Category: Featured

Xbox One Reveal. Our (negative) Impressions.

AlienLion May. 21 Article, Featured, News and Seasonal Views (2076) 2 comments
impressions

  So, the eagerly-anticipated ‘Xbox event’ has come and gone, and as always, it’s time for our impressions. Before I personally start, I would like to note that we do our impression pieces without taking into account any information that comes after, or in addition to, what was revealed at the actual event. This way, [...]

Always-on: Not Always Awful?

Isaacmo May. 18 Article, Featured, Opinion Views (126) 1 comment
alwaysonnon

AlienLion is that particularly vocal bunch, in front of the angry anti-DRM mob. As someone who always pays for gaming, we perceive the very idea of aggressive DRM insulting, like a stinky finger poking us right in our faces and calling us thieves, while we’ve done nothing wrong. And we don’t mind publishers doing whatever they have [...]

3 Innovations We Actually Want From ‘The Next Gen’

AlienLion May. 16 Article, Featured, News and Seasonal Views (1476) 6 comments
innovations

  New consoles used to be easy: more polygons, more bits, stereo-er sound, what have you. Most of us had no idea what the fuck those terms even meant (I still don’t), but they made the technological progress somewhat quantifiable. We knew that the audio and the video were to get better, and we also [...]