Japanese games don't normally sell millions of units, and this is indeed a fact, but assuming that it's simply because they're Japanese is a case of confusing correlation with causation. The reason behind the sales number is normally due to a combination of lack of marketing push and sub-AAA production val
At this point, it's simply a matter of timing a straight line run of one of the map's street, a couple of equations, and we come up with a rough result: the map you see above measures approximately 2,246 meters by 2,188 meters. That's 3.73 square kilometers or 1.44 square miles. Yes. I know, it was pretty sm
It's not too surprising that players are already taking to the 2v2 format with Riftbound . One of Star Wars: Unlimited 's most beloved multiplayer modes, Twin Suns, has gained an increasing amount of traction in that community. That also follows the general rise of Commander in Magic: The Gatheri
One of the surprise hits of E3 2013 and a strategy game mods|https://strategynewsbase.Com/ we quickly fell in love with was Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare . Think Dungeon Defenders but with far improved and polished graphics thanks to it being built on the Frostbite 3 game engine. We found out last week that on Xbox One, EA is delivering fans an exclusive mode called 'Battle for brainz.' The strange part is that this is the only splitscreen mode in the game, pitting two plants against waves of incoming zombies. That's right, only one platform will have splitscreen for Garden Warfare . Next-gen? Why wouldn't the game support splitscreen multiplayer for all its modes on all consoles? Especially a super simple wave-based survival mode we've seen in dozens of game
It takes hours to cross the map of Assassin's Creed Origins on foot. Even considering the fact that we'll most probably have access to horses and fast travel, it depends entirely on Sucker Punch designers to determine whether they want us to spend a long time riding around instead of fighting Mongols. While recent trends demand larger and larger maps, there is no single right answer, so this remains an unkn
Star Wars: The Old Republic has finally entered the realm of the stars . The big budget MMO which failed to last long with the traditional monthly paid subscription model before going partly free-to-play launched its Galactic Starfighter expansion in December for subscribes and this week it's now available to everyone, even the FTP play
It’s time to play catch-up on a few key games and announcements as we delve into the second month of 2014 and inch closer to the release of some of our most anticipated games of 2014. In this weekly news wrap up we're going to look at Amazon's push into video games, another major milestone for League of Legends , an exclusive Xbox One mode for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare , the end of The Last of Us story, another game from the mind behind Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon , Star Wars: The Old Republic taking all players into space and PS4 headset supp
Digital artist Timetravel6000v2 created a new piece that unites Ray Palmer aka The Atom (Brandon Routh), Green Arrow, Black Lightning, Barry Allen aka The Flash (Grant Gustin), and Kara Danvers aka Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) in a one-sheet done in the style of the Justice League Comic-Con poster . Take a look at two versions of the poster be
Although **Riftbound ** has game meta and distribution growing pains to work out, there's a lot of potential here. I hope it sticks around and has enough time to figure everything out. We'll see soon enough: The next set, Riftbound: Spiritforge , is scheduled for release on February 13, 2
They cover the games that are part of popular franchises, that have AAA or AA-level production values, and big marketing budgets, ignoring those that don't have those perks. Of course, this is another factor that translates more or less directly into sales, or lack of ther
The space sim combat stuff was a major missed opportunity for TOR which launched without it and instead featured an on-rails space shooter of sorts, dropping the ball on the space combat previous Star Wars MMO ( Galaxies ) offered or what all of the X-Wing and Tie Fighter games delivered throughout the '90s. With the amount of buzz space sims are getting these days thanks to EVE: Valkyrie and Star Citizen it's about darn time the Star Wars brand does something with their massive library of space ships. Unfortunately, all of the ships in Galatic Starfighter are not from the fil
Yet, this is not the first time that Pachter talks negatively about the Japanese gaming industry, calling Japanese publishers (excluding Nintendo and a few other exceptions) "not relevant any longer" to making consoles successful, mentioning that Japanese games "don’t matter in the larger scheme of things", or downplaying the two million units shipped by NieR: Automa
While the main character in Ghost of Tsushima is originally a samurai, the end of the announcement trailer shows clearly that he is going to take up the mantle of the ninja. Not only does the concept of "ghost" make it clear, but at the end we see him in ninja garb, using shinobi tools, and stealth to fight off the Mongol a