Games Cheats and Reviews

While being used as a primary news source for Japanese Games, Famitsu’s editorial content, and expecially their review scores, have been target of costant mudslinging from a part of the gaming press, that accuses the Japanese weekly magazine of being biased and of giving scores according to advertisement deals.

With the 40/40 score given to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, this argument has reared his ugly head again.

But is this "holier than thou" attitude justified? The gaming press as a whole lives on advertisement deals, favors, giveaways, exclusive covers and previews, including the publications that criticize Famitsu.

Okay… perhaps "controversy" isn’t the right word. But some fans do appear to be alarmed at what they saw in the humorous Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker music video.

Apparently, Kojima has received opinions of the form "The image is wrong. This is not Metal Gear." Kojima responded to this by saying that the real game will be completely different and will surprise players with its seriousness. The PV was made by the younger Kojima Productions demo staff as a playful exercise with thoughts of Paz, he explained.

After the late-to-the-party coverage by CNN on the controversy related to the hentai game Rapelay, released for Windows in 2006, the Japanese mangaka Takeshi Nogami wrote an open letter to the network, expressing his disgust for that evident attack against Japanese society and culture.

Square Enix appears to have started work on a next generation game engine. And the image they’ve used to promote this fact is sure to draw some controversy.

Lens of Truth writes, "This week the Lens of Truth had the chance to "go to hell" with Dante’s Inferno, via Play N Trade Oviedo! This much anticipated title from Visceral Games has been surrounded by controversy since its unveiling at E3 2009 and has been compared to the God of War franchise on many occasions. So which version of Dante’s Inferno is the definitive version and which one should take a dip in the Lake of Fire? Read on to find out!"

Square Enix is going under a lot of heat currently thanks to very poor decision when a batch of Final Fantasy XIII screens were released to the public yesterday showcasing identical screens and graphics in both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of the game. Since this has caused a rather large controversy, Square Enix is now attempting to clear their name and are preparing a statement to release to the masses very shortly.

The WoW Armory recently got a nice face lift, but introduced activity timestamp. This feature is a serious privacy controversy when people can actually monitor your gaming schedule trends.

From gold farmers to your job’s boss and your mom can see when you have played. Gold farmers can play when they know you aren’t around, your boss can find out you played WoW during your 9am – 5pm schedule, and your mom can find out you were playing after bedtime. What a nightmare!

Kane & Lynch is a franchise used to a spot of controversy. Despite the lukewarm reception to the first game, we’re glad to see our favourite dysfunctional criminal duo back in Dog Days. It was created by the great IO Interactive, and this time it’s convinced it’s got it nailed. We caught up with Carsten Lund, game director, and Hakan Abrak, producer, to find out more about the new visual style, game mechanic and story.

IncGamers’ Andy Alderson looks at the Tiger Woods/EA Sports controversy and argues that the publisher should maintain its support for the shamed golfer.

From the article:

"And so when news emerged yesterday that EA was polling (although not in the same way Tiger was) to find out if the controversy would adversely affect EA Sports brand, yet again I found myself spending a morning desperately trying to think of golf-related sexual innuendo. In the end "finding himself deep in some rough" was the best I could muster, although I was very close to crafting something involving "shaft", "wood" and Tiger’s dire need to clean his balls."

Video Games are no strangers to the thing they call controversy. Since the late 1970’s early 80’s, video games have created some form of controversy or another. From violence to sex, some video games have pushed all the right buttons to make people angry or upset.