An opinion article about how big gaming companies continue to rehash the same gaming franchises over and over without allowing for creative development by devopers.
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.
The 360 has been on the market for 3 years and it has 2 Gears of Wars. I thgout that was a bit much then I started to really think about it. With the ps3 only being out for 2 years it has had 2 resistances and 2 rachets. I thought that was insane until I realized that there have 4 Call of Duty's in 3 years. That's just stupid.
I agree that independant IP is very much appreciated but I also believe that money plays a huge factor in this as well. Unfortunately the time it takes to create something brand new doesn't justify the wait in the big corporates eyes. They want money and right away. If that means putting out a COD5 because it will sell a ton then they will, even if it's just rehashed material.
George Lucas= wtf he's cool :(
Madden= PHAIL EPIC PHAIL JUST STOP THEM
Mirrors Edge/Dead Space= Win
NHL 09= a well thought out sports game :)
activison= extreme fail.....
EA=less of a fail :)