Remember when you were a kid? When you were in, like, fourth or fifth grade? Remember how there was always that one kid – Ronald or Donald or some other plain name – who would spend recess alone. All the other kids would be playing Pogs or connecting their GameBoys to get in some two-player action, […]
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On Friday, the video game world was shocked to hear that TellTale games, the leading developer/publisher of episodic adventure games, was shutting down. The sad thing is, we all should have seen it coming. TellTale’s model is one that, on paper, should work very well – regular releases of chapters for a low price that, […]
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Last week, we talked about the origins of Battle Royale mode. One of the big pieces of the growth of the game mode is PUBG. Arguably, it was PUBG that started the craze. And despite PUBG coming out first and selling over 50 million units since its release last year, the indie-made game has been shoved […]
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It can be hard to remember just how revolutionary the first PlayStation was. We’ve discussed how the console grew out of a failed partnership with Nintendo, but that’s just the start of the whole wild tale. The first PlayStation sold 120 million units during its decade-long lifespan, with four of those years happening after the […]
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Mark Twain once famously said, “There is no such thing as a new idea”. To prove his point, bestselling Historical Romance author Jude Deveraux is quoted as saying “There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them”. So it is with novels, so it is with movies, songs, and even video […]
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