Every year, more and more games are released. With so many titles competing for our limited attention, we must often make choices about which games to buy and play. The rise of video streaming affords the modern gamers an unprecedented ability to preview the content of a game, but we often still fall back on... Continue Reading →
How many games do we have?
Today we have access to more gaming content than ever before. Sales, bundles, freebies, and subscription services add games to our collections faster than we can play them, and it’s hard to keep track of how many games we own. We have more games than we know what to do with, but… how many do... Continue Reading →
Beat Your Backlog: Check Your Hype
The Digital Revolution in game distribution has grown our collections dramatically, causing gamers to suffer Overchoice when searching their backlogs for something to play, and to dread the thought of their "pile of shame". But as much as it may feel like an unstoppable natural phenomenon, our game backlogs only grow when we buy new... Continue Reading →
Beat Your Backlog: Narrow Down Your Choices
The modern gamer suffers from an abundance of choice. As we explored in our post on the Digital Revolution, changes to the sale and distribution of games grow our libraries faster than ever before, giving us an unprecedented number of options to choose from when deciding what to play next. Sounds great, right? More games... Continue Reading →
Going Digital – The Industry Revolution That Changed Your Video Game Collection
A riddle for the modern gamer: what never stops growing but takes up less and less physical space? The answer, of course, is our video game collections. In the 21st century video games have transitioned from being exclusively physical goods to predominantly digital. Digital sales have become dominant in the latest console release cycle1 and... Continue Reading →