From the vantage point of most small time developers, the indie explosion that has taken the gaming industry by storm over the past several years is nothing short of incredible. Suddenly, aspiring game makers have affordable access to the tools they need to rapidly create niche, oft-kilter products. And thanks to portals like Steam the best indie games are being made visible to the masses. Additionally, crowd sourcing formats like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are helping [...]

  Patch 1.0.3 has arrived – and given Blizzard’s tediously slow nature, much sooner than expected. With the new patch comes a variety of bug, itemization and difficulty fixes that are sure to appease fans. Yes, some will complain about all the nerfs, and rightfully so. But overall the changes are catered towards smoother progress – something that was severely lacking up until now. Because 1.0.3 changes the nature of the game so drastically, players [...]

Diablo III is a well thought out, extremely polished game that for the most part stays true to its spirit of its predecessor. However, as the weeks go by more and more inherent design flaws are being unveiled, most of them related to server stability, class balance and difficulty. Ultimately, this leads one to believe that Blizzard may have lost their way over the course of a grueling and mysterious 11-year development period. Invariably, most [...]

                                  The debate ends here. Alright, it probably won’t but Modern Fictum has played each of Diablo III’s five classes through to Inferno and is ready to weigh in on which ones they feel stand the best shot of tossing Inferno Diablo off the perch of Heaven. Listed from the most futile to the most useful, Modern Fictum proudly [...]

Amid a swarm of controversy and several delays, Diablo III’s Real Money Auction House finally launched in the Americas on June 12, 2012. Designed to allow players who would rather not spend hundreds of hours farming inferior bosses easy access to the upgrades they need, the RHAM will also encourage lucky players to make a few extra dollars while adventuring.   The term “lucky” is used because there is really only so much one can [...]

They’ve run the gamut from astounding to hauntingly accurate, and although to the uninformed observer they may just come across as a crudely drawn digital lego painting, most of us are well aware of the sheer breadth of some of the more ambitious Minecraft concoctions. But there are a few that define categorization, and even logic. They’re masterpieces in some regard, just not in the more traditional sense – if Minecraft creations could ever be defined [...]

A hotfix was quickly and stealthily implemented, but it wasn’t in time. Videos were posted and the word was spread – players had successfully managed to duplicate items in Diablo III. So much for the implementation of controversial DRM protecting cheats from ever getting through security – or is it?     Over this past weekend, not one, but two videos were posted showing players exactly how to duplicate rare pieces of crafted gear. Sadly [...]

The notion of Diablo III’s Real Money Auction House never sat quite right with most fans. Put mildly, many perceived it as a way for Blizzard to milk their customers under the guise that profits would be used for server maintenance and securities. Think about it – if $15 a month times X million subscribers can’t keep the WoW servers stable for days at a time after a patch, the comparatively paltry, yet still overwhelmingly [...]

                                        At the end of the 90 minute presentation that was Nintendo’s E3 2012 press conference, an array of drab digital fireworks served as an adequate sendoff to an uninspiring, often times confusing presentation that left many fans wondering just what the upcoming WiiU is aspiring to be. Although we’re bound to find out more pertinent [...]

As commonly is the way with trends, they quickly become too big for their own good. And while the crowd sourcing freight train that is Kickstarter has done much good for the independent game industry, the sheer number of indies vying for pledges is rapidly becoming overwhelming. Even former industry giants such as The Two Guys From Andromeda are struggling to procure the necessary funding to bring back the once vaulted Space Quest franchise. With [...]