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Violence Decreases With Violent Game Releases

While hardly scientific and more of an observation, GamePolitics has an interesting look on how violent crime has dropped drastically with the release of heavily criticized titles. While only a few games are mentioned, think of Halo (2001) or Counter-Strike (2003) and place them on the chart. A number of outside factors considered (crimes not [...]

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PC Gaming is Dead. Long Live PC Gaming.

The FPS has always been seen as the poster child of PC gaming. Innovative titles that pushed game design and game hardware to their limits established the first-person shooter as the go-to genre for the hardcore PC gamer. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom established the rules of the genre; Duke Nukem 3D pushed them [...]

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Nintendo Announces First Set of WiiWare titles, Updates Wii

Both first and third party titles have been announced for the launch of Nintendo’s downloadable games service when it goes live in March… at least in Japan. Fan favorites include an update to Dr. Mario (where has this series been?), a Pokemon title linked to Diamond and Pearl, a new chapter in the classic shooter [...]

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