video games
Review/ Dot’s Home

Review/ Dot’s Home

While clocking in at just about an hour long, this brisk 2D, narrative-driven free-to-play point-and-click title’s tackling of hard-hitting and often all-too-real subject matters gives it lasting staying power in the minds of its players. Seldom are such real-world...

Who Are (Street Fighter Edition): Dee Jay & Kimberly Jackson

Who Are (Street Fighter Edition): Dee Jay & Kimberly Jackson

DEE JAY Hailing from the sunbathed Caribbean island of Jamaica, the always cheerful and perpetually smiling Dee Jay debuted as one of the four new challengers in 1993’s Super Street Fighter II. American designer James Goddard (Capcom USA) is credited as the creator of...

Review/ Marvel SNAP

Review/ Marvel SNAP

The answer to the POP quiz no one asked for: Marvel comics is to Marvel SNAP as World of Warcraft is to Hearthstone. This card game developed by Second Dinner is the brainchild of Ben Brode, who also was the lead designer of Hearthstone until 2018. My feelings on...

Street Fighter™ 6 Comes Out Swinging at The Game Awards 2022

Street Fighter™ 6 Comes Out Swinging at The Game Awards 2022

Press Release Street Fighter™ 6 continues to deliver knockout punches, this time announcing at The Game Awards 2022 new details on the single-player immersive World Tour mode, four new characters, pre-order availability starting today, and the much-anticipated June 2,...

Decoy Games: The Abdullah Brothers’ Journey into Videogames

Decoy Games: The Abdullah Brothers’ Journey into Videogames

Video gaming includes playing simple mascot-driven side-scrollers in your home, enjoying games at cramped arcades, playing immersive cinematic masterpieces, and partaking in colorful time sinks on any handheld device enjoyed the world over. Video games' modern...

EA Sports FC To Become Top Soccer Title Globally

EA Sports FC To Become Top Soccer Title Globally

Soccer might be well down the list when it comes to popular US sports, but it is still played the length and breadth of the country.That will only increase as we enter the winter, with the USMNT featuring at a World Cup finals for the first time since 2014. With that...

Who Is: DOLORES (KoF XV)

Who Is: DOLORES (KoF XV)

The latest entry in the long-running fighting game franchise “King of Fighters” (KOF) has recently hit all major consoles. And with the release of “KoF XV” come three new characters to the massive roster of 3-on-3 international martial artists and pugilists. One of...

Great Black Video Game Protagonists

Great Black Video Game Protagonists

Since the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, video games have come a long way. At the time, many considered video games a passing trend at worst, and a children’s toy at best. If you were to go back in time and tell the people of the 80s that video games...

Review: Up Up Ubie

Review: Up Up Ubie

Up Up Ubie is a unique mobile game experience as quirky as its balloon-wielding main character. Up Up Ubie is a platforming, point and click style mobile game that is the brainchild of Andrew Augustin and his company Notion Games. Augustin created this entire project...

Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 2

Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 2

Editor's Note: Check out Part 1 here. Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII. 5. Barret Wallace Original Game: Final Fantasy VII (1997) Even if you’ve never played a Japanese RPG, if you’ve been in gaming long enough, there is no denying the ubiquitous knowledge of the...

Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 1

Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 1

With the recent release of Deathloop, a AAA first-person shooter that – as of writing – sits at an 89 on Metacritic, it’s fair to say that this next generation videogame by Bethesda is a success. I was more invested than most gamers, mainly because it starred not one,...

Discover Africa through the Creative Richness of its Video Games

Discover Africa through the Creative Richness of its Video Games

Press Release A true identity factor, discover the African video game and its particularities rich in a unique culture.Register for free to the virtual conferences led by professionals (in English and/or in French) on September 23 and 24. Many themes will be covered...

Archives

Pin It on Pinterest