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5 Trends in Gaming that Need to Change or Go Away
It’s generally accepted that videogames today are a lot more fun than they were ten or twenty years ago. This has everything to do with developers wising up to deficiencies in game design and ma...
Xbox One Price Cut Wasn’t Just About Sales; It’s About Bigger Things to Come
The Xbox One did an amazing turnaround this holiday over what they started out of the gate with. While we await the final sales figures from the entire holiday season, including the sales from after C...
What is the Key to Good Storytelling in Gaming?
The rate at which videogames have technologically progressed is astonishing. In the span of forty years we have gone from the simplistic block worlds of Pong and Tetris to full-on Hollywood-grade bloc...
Five Reasons Why: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is the Best of the Series
Call of Duty Advanced Warfare may have not sold as many copies as games of the series in the past, but that doesn’t mean that Sledgehammer games hasn’t struck gold with the newest iteratio...
Server Issues for Blockbuster Games is, Flat Out, Unacceptable
Halo: The Master Chief Collection has been out for just under 15 hours in the States, and a bit longer across some other territories, but one of the main attractions to the game is really bogging down...
Head to Head Review: NBA 2K15 vs. NBA Live 15
Check out our new NBA 2K16 Vs. NBA Live 16 article http://thisgengaming.com/2015/10/07/nba-2k16-vs-nba-live-16-head-to-head-review/ A little unorthodox? Yeah, we like to be different and...
A Critique of Gamergate
Against expectations, Gamergate is actually still a thing, and death threats aside, is bringing out some truly fascinating arguments from both sides of the aisle, as well as stoking a lot of thoughts ...
Video Games, Violence, and Advertising
I’ve been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and having been raised on shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom all the way through to Medal of Honor and Bioshock, videogames, particularly the ...
Sunset Overdive: The Weight of the World on its Shoulders
Sunset Overdrive has a lot riding on its shoulders. The Xbox One, since its release, has been held under a microscope and seems always to fall short of its console competitor, the PlayStation 4. While...