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There is no use denying that diversity is a big part of modern video games. Many progressive developers have begun striving for a diverse amount of representation for different races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities and even religions. With such a huge push for representing the diversity of the gamer communities within games, the issues that Blizzard has…
New Info about Hoenn Remakes In the original Ruby and Sapphire the so called “Secret Bases” were an interesting new feature, but not much motivation behind making one. In the new remakes of the Generation III Pokemon games, that definitely is not the case!! Nintendo has officially renamed them “Super Secret Bases” and given all…
Firaxis Games announced this week that its next installment in the popular Civilization game series, Civilization: Beyond Earth, will launch October 24 of this year. Pre-ordering will be available, with a jam-packed map set included for those who do so. Get excited people, it’s time to conquer space for humankind. ‘Civilization’ is leaving the atmosphere We are…
Blizzard has revealed their new pricing strategy for the Curse of Naxxramas expansion to the popular Hearthstone card game, and it looks like it could set the bar for many other pricing models to come. Venturing Back to Naxx The expansion proposes to simulate World of Warcraft’s recurring raid dungeon Naxxramas by offering players the…
With the big reveal of Rise of the Tomb Raider at this year’s E3 came a lot of waging tongues panting hotly for the sequel to last year’s critically and financially successful Tomb Raider reboot. While 2015 (the year slated for the sequel’s release) may be a while off, that doesn’t mean that fans have to go…
From the creators of Halo and the company that delivered Call of Duty (see fanboys? No need to flame over which game is better, even though it’s obviously Halo) comes the shared-world shooter game titled Destiny. In Destiny, you play as the last Spartan defending Earth. Wait, no. You play as a Guardian defending the…
Over the past week there has been a lot of hype buzzing around the company Boss Key Studios. The company hit the scene armed with an ominous countdown clock, a now hiring link at bosskey.com/ and a project blue streak rumor. At noon EST on July 8th, the company announced that they would be working with Nexon to publish…
The thing about the living dead is that they don’t really change. Okay, sure, some of their portrayals demonstrated zombies evolving, learning to use basic tools, and even speaking, but on the whole, a mass of undead trying to kill you is just a mass of undead trying to kill you. Two zombie games have…
Bioware is best known for their Mass Effect Games. Or is it Star Wars: The Old Republic? Or is it Baldur’s Gate (which I thought was actually a pretty cool game, just saying)? Okay, let’s be honest. it’s probably Baldur’s Gate Mass Effect. What Does Bioware Have Now? But, fortunately for us, Bioware continues to…
The story of the Resident Evil saga has taken both its characters and fans far and wide, from the swamp-infested jungles of South America to the frozen wastelands of the Antarctic. The series’s last major installment, Resident Evil 6, flew players from the snow mountains of Edonia to the suburbs of America and finally to…
Watch your back, Robert Morris University. Recently, Geek Insider reported that RMU will be offering scholarships for accomplished eGamers and is forming League of Legends team. Well, Korea has one up the playing field with Chung-Ang University now opening up for eGamer applicants in their Department of Arts and Sports Sciences. That’s right, gamers. No…
Release Date Revealed and a New Trailer Telltale Games has announced that on July 8th, the final episode in the Wolf Among Us comes out on PSN, PC and Mac (July 9th on Xbox One and PSN Europe, July 10th for iOs). With the huge cliffhanger that episode four ended on, there are plots to…
Retro games. Sometimes playing them is more about the nostalgia than actually having fun. Doom. Pac Man. Tetris. Sometimes, though, a game can be five, ten, or even fifteen years old and still be fun. Escape Velocity: Nova is one of those games. It was released all the way back in ’02, but the gameplay…
Introduction Without question, the Playstation 2 was Sony’s most successful console with over 150 million units sold worldwide within its lifespan. This is quite an accomplishment as is the fact that it was only recently discontinued from production around a year ago; giving it a shelf life of thirteen years. Since then, we have seen…
In another startling proof that sexism in the gaming community isn’t going to go away if we simply ignore it, PC Gamer reported today that, while other tournaments are not gender segregated, the Finnish Hearthstone tournament to be held at Assembly Summer 2014, in an effort to avoid disqualifying winners in IeSF tournaments, is slated…