This year will see the 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and the first one without comedian Jay Mohr hosting since what feels like forever (in reality, he’s only been rocking the mic since 2006) as Chris Hardwick has that duty now. Finalist nominees have just been announced and they’re what you would expect for [...]
It’s a joke I heard first from the guys on The Totally Rad Show, and it kind of always stuck with me. Since that year, I’ve always thought about the winners and nominees of the Best Directing Academy Award: is it really the best directing or is it just the most directing? It is usually [...]
Despite being a full-on action game, I played Far Cry 3 very conservatively. It may be a first-person shooter with lots of guns and pirates and unfriendly animals, but just about all of my actions were well calculated in my mind before I acted upon them. Each outpost would require scouting both within the camp [...]
Most games with even the slightest hint of action also include bits of stealth. Sometimes it’s 100% perfunctory and just a side effect of being a video game, such as when you try to get up real close and steal away at least one easy kill in Gears of War before things start going totally [...]
I always thought a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead type of video game would be neat. Just as how the story always focuses on the hero that we have been with or become familiar with, these types of games would expand on the side stories of some ancillary character. It’s already been done a few [...]
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