Fellow gamers, distinguished colleagues, friends,
I write here to raise awareness of a grave injustice befalling the gamers of an unfortunate society. Numbering in the thousands, these gamers are crying out for a saviour to rescue them from their oppressive government and sanctioned international trade laws.
I am of course, speaking of the good people from the People’s Republic of Australia
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The march of technology is supposed to make things better for consumers, but these days it seems videogame makers strive to find new ways to take more of our money and give us less in return.
We are not communists here at Game|Life. We want publishers to make financially prudent decisions so they can continue to deliver games that fuel our addictions. But some bone-headed business moves benefit everyone except us.
Here are the 10 worst offenders:
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The iPhone is enjoying unrivaled success as a mobile gaming platform. Even major development studios like EA, SEGA and Konami have taken notice and released for iPhone, such as Spore, Star Wars: Force Unleashed, and Metal Gear Solid.
What makes it so successful?
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Good Game recently held a contest for special gaming memories to be entered into the “The Good Game Gamers Guide to Good Gaming”.
“We’re looking for your special gaming memory…it might be the time you took out the high score on Pacman at the local milk bar, the first time you wielded that gravity gun or that time when you really called yourself a gamer. It can be anything as long as the story is good, relates to your gaming experience and is something that others would want to read.. .and that you can tell it all in 60 words or less.” - Good Game
Here are my responses:
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A number of people raised comments about my previous article (Console Sales - The Report Card) by saying that the Wii was skewing the results. There was also some doubt as to my final conclusion that growth in the industry was being driven primarily by Wii sales. This article is a short follow-up. I will attempt to reproduce a few of the graphs, but removing the Wii from the analysis so we can get a clearer picture of the “hardcore” consoles. The results were quite surprising…
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Now that we are relatively deep into the current console generation, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the NPD sales data till now to see how they all stack up. We will go through a brief analysis of all the quarterly data and provide a report card for each console. Just to emphasize, this is NOT a report card on the relative merits of each console. This analysis is of pure, hard data. Sales of 100,000 are more than sales of 80,000 regardless of how you feel about each product. Basic mathematics. Now lets get down to business…
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My local arcade has been able to get their hands on this highly anticipated fighter, and I’ve been lucky enough to play it a few times. How does it stack up with the rest of the King of Fighters series?
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Capcom released the power pack update for SF4 last week, adding new features. These include a replay viewer and a new ‘Championship mode’, which is supposed to be the replacement for the very broken Ranked match system. Does it offer anything substantial or is it just another lazy update?
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Ever since 1993, gamers have had to endure crappy adaptations of their favourite video games. With every game movie that comes out, people have come to expect less and less, with the final product bearing little resemblance to the original game. Why are movie games so terrible?
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The following list is a compilation of my favourite gaming theme songs. It was difficult to narrow down such a list so I put together the following guidelines:
- Only one song per franchise:
Many of the games mentioned in this list (especially further down) have incredibly powerful soundtracks throughout their respective series. This restriction ensures there is some variety, rather than 10 songs from the same place.
- Must be a theme song:
Odd as this item might sound given the title of the list, a number of game soundtracks have phenomenal songs which would not be classified as a theme song. I am not restricting myself to say a theme song is only the title theme, but there must at least be a strong association between the music and the game for a majority of listeners. If a song sounds fantastic, but does not remind the listener of the game it is associated with, then it is not a theme song.
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