http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9SEFMIBwAs&feature=related Hopefully story based games will be like this in the future. I say future because most devs make games like Gears of War that have way too much HP in an effort to make these game h...

This (half baked) article does two things, it goes into the state of the shmup genre and why the likes of CAVE and Grev, who are the Capcom and Ark System Works of the shmup genre have fallen on hard times and are facing somewhat of a perfe...

Dont you guys think gamers have double standards when it comes to percieved value in which games are worth full price and which are only worth $15 on xbla For example many gamers wont pay $30-$60 boxed for a game because they can get somet...

While I’m a older UK gamer who has been a PC gamer for years, one thing that I’m finding more and more spicy to my gamer palette is rediscovering Japanese games I loved as a kid which have always been lacking on PC. What I love is how vibra...

Yesterday news of Ryu Umemoto's death was posted posthumously on his twitter page, rumours say that he was hospitalised 5 months ago with bronchitis/pneumonia symptoms. While many people don't know the name some of you will know he's mus...

We have seen NOA response to localising Japanese games of the Wii. My only guess as to why they wont localise them is do an marketing issue. All 3 hardware companies do it, they wont release one type of game in fear that it will confuse the...

Hi there even though I have been a member on Dtoid for a number of months and read and comment on a fare few blogs by other people this is my first blog on this site so please be gentle with me now :-p What I want to write about is a conc...