Elijah Wood: Transference’s Hollywood collaboration comes from a ‘genuine place’
For some, the phrase “Hollywood and video games” doesn’t have positive connotations due to a history of bad licensed products, canceled projects, and terrible...
Cloud gaming has potential, but its execution isn’t a breeze
It’s been awhile since OnLive came out of stealth in 2009 and promised to disrupt the game consoles with a revolutionary cloud-gaming service, where...
Why Ubisoft needs 12,000 game developers
If Vivendi had succeeded in its hostile takeover of Ubisoft, you can bet the French video game publisher wouldn’t still have 14,000 employees, including...
Trials Rising embraces the old motorbike mayhem that I love
A few weeks back, someone on Twitter asked to hear from people who have “comfort games.” These are games you can go back to...
Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones is a surprisingly good pirate naval battle game
Skull & Bones started out as a relatively mediocre and little-noticed title when Ubisoft showed the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) game...
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),...
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...
At E3 2018, too many companies ruined their own shots at the spotlight
For decades, a game theory called the “prisoner’s dilemma” has explained why people who work together do better overall than those who scheme against...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is an RPG so that history can be your playground
I spent the Sunday before the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo locked away in a cool, climate-controlled room packed with PCs running Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey....
Asssassin’s Creed: Odyssey won’t let you romance Socrates, so what’s the point?
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the culmination of Ubisoft’s efforts to turn its historical playground adventures into full role-playing experiences. The publisher started that effort...