With the nominations coming before the year’s end, we’re faced with the usual issue of not all of 2014’s titles being included (like Ubisoft’s The Crew ) but at least they got in the most recent two-three weeks which includes the largest batch of high profile releases. The deadline for eligible entrants was games released by November 25th. On the Canadian Videogame Awards front, the date of nomination eligibility was much earlier and meant that some of the year’s biggest titles ( Assassin’s Creed Unity, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, etc. ) didn’t make the
Assassin’s Creed has been all over the map lately between the quality of its games and the way the marketing team is choosing to present them to us. Unfortunately for the newest installment to the on-going and seemingly endless series, Ubisoft doesn’t make much of an effort to sell it.
There’s so much happening this month, it’s hard to settle on a favorite upcoming release! Ranters: Is there anything you are looking forward to over the coming weeks? Let us know in the comments section below! As for me, I’ll be playing A Link Between Worl
On the opposite side of these hearty and expansive offerings, we have microtransactions. Basically, a microtransaction is when the player pays a small amount of money for something extra in a game, such as an XP Boost, a piece of equipment, or even a digital pile of in-game currency paying real money for more fake money. click the next internet page latter microtransaction method often tends to be the main source of income for Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs which are Free to Play. Games like Star Trek Online and The Lord of the Rings Online rely on their thriving in-game economy to make money, rather than monthly subscription fees and charging for expansi
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We have no idea what’s going on with the Spike VGX this year or even if there will be one. The annual celebrity-fueled, ad-hungry video games event was consistently chock full of controversy and disdain from the gamer community which is why last year host and producer Geoff Keighley helped re-brand the Spike Video Game Awards into the Spike VGX. It was a ratings success but still begged the question of whether it should contin
The biggest games of the year have the potential to sell tens of millions of units, raking in literally billions of dollars in revenue. At the same time, development teams have grown larger, game creation itself takes longer, and budgets have become greater than ever. After all, it takes a lot of effort to make today’s games look and feel so amazing. Through it all, however, the price of a retail game has not chan
For the first time in the series’ history, Battlefield V included a chapter that follows the story of a female soldier , Solveig. Solveig is affiliated with the indigenous resistance movement opposing the German occupying forces in Norway, and despite being young, she is a well-trained and effective soldier during the war. Solveig survives the Norwegian cold and avoids Nazis patrolling the woods during the campaign, as she is in search of her mother. We have not seen many playable female soldiers in the past, and Solveig definitely sets a high standard for female soldiers in future ga
The nominations for the first ever edition of The Game Awards were unveiled this morning and include the standard set of genre-based categories, a fan category for most anticipated title of 2015 (which mostly includes delayed games) and as a bonus, some love for famous YouTube celebs and eSports teams to help spread the word and bring in the “hardcore” crowd for appro
The 2013 show, co-hosted by Joel McHale ( Community ) was more about the developers and awards, more about new announcements and loving the community. Despite a lot of awkward moments, last year’s event was an improvement over years past but this year, Keighley is out. He and Spike (and owner Viacom) gracefully parted ways (apparently) and instead, Geoff Keighley is hosting a brand new, non-network-reliant game show, simply titled The Game Awards 2014 . And he’s doing it with the backing of Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and bevvy of top game publish
Wii Fit U kicks off the month, arriving November 1st on the Wii U. Up next is Call of Duty: Ghosts , blasting its way onto all major systems November 5th. On the 15th of November, the next iteration of Sony’s PlayStation console finally hits shelves. Along with it, anticipated titles like Battlefield 4 , Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag , and Killzone: Shadow Fall will appear front and centre. On the 19th, Need for Speed: Rivals races onto PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows. Hot on the tails of the PS4 release comes the Xbox One, Microsoft’s next console which makes its debut on November 22nd. Various launch titles for the system include Dead Rising 3 , Forza Motorsport 5 , and Ryse: Son of Rome . Nintendo also boldly chooses the 22nd for the release of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for its 3DS handheld sys
