What You’re Getting Into With ‘Early Access’

Posted on 20 Aug 2020 by

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Fortnite made billions of dollars while being in ‘Early Access’ status.

It seems like we are so far removed from the era of video games being released as complete packages in themselves. I can remember growing up during an age of gaming when there was no such thing as Downloadable Content (DLC), patches, betas, alphas or early access. The games simply went on sale, you purchased it from the store, then brought it home and played it. There was no waiting for a Day One patch to download, no having to install a game from your disc to the hard drive and definitely no having to wait for months while paying extra money along the way for the developer’s version of the “complete” game. Those were such simpler times. Continue Reading

The Best Doc on EA That You Will See

Posted on 18 Aug 2020 by

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SOFTDRINKTV’s documentary on EA Sports is must see.

Wow. That is the first word that came to mind after watching the nearly one hour documentary by Youtuber “SOFTDRINKTV” on “The Fall of EA Sports.” If you are familiar with Madden football video games or with EA Sports in general, this is a video that gets a very high recommendation from me because it shows in detail how the company went from being passionate and innovative about their products to now being known for simply extracting as much money as possible from its consumers. You’ll find the actual video embedded later in the article. Continue Reading

Call of Duty is a Gigabyte Guzzler

Posted on 15 Aug 2020 by

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PC Gamer notes the excessive amount of hard drive space needed to play Modern Warfare.

I really didn’t plan for this to happen but barely a day after I uploaded Thursday’s post, I came across this article by PC Gamer talking about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s excessive use of hard drive space with its constant updates. I have the game on Playstation 4 and from what I know, the game size has began to shrink over time. This is not the case on the PC platform. Continue Reading

A Call for Reformation to Patch Culture of Gaming

Posted on 13 Aug 2020 by

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Every time I launch the Steam client, I wait for updates to finish before playing.

You turn on your system and boot up your game of choice in anticipation of a great gaming session that will be a great way to pass the time over the next hour or so. Yet the game never makes it to the main menu and in fact, depending on the platform, the game hasn’t started up in the first place. What you are treated to instead of the main menu of your selected title is an update prompt that means you will have to wait from anywhere between a few minutes to more than an hour for the game to finally be patched so you can actually play. Is this something you’ve gone through? Continue Reading

IN THE NEWS: When Gaming Becomes Too Much

Posted on 11 Aug 2020 by

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A recent IGN.com article on how gaming gone wrong is costly.
(Courtesy: IGN.com)

THIS IS THE FIRST POST OF A NEW CURRENT EVENT RELATED SERIES FOR THE SITE CALLED “IN THE NEWS.” THE BASIC PREMISE IS THAT IF I HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS VIDEO GAME RELATED NEWS THAT SEEMS INTERESTING AND RELEVANT ENOUGH TO ADDRESS HERE, THEN I WILL WRITE A POST ON IT. THANK YOU FOR READING.

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to view an article on IGN.com about a teenage boy who wiped out years of his mother’s savings by giving donations to Twitch game streamers whose videos he enjoyed. According to the story, the amount the teen gave over a 17-day span totaled nearly $20,000. Continue Reading

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