With E3 approaching in less than a week the gamer community is a buzz with speculation. We still don’t have an official list of what games are going to be featured by the individual publishers and the news that’s going to come out about the next generation is anyone’s guess. […]
Btooom!: Explosions, More Explosions, and…?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEV16SObPZY] Anime set in a virtual reality world aren’t new: take series like .hack//SIGN, Sword Art Online, and Accel World, for example. The characters are taken from the comfort of the “real world” and placed into the game space itself. A death of a character, once a meaningless hurdle, is […]
Psycho-Pass: A Lesson in Morality
It doesn’t matter if you’re into anime or not. Psycho-Pass should be something you watch. Although I can’t say it’ll ever reach Cowboy Bebop or Dragon Ball Z proportions in terms of westernization, Psycho-Pass doesn’t need that. This is an anime worth watching for its themes, its content, and its […]
From Up on Poppy Hill is Charming, but with a Twist!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vfzhfq5JA] While I’ve seen almost every Studio Ghibli film—you know, the animation studio that brought you films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle—I never got around to watching From Up on Poppy Hill. It’s the most recent release and, more importantly, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki, directed the film. […]
Realism and Motion Capture in Video Games
Technology keeps updating and innovating in the realm of video games. It’s become an expectation for graphics to improve, but do better graphics mean more realism? Since the transition to more powerful processors and graphics cards, consoles and computers alike have encouraged projects to pay more attention to the aesthetics. […]
Path of Exile: A Refreshing Online Experience
Path of Exile, a new “online action RPG” from New Zealand-based team Grinding Gear Games, is currently in open beta. While the graphical style and rather outdated-looking UI may seem uninspiring at first glance, the gameplay is anything but. There is a Diablo-esque familiarity to the ARPG that will draw […]
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