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Feature: Top 5 Announcements from San Diego Comic Con 20120

Feature: Top 5 Announcements from San Diego Comic Con 2012

San Diego’s Comic Con has wrapped up, and I thought it would be a nice opportunity to give everyone a Top 5 of some of the announcements from San Diego, as they pertain to the world of gaming. So if you want a brief recap, or if you missed all the announcements made, take a seat and read what is [...]

Feature: Meet Bill, The Last of Us’ Newest Character0

Feature: Meet Bill, The Last of Us’ Newest Character

Naughty Dog is infamous for creating memorable characters; Daxter from the Jak and Daxter trilogy, Crash Bandicoot from the Crash Bandicoot series, and of course, the suave and stylish Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series. No other studio brings a realism to their characters quite like Naughty Dog. From the previous The Last of Us trailers alone, I instantly feel a connection to [...]

Feature: We’ll Never Forget – The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Sword in The Stone0

Feature: We’ll Never Forget – The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Sword in The Stone

Few and far between are moments that become etched in your memory. Often, these moments define our favorite games, and make us realize why we love video games. In short, they’re moments that we will never forget. Pulling a majestic sword from a stone pedestal is one of the most iconic and recognized gestures in mythology and folklore. It is [...]

Feature: Mike’s Weekly iPhone Game Round Up 6/22/12

Feature: Mike’s Weekly iPhone Game Round Up 6/22/12

This Week in iPhone Gaming News More Toys Based on iOS Games Halfbrick, the developer behind the iOS hits Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, have partnered with multiple manufacturing companies around the world to bring consumers items and toys based on its hit game Fruit Ninja. The items will include plushies, novelty toys, apparel, mouse pads, coffee mugs, phone covers, [...]

Feature: Mike’s Weekly iPhone Game Round Up

Feature: Mike’s Weekly iPhone Game Round Up

Hello, my name is Mike, and I will be covering the iPhone gaming scene for NGN in a weekly article series I’m calling “Mike’s Weekly iPhone Game Round Up”. Original, I know. Anyway, in this weekly news article, I will be highlighting various releases of the week, previewing upcoming games, and posting any other news of interest to those of [...]

Feature: The Sanchez Soapbox: Nintendo Press Conferences

Feature: The Sanchez Soapbox: Nintendo Press Conferences

Our coverage of the Electronic Entertainment Expo continues, a little late, but continues nonetheless. If you missed the recap, our fearless leader, and Editor in Chief of New Gamer Nation, Joe Marchese has you covered with what was announced at the conference. I will do something a little different and just talk about the conferences Nintendo presented. Pre E3 Conference [...]

Feature: The Sanchez Soapbox: Sony Press Conferences

Feature: The Sanchez Soapbox: Sony Press Conferences

Here we are at the conference I was truly looking forward to as a Playstation 3 owner, the Sony press conference at the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Now just because I am a PS3 owner doesn’t mean I’m going to be biased. Sony has a lot to live up to, and has to keep me excited as one of their [...]

Feature: Top 5 PlayStation 1 Games You Never Played1

Feature: Top 5 PlayStation 1 Games You Never Played

There are a ton of PS1 games that everyone has played or heard of: Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Gran Turismo, Syphon Filter, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and so on. What about the ones people never played or heard of? These are five of those games that went under people’s radar and I think deserve a spotlight. 5) [...]

Feature: Tomb Raider First Impressions

Feature: Tomb Raider First Impressions

First introduced during the E3 2011  with a trailer impressive enough to instantly create a huge hype for fans of the series, Tomb Raider again show its face on the famous gaming convention. During the conference, Microsoft’s co-creator of the game by Crystal Dynamics, Daniel Bisson, and studio head Darrell Gallagher appeared to give a taste of how it would be [...]

Feature: E3 Shocker Announcements: Watch Dogs

Feature: E3 Shocker Announcements: Watch Dogs

E3 2012 was full of fantastic looking games. Whether it was our new assassin, Connor, creeping through the snowy frontier in the hunt for another Templar or the brilliant new concept in Forza where you can not only race those stunning cars on the track, but now on the open roads of Colorado, there was something there for everyone, but [...]