by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 13, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Battle royales are one of the most popular genres around. Starting with H1Z1 making a splash on Steam, followed quickly by PUBG and Fortnite, battle royales have slowly spread to cover the gaming landscape, but their life expectancy in esports has yet to be tested....
by Jordan Love | Nov 10, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Respawn Entertainment, creators of the massively popular Titanfall series, have officially been aquired by EA. The announcement came via an EA press release and was accompanied shortly after by an official statement from Respawn. According to EA, "The acquisition...
by Jordan Love | Nov 10, 2017 | News, News Section, weekly
Each week, Fast Travel helps you get caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week's biggest news pieces. Then it's on to a little dollop of indie news. Followed by a helping of "The Best Thing on the Internet,...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 9, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
There aren’t many games that are willing to refute the total domination of the open-world style. Starting as a western gaming trope, it has come to dominate even Zelda and Mario, the two most iconic gaming figures out of Japan. Final Fantasy made the switch long ago...
by Jordan Love | Nov 8, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
The PUBG Fortnite battle continued in dramatic fashion this week as both games reached a 20 million milestone almost simultaneously. For PUBG it was 20 millions copies sold and for Fortnite it was 20 million players. These milestones are just fuel for the rivalry that...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 7, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Game companies aren’t so different than normal companies, and this is especially true for start-ups and tech companies. Even though making games is probably infinitely more fun than making finance apps, the operations side of a business boils down to the same stuff....
by Jordan Love | Nov 7, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
The One X is finally here and Xbox chief Phil Spencer marked it’s arrival by announcing Microsoft's intent to move towards software and services. In an interview with Bloomberg, Spencer declared that he and his team need to grow as content and service providers. “Our...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 7, 2017 | News, News Section, Videogames
Top-down shooters have been a long time from their heyday. In the days of Contra and early 90s games like Loaded, it was the go-to for action and violence, but as 3D technology improved, the FPS rose to prominence and the top-down shooter died. But recently, mostly...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Nov 7, 2017 | News, News Section
November 4th was officially dubbed ‘Game Day’ for the charity organization Extra Life, and game they did. In just 24-hours, Extra Life – with the help of thousands of streamers, organizations, and gamers – was able to raise $1,805,727. This puts Extra Life’s current...
by Jordan Love | Nov 6, 2017 | News, News Section, PC, Videogames
BlizzCon 2017 has come and gone and Blizzard made sure to pack as much as possible into the two day celebration. One of the biggest reveals came in the opening moments of the convention when CEO Mike Morhaime announced that StarCraft II would become free-to-play...
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