E3′s fast approaching, and while he didn’t get the privilege to go, Xiant’s got a message to every gamer who’ll listen. Let’s care about games, not hardware.
Aside from serving up a nearly unlimited number of fatalities, Dark Souls delivers powerful lessons in game design. Can developers learn how to make games that echo its elegant risk/reward system?
With Return to Ravnica released, all eyes turn towards the remaining five guilds. WiNGSPAN does his homework and reports back with two possible mechanics for each group. What do you think?
Wizards of the Coast Digital Games Manager, Ken Troop, joins WiNG to talk about Duels of the Planeswalkers. Learn how the game is designed & balanced, and get a hint at what’s to come in the future!
WiNGSPANTT is proud to deliver to you, the Assassin’s Creed community, more AC3 news. Today, he spoke with game director Damien Kieken and got answers to your burning questions about the ‘Creed.
Xiant ventures into dangerous waters with his short analysis of the console vs. PC debate. Hopefully he succeeded in being equally kind and cruel to both sides.
The Diablo 3 beta/demo is here, and WiNGSPAN isn’t impressed. Bad acting, action-style skills, and other “improvements” are everywhere. With 10+ years to create a compelling experience, it appears Blizzard has failed.
Xiant tries to dissect another oft-maligned mechanic in the video games you just might play. He knows you love watching the red jelly disappear off of your screen, too. You eat it on your toast, don’t you?
Xiant retools his weekly series to focus on weird, wacky, stupid, and smart game design. Pretentious though it may be, he thinks he knows a thing or three about what constitutes good games.
Xiant takes a trip in time to talk to himself in ten years, or to anyone who actually becomes a game developer in that time span. While certainly not the most objective of viewpoints, he thinks the advice is sound. Opinionated, but sound.
If there’s a past-time more rewarding than putting Nazis in the grave, I’ve never heard of it. Similarly inclined? You might be interested in Bethesda’s upcoming take on Wolfenstein. Just be warned: sexual encounters with grandmothers are imminent.
After spending almost a week at E3 playing both next generation consoles, WiNG has some bad news: The Xbox One is the best piece of gaming hardware you’re ever going loathe. But will you hate yourself if you give in and buy it anyway?
Moving through the genres one by one, Xiant enters adventure game territory. Where will his explorations take him?
In WiNGSPAN’s first Scrolls TCG video, he cranks up his contraptions to test his Energy machines against the might of an opponent’s Growth deck.
As WiNG makes his way back home, Xiant’s going through his favorite picks from the latest E3, and he’s doing it by genre. Today is Toraka’s favorite genre of all time, shooters.