GTA V, PS4, Xbox One and Why It's Coming

  

              Possibly the biggest game to drop this year was Grand Theft Auto V, it pulled in roughly $800 million in the first day alone and rounded out the $1 billion mark just 3 days after.  Just take a second to let that sink in for a bit, that is enough to buy the Chicago Cubs or build the Real Madrid Island Resort and is more money than any movie has ever made in an openning weekend.  Clearly this game is fantastic, everyone I talk to said that they love the story, the characters; even the graphics look great considering that the hardware is eight years old.  It seems Rockstar took all the things we wished they put into GTA IV, added it to the things we already liked and topped it up with some fresh shiny features.   

                I am dying to get my hands on this game, I LOVE the Grand Theft Auto series.  The amount of time that I spend glued to the screen playing Vice City would probably make an optometrist cringe and might have something to with the thickness of my glasses, but that is beside the point.  San Andreas and GTA IV were also excellent games, so naturally I was particularly excited for the release of GTA V.  I stayed up to date (or so I thought) with the news and watched all the trailers and videos but somehow I seemed to have missed one small detail.  The fact that there was a version planned for the PS4 or Xbox One…

               

Titanfall: A Microsoft Exclusive

Whether you are someone who follows the gaming industry very intently or just a causal gamer, it is almost a guarantee that you have heard of Titanfall.  Taking home over 60 awards at E3 including Best of Show, Best Online Multiplayer, and tons of critics’ choice awards.  I mean with jetpacks, heavy weapons and giant military exoskeletons known as Titans, it is hard not to be a little excited to learn more about this game.

A Titan and it's Pilot

Trading my 360 for an Xbox One and a Little Nostalgia

Walking into EB Games with my Xbox and all my games jammed into two plastic grocery bags felt a little strange.  Not being able to place the feeling I suppressed it with thoughts of how financially responsible I was being and how this one is destined to collect dust in some dark corner once it’s upgraded predecessor hits the shelves.  

Arriving at the counter I hand over my bags to the manager and explain to him that I want to put this towards the new one and he begins to connect my system to the small TV to make sure everything is in working order.  Then it hits me again and this time I realize what it is, nostalgia, and a little nervousness.  That is when I remembered that the last time I would have traded in a gaming system I was roughly 14 years old and it was at a Digital World, not overly far from where I was at that moment.  I still remember walking into the back of the store to literally a hole in the wall with a half door where I waited nervously to see how much money my PS2 and the original Xbox would fetch me (and being a tad bit disappointed…).