This is definitely news. 2012 is the year video games aren’t just child’s play. Gaming isn’t just something for single boys and men sitting in basements anymore. The time has come – video games are art. The Smithsonian will be placing video games on display on March 16th, 2012 AS ART! It’s about time. The developers out there that create these masterpieces are artists and need be recognized as such. The hard work, discipline and time that goes...
One of the biggest complaints adults have had regarding the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises is that they teach kids to mash a few buttons instead of actually learning an instrument. That will all be a thing of the past in the near future however, with Fender’s new Squier Stratocaster Rock Band 3 controller. The Squier is the “controller” musician-gamers have been waiting for, seeing as how it is a 102-button beast that perfectly mimics a real...
The basis of any good gaming computer is a ridiculously fast (and large) graphics card and equally fast processor. There are a ton of mainstream and more niche gaming PC companies to choose from. On the whole, there isn’t too much variation between the actual internal specs as it is more of a difference in the cases each custom PC maker users. The sea of information regarding gaming computers can be quite daunting to say the least, so why not let me give you a...
Oh geeze, I know what is going on gadget/gamers wish lists this year — Crysis 2. Even though a good chunk of computers still can’t run the visually demanding and sensory pleasing game, one of the co-devleopers of Crysis (Crytek) aren’t sitting down, content with the still virtually unchallenged work. Come this holiday season, Crysis will finally be unseated as “the” game to benchmark. It’s been a wonderful couple of years. Heck,...
Before you freak out and wet yourself, make it known that there is nothing concrete about any of this. It is merely a theoretical assumption and think pot of ideas… Recently Nikkei Japan asked Sony executive VP Masayuki Chatani about how Sony maintained the cost of running the PSN network — a free online gaming network. Several options were highlighted with the most interesting being “single-payment packaged software” as well as the possibility of...
