This Tuesday was rough for both a handful of folks in the San Francisco Bay area and the gaming industry as a whole. While the writing's been on the wall for publisher Ziff Davis since March of last year (when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection), thousands of gamers continued to visit the company's websites and purchase Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM). Things took a turn for the worst on Tuesday evening, though, when Ziff Davis announced the sale of many of its gaming web properties to Hearst Publishing (and their competing UGO web network) and the outright cessation of EGM. As the dust settled yesterday, many of the industry's most respected journalists were left unemployed or uncertain as to their futures.
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.
Make your own site Shane.I'll support it.Just like I joined Giantbomb after Gertsmann got fired by Gamespot.