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Rust May be Imminently Set for a Console Release
Rust has been available to play on PC for a very long time now and is actually one of my favorite games when I’m feeling in something of a moderately masochistic mood. In something that has always been moderately surprising, however, the console release/version of the game has taken a…
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Spyro Reignited Trilogy is Heading to the PC!
Spyro Reignited Trilogy Following its release late last year, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy successfully managed to bring a lot of retro gaming love back to consoles. Despite releasing for the PS4 and Xbox One, however, sadly PC gamers were omitted from the party. Yes, sadly this happens far too often…
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Ghostbusters Game Remaster Is Practically Confirmed
Ghostbusters The Video Game Earlier this week we reported on the entirely surprising news that the excellent 2009 Ghostbusters The Video Game was seemingly set to be the next to receive the remaster treatment. In truth, as welcome as this news was, it was A) certainly not confirmed and B)…
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China Officially Starts Approving Games Again
China Approving Games Again Earlier this year, China was clearly unhappy at some of the video games that were being approved for release in the country. As I’m sure you’re aware, the country has what is quite possibly the worlds most heavily restricted media. In it’s most basic terms if…
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Amazon Opens 4-Star Retail Store In New York
Amazon Opens 4-Star Retail Store In New York Over the last year, we’ve seen online retailing giant Amazon make more and more tentative steps into the world of high-street retail. There is, of course, some irony in the fact that Amazon’s success led to many of the existing high-street brands…
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Classic Castlevania Games Are Heading To The PS4
Classic Castlevania Games Likely Heading To The PS4 Castlevania is a highly popular video game series. A series that has, in fairness, not been given the best treatment in recent (ish) years. Of all the games released though, many consider Symphony of the Night or Rondo of Blood the best…
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Survey Finds 86% Of Parents Ignore Game Age Ratings
Survey Finds 86% Of Parents Ignore Game Age Ratings I have often been a critic of parents buying their children video games without paying attention to the age rating. Why? Because more often than not they are the same parents who attempt to blame games when their children grow up…
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ESRB Starts Labeling Video Games with Microtransactions
Lootboxes, Microtransactions and In-Game Purchases The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is adding a new feature besides an age advisory to video games. The American equivalent to the PEGI video game content rating system will soon start labeling video games that have in-game purchases and loot boxes built-in. The ESRB…
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NetFlix Officially Switches from 5-Star to Thumbs Up/Down Rating System
Online streaming giant NetFlix has announced last month that they have been considering replacing their 5-star rating system with a thumbs up or thumbs down rating method, which was not received as warmly as their recent ‘skip intro’ feature addition. Many of NetFlix’ customers have grown accustomed to the 5-star…
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UK Police Calls for ‘Adult Only’ Game Ratings
Violent media has long been a scapegoat for societal ills: from the 1960s through to the 1980s, conservative reactionary Mary Whitehouse waged a one-woman war on social liberalism – essentially, freedom of expression – with a Helen Lovejoy-esque rhetoric of, “Won’t somebody please think of the children!?”, through to the…
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ESRB Explains Arkham Knight’s “Mature” Rating
Batman: Arkham Knight is the first game in the Arkham series, and in the history of Batman games as a whole, to receive and ‘M for Mature’ rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), and a new summary post on the ESRB’s website reveals why. [WARNING: THE SUMMARY CONTAINS…
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California Bans Retailers Fining Customers for Bad Reviews
Remember the “Hotel from hell” that was previously charging people a $500 fee for every bad review left on their Yelp page? Apparently this billing issue was more widespread than originally thought. The head honcho’s in California decided to move on this worrying action, and thus, they’ve passed a law which prevents…
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EA Steering User Ratings In Their Favour With Dungeon Keeper for Android
Two years award-winning “Worst Company in America”, Electronic Arts, is now said to be ‘steering away’ players who don’t want to give a good review by posting them on their own website instead of Google Play Store. The scheme is said to be present on their freemium game, Dungeon Keeper,…
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Films And Their Ratings, Do You Know How They Work?
If you watch movies you know that they have a rating system, though you probably don’t know much about the system and how it works. Television shows and movies get rated by a group called MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America. MPAA is a United States based organization. MPAA released…
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