Are Loot Box Systems In Gaming Similar To Gambling?
Over the past few weeks, a number of highly-anticipated titles, such as #ForzaMotorsport7, #MiddleEarthShadowofWar and #StarWarsBattlefront2, have been released with or have been confirmed to contain game-altering #lootboxes. The news of so many big-name titles containing loot box systems in their #games so soon one after the other has had the gaming community in quite a bit of a frenzy as of ...
Why People Love Cuphead
By now, you’ve probably heard about #Cuphead and how hard it supposedly is. The #XboxOne and #Windows exclusive has been taking the world by storm since being released at the end of September and has had many jumping in just to find out whether they can actually beat it. There’s has been some debate regarding how hard the #game actually is, with some people suggesting that ...
Why Do People Buy Consoles?
Over the past few years, suggestions of the death of both #PC and #console #gaminghave flooded the internet on separate occasions. If one were to search this topic at this point, one would find many articles on the subject providing a multitude of reasons as to why the suggestion being made is indeed the truth. While the exact reason ...
The Nintendo Switch Has So Many Upcoming Third-Party Games: Will This Boost Interest Among The Naysayers?
Recently, Bethesda revealed that they would be releasing Nintendo Switch ports of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and Doom, which seems to have had many people once again discussing the practicality of owning a Switch. It cannot be denied that there were a lot of people who were extremely excited about the Nintendo Switch when it was first ...
Are Developers Making Video Games Too Easy?
The other day I was talking to one of my friends about recently released games, when the subject of video game difficulty was brought up. Basically, what brought about the conversation was the supposed high level of difficulty faced when playing when playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This conversation sort of had me thinking ...
What Is Bethesda’s Unannounced 2017 Game?
A couple of days ago it was reported that Bethesda may actually have a new unannounced title in the works that is set to be released at some point in 2017. This news came after Bethesda executive, Pete Hines, suggested as much in an interview with Tek Syndicate at #PAX2017. There has been quite a bit of ...
Should All Games With Game-Breaking Bugs Receive Bad Reviews?
Last month, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was released and raised a rather important question after famed #videogame critic, Jim Sterling, gave the title a harsh score after encountering a rather rare #gamebreakingbug. This action did receive a lot of coverage after the title received favourable reviews from both critics and the general public, with many stating that it did live up to the idea ...
Gaming: The Most Successful Social Media Platform?
A few weeks ago, I was at a party with a few of my friends, where I was introduced to a whole load of new people that my friends had met through playing #LeagueofLegends. Sometime, throughout the night, the topic of #gaming’s ability to connect people with each other through in-game #chat and co-operation was discussed and most were rather astonished ...
Is Video Game Addiction Real?
Recently, a study was published in the US which suggested that young men are spending more hours playing #videogames than actually working. Now, this suggestion did get a lot of people speaking about the idea. As with every potentially controversial study ever published, there are people who agree with the inference and those who disagree with it. Personally, ...
4 Games That Need HD Remakes
Two weeks ago, Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy was released on PlayStation 4 to the great excitement of many long-time fans of the series. Gamers were so excited to delve back into the famed 1990s platformer that it even bested Horizon Zero Dawn’s first week sales in some countries (which is quite some feat when looking ...
