Anthem’s story ‘anchors the content,’ but it’s still a BioWare experience
When I walked out of “the box” that housed the Anthem demo in the back of the EA Play event last Sunday before the...
In afterglow of E3 show, WHO labels compulsive game playing an addiction
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that “gaming disorder” will appear in a new draft of the organization’s International Classification of Diseases, a compendium...
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: ‘I’m charged with making hard decisions’
Strauss Zelnick is very efficient with his answers. When I interviewed the CEO of Take-Two Interactive last week at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3),...
Ghost of Tsushima: How U.S. dev Sucker Punch is making the ultimate samurai game
Can an American game studio make one of the best samurai video games ever? That’s the question for Sucker Punch as it develops Ghost...
Pokémon Go finally gets trading and a friends list, rolls out this week
Niantic announced today that Pokémon Go will soon be getting two big features: Pokémon trading and a friends list. These have been requests from...
The Elder Scrolls: Blades hands-on — a natural fit for VR
When Bethesda announced a new Elder Scrolls game at their E3 2018 press conference, I got extremely excited. Knowing that it was a mobile...
How Nintendo approached E3 2018: quality, esports, and immediate gratification
It was time that Nintendo held a big show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and revealed a lot of new games. But this...
Wattam hands-on — explosions and dancing poop bring the world together
No one but Keita Takahashi could make a game like Wattam. He’s known for Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, and his newest project sports his...
Déraciné hands-on: From Software can also do beautiful, thoughtful VR
If you told me a week ago that From Software, the legendary developer behind the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne were making a PSVR...
What Alienware has learned from 10 years of esports
Frank Azor cofounded Alienware more than two decades ago, and so he had the look of a grizzled veteran at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...