I absolutely love seeing videos like the one below. Austin Wintory, composer of the breathtaking soundtrack from Journey, tweeted this video out not long ago. I watched it and believed it had to be shared. You may know ViolinTay from many of her other videos. She has many videos displaying her amazing talent, where she plays themes from different video games. This video is absolutely beautiful. Just watch it. Subscribe to her YouTube channel here.
Console Sales Console Exclusives Xbox 360: Like Halo the generation before it, Gears of Wars has been the killer IP that has driven the Microsoft 1st party sales more than any other in this generation. Gears has been the king of the cover-based 3rd person shooter genre and has been a trendsetter for other developers. RPG fans had a few things to sink their teeth into, Fable was a revered series until its later stages and the Mass Effect Series was exclusive up until...
At this year’s D.I.C.E. Summit, Jenova Chen gave quite an amazing talk on Journey’s development and philosophies. The topics he discuss range from how terrible the original game was, to the parallels between the Monomyth and the Three Act Structure of most modern movies. He also brings into light some of the struggles That Game Company faced forging the feeling of companionship that is so refined within Journey. The entire video is fascinating and required...
So we finally did it. After scheduling conflicts, a botched Mayan apocalypse, and what can only be described as the worst water polo accident of 2012, we finally have our Game of the Year list. We at LevelSave have done our best to bring you our list with as much transparency and balance among the team as we could. Several team members (see: almost all) live in separate parts of the country(s) and so coming together to argue about videogames is not as simple as one might...
Compared to its competitors, the video gaming industry is a juvenile upstart. From some pretty humble beginnings, this industry has grown into a media force with annual earnings that dwarf the record and movie industries combined. Yes, gaming has grown up, it has even earned its stripes with giant publishing corporations in the form of Activision/Vivendi and Electronic Arts. With all of the new found maturity and revenue, the video games industry is still finding it...
We’ve all heard the argument that games are art. There’s been discussions on podcasts, interviews and in articles. There’s been talk of the cross-over from games to movies and how they seem to be moving closer together each day. Well, now we have a little more proof that videogames are starting to be appreciated on a much larger scale. Yesterday, I saw an interesting tweet from Kellee Santiago, Ex Co-founder of thatgamecompany, creators of Journey. She...
Can a game ever evoke an emotion in one hour too poignant to describe? Journey did.
Today, via the Playstation Blog, we finally got the release date for the much anticipated Journey. On march 13th you will be able to purchase Journey for 15$. Journey’s name is very apt, as the game truly is more about the journey than the destination. You are a cloth person with no idea who, what, or where you are. You spot a mountain in the distance and for the rest of the game that is your goal and objective. As you wander semi-aimlessly through the sand you will...
Journey is one of those unique games I get excited about. Doing something different from the rest of the pack. Showing that games can be more than FPS and RPG’s. Going even further passed that, that a game can be art and do so much with so little. From the controls to the main task of the game, everything is kept simple, enjoyable. thatgamecompany is set to create an experience you’ll be hard pressed to find anywhere else. At CES 2012 I was able to get sometime...
Journey is the third game from Thatgamecompany and is on par with the uniqueness and subtle craziness that we have come to expect from them. Your character is a nameless cloth person with no distinct featured other than, well, being made of cloth. Your main goal is to reach a glowing mountain far off in the distance but how you get there or how to get there is never spelled out. Your mission is to explore and discover anything and everything in the desert and in a sense...
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