is unlike any Tom Clancy game before it. It has a lot of the same themes that those games had, stuff like future military tech, political storylines and combat that feels tactical. But instead of being a more standard shooter, like the older Rainbow Six games, The Division is an open […]
Today, the folks running the Oculus Rift have released a sizable list of games that will be available when the Rift comes out on March 28th. There are 30 titles in total, giving early buyers a nice selection of games from what appears to be a large variety of genres. Each title comes with prices […]
About four years ago, Blizzard unleashed Diablo III on the world. Diablo III is an always-online game in which even the single-player campaign required players to first connect to the online servers. As a result, most early adopters recall seeing a few instances of this. Blizzard took a lot of heat for the botched launch of Diablo 3, and […]
