Posts Tagged ‘The Hot Topic’
The Hot Topic: Is Combat Crippling Games?
I’ve just spent the last five minutes mulling over some criticisms by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, targeting the lack of logic in Uncharted 2’s opening scenes. Granted some moments in Uncharted 2 are a little bit nonsensical, he does have a point…
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The Hot Topic: Do We Need Motion Plus?
After a brief catch up on old feeds and podcasts I’ve noticed a current trend of resentment towards Nintendo’s controller upgrade. But all I heard previously before the upgrade is that the controller doesn’t offer the one to one response that the system is striving after. So what do people really want?
One quick look at [...]
The Hot Topic: Do We Need A Next-Generation?
The seemingly only analyst that covers the video game industry, Michael Pachter has reportedly commented on the next-generation of hardware already but estimates that we won’t see any of it on store shelves until 2013. Despite being a long way away compared to previous generations it begs a few questions. Is anyone really unhappy with [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic: OnLive's Ownership Debate
The future direction of gaming, the next evolutionary step or the current innovative trend for the industry. However you hear it described, you still can’t believe that this service is meant to see the light of day at the end of the year. It could be all of these things and more but it could [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic: Used Game Shame?
I’m sure we are all guilty of the perishable crime of buying a preowned game. Be it a big name exclusively games only retailer or through an online distributor, the easy and most importantly cheap nature of used games makes it so appealing.
Publishers and Developers are now starting to frown upon retailers and buyers who [...]
The Hot Topic: iPhone 3.0's Growing Pains
I was just checking out the recent announcements coming out of Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 and I’m starting to wonder if it will be better for the device. Sure you can’t argue that copy-paste, add-on support among other fixes are bad but the way the device seems to be going as for gaming doesn’t bode [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic: The Right Shift For Need For Speed?
Well in case you were wondering what is happening to the Need for Speed series, EA let out some information on how they are going to turn it around. Need for Speed Shift will be a traditional racing simulation seen on the 360, PS3 and PC while Need for Speed Nitro will be the arcadic [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic: PSP2 With Touchscreen?
With the handheld space being dominated by the Nintendo DS and any future exciting developments within the handheld market happening on the iPhone it’s really hard to see were the PSP fits in. It’s granted that it’s a good device but the nature of the system, it means that your just playing half the game [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic : Is The Wii Successful?
Sure this sounds crazy but hear me out before you answer. Sure in terms of sales and popularity it’s a sure fire hit but in terms of games and staying power does it cut the mustard?
About a year and a half ago I got my Wii on release and although it was hard to find [...]
The Hot Topic : Whats Next For Nintendo?
I guess by now we can finally say that Nintendo have turned it around since the small degrees of success that they had with the Gamecube. The Wii and DS have sold millions worldwide and they still have a few more years in them yet but what is next for Nintendo? Do they stop all [...]