Tag: BioWare
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Reflections – Benefits of Email Marketing for Small Businesses
Email marketing allows small businesses to reach their target audience directly. Here are the six biggest benefits of email marketing. Email marketing is an easy, cost-effective way to reach your small business’s target audience. Email marketing offers a high return on investment and is straightforward way to automate your marketing efforts. To get started with…
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Mass Effect Doesn’t Need to Be Remastered. Seriously.
If what was trending on Facebook last week is any indication, there are quite a few fans who are upset that the Mass Effect trilogy is not likely to be remastered in the near future. Frankly, I don’t get why that’s a point of irritation. I mean, sure. The first Mass Effect was released back…
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Journey to the Frozen Tundra of Icewind Dale
by Benjamin Fitzgerald An elven sorceress, a half-orc priest, a roguish dwarf, a half-elf bard and two warrior women walk into a bar. It’s not a joke – it’s the opening of Icewind Dale! BioWare developed the Infinity Engine between 1997 and 1998, and it was employed for the first time in Baldur’s Gate.…
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The Enduring Impact of the Infinity Engine
By Benjamin Fitzgerald Stop for a moment. Breathe it in. Imagine the possibilities. Revel in it. BioWare developed the Infinity Engine for a planned real-time strategy game that never came to fruition. Instead, they re-tooled the engine for isometric role-playing games and released Baldur’s Gate in 1998. Only five games were made with the Infinity…
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Destiny Review – A Calling Left Unfulfilled –
By Patrick-James Reyes Destiny Developer: Bungie Publisher: Activision Released: 9-9-14 Platforms: Playstation 3/ Playstation 4/ Xbox 360/ Xbox One MSRP: $59.99 It has been four years since Bungie’s last game. Now at last we arrive at a new frontier of their design in the form of Destiny, but what is it exactly? According to those…
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Deep Space of Expectations – Destiny Initial Impressions
Publisher: Activision Developer: Activision Platforms: Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One Release Date: September 9, 2014 Genre: MMORPG, FPS Rated: T for Teen MSRP: $59.99 Marketing is a dual-edged sword for any game – it either keeps a game from fading into the mass sea of other similar titles, or burns it asunder in…