On September 6, 2016 I attempted to log into PlayStation Network (PSN) only to discover that it was offline. This isn’t surprising for me and many others users who have faithfully stuck by Sony as its online services have gone down time and time again. PSN is a paid for service and users have to sign up for a paid subscription called PlayStation Plus in order to play online games.  What makes this most recent outage more frustrating is the fact that it was recently announced that the cost of an online subscription is increasing, making customers pay more for a service that is inconsistent at best. It is true that Sony has not raised the cost of PlayStation Plus in quite some time but why should users pay more for a product that lacks features and is unreliable? As far as I know Sony is offering no new features that warrant a price hike which is a shame because there are plenty of improvements that can be made. It would be nice if Sony would allow users to change their PSN user...

Recently I wrote an article detailing my first impressions of No Man’s Sky . Since then, my time playing has dwindled from little to none at all and apparently I am not alone. Various media outlets have been giving No Man’s Sky negative reviews and negative player reviews on Metacritic are near equal with positive ones. Many feel that it has failed to deliver on what was promised. Suspicions started to arise after two Twitch streamers realized they ended up on the same planet in the game but could not see or interact with each other. Multiplayer was implied from the beginning but this event proves that is not the case. The creators also said you could become a trader to complete the game, or you didn’t have to mine for minerals at all but this seems to be far from the truth. Players accused Hello Games (Creators of the game) of lying because they completely whiffed on incorporating gameplay mechanics (or at least stretched the truth) they said would be part of the game. ...

After playing the Battlefield 1 Beta one thing has become immediately clear, it is the most realistic war game I have ever played. I discussed my hope for this in length in a previous post . While playing, I genuinely felt anxiety as I started the game running across the desert with my comrades. As we made it to the first town we were ambushed by an enemy tank and we had to quickly dive for cover in a freshly made crater from artillery. As a medic I tried to revive my squad mate but when I made it to him I was gunned down by a German sniper. I respawned into the machine gun of an allied truck and quickly found myself returning fire at a bi plane that was trying to rip us apart and all of this was just my first game. Never before has a war game been this realistic. The magic of Battlefield 1 lays in the fact that you are going to die, a lot. Death is simply around every corner. If you are not blown up by a tank, shot by a sniper or gunned down by a plane, you will certainly be ra...