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Call To Arms: Mercenary Kings Are Here
By Etienne Dubuc   Montreal  is really seen as a major video games city nowadays Triple AAA games are being made by Ubisoft, Warner Brothers, Eidos in their studios That strong presence of the major studios also brings the creation of many smaller independent studios that are run by ex-employees of the bigger ones[...]
License To Kill It: Licensed Games That Do It Right
 Games that would never to be held up as a critical darling, only existing to be pointed to and laughed at.  I said it in that article and I'll say it again, everyone who's played a game can point to some awful licensed title.  Games like Maximum Carnage, Dragon Ball Z, Superman, hell anyone remember the Aquaman game for GameCube and Xbox?  But I[...]
Yee's Company: The Political Connection Of Comics & Video Games
By Jared Cornelius   This week California Senator Leland Yee was indicted on charges of corruption and weapons brokering among other things.  While the talking heads of cable news can inform you more on that story, what I'd like to talk to you about is Senator Yee's alleged two faced behavior.  While I think it's important to note that Senator Yee is[...]
A History of Vileness: The Problem With Licensed Video Games
the Extra Terrestrial, the game many believe was the tipping point in the video games crash of the 1980's.  E.T. was at the time was the one of the world's biggest franchises, Steven Spielberg was super-hot having just come off Indiana Jones and his next project was highly anticipated. Spielberg and the studio executives were no fools and knew they could make money[...]
Beta-Testing Infinite Crisis On Infinite MOBA Falls A Little Flat
By Etienne Dubuc Video games and comics have a pretty long history together So it's not surprising that those two medias unify to try to tackle some of the biggest trends right now Superheroes are probably at their highest point in popularity ever with the Marvel cinematic universe and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy So it makes[...]