Skyrim is a great game, but the best thing about Skyrim is that it proves the other gaming developers – and more importantly publishers – wrong about everything that they think that they know about the industry. Skyrim sold huge. Really huge: sales exceeded 3.4million in the first two days and is now well over 10million.  It dominated PC sales charts and the Xbox 360 sales charts and beat the record of the last game in the...

So… not only does Dragon Age 2 come with the crappy secuROM DRM (unadvertised, btw) but EA now thinks that it can stop you from playing the game you legally BUY if you say something on their forums it doesn’t like? Bioware, how I loved thee… EA suspended a user of the DA2 forums for calling out Bioware for folding to EA, their publisher.  Should this person not be able to post on the forums for a few days to calm down?...

Electronic Arts subsidiary BioWare confirmed today that the sequel to their mega successful Dragon Age game will be due out in March 2011.  The game will arrive on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. “Last year’s launch of Dragon Age: Origins was one of the most successful in BioWare’s 15-year history and one of the most successful new IP launches in the 28-year history of EA,… We are amplifying the things that made Dragon...

Sega has stated that its spy RPG Alpha Protocol will not get a sequel.  This is no surprise to me, since I have recently fought my way through the title.  It did get some decent reviews somehow but ended up with a sub 70 score on Metacritic. Sega West president Mike Hayes told CVG: “Whilst we had a good game, I don’t think we had a game that had enough to get us to that upper echelon and I think that was the...

I am currently playing Just Cause 2, which is by far the most fun I have ever had playing a sandbox game.  I typically don’t spend much time exploring and goofing around with side missions and fun tricks when playing sandbox games.  Steal all the cars in GTA?  No way, too boring.  But this game?  It kicks ass. Steal a helicopter.  Jump from it onto a small passenger jet.  Throw out the pilot.  Slam jet into...