June 2014 - Hey Poor Player

Industry Legend Hironobu Sakaguchi Is About To Tell Us About His New Thing

Jun 30, 2014 590

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a legend in the gaming industry. He dropped out of college and joined what eventually became Japanese Game Company Square in 1986. He is THE creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. Which he directed until the 5th entry after which he was elevated to an Executive…

Jun 30, 2014 590

Nintendo And Cross-Buy? A Sign Of Things To Come? And Uh Squids? Yeah!

Jun 30, 2014 1567

Cross-Buy for the uninitiated is something users of multiple Sony consoles have had for a bit now. You buy a game on of their systems and get it for free on the other ones you own as well. This is something that Nintendo users have griped on for quite…

Jun 30, 2014 1567

Creators of Quest for Infamy on Reddit AMA

Jun 30, 2014 632

This week on Reddit AMA, the creators of Infamous Quests debut game Quest for Infamy, published by Phoenix Online, will be available for questions. The two creators, Steven Alexander and Shawn Mills, will be free for any topic of discussion at 11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern and 7…

Jun 30, 2014 632

Summer Games Done Quick Raises Over $700,000 for Charity

Jun 30, 2014 513

Doctors Without Borders charity gained over a whopping $700,000.00 this week at the hands of some talented gamers. Games Done Quick hosted their Summer Games Done Quick marathon the week of June 22-28, and a total of $713,338.96 was collected to donate to the charitable organization. Games Done Quick…

Jun 30, 2014 513

Some Things For Oculus VR Are Bit Unusual And Some Things Are Sanic 6!

Jun 30, 2014 980

Do you have an Oculus VR and would like a free app? Or maybe do you like really scary, nightmarish petting zoos filled with things that may have at one time been Sonic The Hedgehog characters? Well designer AjDaLolma has just the program for you: Sanic 6! Come…

Jun 30, 2014 980

8,020,872 On Steam At Once! NEW WORLD RECORD!!!

Jun 30, 2014 569

So as Steam Summer Sale was on it’s last full day 8,020,872 players were counted on Steam’s peak concurrent user list. So June, 29th 2014 will now be known as the first time the peak number has risen above 8 million. Much of this traffic was more than likely…

Jun 30, 2014 569