Ten years have passed, and it seems that most people have forgotten that the golden Wii ever existed. However, this did not stop YouTube channel People Make Games to reinvestigate the story to find out what happened to the Queen’s Wii. As it turns out, the golden Wii story is all part of a PR stunt spearheaded by THQ to boost sales of its Wii title, Big Family Games....
Kevin Unangst, Senior Global Director, PC and Mobile Gaming, at Microsoft said the following: Much like how Xbox Live runs weekly deals, Games for Windows will have regular sales on a weekly and seasonal basis. Another beneficial feature will be the ability to search for a game by title, which those of you who are regulars to the Xbox Live download process know is not fun. Frankly I bypass the Xbox Live download platform and just use the Xbox Live site to download stuff to my system....
Something that can occasionally happen during game development is for the game to completely switch art style part way through. This can be done for a variety of reasons ranging from trying to increase marketability, wanting to set the game apart from its contemporaries, or just because the new style suits the overall vision of the game better. Very often a change in art style will result in the game receiving a major shift in tone....
Even though overall a lukewarm show with more reveals coming from the smaller studios, here were the top 5 announcements that caught our attention: #1 Sony buys Insomniac Games e biggest announcement of last night’s event involved Sony Interactive Entertainment buying the studio behind last year’s Spiderman - Insomniac Games. This is exciting news for the fans of the studio as Insomniac Games will function as one of Sony’s leading first-party studios which will provide them with the much-needed support to make even better AAA games for the Sony’s console....
GameStop reported in a press release that its holiday sale season for 2018 saw a 5% decrease when compared to 2017. According to the retail chain, the drop was primarily due to a reduction in sales of new consoles, and fewer used games being sold in stores. These two factors took a 6.1% and 16.4% downturn respectively, but sales of new games weren’t doing too well either, with a 8....
GameStop, who has recently suffered a major revenue loss, announced their store hours for Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and the following weekend in a press release. The press release states that GameStop will be one of the first retailers to open for the holiday shopping rush, as it will open with its discounts active at 3:00 PM local time on Thanksgiving Day and stay open until 10:00 PM local time....
CodeMiko, a VTuber primarily featured on Twitch, has been conducting interviews with many popular digital entertainers such as Videogamedunkey. A featured tweet of hers from February shows a clip from the interview with Videogamedunkey, as she changes her model’s outfits to become a scantily clad nun. CodeMiko’s ability to make interviewees uncomfortable is one of the main selling points for her streams. RELATED: G4 Revival is Bringing Back Adam Sessler...
Italy international Gabbiadini heads back to the club he played for between 2013 and 2015 for a fee thought to be in the region of €12million, with reports suggesting he has signed a deal until 2023. Saints were said to have paid €17m to Napoli for Gabbiadini in January 2017 and he made a strong start to life in England. He scored six goals in his first four games for the club, who looked to have struck gold with the Italian....
The highly rated Brazilian forward moved to the San Siro in the summer of 2016 as one of the most exciting young players on the planet. He was, however, to be denied regular game time during his debut campaign and struggled to prove his worth during the limited outings he was given – netting just once in 10 appearances. The 2017-18 season has also been a struggle, having failed to make his mark during a stint at Portuguese side Benfica, but a loan return to Santos has helped to rebuild his confidence and form....
Competing in the open category, Gagan (with navigator Sabatullah Khan) was at his sublime best, finishing the 55-km TSD rally with a mere penalty of 29 seconds to emerge victorious. The rally, held in the backdrop of the famous Hornbill Festival, was flagged-off by multiple Indian National Rally Champion Hari Singh from Indira Gandhi Stadium. The competitors traversed through rocky terrains on the outskirts of Kohima to reach the finish line in Kisama Village....
The Pumas man has become a regular for Juan Carlos Osorio’s side in the 2018 World Cup, starting Mexico’s group stage contests against Germany and South Korea. The defender again was handed the start as El Tri looked for a result against Sweden to ensure a place in the knockout round. Just 15 seconds into the match Gallardo went in on Sweden’s Ola Toivonen. He was not only whistled for the foul, but the referee handed the Pumas defender a yellow card – the fastest any player has received a booking in World Cup history....
Bichette’s big moment came at the start of the eighth inning against Royals starter Jakob Junis, when his drive cleared the left-center field wall in the 4-1 win on Wednesday. Freddy Galvis also hit a crucial solo shot to center in the seventh that was his 16th homer of the season. Bichette made his major league debut here Monday. “After the first game was over, I was able to say, ‘Okay, my career has started,’ and then treat it like any other normal day,” Bichette said....
Whether for extra content, graphical enhancements or the ability to explore a physically twisted world, mods have always been a way for the community to enhance the experience of a game and keep playing long after release. It is mods that allowed the expansion of Minecraft, endless new content for Skyrim, and the origins of an entire game in DayZ. For some big devs and publishers, modding is becoming a dirty word....
Let’s begin with someone everyone should be familiar with. Moving up a (Metal) Gear The man who gave the world Snatcher and the Metal Gear Solid games, Hideo Kojima, has been promoted to Vice President of Konami Digital Entertainment. An industry veteran of 25 years, Kojima-san’s promotion is among several others occurring at the company. Leaving the Free World As one man ascends in his company, another man is leaving his....
Typically, Xbox Game Pass additions are available in at least one of three ways: PC, Cloud, or Console. It’s interesting to see how heavy-handed today’s additions are. There is no Cloud support today, and today leans heavily toward PC as a whole. No matter what though, there’s more coming for those who aren’t able to pick up or are simply not interested in today’s offerings. RELATED: Xbox Game Pass Adding Game with ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ Reviews...
The first Smash Bros. game released in 1999, roughly one year after the first episode of Cowboy Bebop aired. That is not the only parallel between the two IPs though. Cowboy Beebop’s US publisher, Funimation has been publicly hounding Nintendo for some time to include one of its characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Nintendo also own shares in Bandai Namco, the sister company to Bandai Visual, the company that Cowboy Bebop director, Shinichirō Watanabe credits as the reason the show was produced....
Some games, however, aren’t content with doing this. After taking down this major villain, players discover another figure hiding in the background. The villain they just beat was a decoy, working for or a distraction from the real threat. Naturally, most of these villains are late game twists, so be careful of spoilers for every game listed. 10 Devil May Cry 5 Devil May Cry 5 opens with protagonist Nero fighting against Urizen, a demonic figure that’s causing the demon tree of Qliphoth to appear in Red Grave City....
The games below all have different stories behind their launches. Some were successful at the start, while others almost crashed and burned immediately. However, they all eventually went free-to-play, and it proved the right move for all of them. The term can have a stigma to it, but these games have proven it is not always a bad thing. 8 Fall Guys Developer Mediatonic did not expect Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout to become as popular as it did....
Then there are cutscenes, the boon, and bane for many gamers. Tomb Raider’s cutscenes showed Lara Croft as Core Design wanted her to look, rather than the pointy figure consoles limited her to. Then series like Wing Commander on the PC went one further and had live-action cutscenes with famous actors. But no matter how live the action is, or how high-end the cast is, the result can still end up silly....
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