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Happy New Year people. Hamsterfist is back and is in a great mood. What are the top five stories of the day? Who cares. Well someone might, so I guess we will cover them.
Opening Music: Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" (Video is worth a look.)
Story Number 5: PS3 Game of the Year, if Uncharted 2 did not Exist
Story Number 4: Top Five FPS Ever.... (Or was that top 5 oldest?)
Story Number 3: Demon's Souls Goodness... And even more Demon's Souls Goodness
Story Number 2: The Problem With the Wii (Hint: It sucks)
Story Number 1: Tony Hawk Will Be Your Friend. Just Buy His Videogame. Please?!?!?
Opinion: What the New Year Will Bring (Click here for some DOOM!)
Closing Music: The Killers - "When You Were Young"
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.
