(Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns. Proceed with caution.) Back in October, I was writing a review for Beyond: Two Souls for my University’s newspaper, an...
Sometime a visual representation of an issue can bring to light (and to rest) a long-standing argument. In this case, showing just how the Xbox One’s eSRAM can cause a bottleneck for developers looking to extract the best res...
Sony’s insubmissive handheld game console, the PS Vita, has one major shortcoming as opposed to its main rival, the Nintendo 3DS: it doesn’t quite tally the same amount of AAA game titles. Seeing as some of the most...
Call of Duty: Ghost players on each of the two next-gen systems have been having quite the different experience after each version of the game was patched. Now usually, patching a game is meant to improve the game’s performan...
It’s hard to believe that Bethesda’s fantasy epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is already 3 years old. However, with Bethesda now beta-testing The Elder Scrolls V: Online, we here at SpawnFirst thought that now wa...
As we enter the third month of the new console generation, I’ve been thinking about what I would like to see from this wave of gaming systems. I contemplated what needed to change and what shouldn’t even exist anymo...
Rumors, rumors, rumors. When you hear it from one source, take it with a grain of salt. Two separate sources with the same message – there might be something to it. But when three, somewhat dependable sources, lay on the deta...
As everyone knows, fanboys from both PlayStation and Xbox camps get pretty rowdy when it comes to the specifics of their favorite console and its superiority over the other. All in all, it’s a pretty sad situation. Still,...
Nintendo is in a bit of a rut right now, but if anything can be said about Nintendo, it’s that it won’t stop them. We can all agree that Nintendo has some of the best IP’s on the market and here at SpawnFirst, we beli...
The thing about non-gaming news sources reporting on gaming news is just that. You have non-gamers, or casual gamers, claiming to be in the know and mindful of the business. Reporters put their 2-cents in as if they’ve run ...
You’ll probably remember that we held a couple of polls on SpawnFirst a short while ago, in which we asked you all which classic Xbox and PlayStation franchises you’d like to see resurrected on the PlayStation 4 a...
In our Last Gen vs. Next Gen Graphics feature, we pit the best late-in-the-lifecycle game of our choosing from the previous gen, to as similar a title as we can find in the next gen line-up. We’re not restricted to one consol...
Since reporting on the announcement of the upcoming Sly Cooper film I feel like I’ve been doing nothing but fighting with two different sides of myself all day. The kid in me that was always happy to see new content coming fr...
We’re a couple months into the lives of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. What has determined much of the early showdown between these two consoles is which do you buy? For most, the two consoles are mutually exclusive, and...