Midnight openings at Sam’s Club? That’s when you know a game is big - “HALO sized”, as it were. I’ve also seen the signs at my local GameStops that they will open at Midnight on Sunday … in an area (Utah County) where opening any time on Sunday is exceptional enough. This is definitely a […]

If 2007 is any indication, gaming is on the verge of a golden age.
In the PC world, World of Warcraft has grown to over nine million subscribers, while Lord of the Rings Online arrived on the scene as - if not a full-fledged competitor - an high-quality alternative, and smaller indie games took hold while […]

Wasn’t it supposed to be easier than this?
My earliest gaming was on consoles like the Atari 2600, but a great portion of my misspent youth embraced the PC as my primary gaming platform. With that came a constant flux of hardware and their attendant drivers, config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and strategic applications of HIMEM. […]

5WG is pleased to present the following article, written by guest columnist Chris Sullivan.
***That’s exactly what Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Michael Pachter and the SimExchange’s Jesse Divnich are predicting. The official NPD tally isn’t due out until later this week, but both analysts have the Playstation 3’s sales, for the month of July, in the 160,000 […]

After sitting through all three of the console makers’ press conferences, it was obvious that some things never change - namely, the gaming media is still easily won over by bright, shiny baubles. The louder the trailers, the more flashy the CGI, the more vague the information, the more the media likes it.
After watching commentators […]

This year’s leaner, meaner E3 is expected to have more than its share of drama, as Sony and Microsoft spar while Nintendo watches the media fawn over every word they utter. The dynamics have changed greatly; not just the relative standing of the three major companies and the myriad game developers there to hawk their […]

In this monthly feature, the 5WG Collective will take a look at upcoming games and highlight what we’re most looking forward to over the next 30 days. As always, release dates are subject to change.

After the cornucopia that November offered, December is a bleak wasteland, as everyone seems to have shot their proverbial loads getting […]