When John (also known as King Friday) Kopp told me that my appointment for Midnight City would be in a bus outside of the Washington State Convention Center I should have known that the new independent publishing company would be providing a different appointment experience than any of their counterparts at PAX Prime.  As I...

The independent presence in the Sony launch window has been somewhat of a revelation during the next gen console race.  Ever since Sony gave a chunk of its PS4 announcement conference to Jonathan Blow and The Witness the company has been sending a message of an open door to independent games.  This message was further...

Last week, Zenimax announced that their highly anticipated MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online will feature a $15 monthly subscription after a $60 purchase of the game.  The internet–as are wont to do–erupted in cantankerous fury over the announcement, many claiming that the $15/per month price would push them away from an online visit to Tamriel....

Development Hell.  This mystical place is a haven of paper pushers, idea men, and marketing gurus all standing around a giant, oblong, finely polished wooden table, passing their papers back and forth, trying to figure out what to do with an idea in which they’ve sunk too much money.  “Development Hell” is a term that...

Before Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg even took the stage, there was a clear message being sent.  Throughout the current console generation it has been hard to find a game with the mainstream dominance as the Call of Duty franchise.  The military first-person shooter has not simply been one of the highest grossing games every year...

I had never seen a game of professional DOTA–heck, I had never played DOTA–until last week.  It is almost impossible to be in-tune with the video game community and not find someone who has gone through an addiction to the Valve developed MOBA, or who still logs in to play now and again.  For the...

When Stem Electronics released Bezerk for the Atari in 1980, the estimated cost for each word was about $1,000 making the 30 word vocabulary quite the expense for an arcade game.  We have come a long way since 1980, voice acting is now an integral part of most games helping to define characters, forward narrative,...

As far as games journalism goes, sports games are mostly shoved aside. The sales numbers get reported, as do new features, but people rarely go out their way to do any sort of in-depth coverage or deep criticism.  There’s usually one closeted Madden fan or NHL nut who can jump on the coverage for their...