"Well, no offense to those who find gaming too childish, but the video game industry has joined movies, television, and music as a major entertainment medium. Don't believe us? Here are five ways that the gaming industry has grown up." - Travis Tucker
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
If someone posted this obvious troll comment about Sony, they would have been marked inappropriate and restricted.
But not anast because he is posting about Xbox and knows the site mods personally.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
The latest from Microids who have got right behind the little blue guys previously, developed by Ocellus Services is The Smurfs - Dreams.
Darwake: Awakening from the Nightmare is a visually stunning hand drawn cinematic puzzle platformer adventure set within a child’s endless nightmare.
I know. We've gone to jumping on goombas and shooting the @#$% out of aliens to..... Jumping on Goombas and shooting the $#%& out of aliens. Never mind.
The best way to explain it is that games have gone from being a simple toy for children to a medium that explores the same mature themes as movies and literature whiling giving freedom of total control over ones own destiny. Now we have games that explore the dark side of Objectivism (BioShock), question the stability of modern society (Tom Clancy's The Division), understand the horrors of war on a person (Spec Ops: The Line) or critic a society that rewards crooks while challenging the illusion of the American Dream (Grand Theft auto IV).
Spec OPS: The Line
The Last of Us
Gone Home
While I'd normally agree.. Its hard to miss the irony in posting an article about gaming growing up on n4g.. Lol
games might have grown up, but 'gamers' not so much