Why it's a Game of the Year: I'm going to be honest, 2012 was probably the most empty gaming year I've experienced, as it seemed like
few games were released that interested me, let alone wowed me.
A few games were released in both formats, but ultimately only 31 different ones were available between the two.
Problem # 1: Slow Game Releases Why are so
few games being released?
However this vision shortly ended in disappointment with only
a few games being released in the six months since release and features such as...
Because
fewer games are released, game makers must get more sales out of those games that do reach store shelves.
Not exact matches
And since we
're talking about video
games, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada has
released a
few new snippets of data just in time for E3.
What
's perhaps even more important to note
is that the
game amassed that user count in only a
few short months since they
released the survival version called Battle Royale.
Windows 10 will supposedly
be more «
gamer friendly» than its Windows 8.1 predecessor, but I'll reserve judgment until the new OS
is officially
released in a
few weeks.
During the past
few years, a handful of
games have
been released between January and April — but generally as a result of production snafus.
The malicious version of the
game was uploaded to a file sharing service on July 7th, just a
few days after the
game's official
release.
It
's true — Nintendo
is a
few short months away from
releasing a brand - new video
game console.
To
be released on September 29 and with preorders starting any day now (Nintendo says it'll
be before the month of August
is out), the $ 79.99 SNES Classic Edition
is a tiny version of 1991's 16 - bit Super Nintendo console that includes quite a
few of the
games I suggested Nintendo put on it.
There
's an attractive menu screen that lets you sort the
games by title,
release date, publisher, and a
few other ways, although with only 21
games in the menu it
's not like you
're going to have trouble finding any of them.
[Update 11:23
AM: In a press
release Tuesday morning, Nintendo noted that the length of the rewind depends on the genre of
game: «Players can go back a
few minutes in role - playing
games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.»
Take - Two's long - term revenue will
be driven by further market concentration among a select
few titles, the potential
release of new titles and an ongoing shift to digital
game distribution, Wingren said.
Here
's a
game that looks like it
's 20 years old but
was actually
released just a
few years ago.
Now I think there
is still reasons to
be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might
be in the CL proper which
is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not
be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they
were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I
'm not sure they will
be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could
be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added
games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have
released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference
is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a
few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has
been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we
are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we
are no longer in the race.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands,
is in no better position to compete next season than they
were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have
been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the
release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he
's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father
were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there
are only a
few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough
was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings
are indicative of what
's wrong with this club and it
's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to
be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger
's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to
be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he
was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil
were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract
is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it
's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value
is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would
be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who
is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will
be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam
being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry
's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP,
was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to
be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model
was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he
was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who
were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the
game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and
were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who
were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it
was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really
was...
With Arsenal having made a transfer bid large enough to trigger the
release clause in the Leicester contract of Jamie Vardy, it
was clear that Arsene Wenger had decided it
was the Premier League star who
was the right man to give Arsenal the extra goal power that we lacked last season, even though quite a
few football experts suggested that his
game and the style of the Gunners
were not really suited.
The winner of this
game will hold the tiebreaker between these two clubs, which I
am sure will come into play once the seedings for the Playoffs
are released in a
few weeks» time.
FIFA 17
is widely expected to
be released towards the end of September and that leaves a
few months to work on your final FIFA 16 Career Mode save before moving onto the new
game.
Unfortunately as
is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the
game difficult for ourselves, with a
few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have
been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there
were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before
releasing Barkley, Koscielny had
been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector
were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.
For the programmers, this means planning and executing a technology strategy a
few years before all of the
games will
be released.
After the wiggles have
been released, a
few sun salutations have
been explored to warm up the body, and maybe we've breathed deeply to center, you can encourage students to sink further into their poses by making stillness a
game.
Kohl's
released a MILLY collaboration with Design Nation a
few months back, and needless to say, I
was a bit late to the
game.
The first thing they mentioned
was a
few reasons why the
game has not
been released.
Even if you
're too young to start dating, you can practice with these
games High Tide Harbor
releases in a
few days, but in the meantime I want to give a preview of things to come afterwards.
In the next
few months, the team also plans to
release its white labelled iOS app, which seeks to solve the white label app problem by taking the «unique approach» of building a single native iOS app for its MeetLovelyMe swiping
game, which
is common throughout the entire platform, and enabling users from all the various sites to log into their own accounts through this iOS app.
Victoria could
be a classic after a
few patches, but in the initial
release, you
're paying Paradox to beta test their
game.
It
's unlikely to match Pokémon
's success in the West, but judged upon its own merits, this
is one of the better 3DS
games released in the last
few years and a genuine match for the ever - popular Pokémon franchise.
We preview 2014
's most notable upcoming
game releases, including major new titles like Titanfall, Watch Dogs, and Destiny, sequels to popular franchises like The Witcher and Elder Scrolls, and a
few key indie
games.
When I looked the
release list for
games this year I had a
few on my radar but Dishonoured (UK spelling)
was not even close until I read a review.
We
're still a
few weeks out from Dark Souls 3's worldwide
release date, but the much - anticipated, hyper - difficult role - playing
game launches today in Japan.
While it
's unclear if that
release would
be as an arcade
game released in the
few places in the US that still have arcades, or if it would come to Wii U, it
's still hope for anyone who has wanted a legitimate Pokemon fighting
game.
We Happy
Few has
been in Early Access and Xbox
Game Preview for quite some time now, but
is heading for a full
release in April, which
is when PlayStation owners will get to delve into its trippy world.
Rockstar
is known to
release few details for their
games leading up to launch, but when it
's starting to get close (read: a
few months away) they do drop a
few major bombs to build the hype, and seeing as they've
been mum all this time, E3 actually seems like a great venue.
Iron Brigade, a
game released during the height of human existence, the year 2011,
is going through a
few changes.
Jack 7 will
be added to Tekken 7 Arcade in a
few days, he
is also expected to
release for the console version when the
game releases on Xbox One and Playstation 4 later this year.
Just a
few hours time
is left for the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on PC, and Konami just shared some important details such as Price that the
game will carry and also bonuses players will receive by having a Ground Zeroes save when Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
is released.
While the 3DS will continue to
be supported for the foreseeable future,
fewer and
fewer games are being released on the ageing handheld.
Super Mario Maker
is the big
release this week, but there
are a
few indie
games worthy of your attention as well.
This
is the collection of the original
game with all of its DLC,
released all the back near the end of 2015, updated to native 1080p with a
few balancing tweaks.
Kirby Star Allies
was somewhat of a sales revival for the Pink Puff; while most Kirby installments sell well, Star Allies
is more successful than most of the
games released in the last
few years, likely due to its launch on Nintendo Switch.
We
're one month into 2018, and though we've seen a
few game releases so far, most
are still on the horizon.
Released: December 25 Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera Director: Aaron Sorkin Why it
's great: Sorkin, the writer of The West Wing, A
Few Good Men, and The Social Network, makes his directorial debut with the true story of Molly Bloom, a failed Olympic skier who became one of the most cunning operators of high - stakes, celeb - filled, backroom poker
games in the country.
With the advent of a fighting
game revival thanks to Capcom's Street Fighter IV and the newly
released Super Street Fighter IV, Mad Catz have put out a
few solutions for those suffering with trying to play the
game on the 360 or PS3 controllers — and the cheapest, least hardcore of the bunch
is the FightPad.
With its November
release fast approaching, there
's been some chatter on the
game such as its technical details and a
few screenshots.
Both of these
games were released on other platforms for a
few months...
They explain that while the
game does run and play great at the moment, there
's still quite a
few things they need to iron out before it
's ready for
release.
Team17
's well - received casual party cooking
game Overcooked came to Switch digitally a
few weeks ago, but if you've
been holding out for a physical
release instead, here
's some good news.