Skyrim Paid Mod Fiasco

The fiasco surrounding Valve's new Paid Mod system on Steam(which started with Skyrim mods) is a hot topic since they announced this new system. Some people supports the idea but disagrees with some aspects of it while others hate the concept of paying for mods. But what is at the core of this chaos? who is to blame here? let's try to analyze the situation.

Kantai Collection Final Impression

It's been a week since the anime ended and it's time for my final impression of Kantai Collection.

Kantai Collection Mid-Season Impression

Kantai Collection have reached 6 episodes and it is time for my mid-season impression of this series. Oh and as a warning, this post will contain spoilers.

H1Z1 and how SOE lied to their customers

H1Z1, Sony Online Entertainment's latest game which offers a F2P zombie survival experience just went into Steam Early Access. While I have not played the game yet there are a few things to talk about the current state of the game.

Thoughts on Blizzard's Overwatch

Blizzard announced their new game and IP, Overwatch. A Team-based shooter that's influenced by MOBAs and TF2. Here's some of my thoughts on the game.

Identifying Different Tiers of Pay to Win in Games

 

In my last article regarding Archeblade I talked a bit about that game being Pay to Win and I wanted to write more about Pay to Win in games. I see the term being thrown around quite a lot lately and most of the time people are just using the term Pay to Win to anything that offers microtransactions in it. A Free to Play game with microtransaction does not make it Pay to Win, and while I can just write about how this is the case I will instead write about how you can decide for yourself whether a game is Pay to Win or not.

Digital Platform Trend

With the success of Steam, other companies have stepped up and try to get a slice of the digital platform cake. Big boys like EA with Origin and Ubisoft with uPlay and Blizzard with Battle.Net Launcher or even MMO companies like Perfect World with Arc, Aeria Games with Ignite and Trion Worlds with Glyph. They are all now competing with each other, trying to get ahead of Steam who already had an enormous lead.

5 Upcoming MOBAs to Keep Watch On

MOBAs or DOTA Clones or whatever you want to call them are really popular right now with League of Legends and DotA 2 in the forefront with some other title such as SMITE, Heroes of Newerth and Awesomenauts also having quite a lot of players. Naturally, developers will jump into the bandwagon and start producing various MOBAs of their own.

Are Early Access Games Detrimental To The Gaming Industry?

Releasing games when they are not ready seems to be a trend in the gaming industry nowadays. Some are released filled with bugs and some just flat out not work. Most of the time, these unfinished games are released because of time limitation or the devs are just forced to release it ahead of time. In some cases, developers release their game in an unfinished state and have the players test it out for them. A few years ago people will call this bullshit, but nowadays we call it Early Access.