Platform Nation: I know it’s weird that I talk so much about it, but given that I’m experiencing something I’m so familiar with in a group of rather inexperienced gamers, playing Red Dead Redemption is less of a game now and more of a psychological study for me. There is just about every type in the group: super brainy and dabbles with PC games (usually of the Bethesda brand); that guy that would be happy just buying Madden every year for the rest of his life; and most of them only play when others play. They are, in effective, a statistically weak but widely encompassing sample size.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
