Well, so far things seem to be going well for Switch 2. Initial sales appear to be strong, press is largely positive and now at least one analyst says that it’s working well as a 3rd party platform. How true is this and what does “doing well” mean in this context? Read on we’ll discuss.
Author: Hatm0nster
Out Fishing Might Be the Next Big “Fishing Horror” Game
If I hadn’t played Dredge a couple of years ago, fishing and horror wouldn’t exactly strike me as a natural combination, much less one the works. Even so, it worked fantastically in that game. Dredge was pretty simple gameplay-wise, yet it managed to create real feelings of fear and even panic whenever I found myself…
Expedition 33’s End Game is Awesome!
I feel like the endgame portion of an RPG is a really tough thing to nail down. It can be too short or overlong. It can be too easy or too difficult. It can also be too irrelevant to the main story or do nothing for the characters, serving mainly as just extra padding for…
So, Summer Game Fest Happened, I Guess
For a very, very long time, the biggest event of the year was E3. Even after other events like Gamescom, TGS and things like Nintendo Directs emerged, E3 was pretty much still THE event of the year. E3 and the weeks leading up to it were absolutely packed with excitement, buzz and optimism as to…
Persona 4 Revival Officially Revealed At Last
You gotta hand it to these marketing teams sometimes. Not in the sense that the Persona 4 Revival team did anything overly special with its reveal, but rather that they were just so doggedly determined to hold the official announcement until Xbox’s Summer Games Show showcase. I mean, not only was just about everyone predicting…
Save Scumming is Every Gamer’s Right
For about as long as I can remember, I’ve heard that save scumming is something only lesser gamers do. I’ve heard that it’s tantamount to cheating, and that those who do it are robbing themselves of a genuine experience within whatever game they’re playing. In other words, the sentiment seemed to be that you just…
Activision Adds Ads to Black Ops 6, Warzone Loadout Menus
For a long time now, many have justified in-game cash shops with the phrase “it’s just cosmetic.” It’s a sentiment that makes sense on the surface, but I think it becomes harder to justify as games become more and more bent towards pushing those cash shop items. At what point is it too much? For…
Marathon is Everything Wrong with AAA Gaming
With just about everyone out there weighing in on the Marathon situation, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to write anything about it myself. After all, what is there to add at this point? It’s a terrible situation that was entirely avoidable, and is likely to lose Sony an insane amount of money and…
Hideo Kojima Reveals 60 Percent of Playtesters Didn’t Like Death Stranding
One of the great things about games is how subjective they are. One player’s transcendent experience is another’s absolute pile of garbage. This kind of divide is true for most games to one degree or another, but it’s especially prevalent when it comes to the more artsy and auteur titles out there. A prime example…
Do I Really Need It Right Now?
I dunno about you all, but I got something of a weakness for game sales. It’s not so much that I go on sprees and just buy tons of games whenever there’s a sale, but I do find myself grabbing something on impulse whenever I think the sale is good enough. This would be fine,…
VIRTUAL BASTION 