I don’t know why I take Nintendo so personally, but there’s a special kind of angst that grows every time I go home and see my Wii U after Nintendo makes any announcements. Distracting myself with two of the SNES’s best games will only get you so far after you step on your fans, and continue to repackage your old games for the upteenth time as something we should be excited for. Anyway, 4A Games is much cooler than you [...]
DICE is always a humbling week for me as a critic. It’s one thing to get caught up in the opinions of the Horrible Night writers and our peers, but seeing what the developers think about their own brings a whole new perspective. Plus, it was nice to take a break from all of ugliness of industry business that has been going around lately. I continued my to test the limits of my PC which I never ended to be [...]
The Battlefield 3: Close Quarters DLC expansion was announced for June 2012 at an EA event last night. There haven’t been any major DLC release since Back to Karkand was released in December 2011. Close Quarters will include four new maps and 10 weapons. There will be no new vehicles introduced as it’s speculated the maps will be relatively smaller in size…hence the “close quarters.” The timing of this announcement is curious as there is a growing segment of the BF3 community, particularly in [...]
Justice is a dish best served cold, but is that dish cold because it was intended to be cold or just cold because it got served a bit late? That is the question going through many Battlefield 3 players heads as the rampant cheating associated with the PC version of the game has made it difficult to partake in fair and competitive games and not a whole lot was being done to combat it (yes, Punkbuster is not as great as you may [...]
It’s been a great-but-interesting year for video games. We have seen new intellectual properties in the form of Bulletstorm and LA Noire along with a boat load of sequels and three-quels. As the sun begins to set on 2011, it is obvious that new game engines were the real stars year. Some of the best titles this year featured some form of new software-based technology. As rumors of new consoles looms over 2012, I think we should just step back and [...]
Electronic Arts came out swinging with some great marketing to highlight the new Frostbite 2 engine behind Battlefield 3 as well as taking shots against that “other shooter.” For the most part, Battlefield 3 delivers on a frantic multiplayer experience complete with explosions, vehicles and intense graphics, but the single player campaign doesn’t quite feel put together and is full of questionable storytelling and pacing. The single player feels like fumbling around for your keys in the dark while the [...]
This is an interesting year for FPS games. We’ve already seen Homefront fall flat on its face, and Crysis 2 pique some interest but ultimately fly under the radar. EA isn’t sitting still and has been steadily releasing info and video on Battlefield 3, including these 12 minutes of destructive goodness: Battlefield 3 is being developed by DICE and published by EA. DICE has updated their Frostbite engine just for this game. The results are some of the most impressive [...]
