Tag: gaming

  • What Comes First: The Story or the Open World?

    What Comes First: The Story or the Open World?

    Video games seem a little infatuated with open world design these days. You get a great open world game like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and suddenly everybody wants to show off how engines can now produce gorgeous, sweeping, detailed landscapes with no (or very few) loading screens. It’s like an epidemic. I mean, I’m…

  • E3 2015 Recap: Video Games, Zombies, and Virtual Reality

    E3 2015 Recap: Video Games, Zombies, and Virtual Reality

    This year I was excited to be able to attend the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles for my job. Typically I like to keep my work very separate from my blog here; since Robo♥beat contains my personal opinions, I don’t want that getting mixed up with the video games I work with in…

  • E3 So Far: My Favorite Trailers and Footage

    E3 So Far: My Favorite Trailers and Footage

    There’s too much good stuff. Let’s be honest. But here’s a quick round-up of my favorite video game trailers and game footage from E3 so far! Halo 5: Guardians I got into Halo very recently (like, in the past six months) through my boyfriend. Although I had played some Halo: Reach, I honestly knew next to nothing…