Tag Archives: video games

Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Wii U, 3DS and Vita. What does the gaming landscape look like in 2014?

The Best of the Best

For the past three years, I’ve been writing about my excitement leading up to annual Electronic Entertainment Expo and then followed it up with my subsequent disappointment in what I saw.   From 2010 to 2013, E3 has rolled out the red carpet for the Nintendo 3DS, the Playstation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U.  All three consoles have had ...

How much is a video game worth? I pondered that question exactly two years ago when I speculated on the fortunes of game publishers and how they might approach the new generation of traditional consoles – Playstation4, Xbox 720, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita. It was a short and sweet piece in which I naively surmised that to ...

It’s not out till Boxing Day in Australia but I’m quite looking forward to Wreck-It-Ralph.  Sentient video game characters trapped in an arcade cabinet is such a great idea for a movie.  Plus they seem to have gone all out with the licenses and got Nintendo, Sega, Capcom and Atari characters to make cameos.

Probably one of the best surprises of the week was getting an email from Jen at work letting me know she had bought tickets to the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo in Melbourne next year.  PAX is a huge gaming convention that had been run exclusively in the States for a number of years and this is the first ever international ...

One of the worst E3s in recent memory

It’s that time of year!  The annual video game drought where there is a barren wasteland of new releases from January to September is over.  Now we’re in that heavily congested fourth quarter of the year where all the good games come out all at once.  Other than blowing a massive hole in your wallet and causing you to become ...

It’s an interesting time to be a gamer – we’re currently undergoing the gradual transition from one generation of consoles to another.  The portables are first – the Nintendo 3DS launched in Australia a few weeks ago, Sony’s Next Generation Portable is expected to launch later this year.  The home consoles aren’t be far behind.  Nintendo have confirmed that they ...

I don’t quite know how this happened but its April 2011 and I’ve only written a couple of blogs about video games.  I’ve got a huge backlog of stuff I want to write about.  Xbox Kinect.  Xbox Live Arcade games.  Nintendo 3DS.  iPhone Games.  Now is a good a time as any to start getting stuck into it. This week, ...