Recent content by ArcticCircle

I'm not a big fan of re-releases or remaster of old games. But reimagining, reboot or remake are my jam. For example Planescape Torment with Order 1886 graphics, presentation, production values and animation would be great. But there are only few things that should be taken from original game...

Those are absolutely horrible numbers but since EA sold game like mad, I'm not sure if it's good or bad thing from their perspective. They conned the sales and now they don't even have to run massive amounts of expensive servers. Heck, it's not even their IP. I remember in old MMO days (Ultima...

Heh, no wonder he's doing well as they are totally broken and all game balance goes out of the window. * Mobs are close together when you you first see 'em. You open with granade and now you have severely damaged alien group left. * Granadiers first tier talent is either blast padding (tanking)...

Gotta to grow those MAUs :D Yeah, this is not PC thing but more Windows 10 store push. I have really bad experiences with games for windows live (because I'm big GTA fan and 4 + expansions would probably require illegal tinkering to get 'em fixed. Heck I only both physical and steam copies but...

Actress Camilla Luddington is allegedly 165cm (there might be few hollywood cm extra) so it makes sense if current Lara Croft is the shortest.

It's most certainly interesting situation. Someone in notorious VGchartz boards posts as Aqua and that person says that Mulcair was not her. It was nice to see offical NPD numbers but since digital, DLCs, subscriptions and bundles are so big part of modern games industry, I don't think losing...

Since they are South Korean developers, I think they chose their domestic "eye lid surgery" frenze style on purpose. You can make really great looking Kpop (as well as Jpop or JAV) characters. Who can look bit "unrealistic" in real life too. Still, it's one of the best character creation systems...

I've watched Beaglerush twitch videos and it seems that Xcom 2 shares same weakness as previous entry. After hard start (first mission, first terror mission, maybe escort scientist mission), you just roll thru early-mid game without any issues, no matter if it's legendary, custom legendary...

It's Witcher 3 for me. I've played computer games since the early 80's and roleplaying games since the mid 80's and it's rare that you see that genre pushed forward and archive something that I thought was impossible. Before Witcher 3 I always used to argue - Well, Bethesda and Bioware just...

Yeah, Actually since it's so damn good, I don't expect any game to surpass it in this console generation (or PC within those years). Not because all these talented developers couldn't do it but based on sales it's just not worth the compromises in level design, linearity, game mechanics or...

Most likely sold in, as sold to retailers. Back in the more "transparent" days, Microsoft used to give reports like these Notice the sold through part. That means sold to customers. If latest PR piece is correct, for example Tomb Raider had a huge sales in december, more then double the...

You can drop Zelda from that list. Only combined sales of Twilight Princess (Gamecube and Wii) have sold as much as Tomb Raider reboot. I mean Zelda used to be one of those brand that sold like mad but then there were new IPs that sold even better and poor Zelda got left behind to it's usual 4+...

I think modern journalism works best when you're not buddy buddy with companies or individuals. I hope more game sites (as opposed to fan sites) would buy their own games, would investigate, rather then recycle PR crap and report real news about the issues that plaque games industry. More bans...

There's a good reason for it. Players absolutely hate when they miss, when their aim is where it should be. This was a hot topic in around the time of Half-Life 2 (mostly didn't have miss system, some weapon spread or slow projectiles iirc) and Vampire Bloodlines (yeah, you could miss, one of...

Gotta love modern MS marketing department and public relations people. As someone who work in ad biz from time to time, I have to say they are geniouses. Obfuscate any relevant informantion as much as you can and make every message to seem positive. Game didn't sell as much as some previous...