Sometimes robbing a stagecoach and collecting bounties can get tiresome. It is strenuous to engage in so many shoot-outs. If you ever feel like chilling at camp, you can sit back and play a game of dominoes with one of your fellow gang memb
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was finally revealed last week to the surprise of absolutely no one. Black Ops has arguably become the most popular sub-franchise within the Call of Duty series so to see another sequel that continues that story isn’t shocking in the slightest. There was one noticeable difference when it comes to Call of Duty this year: the release date.
I want to be clear after saying all of this that by no means do I think Black Ops 4 would sell poorly if it did release in November. For Activision though, this is all about maximization of profits. Even if Red Dead Redemption 2 fan theories Dead Redemption 2’s release didn’t have as big of an effect as I’m pretending it would, it’s obvious that an effect would still be had. Activision knows this, too, and that’s why they’ve pushed Call of Duty into an October window for the first time in 13 years.
If there’s one thing we all need to take away from Red Dead Redemption II ’s design it’s that realism is not necessarily a good thing. Mind you, the game’s more real moments are not detrimental to the whole experience, but they bog the game down considerably. Want to walk from point A to point B? Get used to Arthur moving at a snail’s p
We’re in an unprecedented year where we’ll get to see gaming’s highest selling annual franchise face off against the developers behind history’s highest sold game. It’s going to be a fun fight to watch, but come October, I think I’ll put my money on the cowboy.
I know that might sound like a dumb thing to say initially that Activision is scared of any game when touting their own prizefighter. Call of Duty has proven itself to be the juggernaut in the Fall window time and time again. As a famous meth-maker would say, they are the danger — Call of Duty is the one who knocks; but not this year.
Smuggler’s Run , a major update focused on aerial vehicles and gameplay that introduces new smuggling-based business opportunities, a new Hangar property for storing a range of aircraft, including planes, choppers and ultralights for transporting criminal cargo across the state; and an array of themed content drops post-launch featur
During the course of his rough-and-tumble adventures, Arthur Morgan gets pretty dirty. It doesn’t help that the roads he travels on are sometimes just muddy tracks in the earth. If you get soiled enough, other NPCs will comment on Arthur’s rundown st
Which, unfortunately, weather doesn’t. Despite building up how much weather will affect the game, Arthur is basically left to his own devices as he can run up the snowiest peaks wearing as little as possible with only the most minor of penalties. If the story stresses the dangers of weather, the gameplay not reflecting that is a plot h
Grand Theft Auto V has now sold in more than 85 million units. According to The NPD Group, Grand Theft Auto V is now the all-time best-selling video game, both in revenues and units, based on combined U.S. digital and physical sales across PC, console and porta
Ultimately, this is a problem of modern game design. Before the seventh generation, games needed to be playtested extensively due to how problematic it was to fix a glitch. Buggy game? You need to ship out a whole new batch of games. Now you can overlook potential bugs thanks to patches resulting in an entire plotline being done out of or
Take-Two also shared a bullet list of the achievements and main metrics of its subsidiaries, Rockstar and 2K games. In particular, we learn that Gran Theft Auto V has passed 85 million shipments, and is now the best selling video game of all time according to the NPD. N BA 2K18, on the other hand, shipped over 6 million un
When you combine these strong initial sales that Red Dead 2 is sure to have with the fact that it will have an online mode that could bring in as many people as GTAV , then you start to realize that many gamers might not be as quick to run out and purchase Black Ops 4 as normal. If Red Dead were to have its hooks in players by the time Black Ops 4 was to release in its typical November spot, I have no doubt that sales would suffer at least a degree.
By being first this year, Activision is hoping to hook players on Black Ops 4 before they’ll ever even have the chance to holster a revolver in Red Dead . It’s essentially a reverse of the situation that I painted above. Plus, releasing first allows Black Ops 4 to dictate the conversation in gaming spaces for at least a few weeks before Red Dead drops like a piano onto a cartoon character.
There are some people who enjoy fishing mini-games. I’m not one of them. I don’t have the patience for standing around waiting for a nibble. Thankfully, there is a way to fish in Red Dead Redemption 2 without a fishing p
