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With Nintendo’s Wii U on the horizon and all the launch details available, players have undoubtedly noticed the slowdown of releases for the console’s predecessor, the Wii. Aside from three games that had to be semi-successfully petitioned to be brought to the United States, the Wii’s last true meaningful releases came at the end of [...]
With Nintendo’s Wii U on the horizon, players have undoubtedly noticed the slowdown of releases for the console’s predecessor, the Wii. Aside from three games that had to be semi-successfully petitioned to be brought to the United States, the Wii’s last true meaningful releases came at the end of 2011 with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward [...]
Some might view this month as the calm before the storm, but let’s be honest –– it isn’t all that calm. Not only does September house one of our most anticipated game of 2012, but new entries in two iconic fighting franchises, as well. The release schedule is only going to heat up from here, [...]
The summer months may have been a bit light on the big gaming launches, but August 2012 officially kicks off a brutal stretch that will see relentless releases until March 2013. While we aren’t quite seeing BioShock Infinite or Assassin’s Creed III this month, gamers will be treated to a strong selection of highly anticipated [...]
At first, the July 2012 video game releases might look just a bit anemic, but upon further examination, you might be surprised. Sure, Microsoft has its annual Summer of Arcade promotion on Xbox Live, but it brings us great shock to make the following statement: The month of July easily belongs to the Nintendo 3DS. [...]
We’ve already named our most-anticipated games of 2012, but with some of them out and others being pushed back to 2013, we feel it’s best if we revise the list — especially after everything we saw at E3 and PAX East. Check out our new top 10 list of the staff’s most-anticipated games for the [...]
June is typically a dull month in terms of game releases; and for good reason. With E3 generating so much hype within the gaming community, many have looked at releasing a game in June as a surefire way to generate no hype just prior to release. Regardless, several publishers have brazenly braved the E3 media [...]
May is shaping up to be a rather busy month in terms of mainstream, AAA titles (Diablo III, need we say more?), but on the niche game front, things continue to be fairly quiet until a whole slew of highly-anticipated Japanese titles hit in the summer months. But never fear; we still managed to round [...]
May looks like it’s going to drain wallets, and maybe a few souls. There. We said it. We’ve had some kind of busy months lately, but nothing like this in 2012 so far. This month’s offerings seem to have a common theme through many of them: they’ve been delayed several times before finally seeing release [...]
With VGW’s PAX East 2012 coverage beginning to come to a close, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back at what our staff thought was the best of the best. We didn’t quite see everything, but between the three of us, we think we were able to get a pretty good idea of [...]
At this point, we’re really hoping that April comes through for gamers. February and March looked promising, but ended up being more disappointing than anything. Now, all we have left to look forward to is April and May before the annual summer lull hits. Luckily, these two months look like they still have a few tricks [...]
Going into February and March, there was much speculation that these two months could be almost as promising as the mind-blowingly strong months of October and November of 2011. Without knowing what you know now about many of these games, think about it: in a two month stretch, publishers promised a new entry in the [...]
2012 has really picked up, hasn’t it? February proved its worth, and now, it’s March’s turn to up the ante. In addition to the Vita continuing to kick out launch window releases, March looks to be most promising for console gamers. Sure, we’ll see the likes of Mass Effect 3, one of the most anticipated [...]