In Real Life

Why Can’t Every Game Let You Skip Long-Winded Cutscenes With Violence?

Asura’s Wrath is a game brimming with excellent ideas, most of them involving punching, and while complaints that it’s more cutscene than gameplay are valid, it also features what could be the greatest scene-skipping mechanic in gaming history.


September 22, 2011
In Real Life

The Many Cinematic Missteps Of Video Game Cutscenes

The video game cutscene has undergone a lot of transformations over the past couple of decades, and many games these days present elaborate, dazzling CGI sequences that are often billed as “Hollywood-caliber.”


September 17, 2010
News

Activision Considers Selling Video Game Cutscenes

If Activision stripped all of the cutscenes from StarCraft II, pasted them together into one big movie and charged between 20 to 30 dollars for you to buy it, would you pay? Activision’s Bobby Kotick thinks you would.