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Xbox Begins Hoarding RPG Developers

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:24:07 -0500

During E3 2018, Microsoft made a bit of a fuss about how they were actively buying game development studios in order to bolster their miserable first-party/exclusive lineup for Xbox. None of the studios they had purchased at the time meant anything to me, leaving me wondering just why Microsoft was so proud of their �accomp...

Backlog: The Embiggening � November, 2018

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:31:15 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Now that the month of fright and horror is in the rear view mirror, it�s time to crank-up the Holiday Season for 2018, with evergreen trees, fat men in pagan elf costumes, and a variety of cheerful music with obscurely dark lyrics � all to get American consumers in the mood to spend their money. And why not spend some of that money on videogame g...

American Company Aggressively Censoring Japanese Games

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:56:00 -0500

Just when it seemed like Weeaboos, self-proclaimed Otaku, and the handful of normal people who just happen to like modern Japanese games had achieved victory in receiving non-Bowdlerized localizations and releases of niche titles that would otherwise not see the light of day outside of Japan, another Nintendo-in-the-90s-calibur crackdown on content that could be seen as �offensive� in the ...

Sixense Finally Falls after Years on the Fence

Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:13:55 -0500

For years, I�ve been covering the non-appearance of the STEM, a wireless, v2.0 successor to the incredible ...

Could Copyright Crush CD Projekt?

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:57:25 -0500

News broke recently that the Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski, of the original novels upon which CD Projekt�s blockbuster videogame franchise, �The Witcher,� is based had decided to sue the Poland-based developer, publisher, and ow...

Goodbye Gamers

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:33:08 -0500

I have some sad news for readers in Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska: Gamers is gone. As reported by KETV Channel 7 this past week, every store in the Midwestern used videogames chain were seized by their bank and shut down without warning. Not only did this leave Gamers employees in the lurch, w...

Backlog: The Embiggening � October, 2018

Sun, 30 Sep 2018 16:20:53 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! October will be here in the blink of an eye, and since October is traditionally associated with horror thanks to the Pagan holiday of Samhain, upon which Halloween is based, we should all be well and truly prepared for the horrors the Games Industry will heap upon us in the coming month. No, NO WAIT! I�m not ready for this much shovelware! Aft...

Telltale is Done For: Narrative Minus Cinematics Apparently Can�t Turn a Profit

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 14:52:08 -0500

This past week, Telltale Games, the Indie start-up Adventure game developer that worked closely with popular IP holders, revealed that they had fired 90% of their staff and cancelled all of their remaining game development projects except for �Minec...

Something Worse than Hitler is Now Threatening to Conquer Europe

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:27:55 -0500

*sigh* Meh. Videogame news has been pretty dead lately. Nothing to get excited about or enraged by. On the other hand, those crazy kids in European government are trying to destroy the online world as we know it. Ar...

Confessions of a Square-Enix Enabler

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:14:50 -0500

Those who follow this blog or interact with me regularly via other online media know that I am vehemently opposed to the corrupt practices that have begun to infest the Games Industry over the last decade or so. The gold-digging behavior of big, corporate �AAA� publishers makes me sick, and when I look back on the truly classic games that emerged during the 16-bit Golden Age, I can�t help but thi...