What Can The Nintendo Switch Do?

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Terry
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With the new trailer for the Nintendo Switch showing off how it works visually, a full list of the actual features are yet to be revealed. However, it can be surmised that it will have the following abilities, at least judging from the trailer. As was suspected by many, the new concept that the Switch heralds is a console/portable hybrid system. It also makes use of two detachable wii-mote style controllers that can be connected to a tablet style screen. These new controllers are named “Joy-Con” controllers and can be used in many adaptable ways, both with the system plugged in at home or out and about using the system portably. The controllers can be clicked into the tablet... Read More

The Effect Of Digitally Downloading Games

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Terry
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  Video games are following the easy to use, watch and forget streaming websites and embracing the digital download. Digital downloads are no longer an exception to the physical copy, they are now a primary way of obtaining new and old content. Streaming and digital downloads are much more popular than they used to be. Following the path laid by movie and TV download websites. Its also no coincidence that video games are becoming more like movies in the way they are made. We already see episodic games being sold as well as seasonal downloadable add-on packs. These sales tactics impact the games themselves as they are created with this sales method in mind at the start of... Read More

Game Mainstreaming

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Terry
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Different people look at games differently. Some see them as a form of entertainment, which entertains for a limited amount of time and then ends. Others see where the game came from, and what it means. Video games are becoming mainstream now. Like anything which becomes mainstream, it has to have had come from somewhere that was not mainstream, this means games used to be something special, something that doesn’t come along often. Also, the fact that video games are actually becoming mainstream means that they are worthy of being mainstream, that they hold enough clout in society to be recognised for what they are and what they were. Many people don’t realise it yet but video... Read More

Kick & Fennick Console Release

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Terry
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For those of you who have heard of Kick and Fennick, which was released in February last year exclusively on the PS Vita. You will be pleased to hear that it’s now available on a series of games consoles such as, PS4 Xbox One & Wii U. Players will play as Kick, a young boy who wakes up in a strange and brightly coloured world; a world with a futuristic city that’s built on the ruins of the cities of the past. He must explore this world with his helpful flying robot sidekick Fennick, armed with a high powered futuristic cannon gun which enables him to fight off enemies and make huge jumps using the weapon’s powerful recoil. Together they travel through this strange new... Read More

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Terry

The Heros in a half-shell are back in an action packed hack and slash video game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Battle alongside your brothers (Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo) through the streets, sewers, and subways or NYC to take down shredder and krang’s evil organization, foot by foot. unleash custom combat skills and powerful team combos to save Manhattan from the overwhelming dark forces growing in the shadows. There is a downside though… Previous games have been known for their Local/Couch Co-Op game play, though sadly they have done away with this in Mutants in Manhattan and each of your friends have to buy their own copies of the... Read More