The GamerTag Series Part 2: Achievement Counselors
19th May 2012 - The Gaming Update "GamerTag Series" examines various aspects of gamer identity online by exploring issues that are connected with and relate to the social side of life as an online gamer. In Part 1: Trends in Gamer Identity we examined the increasingly popular field of Persona Designers; consultants hired by gamers to create and packag.. Read More.
Hitman: Sniper Challenge First Impressions
11th May 2012 - Hitman: Sniper Challenge -- First Impressions The announcement this week (Square Enix Announces Hitman: Sniper Challenge, GU 10 May 2012) that gamers who purchase Hitman:Absolution as a pre-order from game retailer GameStop would receive a code for their version to download a special related mini-game called Hitman: Sniper Challenge .. Read More.
The Top Ten Video Game Sex Scenes
27th Mar 2012 - With all the controversy and protest over the disappointing ending of Mass Effect 3 mostly behind us, now that BioWare appears to have capitulated (though just how far that capitulation will extend remains to be seen) it makes us proud that pretty much all of the controversy appears to center around how things ended, and not, you know, .. Read More.
EA Planning to Shut Down More Online Game Servers in April
25th Mar 2012 - If you happen to be a member of the gaming community who places a high value in unlocking all of the Achievements and Trophies in the games that you play, the following news is a mixture of good news / bad news -- the good news being that there is still time for you to unlock those illusive last few online Achievements or Trophies befor.. Read More.
Final Fantasy XIV: Week 3 - Player's Perspective
5th Mar 2012 - The last few weeks have been rather quiet in the world of Final Fantasy XIV. For an MMO that requires continuous improvements and tweaks, this is not exactly a good thing. Though producer Yoshi-P last touted that the next major patch (1.21) would bring the biggest update yet (and also bring it one step closer to its targeted 2.0 relaunc.. Read More.
Final Fantasy XIV: Week 2 - Player's Perspective
17th Feb 2012 - When I first began my Final Fantasy XIV adventure, there were several adjustments that I needed to make, both from a legacy standpoint (my previous history with FFXI) and a technical one (frequent crashes in-game). The latter had kept me from making any significant progress for over a week. Frequent Google searches yielded little res.. Read More.
Final Fantasy XIV: Week 1 - Player's Perspective
1st Feb 2012 - Follow our weekly series of Final Fantasy XIV Updates brought to you by Jorge S Fernandez. Let's just dispense with the pleasantries and get this out of the open: Final Fantasy XIV is the biggest disaster in the history of the franchise. On paper, it sounded like an appealing idea: release two Final Fantasy titles under one year. One.. Read More.
Sources Confirm Next Gen Console Launch Order but not Reveal
30th Jan 2012 - It has been a difficult year for reading the future for games journos as conflicting information has been released both officially and unofficially by the Big 3, and all that we can say for certain is that the launch order for the next generation of gaming console will very likely proceed as Wii U followed by the next Xbox, and then the.. Read More.
A History of Achievements
26th Jan 2012 - History is an odd and very human creation that is often malleable, being more the product of how we remember events to have taken place rather than how they actually did take place. There is a phrase to describe that -- it is called "popular history" -- where the more literal sort that is based upon a combination of observation and con.. Read More.
Following the Scent of Microsoft at E3 2012
22nd Jan 2012 - With apologies in advance to Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) . . . --==* Steve Hears a Who? *==-- On the tenth of January, wrapped up in toasty wool, In the heat of the casino, standing by the indoor pool, He was speaking video gaming... and motion controlled toys, Then Steve Ballmer the CEO made a Microsofty noise. Fin.. Read More.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations Easter Egg Hunt
22nd Jan 2012 - It is fair to say that the release of Assassin's Creed: Revelations on November 15th, 2011 was a celebrated event -- though the celebration was somewhat bittersweet due to the fact that Revelations is the final game in the series to feature the popular character of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who we encounter in Revelations as an old man.. Read More.
The GU Top 10 Celebrity Gamers
20th Jan 2012 - While nobody really knows the origins of and the history behind the phenomenon of the Top Ten List -- it would not surprise us if there are Top Ten Lists mixed in with the Cave Drawings of Neanderthals -- in terms of the Internet and all the hep cats who dwell there, most net'heads consider the efforts of Squire David Michael Letterman.. Read More.
Mr. Bean and not Video Games Responsible for Youth Violence
4th Jan 2012 - "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. " Maya Angelou The problem with fact is that a clever person can make it appear to support whatever position they want to make, so when we examine issues and we choose not to deal in fact, but rather in truth, we are taking a more logical path. .. Read More.
The Impact of Achievements & Trophies -- Recognition that Motivates
26th Dec 2011 - Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hypocrites Hypocrites (450-339 BC) was an influential Greek philosopher of the fifth century B.C. and the founder of the Hypocritical school of philosophy. He was famous for devoting his entire life to preaching a philosophy of the virtues .. Read More.
The Truth Behind the Fanboy and Why They Exist
22nd Dec 2011 - From The Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanboi) Fanboi (1) Someone who is hopelessly devoted to something and will like anything associated with their particular thing. (2) Geek Term related to forum users who think a product/company/person can do no wrong. (3) Deliberate misspelling of the wo.. Read More.
A FashionWare Gamer's Holiday Gift Guide 2011
21st Nov 2011 - The commercial evolution of the Internet in the early 1990's turned out to be an event with far-reaching consequences that went way beyond what most experts predicted, illustrating a significant impact upon a broad a range of cultural and consumer trends to the point that it is widely considered to have redefined itself, emerging as mor.. Read More.
The Charity of Gamers
28th Oct 2011 - It is surprising how much information can be conveyed in a simple and brief phrase; take the phrase "In these tough economic times" (1) as an example. Hearing it or having it said to you instantly evokes specific and detailed images. Despite the fact that it is a very general and even vague collection of words, that phrase has the e.. Read More.
The Xcom 2012 Interactive Campaign Updated
26th Oct 2011 - There is very little difference between the process of developing sources in Games Journalism and that of journalism in its other forms. It begins with human sources who, when you are fortunate, can be pumped for information that is not part of the public domain, and then moves to fact finding in the form of diffing through records -- .. Read More.
Textbook Shovelware -- Driver: San Francisco
24th Oct 2011 - According to Wikipedia, Shovelware is defined as: "Shovelware (sometimes also crapware or garbageware) is a derogatory computer jargon term that refers to software noted more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness." There is a momentum that AAA video games build as they approach release, and it is partl.. Read More.
Holiday 2011 Video Game Release List
9th Sep 2011 - While this is not an all-encompassing list of every game set to be released over the course of the next four months, it does include a fairly comprehensive list of the upcoming AA and AAA titles for the 2011 Holiday Season! - A - Airline Tycoon II (October 14th) Windows PC / Mac OSX / Linux Assassin's Creed Revelations (November 15th).. Read More.
