Square-Enix @ NYCC – Deus Ex Mankind Divided

[Originally published on Sub Cultured as Square-Enix @ NYCC – Deus Ex Mankind Divided] Last week at New York Comic Con, Square-Enix was one of the major gaming presences in the city. Among the previews and demos they offered was the upcoming Deus…

Adult Swim @ NYCC: Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter

[Originally published at Sub Cultured as Adult Swim @ NYCC: Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter] Imagine, if you will, a small peaceful town in Vermont, land of the Bed & Breakfast. Now mash it up with werewolves and a neon-clad savior intent…

Konami Sells Insurance For Your Metal Gear Solid Base

[Originally published on Sub Cultured as Konami Sells Insurance For Your Metal Gear Solid Base] Yesterday I read about a… well we’ll call it a questionable microstransaction opportunity from Metal Gear Solid V, specifically targeted towards multiplayer action. In multiplayer mode, players…

14 Year Old Irving, TX Technology Student Arrested for NWB (Nerding While Brown)

So I haven’t put anything up here in a good long while. Sorry kids, I’ve just been busy. You know, life and everything. So you can imagine it’s something fairly noteworthy that would make me pull out the keyboard and…

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata Dies at 55

[Originally published at Sub Cultured as Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata Dies at 55] Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth. The gaming flag flies at half…

10 Years of Zenescope – a Q&A with Ralph Tedesco

[originally published at Sub Cultured as 10 Years of Zenescope – a Q&A with Ralph Tedesco] A few weeks ago I met with some of the folks at Zenescope Entertainment at Wizard World Philadelphia. You may know them from their core…

Diablo III’s 3rd Birthday Party? Totally NOT the Cow Level

Happy Birthday Diablo III! Blizzard’s latest installment in the demon-slaying action RPG series turned 3 this past weekend, and they decided to do something a little special for D3 players by addressing all things bovine and the secret cow level.…

April Fool’s Double-Cross: Amazon Dash

So it may be Game of Thrones month for the upcoming season 5 premiere in a lot of internet sites devoted to nerddom, but there was another important day this week that for the last few years has made the…

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

Since the initial inception of Final Fantasy on the NES in 1987, Square-Enix (previously Squaresoft) has developed a pretty consistent formula in the release of all their titles.  And for the most part, it’s worked – now I’ve got some perspective on…

Life Is Strange Episode 2 Preview

“So a lot of people ask us ‘If you can rewind the game, doesn’t that mean that you can cheat? Isn’t that the same as reloading the save?’ It would be if it was badly designed.” That was what Square-Enix’s Adam…