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Every single game publisher will advertise it’s products as “great”, “amazing” or “innovative”, but more often than not, that’s not the case. There’s an immense amount of video games that don’t live up to the hype, and I’m going to try to signal out five unreleased games that are very likely to underwhelm in 2014. Wolfenstein: The New Order The Wolfenstein series has been around forever. id Software basically invented First Person Shooters with the release of Wolfenstein 3D...

The NPD Group’s research data has been made public, and the numbers are out. After declining sales in the gaming industry throughout 2011 and 2012, 2013 saw some growth in sales numbers, even though they are minimal. In total, $15.39 billion were spent by American gamers throughout 2013, a minor 1% more than the previous year. If we take into account gaming hardware sales as well, the growth is actually 2%, mostly assisted by the launch of the Xbox One and Playstation 4. The trends show that m...

Steam’s Autumn Sale just kicked off, but that’s not all Valve launched today. They’ve also announced something called The Steam Awards (not to be confused with The Game Awards). The Steam Awards will allow the Steam community to nominate their favorite games across eight categories, such as the “Test of Time” award or “Just 5 More Minutes” award. If early voting is anything to go by, it appears that truly classic games such as Bad Rats: The Rats’ Revenge will be serious contender...

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games, has been confirmed as recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Games Developer Choice Awards. Sweeney is best known as the creator behind acclaimed games such as Unreal as well as being one of the main architects of the Unreal Engine — considered the most used and most popular video game engine by game studios of which is currently in its forth incarnation. Sweeney joins an exclusive list of respected video game directors/producers/creato...

April is here (no joke, really), and with it come some new titles for Playstation Plus subscribers, as well as Xbox Games with Gold members. Up until now, the Playstation Plus offerings pretty much stomped anything Microsoft has been offering, but this month, both consoles give out some decent enough games. In fact, this month, Sony wasn’t generous at all, and the PS Plus line-up for April seems to be rather weak. Playstation 4 (PS Plus) – Mercenary Kings This is a side-scrolling shooter wit...