Opinions, Previous Work, Livestreams, and such
Ok, right off the bat, here are my initial qualifications to give you an upfront idea of my way of thinking. I’ll expand on it later in the article. “Have I ever refunded a game on Steam before?” Yes. “Have you ever worked with a game developer?” Yes. Now, that being said, here are … Read more BlurryPhoenix Talks: Opinions on Steam Refunds
There has been a rising trend in the game industry in the last couple years or so. That trend is releasing games that are in “alpha”, “beta”, or “early access” states. For those of you who aren’t familiar with these terms, “alpha” is the term for a game that’s really early in development. Usually the … Read more BlurryPhoenix Talks: Opinions on Alpha/Beta/Early Access games
Once again, it’s not a secret that I’m a Sonic fan (see my icon), and I have been for 20 years now. My first console was a Sega Genesis that came with Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Even to this day, I’ll pop that in (granted, into my PS3 from the Ultimate Genesis Collection) and play … Read more BlurryPhoenix Talks: Former SEGA Producer’s Issues With Sonic Boom
I spent the day watching the live streams of E3. Last year, I made a video highlighting all of what I saw during the E3 Press Conferences. That video was over an hour long, so I decided to condense this year’s E3 into an article of my opinions of E3. Below are my opinions on … Read more Blurryphoenix Talks: E3 2014 Opinions
Ok, so this is going to be a bit off the cuff as I’m writing this as I’m listening to the livestream (below) featuring David Spalinski (Lead Level Designer), Steve Polge (Sr. Programmer / Project Lead), Stacey “Flak” Conley (Community Manager), and Joe “Dr. Sin” Wilcox (Sr. Programmer). Epic has announced that there is going … Read more Blurryphoenix Talks: Epic Announces NEW Unreal Tournament
This week was a very interesting week with Steam. Steam kicked off the week on Monday by announcing SteamOS. SteamOS is a free Linux based open source operating system centered around Steam itself. SteamOS is meant to bring Steam to the living room. Many of you have probably seen Steam’s “Big Picture” mode which is … Read more Blurryphoenix Talks: Steam Announcements
Read part 1 first… Let me first start off the next generation discussion with the cluster****s that were the console reveals and E3 press conferences. The Sony Playstation 4 reveal consisted of showing a lot of games, the controller, and some of the features that were going to be added to the console itself. However, they … Read more BlurryPhoenix Talks: The Future of Console Gaming (Part Two)
With E3 a month behind us, I wanted to share my opinions on where the next generation of consoles is headed. Everyone talks about “who won the console war?” In the heat of all the recent announcements, I’m right there with everyone else. However, after everything has finally calmed down, I take a step back … Read more BlurryPhoenix Talks: The Future of Console Gaming (Part One)