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The Case for eSports Legitimacy

Recently, a petition circulated and accumulated enough signatures to warrant a response from the White House, home of the President of the US.  This petition, which has already had well over 100,000 signatures, aims to have the Immigration and Nationalization Service recognize eSports professionals as professional athletes for the purpose of obtaining Work Visas to allow professional gamers to…

Oculus Rift, is it too expensive?

Virtual Reality was once a pipe dream for gamers.  Sure, there were some VR titles, but they could never have compared to the Hollywood imagined titles from movies and television.  Nor was actually owning a VR system ever feasible for the average consumer.  Priced in the tens of thousands, and often much more, the technology had priced itself out of the market. Well, there was the Virtual Boy in…

FF7 Remake: The Series

The prospect of a remake of Final Fantasy 7 has been something many RPG fans have hoped for.  Square Enix, the post-merger company now responsible for the Final Fantasy series, has teased fans of the game for years with technical demos and “leaked” announcements.  But, earlier this year it was revealed at E3 that we were in fact getting the remake, and Final Fantasy fans took to the internet to…

Nintendo's new patent for a console with no optical disc drive has gotten much attention.  But is it the Project NX, successor to the Wii U, or something else entirely?

Nintendo patents disc-less console – The good and bad

Nintendo submitted a patent last week for a new gaming device.  Appearing to be a new home console, the buzz on the internet points toward this being the first real look at Project NX, Nintendo’s follow-up to the less than widely successful Wii U. Given the hype surrounding Project NX, this has generated some interest within the gaming community. But, if it is the NX (and I will operate under…

A recent announcement from Square-Enix mentions that Nintendo’s well-kept secret console, Project NX, may be receiving a port of the successful MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.  This might indicate that the NX’s hardware capabilities are more on par with current-gen consoles such as the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, as Square would likely not allow a new console to hold back the game.  Among the FFXIV…

A game developer by the name of Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and the upcoming title The Witness, recently said that he feels that games are not a good medium for telling a story. But, is it a good medium? If not, what makes a medium good for stories? With so many games, both recent and older titles, that are known for having great stories, how true can this be? Storytelling in games is no new…