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Playing some cerebral horror games, heading towards the end of the year, and a some more industry screw-ups. Well I just finished yet another personal creative project that is now making its rounds through publication editors, which means its time for another blog post. As I said before, if none of my work gets picked…
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Shifting Creative Gears, Finishing Projects, and What’s Good in HyperMedia Land Alright, so It’s been a couple months since I was here last, where I was talking about Xbox being really weird and a bunch of unnecessary layoffs happening in the games industry (things have not improved). Since then though, I decided to get back…
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Studio closures, poor console sales, and grim insider updates spell rough seas ahead for Microsoft’s gaming division A couple months ago I wrote about the depressing state of the AAA games industry, and the swaths of layoffs that have been plaguing the talent behind the titles for the last 18 months. We talked about development…
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Going back to some old favorites, finishing a long journey, and the best multiplayer in a decade. April has been a bit of a slower month in terms of big releases in several mediums. Films have a bit slower, with smaller budget darlings like Civil War and Monkey Man padding out the schedule before the…
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How gaming’s most iconic racing franchise grew alongside real car enthusiasts. In 1994, Pioneer Productions – later known as EA Games Canada – collaborated with automotive magazine Road & Track to create a little racing game called The Need for Speed. The idea, as with most video games at the time, was to put the…
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The Games, Reads, and Flicks of the Month March is finally over. Spring has sprung, the weather is warming up, and the full post-holiday art release cycle is well underway. While the games industry has been in full-swing thanks to releases like Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Persona 3 Reload, film has only just really started…
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Andrzej Sapkowski’s acclaimed fantasy series The Witcher is a strange duck within the genre. Rather than spend time building up to epic battles and hunting for all-powerful MacGuffins, Sapkowski instead focuses primarily on thematic philosophy and charm. Across eight books (two of which are short story collections), a trilogy of acclaimed role playing video games…
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The AAA Games industry is falling apart – but there are some silver linings. Over the last year, major game developers and publishers have laid off thousands of their employees as a short-term Band-Aid to their ailing profits. In just the last few months, a massive number of employees were let go from Microsoft, Electronic…
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Spiraling through a hostile world, and the bliss of childhood nostalgia February was a big month for gaming both here at HyperMedia and in the industry at large. The world finally got its hands on two hugely anticipated remakes with Persona 3 Reload and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, the latter of which slid in with…
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Since the release of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972, there have been millions of video games released over dozens of consoles and types of PCs. Of those millions, only roughly 13% of those games can be bought and played on modern hardware. Why is this the case? What happened to all of those games? Some…
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