Posts tagged with Games
Centuplicate Tetris
M.A.G. was a one-of-a-kind shooter on the PlayStation 3. Where other games were content with 16- or 32-player skirmishes, M.A.G. figured that 256[1] players in the same game would be a massive step up[2]…
Review: NieR: Automata: Long Story Short
NieR: Automata was a critically acclaimed action game with heavy RPG and story elements first released in 2017. Its success was quite surprising: it’s a sequel to a series of good-but-not-widely-loved games in NieR and previously Drakengard; the gameplay…
Diablo on the Go
Diablo 3 was first released in the spring of 2012. For those who haven't played the games, the Diablo series was really the precursor to modern loot-based action games as well as the joke-turned-to-actual-genre clicker games, where the…
Reflecting on 20 Years of NBA2K
By the time this post gets published, 2K Sports will have released the newest iteration of their best-selling NBA2K series—NBA 2K19—which this year will also mark the 20th game and 20th year for the annual franchise. I'…
The Coming-of-Age of E-sports
I ran across this article recently, comparing the culture and business of professional sports with competitive gaming, a la e-sports: Why Competitive Gaming is Starting to Look a lot Like Professional Sports It's a pretty detailed look at…
Impressions of Virtual Reality in 2018
When both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets both launched in 2016, they were supposed to set a new standard for virtual reality: high-resolution displays, motion tracking both the headset and controllers, and software finally good enough to…
