Blog Profile / Insert Coin
| URL : | http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Video Games | |
| Posts on Regator: | 511 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 8, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
How an Injury is Sidelining Super Smash Bros. U
Many are wondering why we’ve heard relatively little about the new Super Smash Bros. title announced along with the Wii U in 2011. Many hoped it would be a launch title, as all three of the previous Super Smash Bros. titles are widely regarded as one of the best games for their respective systems. But all that’s followed so [...]
We Don’t Need a Video Game Oscars, Yet
An Oscar-winning movie. An Emmy-winning TV show. A ______-winning video game. It’s something that’s obvious to anyone who views video games as the third pillar of popular culture alongside films and television programs, we simply don’t have an equivalent awards show. Despite the rise in popularity of the medium, with gaming gathering fans across all [...]
What Will Microsoft Learn from the Wii U and PS4?
The Wii U is on sale, the PlayStation 4 has been officially announced. Now all eyes turn to, the last of the big three to premiere a new console. What will they do with the information they’ve gleaned from those who have “gone first”? Originally, said they wanted to wait for to announce, lest [...]
What We Didn’t Learn from Sony’s PS4 Reveal
The Playstation 4 exists. It will have games. It will have good graphics. It is “social.” That’s nearly the extent of what we learned during ‘s press conference last night announcing their new system. I’m oversimplifying of course. In two hours we did hear a lot of information about the capabilities and the games of [...]
Liveblogging Sony’s ‘Future of Playstation’ Press Conference
The predictions have been made, and now it’s time to see what Sony has in store for us. We’re all 99.99% sure we’re about to see Playstation 4 announced, or its alternatively named equivalent, and Sony’s big announcement press conference begins at 6PM EST. For something this big, I presume they’ll start on time. I’ll [...]
Five Things to Look For During Sony’s Playstation 4 Reveal Tonight
Tonight’s the night. After releasing a cryptic trailer and inviting 1,200 people to a live event, will finally reveal the “future of the Playstation” as promised. The show begins tonight at 6PM EST (3PM PST), and will be available to watch via livestream here for those of us who didn’t book a flight out to [...]
No, You Won’t See Bungie’s Destiny in 2013
There has been a lot of confusion surrounding this weekend’s preview of Bungie’s next MMOFPSWhateverItIs Destiny. We were shown a lot of concept art and told about big ideas the company has for the title, including a decade-long release cycle which would run at least through the end of the next console generation. But what was not [...]
China Opens Questionably Licensed League of Legends Restaurant, ‘Demacia’
is a bit infamous at this point for their disregard for trademark and copyright. While that’s given us plenty of “Mike” shoes and “Soni” laptops, there’s also an entire amusement park dedicated to unlicensed versions of Warcraft and Starcraft. But here in Chongqing,, there’s no dancing around it. A resident has now opened a [...]
Can Bungie’s Destiny Finally Disrupt Our Monotonous Cycle of Shooters?
This Sunday, Bungie finally debuted their long-awaited post-Halo project, Destiny. “Debut” may be a strong word as there’s barely any gameplay footage released yet, but we did get lengthy explanations about what they’re trying to achieve with the game. In short, it’s a shooter with a storyline and release cycle that’s already being planned to [...]
PlanetSide 2?s Creative Director Talks Development, Competitive Play and Why Free-to-Play is the Future
In a market where Call of Duty sells a billion dollars worth of copies every year, it can be hard to make an impact doing something different. But PlanetSide is just what many gamers like to see, an evolution of a genre into something new. The PlanetSide series isn’t new, and has been around for [...]
The Wii U’s Bleak Winter: Why Nintendo Must Take Action
While having a somewhat decent launch initially, sales of the Wii U have been slowing for a few months now with no must-have games on the horizon. Slowing by a worrying amount, actually. That fact is demonstrated by the NPD, who tells Gamasutra that Wii U sales are down 38% from where the Wii was [...]
Take-Two Takes the WWE Off THQ’s Hands
Never fear, wrestling fans, your annual parade of WWE licensed games will still continue flowing despite the dismantling of THQ. Take-Two has now taken over the WWE series, which is a huge relief for THQ. The WWE and Yuke’s, the Japanese company contracted to help make the wrestling titles, had filed claims against THQ totaling [...]
Even Rayman Legends’ Creator is Protesting the Game’s Wii U Delay
Like any big game company, Ubisoft has suffered its fair share of scrutiny over the years. In the past, complaints have mostly been DRM-centric, but they’ve now picked a new kind of fight with gamers. In a blow to both the Wii U and those who own it, the company announced that they were delaying [...]
‘Guys Who are Into Gaming are Not Necessarily Watching Television’
It’s rare that I’ll make an entire quote into a headline, but that sentiment from NBCU Cable and Entertainment Studios chairman made me roll me eyes so hard I thought I might pull a muscle. It comes in the wake of the announcement that the G4 network will be dismantled and covered into something else aimed at [...]
Surveying the Aftermath of the Brutal Aliens: Colonial Marines Reviews
It’s been a while since a game with a long development cycle and big promises ended up premiering with a thud this loud. The last time I can remember a long-coming, big name game getting thrashed this badly upon release was probably Duke Nukem Forever. That’s now happened once more with Aliens: Colonial Marines, and [...]
Brett Ratner Producing FarmVille Animated Show for Zynga
In an effort to expand the FarmVille brand past a mere Facebook game, Zynga is teaming up with Hollywood’s Brett Ratner for a FarmVille animated series set to air later this year. The director, best known for giving us one and a half good Rush Hour movies, is very excited about the prospects for the [...]
When Time Slips Away: A Request for Shorter Games
It’s a well known fact among industry types that gamers are now getting older and older by the year. As in, new players are still starting young, but veteran players aren’t giving up gaming either as they age. It’s becoming more of a legitimate past time among adults, and few are ashamed to admit they [...]
Why Microsoft Cannot Kill Used Games on the Next Xbox
Those of us in the gaming industry might know to take rumors about the next console generation with a grain of salt, but those outside? They don’t always get the memo. That happened yesterday after reported the following from a “source with first-hand experience” with ‘s next unnamed console: “It is believed that games purchased [...]
Connecticut Considers 10% Tax on M-Rated Games
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column detailing how video games are now being treated like a dangerous controlled substance on par with cigarettes, as new proposals around the country want games to endure extra taxes and over the top warning labels in the wake of tragedies like Sandy Hook. The tax in question [...]
Talking Livestreams, eSports and the Future of Entertainment with Twitch.tv
“Streaming” is a term that’s entered the video game lexicon only in the past few years or so. It refers to live online streams of internet personalities and top level gamers playing their favorite titles while thousands watch. The rise of stream watching as a past time can be directly correlated with the recent surge [...]