As 2020 continues to prove itself as the year that Doc tells Marty McFly to avoid at all costs, gamers are finding resolve in video games. With everyone stuck at home over the last few months, gamers have had no shortage of new content to sift through. As I combed Read more…
In 2017, Turtle Beach introduced what would become one of their biggest selling headseats, the Stealth 600. We raved about it. We found it difficult to discern between the quality of the Stealth 600 and that of higher priced headsets either by Turtle Beach or its’ competitors. We found very Read more…
I’ve reviewed many Turtle Beach headsets and given many great scores, but some of these headsets have been tested in the office, not battle tested in the environment they were meant to be used in. This review corrects that. The Elite Atlas was tested by a high school esports team Read more…
Review performed using a review copy of Yakuza 6: Song of Life provided by Sega Yakuza 6: Song of Life is the first game in the series that I’ve played, and unfortunately it is the last title featuring the series longtime protagonist. I’d thought I would need to research the Read more…
In the mid eighties, Tetris was being quietly passed around the video game industry. When it made it’s way to Nintendo, Then Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi asked game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto to try it out. When Yamauchi asked Miyamoto a few days later if Tetris was any good, Miyamoto Read more…
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”
Rami Ismail, co-head of Vlambeer Games (Serious Sam: The Random Encounter) tells prospective game developers the secret to making it in the super competitive gaming industry: “A great way to not make money is to make something you don’t believe in. Make your game. Be confident.”
“Because now it’s the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!”
Dan Edelman, who ran Business Development for companies such as Nintendo and Microsoft before moving on to his own business venture, describes what the industry called an indie “overnight success.” “A lot of indie developers who became an overnight success were working at it for ten years.”
Nintendo is one of those companies that is hard to predict. They’re well known for dropping megaton announcements at random times during the year, and those announcements are often met with complete pandemonium. There’s no other game developer on the planet that can create more buzz than Nintendo. This years’ Read more…