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Backlog: The Embiggening - July, 2015

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/28/15 at 03:43 PM CT

Summer is in full-swing… yet game publishers don’t seem to realize they have a captive audience of customers with a lot of vacation time on their hands and no games to play. July isn’t getting very many releases, and several of the stated July releases are just delayed titles from the past few months. Add a lot of ports and remasters to the mix and it’ll be a very difficult month for thos...

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E3 Impressions 2015

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/21/15 at 03:57 AM CT

After several years in a row of bland, unexciting, disappointing E3s, I was expecting this year to be more of the same: Bag on Microsoft because Xbox is a waste of space. Bag on Sony for leaning too hard on third-party games. Bag on Nintendo for leaning solely on first-party games. Bag on the developer conferences because EA, Ubisoft, and Activision are the spawn of Satan and Square Enix is weari...

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Steam Begins Offering Refunds; Can Used Digital PC Games be Far Behind?

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/14/15 at 03:33 PM CT

On June 2nd, 2015, Valve did something unexpected with their Steam gaming platform. While Steam has been beloved by PC gamers for quite some time due to its unobtrusive DRM, all-inclusive client features, and sales with discounts so huge a movie ticket and a cup of Starbucks look like a house payment in comparison, the Achilles Heel of the House that Gaben Built has always been the customer servi...

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