Dave Meikleham from Gamesradar discusses some of gaming's WTF moments.
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
I don't necessarily disgaree with Nintendo's choice of using cartridges for the N64. Would Goldeneye 007 have got its 10 million sales if it was on a standard CD and easy to pirate? No doubt N64 games had a particular look- blocky, jerky and lacking texture but it also seemed to bring out the best in game design from Rare e.g. Banjo Kazooie - it was a comedown in some respects from the beautiful 2D visuals of Donkey Kong Country but that was true about most games that weren't on the Dreamcast.
(I also respected Nintendo for shunning standard CDs with the Gamecube and using smaller proprietary discs. Not only were they undeniably cuter looking but the the likes of the Resident Evil remake showed that the Gamecube could do a lot of detail and display great lighting effects).