So Activision released another trailer for Fall of Cybertron amidst the Thanksgiving madness. High Moon studio continues to impress me. I like these guys a lot. By “guys” I mean the sextastic developers for the War for Cybertron game and by “like” I mean that I am a willing slave to their every whim. Or at least that I am a big fan of what they did for the Transformers franchise. War for Cybertron was awesome, it has a few unnecessary quirks that make the… Continue reading →
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Boycotting, The Tekyu Way!
So in my vomit known as words I have expressed my unrelenting venom for some major publishing houses in the video game market and that I don’t buy their games, but I also mention owning or having played their games. Trust me, I have a method to my madness. Be mindful this isn’t exactly applicable to PC games since demos vary and rentals aren’t an option, just fyi. In a world where games are meant to be fully paid for months before they ever land… Continue reading →
Activision: Sucking the fun out of gaming one franchise at a time
I’ve been throwing my weight around about Developers and Publishers lately, but for the most part that’s because I’m very fat. I’ve also been saying things of a slightly mean-spirited and know-it-all nature with regard to the way some of these companies do business. One in particular is run by a douchebag and is notorious for its constant, frivolous lawsuits and dick moves: Activision. Let’s discuss a decidedly unpleasant turn in a business that should be redefining game development, but instead prefers to beat only… Continue reading →
I’M RANTING!: Oh Treyarch, does it hurt to sit down?
(Spiderman 2, Treyarch’s primary claim to fame outside of Tony Hawk.) There’s this developer known as Treyarch. They used to have some hope. They used to show promise. Now they’re Activision’s whipping boys and game janitors who they send in to clean up a franchise, prop it up and shake its rotting corpse around claiming that the franchise is alive and well. Because Treyarch decided to put itself in the news, let’s talk about them and with talk of Activision comes talk of… him. (How… Continue reading →