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While some people argue that what games need is more monotony, at least in terms of black and white games, plenty of people are dissatisfied with the current trend of drabness in developers' color palettes. Of course, there are plenty of brightly colored games that are and will continue to be released, but plenty of people miss color. Bright color. I myself am rather fond of candy-colored palettes, preferring them to drab medieval "realism." One blogger thinks he has the answer to who stole the color from games: More »
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I loved Quake, but let's face facts: my excrement is more chromatic, a bright rainbow that flies out of my bottom in a TubGirl-style arc (if you don't get the reference, for god's sakes, don't Google) compared to the palette of that classic. Quake's color scheme is brown, rust, mustard and maroon. And ten year's later? FPS game designers are still doing everything in grays and browns. Consider this image from Aeropause as proof: it's like every game out there is being designed by the color-blind. Meanwhile, companies like Nintendo cram so much color into their games that they trigger epileptic seizures. What's up with that? Florian Eckhardt More »
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Pro-gaming, which has been around for about nine years, is finally coming into its own. I spent time last month talking to some of the major players in eSports for a story on the current state of pro-gaming and the sudden surge of leagues. More »
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