[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…
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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…
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.…
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…
Life is Strange Episode 1: Chrysalis
Before I get into it let me just start by saying this – I don’t generally do formal game reviews. But titles like this are why I will always have love for video games. Back in October at New York Comic…
Warlords of Draenor – The Project Manager’s Addiction
Every WoW expansion pack that has been released over the past few years was shipped with its own personality. Over the classic “vanilla” build of the game, Burning Crusade was markedly more difficult but had a lot of good content on your way to…
Square-Enix trolls fans with Final Fantasy VII for the PS4
By now I’m going to guess that you’ve heard about the monkeyshines and shenanigans that occurred at the recent PlayStation Experience event. But if not allow me to set the scene for you: Our boy Shinji Hashimoto from Square-Enix comes…
PAX East 2014: Serious Games and This War of Mine
It’s not all about killing bad guys and saving the princess anymore. When you take a look at media as a whole – books, comics, movies, games – and take a step back to see how they’ve evolved over time,…
PAX East 2014: In-Depth with Blizzard
PAX East had a lot of great things to see all over the huge show floor at the Boston Convention Center – enough to confuse a person about which booths to hit first and which games to demo. Luckily for…
