Shenmue coined the term 'Quick Time Event'.As a game though... meh. It's one of those games that was way too ambitious and bit off more than it could chew. You can see what it was aiming for, but it d...

It's not surprising, especially with the current state of the US economy.Honestly, it's weirder that the $60 era lasted as long as it did. The $10 difference was the standard for a while, with PS1 at ...

And everyone believes that, of course.

Didn't 'I Wanna Be the Guy' come out almost 20 years ago?

Major studio execs would love to kill the single player game because multi-player games have the potential to make way more money.A AAA single player game will sell a few million copies at launch, and...

Only the licensed games are being sold. The first party games (Ingress and Peridot) are staying with Niantic.https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-next-chapter

@jedijax: Sort of, but unlike other situations where new technology supplants jobs, the fear in this case is that AI is going steal your entire identity and talent, not just your job.Imagine you're an...

He's not wrong. Over the years, big games have only gotten bigger and bigger, and more and more expensive to make. With the exception of some of the mid sized studios with long secured niches (e.g. Gu...

Yeah... no.As much as my nostalgia and I absolutely adore Ristar, Sonic is both a better game series and a better mascot.

I'd guess it varies a lot by game.A smaller indie developer may be well served by getting an upfront payment from MS and free advertising. Meanwhile, a bigger company that knows it can sell a lot of g...

I still have one major unanswered question about this game, and that is, do you HAVE to play as both characters? Will the game force you into playing as one or the other for various story segments (a ...

Zidane and Cloud being the top 2 is both zero percent surprising, and 100 percent disappointing.The best mainline FF lead is Tidus, and it's not even close. (The real best lead is Marche, but the list...

This is what so many people don't seem to understand about AI. That it's not magic. It's not going to self generate AAA games without the need to programmers and artists and writers and the like. AI i...

Do you HAVE to play as both? Because honestly, that's usually one of the worst parts of any dual protagonist games. I almost always find myself vastly preferring one of the characters, to point that I...

@hampton2003: Seriously. This is damage control, not an apology."I'm sorry I offended you", is an apology."I'm sorry you felt offended", is not.

The current AAA development cycle was never sustainable.This isn't the movie industry where Marvel can offset the $10 ticket price by selling 150 million tickets, on top of all the outside merchandisi...

The loot box is still around. It's just been rebranded as the battle pass.

The problem isn't that the game market is volatile. It's games now to so incredibly long to make that the market will likely change before they even release. You could sit down today and design the pe...

"Don't overload the players in the starter zone" is one of the biggest lessons I wish more open world game developers would learn. Players can, and will consume every bit of available content, especia...

In this particular case, I'm with Nintendo. While normally emulators live in that legal grey area between piracy and "personal software backups", in this case we're talking about a game that hadn't ev...