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Oversaturation of Game Genre’s in the Market

Thye gaming industry is no stranger to seeing the current market flood with a bunch of similar types of games around the same time. Take, for example, the launch of the Wii back in 2006 saw the Wii market filled …

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Hearthstone, and it’s Existence on Mobile Devices

Hearthstone, a collectible card game (CCG) released by Blizzard on March 11, 2014 exclusively via their Battle.net service and sales platform for the personal computer, arrived to iOS on April 16th and Android devices on December 11th. At this point, …

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The Trend of Space Exploration Games and how they can Disappoint Gamers

Beginning in the early 90’s with games like Star Wars: TIE Fighter and Wing Commander, gamer’s have always been obsessed with space. However, the limit was always there – a game can’t be as big as actual space should …

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Betas, and how Developers take them for Granted

Recently, Bethesda Game Studios released open beta-testing for their game Fallout 4, originally released on November 10th 2015, for their introduction of a new “survival mode”, including such features as needing to eat, sleep, drink, and monitor various illnesses and …

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The Constant Flow of HD Remasters on Games and it’s Effects on Eliminating Originality

This week, a long time favorite classic game of many people’s childhood was re-released in a new remastered format. Day of the Tentacle was originally released in 1993 by LucasArts and Double Fine Productions, one of the first games helmed …

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Quantum Break and it’s Inability to Run at 1080p

Quantum Break is an upcoming action-adventure third-person-shooter created by Remedy Entertainment, creators of such titles as Alan Wake and Max Payne, set to be released exclusively on Xbox One in April, 2016. The game has recently been sent out …

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Rocket League’s Sales Prove that “Casual” Games can be Just as Fun as Triple-A Products

Rocket League was released on Playstation 4 on July 7th, 2015 on a service called “PS+”, which is a subscription based service that gives gamers access to Sony’s servers, AKA online play in any Playstation 4 game, and includes free …

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Game Developers Releasing “Broken” Games and Expecting Gamers to Just Accept it

In the past 3-5 years, there has been an increase in the amount of games that, on launch day, are considered “broken” by much of the gaming community. “Broken” doesn’t mean necessarily that the game doesn’t work (though that has …

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Why Game Developer Techland is asking $10,000,000 For It’s New Edition of Dying Light

Polish game developers Techland, under their publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Enetertainment, released Dying Light for PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 in January, 2015 to positive critic reviews ranging from 7-10 on a scale system, and managing to outsell Grand

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New Game Modes in “Hearthstone” Presents Problems for Players New And Old

Hearthstone is an online collectible card game produced by Blizzard Entertainment and released on March 11, 2014. The games focus is on collecting cards through card packs or expansions, which can be purchased via real money filtered through a Blizzard …

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