DUST 514: Another One Bites the ...?

Dust 514 from Icelandic developer, CCP Games is touted to be the future of MMOG because it is indirectly linked to the other MMOG, EVE Online. Not that I care, but that link could spell doom for Dust sooner than it settles. Dust was suppose to be a game changer of sorts but even after it was launched, it became apparent that it is nothing more than cheap freemium masquerading as a MMOG. Having played the mercenary events, I couldn't help but...

Categories: DUST, Freemium, MMOG, MMOPG, PSN

Amalur Goes Under The Hammer

Rhode Island is preparing to sell the Kingdoms of Amalur IP, with a website offering its assets going live this month, 38 Studios' court-appointed receiver Richard Land tells WPRI. 38 Studios collapsed in 2012 after launching Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, taking $90 million of Rhode Island taxpayer money down with it. The main focus of the Amalur auction will be Project Copernicus, the studio's incomplete MMO...

Categories: 38-studios, amalur, kingdoms-of-amalur, project-copernicus, rhode-island, taxpayers

How did Sleeping Dogs Bombed?

Critically acclaimed, Sleeping Dogs is going to sell about 3 million copies at retail in total for year end 2013. That's a real poor performer and you wonder why a game like that could bomb so badly when GTA games rake in billions in revenue. Wait a minute, what the heck is Grand Theft Auto being brought into the picture? Didn't everyone say that Sleeping Dogs was highly original? Well now you know. Sleeping Dogs is in essence a GTA rip...

Categories: open world, PC, PS3, rpg, sleeping dogs, true crime, Xbox 360

Splinter Cell Blacklist: A final farewell to Sam?

Sam Shepard makes his final appearance on the current generation of video game consoles, as well as the PC, as part of a slew of farewell gifts from the old stalwarts of the heady 80s who have silently evolved into the most prominent publishing and software development company the finicky yet deadly world of video games. As the story goes, Shepard has a brand new voice which doesn't differ that much from the old one. Naturally, the gamers...

Categories: Blacklist, Co-op, PC, PS3, Spies Vs Mercs, Splinter Cell, Stealth, Ubisoft, Xbox 360