REVIEW: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

REVIEW: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Publisher WayForward Technologies Developer WayForward Technologies Review platform This game was reviewed on Xbox One with a review code provided by the publisher. Release date Jan 8, 2017 Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is a lighthearted and fun platforming adventure following Shantae, a magical genie and her adventures to save the day. With a variety of environments … Read more

OPINION: Why power matters more than exclusives nowadays

OPINION: Microsoft needs to market ReCore better

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Recently Sony announced that they managed to sell 53 million PlayStation consoles, with around six million of those being sold in the last holiday month. However, their biggest exclusive only managed to sell around eight million copies in nine months, most of which were included in the biggest bundle … Read more

OPINION: What AMD Ryzen might mean for Project Scorpio

Xbox executives react to lackluster PlayStation 4 Pro reveal

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Yesterday during the AMD New Horizons stream, they finally unveiled their upcoming Ryzen desktop-class CPU, which will go head to head with the best that Intel can muster. The CEO of AMD showed off the new breakthrough in technology destroying the Intel Core i7 in benchmarks, and Geoff Keighley … Read more

OPINION: Gaming and its fake news problem

Multiple analysts claim that Xbox can outsell PlayStation this year with Xbox Scorpio

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: With the latest election in the US now over and done with, a strange phenomenon has sprung up where news articles would become quite popular based on nothing more than conjecture. This has become one of the things the majority have tried to take on, but unfortunately, that task … Read more

OPINION: Why Xbox One recently dominating sales took everyone by surprise

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: When 2016 started off, many were pretty confident that Sony and their PlayStation brand would dominate the gaming world for yet another year thanks to upcoming hardware announcements and several big hitters being slated for release in the calendar year. Microsoft, on the other hand, had Gears of War … Read more

OPINION: Why Xbox One needs better gambling games

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: This is a topic that many of our readers and partners have been telling us to write about. When it comes to consoles, there aren’t many options for gamers who enjoy gambling. Now, before you say we have a few titles out there, let me tell you a story … Read more

Why our Final Fantasy 15 review will be delayed

Square Enix promises patch to fix blurry visuals for Final Fantasy 15 on Xbox One

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: This was supposed to be a piece about why our Final Fantasy 15 review will be delayed because Square Enix is having difficulty granting us early access to the Xbox One version. This has been going on for days now. Had we gone with the PlayStaton 4 version we … Read more

OPINION: Microsoft needs to market ReCore better

OPINION: Microsoft needs to market ReCore better

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Microsoft is a mysterious beast. Whereas its biggest exclusives get more marketing than a bloody Harry Potter movie and games such as Quantum Break are featured constantly on TV, websites and even have months-long advertisement deals with the entire brand of IGN. So what about ReCore? You know, ReCore! … Read more

OPINION: Rare needs to explain how Sea of Thieves multiplayer functions

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: When Rare showed off the awesome trailers for Sea of Thieves at several E3 events, it was pretty much obvious that everyone would be excited. It was all about the pirate lifestyle, and since the release of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, every gamer—excluding myself—has been starved for a really … Read more