So I was watching Angry Joe's impressions of the first chapter of Telltale's Batman story/game/quicktimeevent. I pretty much agree with his assessment, although personally I'm not interested in it anyway. Essentially Gameplay low scores, Story high scores. That's kind of what you expect out of Telltale anyway, and by now it's the story that their ( Read more... )

You remember how I said a few posts back when I was ranting about how developers have evolved (Devolved?) into using tricks to make people think the excessive DLC isn't so bad since technically "it's all free", as in, it can all be earned by some in-game currency system. As I mentioned, they do this to give themselves a talking point when people ( Read more... )

According to this report on PC Gamer, the new Tomb Raider that's coming out soon (Xbox first) is to have hundreds of DLC ( Read more... )

"Forward Operating Bases" are a core part of the multiplayer online aspect of the latest metal gear. Essentially it's a place to put your stuff ( Read more... )

"Blame console peasants for dlc becoming popular and season passes ( Read more... )

The first game to be officially caught up in my new Sega boycott ( Read more... )

I -was- going to rant about how the latest Batman game on PC was apparently so poorly put together and released to the point where the devs have actually stopped selling the game on PC until it's been finished. This is apparently their second PR damage control action. I don't know what their first response to PC gamers being pissed off at them, but ( Read more... )

From the forbes article on it we have this ( Read more... )

This is actually old news, and admittedly I don't care much for the game in question - I have the game prior to it for free on PSN but still haven't actually played it ( Read more... )

Right here we have another example of game devs trying to justify DLC tactics in a good light. CD Projekt claims to be targetting predatory DLC tactics of other companies (NIS America in particular is mentioned in the article, as is a game called Train Simulator ( Read more... )