Nintendo recently announced that Wii U sales more than doubled in September as compared to the previous month thanks to a $50 price drop. This combined with the recent release of Wind Waker HD and the 2014 lineup drawing has even a Wii U pessimist like myself thinking that the console is finally on its…
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Community Post: Buy One, Get One Free
My fondest memories of cheat codes and unlockable content are firmly rooted in the Playstation One era. Video games had finally made the transition to disc-based media, and this upgrade provided developers with even more room to flex their creative muscles. Fighting games featured hordes of hidden characters and modes. Role-playing games became multi-disc epics;…
Today in Gaming History: 10/17/2013
October 17, 1980: Happy birthday Dan Teasdale! You may not know the name Dan Teasdale (or maybe yo do), but you’ve more than likely heard of his games. Since starting with the Australian company Auran Games, Teasdale his a 15-year industry veteran with plenty of hard-hitting titles under his belt and names like Pandemic Studio and…
News Byte: Valve’s Steam Controller
Valve’s Steam Controller In the very recent past, Valve bestowed upon the game world its Steam Machine and revolutionary new controller. That controller has everyone talking, including us! It even has non-PC folks like me curious about what it can do.
It’s Simul-tober!
Happy middle-of-October everyone! In order to get into the Halloween spirit UWG is partnering up with some of our fellow bloggers and delving into the dark hallways and foreboding spaces of horror games! We’ll each be hosting guest posts from our counterparts so be sure to check out their site’s too if you want to…
Resonance: Mako Reactor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswfLcROs-0 Anyone who’s played Final Fantasy VII knows the Mako Reactor theme. While it did not attain the widespread popularity and acclaim that “One-Winged Angel” did, it is still one of the most easily recognizable pieces of music to come out of the Final Fantasy series. We all know why it’s a good theme, we…
Today in Gaming History: 10/16/2013
October 1998: Dial Up Wide Area Network Games Operation (DWANGO) shuts down. In the days before the Internet (yes, there were days before the Internet), how in the heck did people play games together across the expanse of this great nation? Well, if you enjoyed DOOM in New York, you might have connected to your DOOM-playing…
News Byte: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix to be Released Next Year
Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix to be Released Next Year Kingdom Hearts news is coming down the pipeline from Square Enix, which recently announced a new addition to the series arriving in 2014: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix. What promise does this game hold for Kingdom Hearts fans?
The Greatest of a Generation
Eight years. It’s a little hard to believe that it’s already been that long since our current generation of consoles first debuted. So much has happened in this generation, the longest one yet. So many technologies and practices have come into being, things that we now can hardly imagine gaming being about. This was the…
Today in Gaming History: 10/15/2013
October 15, 1997: Age of Empires released This year, Age of Empires is officially old enough to drive! This now-prominent and highly successful series of real-time-strategy games by Ensemble Studios and Microsoft, saw first light sixteen years ago. In Age of Empires, players sought to develop and nurture a civilization from primitive stages through more…
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