Is Game Development Becoming Too Big and Expensive?

Is Game Development Becoming Too Big and Expensive?

With each new generation of hardware comes added pressure to develop something that’s bigger and better than could be achieved on previous consoles. And this isn’t just from a graphical perspective either, though it’s the first and often most noticeable improvement gamers see when a trailer launches. Ga...
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Will There Be Another Console Generation?

Will There Be Another Console Generation?

Back before the PS4 and Xbox One launched, the explosion in games for mobile began to raise serious questions about whether there would be a future for consoles. This was a time before free to play games were the main way everyone consumed their entertainment in mobile phones with the likes of Candy Cru...
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Evil Is Coming: A Future Under AI

Evil Is Coming: A Future Under AI

There’s been a shit tonne of controversy around the rabid rise of interest in using AI for pretty much everything. The likes of Google and Microsoft and investing billions into AI with a big expectation that it will become a massive part of the future in all industries. But at the same time theres a ...
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Thoughts On Not E3 Week

Thoughts On Not E3 Week

If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye Joe. I’d been married long time ago. Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? Isn’t that the question we’ve all been asking ourselves these past thirty years? Where did Cotton-Eye Joe go? Are you a concerned citizen...
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Let’s Discuss The Nintendo Switch Online

Let’s Discuss The Nintendo Switch Online

This is a very big and highly explosive topic that has been doing the rounds across the internet ever since it was first announced way back in the early days of the Nintendo Switch. There’s plenty of those who are totally fine with it in principle but not necessarily happy about the lack of consistency...
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A New 2D Sonic The Hedgehog Game Is Announced

A New 2D Sonic The Hedgehog Game Is Announced

Sonic the Hedgehog is one hella series of ups and downs. I am well aware this article is going to be incredibly controversial with die hard Sonic fans. So you have been warned! It’s really crazy to think that back in the 1980s, Sega believed the best way to go up against Nintendo and Mario ...
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Prince of Persia Gets New Game Announced

Prince of Persia Gets New Game Announced

Anyone remember the original Prince of Persia way back when MS DOS was the way you used a computer? Yeah I knew someone with such a computer and the only game I ever remember on that thing was Prince of Persia. It used rotoscoping for the characters, and as a game was massively influential in ...
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Welcome to Engage VG!

Welcome to Engage VG!

Welcome to a little website that is known as Engage VG. For some reason I have been asked a fair few times what the bloody hell the VG stands for? It’s really simple. The “V” stands for Video and the “G” stands for Gamer. So you put the two together and you get Video Gamer. ...
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The Switch Successor

The Switch Successor

The Nintendo Switch launched in what seems only like yesterday. It actually launched on 3rd March 2017. So unless we have all been tricked by a government conspiracy and time is skipping around, it was scarily over six years ago. It was rumoured earlier this year by someone that journalists call a trust...
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