Rockstar Reveals Multiplayer Component to Grand Theft Auto V
Killing hookers was meant to be a group activity anyway
Rockstar Games made good on their promise to release new details about the latest installment of the "Grand Theft Auto" series today by revealing a new multiplayer component. Read more »
GenCon: Firefly Board Game Reveal
You Can't Take The Sky From Me
GenCon is one of the largest gaming conventions in North America, and it's taking place right now in Indianapolis. Being the upstart gaming reviewwebsite that we are, it was right up our alley, and while an official staff writer couldn't make it up there (this year), we still have eyes everywhere. Keep checking back with Player Theory to see our GenCon updates!
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Blizzard Registers Trademark for "The Dark Below"
It's time for some speculation!
When Blizzard registered a trademark for the name "The Dark Below" today, it unleashed a tidal wave of rumors and speculation from excited gamers about which long-standing IP the title is intended for. Although there are no official statements from Blizzard yet, "The Dark Below" is so far assumed to be an expansion pack for either "Diablo 3" or "World of Warcraft". Read more »
Rockstar Confirms Grand Theft Auto V Multiplayer Preview Coming this Thursday
Promises a "Revolutionary" Experience to be Revealed
Until now, the seven seconds concluding Rockstar’s first gameplay video was all we saw regarding "Grand Theft Auto V’s" multiplayer component. Rockstar has since released a statement promising a followup video revealing multiplayer details this Thursday, Aug. 15. Rockstar promised the fifth installment’s multiplayer component (simply titled "GTA Online") will revolutionize online gaming just as "Grand Theft Auto III" transformed the single-player experience. Read more »
GameStop Corp. Sued for Deceiving Players on the Cost of Used Games
Gamestop finds themselves in hot water for anti-consumer practices … again.
A federal judge granted three South Jersey gamers the right to sue used game peddler GameStop this this week for overcharging on games. Read more »
Nintendo’s Wii U Woes
Nintendo's Latest Financial Report Begs the Question, "What Went Wrong?"
These days, you would be hard pressed to find gamers – or anyone over 18 for that matter – who don’t fondly recall long nights playing Nintendo classics like "Mario Kart 64," "Super Mario World," "Metroid," or any other time-honored titles. It is exactly this nostalgia that Nintendo recently preyed on in their newest financial report. Read more »
Kicking It with Ryan Raner
"7 Days To Die" in its final week on Kickstarter
Zombies have infiltrated modern day popular culture and taken over so many different aspects of it that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't already everywhere. One of the most popular shows on television right now is about zombies. Every couple of months, another zombie movie is churned out and devoured by undead-hungry fans. Some of the most popular books recently have zombies as a main, central theme. But video games ... video games are something that zombies have completely taken over. Even if you take out the games that deal with a straight-on zombie setting, you still have DLC being whipped out to satisfy players' zombie-killing urges in games that don't even really need zombies to begin with. Read more »
Xbox One vs. PS4: Game Sharing and Streaming
Sharing Headshots Might Cost More than You Thought
Information from the official Xbox website starts to paint a grim scenario for those holding out hope that Microsoft would at least try to close the gap between Sony's offerings and their own. Read more »
Tribes Subreddit Considering Banning Hi-Rez Employees
r/tribes Avoids Banhammer for Now
Hi-Rez, the publisher for the popular game "Tribes: Ascend", nearly lost the ability to post to the "Tribes" subreddit yesterday due to a winning combination of using abusive language in the community and thrusting the responsibility of being the "official" forum for "Tribes" onto the subreddit’s moderators (without their knowledge). Read more »
The Sundering
Changing The Forgotten Realms
The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for Wizard of the Coast's "Dungeon and Dragons" tabletop game. It is the campaign setting, in fact. Originally published in 1987, The Forgotten Realms has been home to countless novels, video games, and tabletop adventures. Even people that have never played D&D in their life probably have seen pictures of a scimitar-wielding dark elf or an old wizard dressed in red. The Forgotten Realms is the iconic fantasy campaign setting, and I feel its safe to assume that every D&D player out the has spent at least one evening exploring the fabled land. Read more »
