Games

  • The Misfocus in Open World gaming: Size and Collectables

    The Misfocus in Open World gaming: Size and Collectables

    We have all heard those developer statements of map size in open world games nowadays. They can often based on comparisons “several times larger than game” or similes “as big as”. I used to get excited by these announcements. This was until the actual games came out and more instances...
  • 3DS and Switch Co-Exist Successfully

    Can the Nintendo 3DS and Switch Co-Exist Successfully?

    The Switch has been doing gangbusters for Nintendo ever since it launched in March earlier this year. The hybrid system has sold 2.74 million unites as of March 2017. The number will likely be a fair amount higher now since the launch of hits Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and...
  • Cancelled: Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

    CANCELLED: Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

    ‘CANCELLED’ is a series of posts at PlusMana.com that examine games that, for one reason or another, have never seen the light of day. In part one of the series, we take a look at why Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned was eventually cancelled. Pirates of the...
  • Films, Games And The Problematic Parallels In Between

    My father was not happy to hear that I wanted to be a game developer. Yet he’d never had an issue with me expressing ambitions to design and write films. His exact words to me were: “There is no future in games.” When he said this, I laughed. It...