Better Horror Than Hollywood
Better Horror Than Hollywood By: Stefanie Fogel When was the last time you saw a really good horror movie? The kind that oozes atmosphere in every fr
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Zoned In: The gems found in game soundtracks
March 15, 2010 The gems found in game soundtracks By Michael Lafferty Discovery of Indie Bands can bring unexpected pleasure when playing games Crank
Zoned In: Behold the iPad
Behold the iPad By Steven Hopper A look at Apples latest game-changing device Its official: the iPad is finally among us. This past Saturday, Apple r
Zoned In: The Genres That'll Succeed On Apples iPad
The Genres That'll Succeed On Apples iPad By Alex Coulter Has the future of gaming arrived? A few years ago, I watched the above video of WarCraft II
Zoned In: Forward Motion: The Problem With Storytelling in Sandbox Games
Forward Motion: The Problem With Storytelling in Sandbox Games Are open-world games forgoing compelling narratives for player freedom? Since its rele
Zoned In: Bungie Jumps to Activision
Bungie Jumps to Activision By Steven Hopper What the recently revealed partnership means for Activision, Bungie, and gamers. Today, Activision and Bu
Do you have to let Halo linger?
Halo is big news, in case you haven't heard. The Halo games are arguably the premier franchise for the XBox line of console. At the time of its relea
Game of the Month - April: Super Street Fighter IV
April has been a peculiar month. Splinter Cell: Conviction finally came out of the shadows with a modernized approach to stealth, leaving newcomers a
Is Activision Blizzard’s main franchise in trouble?
Maybe it’s a case of going to the well too often; when continually tapped, sooner or later that well is bound to go dry. Activision Blizzard is a p
A Slippery Slope: The Supreme Court Agrees to See Game Case
In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed into law a bill that would make selling an M-rated video game to a minor illegal and sub
Gone but not forgotten: Looking Back on the Studio Closures of the Great Recession
It wasn’t that long ago that the video game industry was considered recession-proof. Game sales were on the rise year after year, so many thought t
Head Games: Why Games Need to do Better
If we devoted a small fraction of our gaming time to academic study, just where would we be? Perhaps we might gain new insight, learning about new cu
The best game-to-film adaptation yet?”
Bright Falls is the live-action prequel to Alan Wake that premiered on Xbox Live and has made its way onto the internet. Only two of six weekly episo
Bungie Jumps to Activision
Today, Activision and Bungie dropped a bombshell of an announcement, revealing that the publisher and developer would be teaming up for a new multipl
Ten signs you might be a football (futbol, or soccer) fanatic
Admittedly, I am a soccer addict. But no 12-step program for me. I’ll take a scissor move, rainbow or a Cruyff, Rivelino or Maradona. One-touch, or
Is Call of Duty Without Infinity Ward No Great Loss?
By: Stevie SmithThe unequivocal evolution attributed to the Call of Duty franchise since Infinity Ward’s virgin foray in 2003 has rightly defined t
Is Excessive Realism Killing Gameplay?
I am currently annoyed with a big trend in gaming at the moment - the gradual death of fun in videogames due to improved realism. Before the flamers
Should Multiplayer and Single-player be Separate Games?
As the expectations of gamers slowly shift over time, new gameplay directions emerge. One recent trend is for games to release with less single-playe
Spider-Man Movie Reboot: Darker, Grittier, and for the Best?
By Louis Bedigian for GameZone.comSony surprised the world when it announced that the plans for a fourth Spider-Man movie had been replaced by someth
The Genres That'll Succeed On Apple’s iPad
By Alex Coulter for GameZone.comA few years ago, I watched a video of WarCraft III being played on a large touch-screen interface. Rightfully so, I w
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