On April 17 Xbox 360 gamers get their first taste of Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the first console instalment of the popular PC role-playing game series. Did they miss anything in the first game? Not if they watch this video they didn’t.
Last month I shared what I learned during the first Guild Wars 2 press beta weekend. Now the student becomes the master as I tackle the questions Kotaku posed had about the eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer game after spending another beta weekend adventuring in the world of Tyria.
Maybe no other sport is influenced this much by irregular stadium dimensions. Maybe no other sport has fans who’d care about this. But how you see a baseball game on TV is unique, park-to-park. In video games, however, it’s uniform.
We’ve heard the term ‘net neutrality’ bandied about the internet for more than a decade, yet many gamers aren’t aware of how important the concept is to their continued online entertainment. Why should you care about net neutrality?
In the wake of the controversy surrounding CNN’s reporting of Japanese video games, several on the Japanese internet pointed out the same thing: This is just another example of “Japan Bashing”.
In spring 2009, the Western media caused a brouhaha over computer game Rapelay. The game was released in 2006, and CNN is now covering the controversy. Why?