Tag Archives: Arcade

There are days when you probably ask yourself: “What, actually, are the Top 7 Most Violent Games?” Well, we answer that question, and we also talk about the death of Diablo’s Auction House (yay!), GTA 5’s big opening (wow!), and Warhammer Online’s closure (aww!). It’s a roller coaster ride! Join …

GTA 5 had a very good first day–you could say the folks at Rockstar Games had 800,000,000 little reasons to be super happy. Which got us thinking: Say Rockstar’s head honcho Sam Houser showed up at your door and said he was feeling generous. “Here, have all our day-one earnings, …

Can’t hardly wait Weve marked our calendars. Weve devoured the screenshots and deconstructed each and every trailer that we could get our greedy hands on. Weve meticulously combed through the rumors to collect as much information about Grand Theft Auto V as we possibly could, but nothing seems to satisfy …

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Peggle 2 are coming first to Xbox One, and the latter is a launch title. PopCap Games announced a multi-game deal with Microsoft at the latter’s Gamescom conference earlier today. Garden Warfare’s unique class-based, third-person shooting will support 24-person multiplayer, as well as four-player …

Don’t cry We’ve given you a complete history of failed consoles, lovingly suffocating you with info on almost 60 mediocre machines in the process. And while well all be better off never mentioning the Casio Loopy or Action Max again, we just had the nagging feeling that some of the …

Sony Santa Monica is working on something “freaking huge,” and God of War II director and writer Cory Barlog is coming back to the studio to head it up. “What am I working on, you ask? Good question,” Barlog wrote on the PlayStation Blog. “Sadly, I cannot tell you… yet. …

Gotta spend money to make money One of the biggest complaints from game publishers this generation has been the rising cost of development. Its all too easy to spend tens of millions of dollars on AAA games, leading to the crazy scenario of a release being deemed below sales expectations …

Tackling the problem You cant swing a baseball bat or kick a football nowadays without hitting a sports game. Oh look another iOS game where you flick a football into a goal–how lovely. Basketball, football (or soccer, if you prefer to spell honour without the u), tennis–most popular sports have …

Sega Sammy is bidding on the financially troubled parent company of Atlus. Bloomberg Japan (via VentureBeat) reports that the house of Sonic is pursuing Index Corp., which among other operations owns Persona and Shin Megami Tensei developer/publisher Atlus. Index Corp. was opened for bids after entering civil rehabilitation, the Japanese …

There aren’t many reviews or previews to talk about, so we focus on the things that matter: overpowered weapons. Also, the movie Surf Ninjas. That’s not all, though–we’re also saying goodbye… to a friend. Also, don’t forget to join us in this month’s Game Club as we tackle Tim Schafer’s …