With only a few months away from launch, we are all on tenterhooks waiting for the next announcement from Sony and Microsoft. Some exciting news for PlayStation gamers is that the PS5 has confirmed backward compatibility with over 4000 PS4 titles. This is great news if you haven’t gotten around to […]
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Console wars are nothing new. They’ve been around since the 1990s when Nintendo and Sega were pitted against one another. These conflicts have always been backed up by the companies as well, with them duking it out to leave their console on top. So today, on Culture of Gaming, we […]
When developers create a new IP that rakes in wads of cash, the first thing on their mind is how they can do it again. When it comes to producing sequels, they should be easy. The core of the previous game remains and all the developer has to do is […]
Playstation mascots have not been in the spotlight for quite a while. In fact two generations have gone by without Sony’s platform representative characters being present at launch. Yet now it seems that Ratchet and Clank is set to get the launch title treatment. Much like the days of the […]
The Same Old Story: We know the story, it’s an old one, passed down from generation to generation the fabled tale of the launch title. The plot points are always the same, incredible graphical fidelity that mystifies the potential of the next generation, clunky gameplay systems informed by the trends […]
Shortly after Nintendo’s September 4th, 2019 Direct, Nintendo dropped another video on their channel. Simply titled: “First look at a new experience for Nintendo Switch”, the video showcases a still unnamed device having a multitude of motions be performed on it by players from around the world. You can check […]
A free demo for the previously PS3 exclusive ‘Heavy Rain‘ is now available on the Epic Games Store. Heavy Rain had originally released on the PS3 during 2010, and it marked the first game that Quantic Dream had developed exclusively for PlayStation. But as of March of this year, Epic Games and Quantic Dream had formed a partnership […]
Expectations can often get the better of us — maybe we expect something specific to happen in a story, that things just had to turn out a certain way. But no matter what happens, we must always remember to keep our expectations in check, especially when it comes to real […]
The gaming landscape now is a lot different than how it was in 2009. Collect-a-thons weren’t very common, and the few that were available usually featured animal mascots as protagonists, like Ratchet & Clank. The vast majority of superhero video games were clumsily-made movie tie-ins. It was the perfect opportunity […]
We can enhance it. We have the power. One of the great perks of PC gaming is the ability to adjust resolution and add anti-aliasing. Getting the best visuals out of your gaming products has been the goal of gamers for decades. Unfortunately, console gamers have long been at the […]