The more I see and hear from the executives in charge of major AAA gaming companies, the more convinced I become that they truly neither care about their product, nor do they want to. While they still make stupid amounts of money thanks to the casual audience, AAA is nonetheless becoming less and less relevant…
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Halo 4 and Halo 5 Reportedly Managed to Sell 10 Million Units Each
As the Halo series has gone on, its image has only gotten worse. Yet, it seems that sales for each game haven’t exactly slowed down. According to one Chris Haluke, former Lead Designer at 343 Industries, both Halo 4 and Halo 5 managed to hit 10 million units sold over their lifetimes. While perhaps not…
Arkane Studios Founder Slams GamePass After Microsoft’s Massive Cuts
One of my takes that’s absolutely aged like milk over the past couple of years was that GamePass was a good thing. More and more often I keep coming back to that position and wondering why I ever held it. Not only has it been doing to gaming what Netflix and the like have done…
Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 2 is Live
After years of success and a pretty good launch on console, one would think that a title update for Monster Hunter Wilds would be fairly inconsequential. Yet, due to ongoing issues with the PC version of the game, any updates from here forward are going to be crucial. Read on to find out what the…
Analyst Reports 3rd Party Games are Seeing Greater Success on Switch 2
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.
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…
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…
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…
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