PixlBit

The game companies, both in hardware and software, are trying their damnedest to herd gamers into being online-dependent. That's what the industry wants desperately.

Yeehaw. The 1UP spambots finally caught up with us!

I definitely agree on Ubisoft. I never liked Ubisoft anyway, but they can't even get Tetris right.

Square Enix, however, has been fairly satisfactory to me with games like Bravely Default, and they've got a release window nailed down for FFXV. I even kind of like their Batman design, but then, I don't care about comics to begin with, so my opinion isn't really worth much here.

Sega... they're brilliant when they actually bother to release games outside of Japan, so they're often a source of aggravation for me.

Good rant blog.

This year was a huge step down from last year, except for Wii U, which has been great.

Final Fantasy XI was supposedly the most financially successful Final Fantasy game ever, and by quite a sizable margin at that. There's a reason why they made FFXIV, and a reason why they decided to retool it rather than scrap it.

Sadly, nope. They are porting Final Fantasy VII to PS4, but it's going to be a port of the PC version. I guess because the PS4 is x86-based and the PC version was designed to run on that architecture.

I'm with you on this one. I have no reason to buy Xbox One, because the PS4 and the Wii U have me covered. PC, too, I guess, but I'm not a PC gamer. And if I miss out on Rise of the Tomb Raider,

I like what you're getting at, but please, not streaming. For games, it sucks.

Bleh, that sucks. I first discovered allgame back in 2000.I was tickled to find so many of my favorite obscure games listed.

Street Fighter's cool, Persona 5 is great and right below Zelda U, FFXV, and Xenoblade Chronicles X on my list of "most wanted."

One game I'm excited for is Yakuza 5. It's coming to PS3 as a digital release. What I hope it means is US releases for future Yakuza games and a lightening-up of Sega's overall localization decisions. I'd love to play Shining Resonance in English. But we'll see how well Yakuza 5 does, I suppose...