Of late, Sony’s E3 press conferences are a little like buses. Still trying to remove the scars of that PS3 announcement in 2007, we’ve waited years for killer Sony E3s. Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Shenmue 3, Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Last Guardian, Uncharted 4: Drake’s Deception: now the great times seem to be coming in […]
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EXP: SPOILERS!
EXP is brought to you by your host Harry Shepherd, joined by Jonathan Land and Sam Woolf. SPOILERS! (This week we’ll be discussing spoilers, haha.) Also, as always, we’ll be covering the latest gaming news and an Exeposé Games online update. What constitutes a spoiler? Is it just the massive twist at the end of an […]
Money making vs Originality – the problem of never ending sequels
The video game industry has become one of the leading industries in the world, raking in 46.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 alone, outstripping the film industry that only made 31.8 billion. Unlike the movie business, however, video games lack the secondary markets of home media sales or the selling of rights. Therefore game developers […]
Sequel-ation: Assassin’s Creed
In the first article of this column, I claimed that games were not necessarily limited just because they were sequels. However, not all sequels are necessarily good games. In order to make a great sequel you need to expand upon the original as well as taking the series in new and exciting directions that make […]
Standing the test of time: retro games
Tom Crawley remembers some of his favourite childhood games while asking if they can really stand up to their modern successors. Every aged gamer is familiar with that warm fuzzy feeling you get when reminiscing about your childhood days spent in front of the TV, controller in hand, beating your favourite video games. Anyone familiar […]