John Riccitiello: Unity’s New CEO

John Riccitiello replaced David Helgason last week as CEO of Unity Technologies. Helgason will remain at Unity as the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Communications, according to a blog post. Continue reading John Riccitiello: Unity’s New CEO

Sony Sells 13.5 Million PS4’s

In its second quarter financials report for this fiscal year, Sony has just revealed up-to-date sales figures for the PlayStation 4. Sales for the company’s newest home console are back on the rise after slowing down following launch.

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Video Games I’m Thankful For (Part 1)

November is the month of beards, pumpkin pie, football, Black Friday, and of course, Thanksgiving. With this, everyone usually takes a moment out of their day to reflect on anything and everything that they have and give thanks for it. In the fashion of the season, I’ll be presenting a series of features that showcase some of the video games I’m thankful for. Let’s see what the first one is:

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Fantasy Life Review

THE BEST KIND OF CHORE LIST

If I can only take away one thing from Fantasy Life, it is that I was reminded just how bad my ADHD is while playing.  Level-5 did a fantastic job filling the world of Reveria with hundreds of side quests that will keep you busy, and in my case, sidetracked me from continuing the main quest for many hours at a time.  However, a large amount of content is not good enough to make a game great, and luckily Level-5 knows that.   Continue reading Fantasy Life Review

Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse Review

PART-GENIE. PART-PIRATE. FULL-ADVENTURE.

The flurry of 2D platform games continues to be in the forefront of numerous indie developers. Some of these games are diamonds in the rough, while others are just flat out rough.  In the third Shantae game, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse is happily one of those treasures for the Nintendo 3DS. Continue reading Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse Review