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What does the future hold for Xbox Live?
Recently Microsoft discontinued Xbox Live service for original Xbox consoles and games. There was commentary that the discontinuation would allow the service to evolve ‘new features and experiences that fully harness the community’ with ‘unprecedented flexibility for future features.’ So now, of course, the speculation follows as to what the future of Xbox Live could hold. In fact this speculation can be extended beyond Xbox Live to other online gaming networks and we can attempt to project the trajectory for the industry.
May 15, 2010
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How is the average consumer supposed to keep up?
It’s been the same scene every year since marketers figured out people buy more things around Christmas; countless game companies with countless games flood the market in an almost insane war to be the next big thing during shopping’s prime time. Last year we saw something new happen, publishers pushed their wares forward to this spring in an effort to maybe snag more spotlight later in the quarter. However, this wasn’t a unique idea and now instead of a busy holiday season and a nice casual release calendar for the spring/summer we’re faced with a holiday season that lasts from October to June.
Gerard Butler is no Master Chief
Some years from this exact moment directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor will look back on their film Gamer and sob because in that future movies made about gamers for gamers will actually be made by gamers and the outsiders interpretation of video game culture that is their film will seem shockingly offensive. Filled with ridiculously cliché tidbits, an excess of shaky cam action and a plot line so ludicrous it will challenge even the minds that accept even the most far fetched fantasy and sci-fi worlds.
Believe it or not, but this doesn't always have to be the opening scene.
While World War II soaks up the glory with video game adaptations releasing almost monthly there are many wars of equal stature that would make very good video games, should a developer ever choose to deviate from the played-out conflict. It’s up to the public to demand these games, but here are 4 wars that would make particularly interesting video games.
An in-depth comparison of the quality of sequels for movies and games.
It’s hard to replicate a good thing, so it’s not surprising that sequels are often considered worse than their originals. While this phenomena has been well known to movie-goers since the inception of the sequel, there seems to be a notion in the gaming community that the video game medium is immune to the degradation of quality second and third iterations often bring. GeneralGames.ca has done the incredibly dull task of crunching the numbers to find out the truth behind these notions.
A comparison of films and video games at their 30 year mark. Metropolis (1927), Mass Effect (2007)
Video games have had a bad rap for a while as being unrefined and primitive in terms of the sort of emotional experience they can provide their players. I can’t particularly fault these observations, a large majority of games still play to the more base urges of its prime demographic. However my issue lays with the recent comparisons to the video game recently passing its 30th anniversary and how far progressed as an evocative medium films were at the same age.
