Maroon and Gamer: You Sunk my Movie-Game!
It should come as no surprise that there are game tie-ins to big-budget films all the time. Although it is mostly in summer films, movies such as: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Thor, Green Lantern, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Iron Man and it’s sequel, The Incredible Hulk, and the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Massive Overload Effect… 3
It’s not uncommon for high-profile games to have other media outlets to promote the release of the game. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the DragonShout app, which lets you see the entire map of Skyrim and highlight quests and locations. Dead Space 2 released a downloadable interactive comic “game” that served as a connection [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Lax Appreciation of Games
I have done my very best to convey to my readers that the gaming industry is a serious endeavor. They shatter entertainment records and suck hours and hours of our free time so that we can be immersed in a world in ways that films and novels can’t provide. People’s jobs have come and gone [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Character Growth and Games
Back when the gaming industry was in its infancy, only sprites and pixels made up the games’ characters and they were nothing more than a gun or moving object on a 2-D plane of existence. It was up to the player to give the avatar a set of personality traits and goals. The avatar’s true [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Toys for Toddlers and Gamers
The integration of toys and action figures is nothing new to the video game industry. But in this generation of games, the toy/action figure market has exploded. Studios such as Todd McFarlane’s have been making figures for Halo and Guitar Hero. Toymaker Kotobukiya will make figures that will come with collector’s editions of games such [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Call of Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 was announced on Jan. 17 and the news spread across the Internet like wildfire. Fans were making assumptions and getting wrapped up in the speculations; Journalism sites analyzed the trailer and threw in their own two cents on what it revealed. At the end of the trailer was a release month of [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Quoth the Gamer, “Nevermore”
The gaming industry is cyclical. It is a well-oiled machine that pumps out a new product every month. Developers make the games, publishers give money to the developers to make the games and the whole industry moves like clockwork. The gaming industry is also restricted by the confines of business practices and the economy. So [...]
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Maroon and Gamer: Wherefore Art Thou, Difficulty?
I can attest that today’s games are much easier than previous generation’s games. Playing Super Mario Bros. 3, from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, on the Nintendo Wii is much more difficult than playing Rayman: Origins, a platformer released last year on the Xbox 360. I couldn’t even beat the first couple of stages in [...]
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