E3 is strange every year, but typically strange in the same way. Enormous expenditures, tens of thousands of dollars spent on banners hanging outside, hundreds of thousands spent on enormous citadels built within the gigantic
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E3 2016: The Sony Press Conference
The Shrine auditorium, site of 2016’s Sony Press Conference, is a madhouse. There’s a full orchestra in the bowels and the entire lower bowl of seats is filled by the time I arrive, shortly before
E3 2016: The PC Gaming Show
The PC Gaming Show is my first event of E3, taking place the Monday before the convention itself opens. Located a short ways away from the convention center, I chose to walk it, to immerse
Repost: E3 2013 Review
This first appeared live on TheMittani.com on 21 June 2013. With E3 2016 around the corner, I figured it would be as good a time as any to repost it. Enjoy! E3 is a lot
Pouring One Out for Everquest Next
Sad news from my old employer – well, sorta. Long story. Anyways, Daybreak Games has officially cancelled development of Everquest Next, which sought to be the next installment not just of the venerable Everquest franchise,
February 2015 Roundup
February is gone now – we’re 1/6th the way through the year going by calendar month! Surprisingly, I have not yet missed a day of posting here on Just For Crits. Indeed, February saw many
Crowdsourcing is Massively Overpowered
Last week saw the death of WoW Insider and Massively, two properties under the Joystiq brand which didn’t make the leap to Engadget the way the parent domain did. However, like mythical fire birds rising
All That Lives Must Die
Today is the last day of operation for Joystiq, Massively, and WoW Insider. Now, my primary audience being EVE nerds, there is every chance that you do not know what those sites are or why
January 2015 Roundup
The end of January also marks the first 30 days of Just For Crits, so before I go into the miscellaneous bucket of things that didn’t make it into a post somewhere, I figure we
The Review Copy Question
I ran into an interesting post recently from the makers of a game called Toxikk, an Arena FPS. Now, I don’t typically surf the web to find the next great Arena FPS hit. To the