This is a repost from a comment, mostly to make sure I have an easy place to link to. If you don't know the article in question, it's this. I find this article (and the subsequent attempt at damage control by the author on Twitter) to be fascinating. And hilarious. And completely hypocritical. First off, it's great that Brett Walton, founder of VGChartz.com, thinks that "journalism needs a big...
Yesterday I went to a tournament at my college's gaming group. They had a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament and a Halo 3 tournament. I decided to to do the Halo 3 tournament. The first issue that came up was that they started the tournament before registration was over, meaning that about 10 minutes into the tournament, they added in about 3 more people which screwed up the bracketing, causing...
DLC. You guys all know it. Popularized with the advent of this console generation, games have been finding their way to sell us extra content. Many of these tactics have severe flaws, which I feel the need to outline today, as well as touch on an issue I've seen from a certain games podcast. Day One DLC It's exactly what the name says: DLC that comes out on the day of the game's release. There...