And just like a flare-up of your favourite socially-transmitted disease, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is once again upon us. With bigger lights, more social media, and enough audio screw-ups to make you think this entire ordeal is held together with spit and prayer. As has become the routine from the last couple of years, Microsoft was once again the first...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 29: Everybody Get Into Your Gundam Suits We’re Taking Down Obamacare
The HUG boys get phat with a “ph” this week by rolling deep in such game-related topics as toilet brands, online Uno sex dens, adults earnestly complaining about children’s games, the Harkness Test, South Korean pornographic law, MMA movies, and 12th-century racism. We also talk about how all our zombocalypse plans involve either fixing helicopters or killing ourselves as quickly...
Round-Up: Playstation 4 Event
Hey guys! Like many others, I was glued to my stream of the Playstation event from Sony last night. A lot of things were brought to the table, and a lot of things were completely brushed over. I’m going to go through all of the biggest announcements and ghosts from the event and rate each one in a score that...
CoNoJo’s Top Games of 2012
2012 is officially the year in video gaming that confused the hell out of me. It took me far too much time and research to even really remember what came out this year, and of the AAA titles I could remember off-hand, none of them came to mind without serious caveats. Far Cry 3 grew too tiresome too quickly, Diablo 3 came...
THQ – The Rise and Fall of the Headquarters for Toys
The final bell has tolled, the curtain’s been called, the…ending metaphor has been exhausted, and the once-great name in gaming that is THQ is no more. If you’ve been following the stories in the news for the past week you’ll likely know as much as I do as to how it all carved out, but I’ll give you all a...
GB Visits: East Side Games
Family. One thing that is always lost in any transactions, of nearly any amount (be it employees, money, businesses), is family. I’ve never heard an employee at a major developer talk about solidarity within their walls. However, this has been something that indie developers have grown to be known for. Here in Vancouver, the “underground scene” has been rising from...
Game of the Year 2012
It has been a monumental year for gaming and all of us so who take part in that world. So I bring you MY list of the best titles of 2012 and my game of the year, with a couple of runners-up thrown in. This year we’ve seen Assassins built on Vengeance, and the abduction of Little Girls. We’ve seen Galaxies...
Last Pick Productions Begs to Differ in the Streets of Vancouver
Another local group who have a long history of creating great games in this fair city of ours. Last Pick Productions is the new mind beast from Chris Worboys, Simon Roscoe, and Jeunessa Cheng. It seems as if they’re trying to make a statement right out of the gate. In a time where our consoles and cell phones are draped in overly...
Adventures in Azeroth Update #1
To my darling Dawwn, It’s not friendly out here. It hasn’t been easy. After I solved some major issues at the grove on the Darkshore, I headed south. I met the most curious character. A human dark wizard from the eastern islands. His name was Durrca and he taught me a few things about being higher rank in Azeroth. He...
Adventures in Azeroth
09/06/12 Dear Dawwn and Family, I started my journey today. It was hard to leave you and the boy behind in order to perfect the ideals of our future, but as a provider I didn’t see any other way. I know we argued this for years before it eventually came to fruition, and I hope it’s still not held against me among my...
Borderlands 2′s “Girlfriend Mode” Sets Idiots Ablaze Online
It’s and odd conundrum and one that I tend to stray away from. I know a lot of great female gamers, even ones that can completely kick my ass (aka Mrs Violence) but I’ve never once saw a female gamer and thought “oh, she probably sucks”. However, the “smrt” people at EuroGamer struck another blunder today when they apparently accurately quoted Gearbox...
CoV Plug: IPL San Francisco Showdown Replay
Head on over to our little brother League of Legends site and check out their new post! http://cofv.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/the-replay-ipl-san-francisco-showdown/ Thanks!
Mass Effect Movie to be Based on the First Game, With the Script Already Written
I’m waiting for the day when a video game movie comes out that does for our genre what Spiderman did for the comic book film world. While thankfully everyone’s favourite German boxer Uwe Boll seems to have gotten out of the video game film industry, there still hasn’t been a single good or even passable movie based on a game...
EA (Kind of?) Announces Battlefield 4
Battlefield 3 was one of EA’s biggest tent-pole releases last year, with a little over two million sales worldwide, as well as numerous accolades from the game critique crowd. So it was a foregone conclusion that another Battlefield title would be put into development, that we’d hear about its announcement in a huge splashy Game Informer cover, and promptly proceed...
Sleeping Dogs – Voice Talent
Vancouver’s United Front Games is doing some great things in this town and with the recent wave of crazy noise in our industry, United Front said “No we won’t be shut down” and kept making their game regardless of big publishers backing out of the project. While we all sit in patient agony and await the arival of this piece...
Metal Gear Solid 5 Screenshots Displayed at San Diego Comic Con *DEBUNKED*
*UPDATE* Konami UK has proven the MGS 5 screenshots were a hoax. I’d feel duped, but I wanted so badly for it to be real that I let my optimism run away with me. Oh well, it was a pleasant couple of hours. I’ll leave the original article unaltered, because I find my blind optimism endearing, and I hope you...
A Small Tribute to Radical Entertainment
These past few weeks have brought us a lot of things, one of which I don’t think anyone saw coming. The closure of Radical Entertainment. For years, Radical has been a homestead and headquarters of awesomeness in Vancouver. Since its conception in 1991, this subsidiary of Activision has made some great games that will forever be remembered. The founding members were...
Deadpool franchise announced at SDCC
High Moon studios dropped an awesome bomb at San Diego Comic-Con, announcing a Deadpool video game in the vein of the Wolverine solo action titles. There are a lot of great feelings inside of this guy upon watching the announcement trailer for Deadpool. He’s never taken very seriously because of his hilarious nature, and overly wicked style of fighting. But the character depth is...
Rockstar Vancouver is Closing its Doors
It’s been a really hard couple of weeks for the Vancouver gaming scene. A few scant weeks ago our fair city lost one of its premier development houses with the closing of Radical Entertainment’s doors, and now less than two weeks later one of the most high-profile names in town, Rockstar Vancouver, are also shutting their doors. The developers of...
Introducing the “Ouya”, a $99 Console that wants to Change the Industry
While many in the video game industry have been waiting patiently for announcements regarding Microsoft or Sony‘s new console, a curve ball’s been recently thrown into the ring, one that looks to…fumble the Big Three’s…field goal? That was a solid sports metaphor, right? Called the “Ouya” (which without fact-checking I’m assuming and shall henceforth pronounce solely as “Oh-Yah!”), this $99...