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I watched the Real Game Awards last night. The inaugural presentation was pretty much what I expected, which is to say rough around the edges but showing a lot of potential. The show was born from “Stuttering” Craig Skistimas’s dissatisfaction with corporate award shows like Geoff Keighley’s. Craig is royalty when it comes to independent…
Grand Theft Auto 6 could cost $100. That’s according to video games analyst Matthew Ball in a recent report. Ball says there is “hope” within the industry that publisher Take-Two will take the lead and raise the price to a crisp Benjamin. The hope is this could help ease financial pressures over spiraling development costs….
Happy holiday season you yellow, no good keisters. It’s time again for the MMNTech GOTY awards, where we celebrate the best, and most mediocre, games of 2024. Compiling the list of biggest disappointments was actually quite a challenge this year. Not because there were no terrible games. Rather gamers have become conditioned now to just…
It’s fair to say that Nintendo hasn’t been garnering a lot of goodwill in the games community lately. While the rest of the industry crashes and burns, the House of Mario thought now would be a good time to go to war with their fans. Whether it’s trying to make emulation illegal, attacking game preservation,…
2024 has been a landmark year for gaming, but not in a good way. Nearly every big-budget AAA has been an abject failure, costing their studios and publishers millions in losses and leading to layoffs. We all know why this is, so there’s no use in talking about it here. Why don’t we look at…
Star Wars is not in a great place right now. Neither are its games. In the decade-plus that Disney has helmed the franchise, we’ve seen very few new releases, most of which have ranged from painfully average to outright slop. Are you bored of all this garbage? Star Wars has a rich Expanded Universe with…
If you asked me in early 2017 if good graphics were important to video games, I would have said “heck yeah”. I am, after all, a PC gamer at heart, and if there’s one thing PC gamers love, it’s pushing the cutting edge. However, in recent years, advanced graphics have become the sole focus of…
When you’re paying upwards of $70 for a game, you’d expect it’ll just work. Yet more and more PC games show that the increasing costs to consumers are not being invested in better quality control. This week, Sony released their hotly anticipated PC remake of 2013 mega hit The Last of Us. And well, this…
When you’ve been gaming for as long as I have, you’ve had the pleasure to see a lot of fads come and go from the hobby. And one of the most overhyped fads in that time just might be virtual reality. Consumer VR has been with us for about a decade now. This past year,…
AMD has a big problem with their GPU division. The company just released their new top end RDNA3 cards a few weeks back to rather tepid reviews. Now, if you’ve been following Radeon for a while now, this should be unsurprising. It’s been a very long time since their high end offerings were able to…