Mario's Legacy and Where the Plumber Should Head Next

91d ago ... Video games have come a long way since Ralph Baer first created Pong. The industry has given us as gamers beautiful, graphical, artistic games that have taken our breath away. They have woven incredible stories and powerful emotions into a game. They have also made game that started as simplistic 8-bit arcade games, and re-invented them in new innovative ways. One of the greatest examples of...

Realism in Gaming

96d ago ... Obviously, at the very beginning, everything is simple. The first movie ever documented was of a man sneezing. The first stories were drawings of men hunting animals on cave walls. And people start out as a single, simple cell. This immaturity and simpleness is also true with video games. From the simplistic beginnings of Pong sprung an entire industry devoted to making games as intricate and r...

Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Version 2 Press Release

218d ago ... Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition (SAE), the addictive card game, is back! And very much improved with Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition v2! Version 2. Shoy Schot! is an console-based strategic card game I created in C#. The objective of a match is to own the most panels by the end of the match. The game was originally a minigame on another game I created before I started to add a ton of featur...

A Brief History of Time(d Exclusives)

360d ago ... As E3 2012 approaches, there has been a lot of talk about "timed exclusives". Much of the talk has been negative towards one console manufacturer in particular. Reading comments on N4G, one could be led to believe that it's an "evil business practice", deserving of ridicule and scorn. Looking back at gaming history however, we will see that timed exclusives have been an integral part of near...

Some wounds never heal.

398d ago ... When I think of gaming as a kid in the late eighties a rush of nostalgia rushes over me. The beginning of great franchises, some we still play to this day. Going from arcade games were the main goal was to score as many points as possible, to games with story lines and endings and using a directional pad for the first time. With that said the rush of goodness is always accompanied by some fr...

365 Days of Gaming - Introduction

507d ago ... I've been a gamer for about twelve years now and I was never one to really sit down and reflect on my experiences. Well, courtesy of N4G, I've been influenced by the community to appreciate gaming for what it is; I've come to realize it's not just a thing to do, a hobby if you will, but a lifestyle. I can't begin to count how many games I've played, albeit it on the Nintendo 64, Playstation, Xb...

Bad things come with 3's

557d ago ... When it comes to Call of Duty anyway. Cast your minds back to Call of Duty 3, the game that went one to many with the WW2 theme. When you look at Modern Warfare 3 it suffers from the same problems. I've played COD since the COD1 days on PC and everyone since. Not all have been gems but COD3 and now MW3 are 2 outright stinkers. The problem with MW3 is its too similar to MW2, I started i...

Crimson Alliance Preview

626d ago ... This Wednesday, September 7, a dose of dungeon crawling will hit XBLA. Crimson Alliance, a multiplayer action RPG that may recall Torchlight but adds a serious combat punch - and that’s a good thing. An original IP from independent developer Certain Affinity, their pedigree lends both confidence and confusion: the team has had a role in CoD: Black Ops, Left 4 Dead, Halo: Reach, and Age of Booty...

Sega Dreamcast : the pain and the heartbreak

636d ago ... The Sega Dreamcast represents many different things to many different gamers. To the casual gamer or younger gamer the Dreamcast is some strange anomaly that "the Elder Gamers" speak of. To the truly hardcore gamer the Dreamcast represents the the last of the true harcore gaming consoles. The underdog console that COULD and did so many things right in oh so many ways. It did incredi...

Expansions: When is it an actual expansion, and when is it just hyped DLC?

673d ago ... With the news of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 being announced, and it being consider a "re-release" of MvC3 (or basically a release of the FINISHED MvC3), a lot of news about how Capcom and other devs like to leave out content for future release has been popping up. Many gamers are continuing to show disdain and anger, and rightly so, to companies like Capcom for pulling stunts like this, and...

Is COD a console thing?

678d ago ... GAME.co.uk shows MW3 as the most pre ordered game for ps3 and xbox 360 however on PC it is the 7th most pre ordered game, Falling behind titles such as Sims, Battlefield, Deus ex and oblivion. This got me thinking, When I used to play on consoles I used to always play Call of Duty and so did all my friends and when I switched over to PC and finally purchased black ops a while later after releas...

Skulls of the Shogun Hands-On (E3)

708d ago ... Another gem from the IndieCade booth, Skulls of the Shogun was one of the best games on the E3 floor. Described as an action-arcade strategy game that takes only the best parts of Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics and mixes them in an arcade blender, Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based RTS game. Get all that? There's more. Battling across the seasons with up to four player multiplayer, ea...

My E3 2011 Predictions

759d ago ... Console Publishers SONY 1. NGP will get a name, pricing and release date. 2. First Party Game Series such as Uncharted, WipeOut, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance, Killzone, Ratchet & Clank and 2 New IP's. 3.XMB 2.0 will be announced to launch in PS3 on release of NGP. New Features should include Cross Game Chat, NGP Connectivity and new applications taboo. 4. Uncharted 3, The Last Guardian,...

My Indispensable Dependency

799d ago ... Have you ever played something called a video game? its a new form of digital entertainment, apparently its kicking up quite a storm and developing quite a following on twitter. I was inadvertently bitten by the gaming bug early on in childhood, during what i like to call the good old days. Back when i used to play pong, pitfall and tetris while everyone else had a NES (nintendo entertainment s...

GDC: Swarm

813d ago ... Imagine your own pack of globular lemmings that you steer like a school of very self-sacrificing fish - sacrifice being the key word in Swarm. On hand to show off the madness this week at GDC were Shane Bettenhausen of UTV Ignition and Joel DeYoung of Hothead Games. Hothead, the guys behind the Penny Arcade games and DeathSpank, are now delivering an action-puzzler with a heavy dose of platform...

Gran Turismo 5 AI Beauty Part 2

834d ago ... Hello there fellow Reader. In this blog post I will be continuing my blog on my observations and notes taken while playing the game "Gran Turismo 5" (With the new update coming up, might as well update this.) Of course for the core details and to update you to current status then please visit my first part of this series. The URL is the one below. Just click it or Copy/Paste. http://n4g.c...

Now Playing: Breach.

851d ago ... I've played FPS after FPS. Call of Duty is fun, and Bad Company 2 is more of a thinking game, but this week I've been playing the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Breach, and loving every second of it. The best description is Rainbow Six Vegas meets Bad Company 2. The cover system and slow paced tactical gameplay from Rainbow meets the more open maps and destructive environments of bad Company...

Remember Bruce Lee?

898d ago ... With several iphone games at your fingertips, a sleeper is amongst us… what is it you ask? Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior for the high price of $.99. I found this iphone game accidentally on Brucelee.com The website is designed by Bruce Lee’s daughter and there’s even an online store to purchase shirts and posters of the great martial artist. If you like street fighter, just give this a try. The gam...

Indie Game Spotlight: Mommy's Best Games

951d ago ... BLOG REVIEWS FORUM ABOUT CONTACT Indie Gamer Spotlight: Mommy’s Best Games October 15th, 2010 By: GHR Superman After spending some time at the Mommy’s Best Games booth at PAX East last march. We here at GamerHusbands Radio just can’t wait to see more. That’s why I have decide to make them the first indie game developer that I put in the spotlight in my new Spotlight series. Ch...

An Acid Trip Back to Acclaim

1004d ago ... Back in my early days of gaming up to the modern age, Acclaim Entertainment put out a good number of games that pretty much slathered my sausage. Acclaim was founded in 1987 and produced a number of licensed games based on comics, TV shows, and movies. They were also responsible for the ports of many of Midway’s arcade games in the early-to-mid 1990s, including the Mortal Kombat series. Some mi...