Blog Profile / Insert Coin
| URL : | http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Video Games | |
| Posts on Regator: | 538 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 8, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Microsoft May Try to Relaunch Heroes on Xbox Live
is attempting to compete on a number of fronts with their various products, whether it’s operating systems, internet search, phones, video games or pretty much anything else you can think of in the tech sphere. But now they’re moving into a new category, original TV programming. As part of a push for the Xbox, MSN wants to [...]
Battlefield 4 Rejects Motion Control Support
It used to be thought of as the wave of the future, but now motion controls are on the outs, relatively speaking. In the past, many third party games would bend over backwards to include just a little bit of motion control in their games to please the gods of the Wiimote, Sixaxis, Move or [...]
Analyst Predicts Bad March for the Wii, Worse for the Wii U
Far be it from me to take Michael Patcher’s word as gospel, but if his recent estimates are right, it’s going to be a rather terrible March for. The Wedbush analyst believes that sold about 85,000 Wiis in March, and only 55,000 Wii Us. That would make the Wii sales down 51% from last [...]
Five Lessons Learned from BioShock Infinite’s Success
Though it’s only April, it’s already clear that BioShock Infinite will indeed be regarded as one of the best games of the year, if not the best in many player’s eyes by the time 2014 rolls around. It was an anticipated title to be sure, but few expected the quality we saw from the final [...]
Zynga’s Draw Something Lives On with Two TV Shows and a Sequel
Zynga has made many acquisitions in recent years as they’ve tried to pad their status as a mobile giant, but one of their most questionable ones was when they bought OMGPOP, creators of Draw Something, for $200M. At the time, the app was at the peak of its popularity, and was the game everyone was [...]
This is Not the Road Rash Reboot You’re Looking For
…but it may be the best hope of the series living again. Through the magic of, you guessed it, Kickstarter, another long-dead franchise may rise once more. But if a reboot has only the concept, but not the team nor name of the original, is that good enough? That’s the Kickstarting philosophical question posed by [...]
No, Dota 2 Has Not Unseated League of Legends
I read a rather odd report this morning that made me do a double take. In the West, it claimed, Valve’s Defense of the Ancients 2 had surpassed Riot’s League of Legends as the most played video game. The report comes from DFC Intelligence, who claims a recent surge in popularity has propelled Dota 2 [...]
Adam ‘Always On’ Orth No Longer with Microsoft
Last week, the internet was grumbling about a series of tweets that Microsoft Studios Creative Director decided to empty from his brain onto the screens of millions. He lamented the continued protest of devices that were “always on,” saying that it was “the world we live in” and everyone can #dealwithit. This would normally be [...]
EA Voted Worst Company in America, Again
Well, who could have ever predicted this? As soon as it was announced that EA was again nominated for Consumerist’s Worst Company in America bracket, it was almost certain they’d win. If last year they beat out a company responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of the planet, what chance did anyone [...]
Blizzard Invests in eSports, Takes the Reins of IPL from IGN
Many of us eSports fans were quite saddened when a casualty of Ziff Davis’s recent acquisition of IGN turned out to be IPL, the eSports pro league which had put on some of the best events out there, despite competition with deeper pockets. IPL 6 in Vegas was cancelled at the last minute, and it [...]
New Sources Say Microsoft’s Next Xbox Needs Internet to Live, May Have $99 Model
As Microsoft refuses to comment either way on anything its next console is capable of, those of us in the media are reliant on inside sources familiar with the upcoming system to give us any clue of what to expect. The info we find varies, but there’s one very important thread running through most of [...]
Torment Closes as the Best Funded Game in Kickstarter History
I realize that saying something is the “most something” in Kickstarter history isn’t all that impressive given how young the service is, but what Torment: Tides of Numenera has achieved is definitely worth highlighting. We’ve been following the project for a while now, and the funds just kept pouring in as Torment beat the Ouya [...]
Microsoft Apologizes, But Refuses to Comment on ‘Always On’
I was planning on avoiding yet another controversy started on Twitter yesterday, as it seems there’s a new gaming-related one every few hours. In it, Creative Director at Studios David Orth kicked things off by saying he “didn’t understand the drama around ‘always on’ consoles” because “every device is now ‘always on’ ” He concluded with the hashtag [...]
Machinima and Kevin Pereira Spawn the Most Embarrassing Gaming Video of All Time
Ever watched a video so bad that even YouTube commenters are declaring it misogynistic and reprehensible? Me neither, until today. I’ve been directed to watch a new web show from gaming giant Machinima and Attack of the Show ex-host Kevin Pereira, Player vs. Pain. You can watch a mirror of it here, because Machinima has [...]
Are We Growing War Weary of Ultra-Violent Games?
I read an interesting article yesterday by Chris Plante over at Polygon. He was discussing how his wife was very interested in BioShock Infinite, the art, the philosophy and so on, but was limited in her enjoyment of the game because she simply couldn’t stomach the widespread gore and violence that came with it. is [...]
Nissan Solves the World’s Energy Crisis in First SimCity DLC
We’re still reeling from how bad a launch SimCity had with its myraid of server issues, but now we’re moving on for the time being as the game attempts to find some semblance of a normal existence. In fact, they’re already starting to roll out their first piece of DLC to players! It’s free, and [...]
Assassin’s Creed Series Will Be Annual Until We Beg Them to Stop
If you’re like me, you were probably a bit surprised that Assassin’s Creed was getting another numbered installment so quickly, with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag setting sail this fall. In truth, it’s now a part of Ubisoft’s mantra for the series, a new AC game every year until fans don’t want to play them [...]
The One Twist in BioShock Infinite’s Ending You Might Have Missed Completely
I’ve had a blast the past few days reading through the hundreds of comments on this post In it, I spent 3,000 words discussing the mind-bending ending of the BioShock Infinite, and readers spent thousands more giving their own opinions on all the events that unfold in the finale. There are discussions of metaphysics and [...]
An Attempt to Understand BioShock Infinite’s Brilliant and Bizarre Ending
I couldn’t sleep last night. It was the first time in as long as I can remember that I sat down and finished an entire single player game in one day. I’d done it before with six hour Call of Duty campaigns, but that’s not really the same, and doesn’t compare to what just happened [...]
Bioshock Infinite Review Part 1: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
It’s said that Irrational ‘ Ken Levine is something as a perfectionist. That’s the reason why you’ve been seeing Bioshock Infinite advertised for years, yet only now is it finally being released. Sometimes, extra time for a game to “evolve” results in disaster, as old ideas are scrapped and new ones are shoved in to [...]