Category: Sony

Heroes of Nostalgia: Crash Bandicoot

6/23/2014

By Stephen David Hyland

Spinning onto our AV channels in 1996, the Crash series made its debut on the PlayStation with the platformer adventure game, simply entitled Crash Bandicoot. This first game of the now well-known and loved series of Crash games gave us an idea of what was to come. Whilst the future of the series has been uncertain since 2008, as Crash has appeared in a number of exclusive mobile game since then - we still have a whole history of this series to look back on.

Anticipated Games - Mass Effect 4

6/21/2014

By John Philip Jennings

The next Mass Effect game was teased during EA's E3 conference last week. The game itself was in very early development stages, but we did get a glimpse of a new protagonist, new worlds and we got to listen to some of the team at Bioware discuss their ambitions and desires for creating the game. But what do the fans want?

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Even girls.

6/20/2014

By Vanessa Hague

Anyone who followed the events of E3 (and its aftermath) will be well aware of the controversy surrounding Ubisoft's decision to not include any playable female assassins in their upcoming installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise, Assassin's Creed: Unity.

IWG at E3 2014 - The top five reveals

6/19/2014

By Reece Merryweather-Brown

This year’s E3 has been an explosion of video game content, from gameplay of Mortal Kombat X, to a cinematic trailer of upcoming third-person MMO game, The Division. There’s been such a wide variety of content that it’s hard to pick out the truly amazing releases that stand out from the rest.

However, IWGers are some of the most determined folk on these here internets. And you can sure as hell bet we're going to try!

Five best consoles of the nineties

6/18/2014

By Paul Robert Scott

People have very different views on the 1990’s. Some remember it with the kind of fondness that you can only get from growing up in a more optimistic age, while others cringe at the very thought of Brit-pop and curtained hair. Personally I prefer to think of the nineties as a ten-year, acid-fuelled rave; where everyone got so drunk they were no longer responsible for their own actions. However for all of the things we’d rather forget or chalk up to the intemperance of a ten-year millennium party, you have to admit that it was a fantastic age for gaming.

IWG at E3 - Personal Highlights

6/16/2014

By the IWG Games Team

So the excitement of E3 is over for another year, and we took the opportunity to ask some of our writers what they thought of the recent conferences and if there was a clear winner this year. Despite the differing opinions, everyone seems to be in agreement that EA's conference just blatantly sucked.

Looking Back - Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD

6/13/2014

By Ben Mapp

E3 is reaching its end, but thanks to Ubisoft we have been left with serious hints as to the future of Assassin's Creed. With the series making its next-gen debut this October with Unity, I'm taking the opportunity to take a detailed look back at one of the franchise's most lesser-played titles.

Originally unveiled as Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation and released exclusively to the PS Vita in 2012, this game is arguably one of the obscurer entries into the series. It features a female Assassin named Aveline who – exerting all of her skills in combat, disguise and infiltration – must expose a conspiracy concerning slaves in her hometown of New Orleans.

Sony at E3 - Destiny, Sackboy and Zombies!

6/9/2014

By Anne Marie Beach

If you tuned in to watch Sony's E3 conference then you probably heard the many buzz words and phrases thrown around during a presentation that was wholly underwhelming. While there were quite a few games that actually caught my attention, the rest of it as a unit was boring and I continually longed for it to end. Having been raised on Sony products I found this to be massively disappointing. This is no Xbox/Nintendo fangirl hate I'm dishing out. The presentation wasn't bad. It just wasn't up to the standard set by last year’s E3 presentation, although to be fair how can anyone measure up to an E3 with two console release announcements?

Ubisoft at E3 - Unity, Division and Siege!

6/9/2014

By the IWG Games Team

Ubisoft have become one of the more revered gaming companies in recent years, having been responsible for such successful franchises as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell and Rayman. The wonderful Aisha Tyler returned to host their E3 press conference last night, during which a range of upcoming titles were unveiled, each to be released over the course of the next year.

To Reboot or Not to Reboot? That is the question

6/7/2014

By Luke Kirby

Everyone is clear on what a reboot entails.

Just take games that are years old and give them a new lease on life through completely refreshing the storyline or adding new elements to the gameplay. Ideally a reboot will aim at keeping fans of the already existing franchise interested in the new iteration, while also attracting a new fan base to get involved in the series. Whether this actually happens though is another story altogether.

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