I’ve been thinking about why Microsoft was going more casual with the Xbox One and this infographic gets at the reasoning behind that move. It all comes down to money. When you see what the best-selling console of the last generation was and know what it did best, it all makes sense.
To examine the shifting balance of power in the gaming industry and its growth, we have a handy infographic for you.
A new piece of costume DLC hits the LittleBigPlanet and it’s from a series that we quite like around here (most of the time). If you play LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet Karting (which Sony PR still owes me a copy of) and LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation Vita, you can buy a new costume set based on the Mass Effect Trilogy.
The new costumes for sackboy allow you to play as sackperson versions of Shepard, Liara, Wrex and, of course, Garrus Vakarian. The package will cost you $5.99 US or your regional equivalent.
It’s not everyday that a Nintendo 3DS game gets ported over to the major home consoles. It’s also not everyday that a quasi-spin-off game set between two games in the main series is better received than the main series entry that tried to be a triple-A megahit.
So here we are with Resident Evil: Revelations. Rather than an action-oriented game, Revelations goes back to the series’ horror roots. That move away from big action seems to have benefited this game in the critics’ eyes.
Okay, I might have come off a bit cynical in my examination of the Xbox One announcement. In fairness, I tried the best I could given the information at hand. There just wasn’t a lot of talk about games. Don’t take my word for it. Check out this short summary of the Xbox One reveal.
Microsoft didn’t hide that yesterday’s big announcement would be for the next-gen Xbox but they sure did manage to surprise with that name. The third-generation Xbox console is the Xbox One whose name represents that it’s an all-in-one system for the living room.
It was that all-in-one nature of the Xbox One that formed the majority of Microsoft’s presentation. Unfortunately, that emphasis on the all-in-one Xbox came at what was essentially the de-emphasis of games as the core of the Xbox One.
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Alright, I may have been a bit optimistic by saying things would be better this week than last. My own personal pull list is busier this week but not by much.
My big three picks of the week include a couple of brand new series and one issue that may as well be a new series. From the mind of video game designer American McGee is Akaneiro #1. DC is finally getting in on the whole economic disparity thing after Chris Nolan did in The Dark Knight Rises. A group of the super rich are funding projects that sounds like it’ll eventually run afoul of some superheroes in Green Team Teen Trillionaires #1. And it all begins again in Superior Spider-Man #10. Did you read SSM #9? It wasn’t as good as some earlier issues but I’m counting on it to set the table big time for future issues.
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We’ve all done the thumbs-up thing on Facebook (which, by the way, you can do on our Facebook page) but what if superheroes had their own thumbs-up to like things on Facebook? Artist Jaime Calderon came up with his own version of the classic Facebook thumbs-up for some of your favourite Marvel and DC superheroes.
Just when we thought that Disney was hellbent on gutting Star Wars to make itself money, we got a little glimmer of hope yesterday. Lucasfilm and Disney announced that the Lucasfilm Animation division is getting to work on a new series set between Episodes III and IV called Star Wars Rebels.
The series will, obviously, explore the previously largely unexplored two decades between the prequel trilogy and the start of the original trilogy that we all know and love. The story will focus on the Galactic Empire stamping out the last remains of the Republic and the Jedi Knights while the rebellion starts to form.
Patton Oswalt’s seven-and-a-half minute citizen’s filibuster of Pawnee City Council outlining his vision for Star Wars: Episode VII has been animated by Isaac Moores. It’s just as epic as the first time you saw it.
Long time readers of the blog know that I’m a big Judge Dredd fan. That fandom extends to last year’s Dredd movie which was absolutely fantastic and I think it was every bit as good as The Dark Knight Rises.
Now, Judge Dredd himself, Karl Urban, while talking about his latest go as Dr. Leonard McCoy suggested that a vocal fan base could convince the studio to make a Dredd sequel. Is this the point when I go “LOUD NOISES!?”
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