Japan Recently, Gamasutra covered an illuminating bit of information released from Japan gaming site Famitsu. There were a few interesting bits of information in that story: for one, 2014 was Japan's biggest, most financially successful year for gaming of all time. What could possibly account for this landmark year, with such a lack of big…

Miyamoto In a recent interview with NPR, legendary Nintendo luminary Shigeru Miyamoto had this to say about the Wii U: "I think unfortunately what ended up happening was that tablets themselves appeared in the marketplace and evolved very, very rapidly, and unfortunately the Wii system launched at a time where the uniqueness of those features were…

YouTube The Gaming market on Youtube is definitely a big one! It's one of the biggest Niches out there and it claims that hundreds of millions of gamers are posting their content right on the site. People are spending billions of hours (total) watching these videos. Over half of the top 100 Youtube channels are…

Hellfire On Wednesday the 24th of June the next patch in Blizzard's flagship MMO's latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor will go live. Patch 6.2, deigned by Blizzard 'Fury of Hellfire' aims to satiate the swelling appetites of the plethora of players who find themselves sitting on their hands at level cap, but how will they attempt…

Kingdom Hearts 3 Kingdom hearts fans rejoiced this past week as Square-Enix finally gave the fans a new trailer with some gameplay of the game that just disappeared years ago : Kingdom Hearts 3. It's been 10 years since Kingdom Hearts 2 was released on the ps2 and right after people beat that game they were…

E3 The E3 week is now over, and as usual it came with a lot of new games, old games, fun games, less fun games, unexpected games and expected games. When nearing the end of the week, one thing we have learned to count on, is that almost all sites covering E3 will discuss who…

Final Fantasy Now that E3 2015 is drawn to a close, us gamers can finally sit down and comprehend some of the bombs that were announced this year. The most atomic of these arguably was the announcement of a Final Fantasy VII remake. When the trailer dropped during Sony's conference this year, you could hear…

This year sees the first expansion, aptly named Heavensward, come to the MMORPG Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn. A Realm Reborn came out in 2013 after being completely remade and re-branded due to a disappointing first incarnation(which did have an epic send off where the great dragon Bahamut came and obliterated everything). Heavensward sees us across…

Shenmue The Shenmue series defines cult classic with its two beloved entries on the Dreamcast, but was unable to continue the series due to poor sales.  Players were enamored with the incredibly detailed world and heartfelt story and have been eagerly awaiting a continuation of the series for more than a decade. In a surprising announcement…

South Park South Park: The Stick of Truth was one of those rare few licensed games to garner critical acclaim, capturing the unique look and feel of the long-running animated series it was based on.   In a surprising opening to Ubisoft's E3 conference, a sequel was announced with a new take on the vulgar…