Posted on Friday, December 30 @ 14:28:25 Eastern by danielrbischoff
When all is said and done, we might remember 2011 for the news stories more than the games. Who could forget when that one thing happened? Man, what a crazy time that was. Need to be more specific when you're chatting with friends this New Year's Eve? Here are the top 5 news stories in the video game industry for 2011.
This was easily GameRevolution's biggest E3 yet, with more staff on hand and tons of live coverage. We liveblogged the press conferences, delivered tons of new game reveals, impressions, previews, hands-on, and we even wrote a poem for you. We even took a reader with us! Number of E3 posts in our tag page for the year: 121 This is who won E3:GameRevolution's Best of E3 2011 Awards
You had to see this one coming. The combined hacking of the PS3 hardware and the PlayStation Network made massive waves earlier this year. It resulted in loss of brand-trust and millions of people had their credit card and personal information stolen off of what should have been secure networks. Servers were down and gamers were stuck counting the days. The incident also made Geohot somewhat internet famous, but man, that guy was a douche. The PSN Outage in 5 Words:Hackers Got Us Free Games The PSN Was Down for How Long Again?:31 Days Number of Tan Gamers After PSN Outage: Still Zero.
Seriously? I wouldn't quantify SOPA as "video game news". It's much grander than that as it deals with media at large (TV, Music,Movies...and games). I also feel that the first three are making a lot more noise about SOPA then the games industry.
With that in mind, I wouldn't put in a top 5 news items.
ya know when that whole PSN hackage/downage occurred i'd just bought Fallout: New Vegas, hence stopped playing Black Ops for a good while. finished New Vegas n went back to Black ops for a bit n all was fine. i had no idea it had even happened till some random person told me.
my house mate was playing online (which he hardly ever does) on his acc n decided to use his card to buy the first map pack for black ops during the hackage. i remained oblivious to this a well.
i just find it funny how i could just completely miss such an event.
It's weird how little I was really affected or moved by these bits of news. Skyrim was, well, Skyrim. GTA5 was an "about time" moment, although I suppose stuff like TBoGT warrants such a wait between it and 4. E3 didn't even have a good Konami conference, which is saying a lot. I don't play really any online games, and MW3 vs Battlefield 3 really just felt like the two trying to stir up as much publicity as possible. And the PSN outage was sort of similar. No damage actually done except for the outage, but it was treated as an atomic bomb by the press.
I suppose that's what makes me so great. I'm still so pure.
I don't see how a game announcement with no release date for a sequel that was 100% guaranteed to be made is news at all, let alone top 5. There's been a GAMEPLAY video of Diablo III available for years and it's still not coming out until 2012. We all know these games are being made, we only care when they are coming out. Well I do anyway.
With that in mind, I wouldn't put in a top 5 news items.
my house mate was playing online (which he hardly ever does) on his acc n decided to use his card to buy the first map pack for black ops during the hackage. i remained oblivious to this a well.
i just find it funny how i could just completely miss such an event.
I suppose that's what makes me so great. I'm still so pure.