A Viewpoint

  A game engine is responsible for the look and feel of any videogame—and that’s about the most oversimplified way they can be defined. It works, for the sake of enjoyment value of reading this article, to focus not on the technical backdrops of how game engines (essentially a network of many different softwares, each working together to translate the videogame experience from the developers end to the players’) work in all their magnificent detail but to simply describe what they mean for the games they power and what makes them as great as they are.    So to narrow down the vast technical aspects of game engines into something that makes the overall reading experience more fun than overly indulgent, we’ll just reduce all the different parameters of both the inside and the outside of game engines into just two simple categories— realism and scalability . The former is about the overall presentation (from graphical richness to animation details) and the latter is ho...

    Imagination is the primary element in Videogames and that’s why there have been characters and storylines in games that have pushed the limits of believable reality in ways that’s simply not possible in any other medium. And to celebrate this element of ‘hyper realism’ or just pure power fantasy that only videogames are capable of delivering, here’s a presentation of the 10 most powerful, limit-breaking, over-the-top characters to ever come out of this incredibly interactive medium that many of us grew up with.    These characters are listed here in a sort of ‘power level’--based tiers, cause there are literally hundreds or more who can rightfully fit into this list, so to accommodate as much of them as possible, the ones in this list also represent their respective power levels. And these range from ‘slightly beyond human’ to straight up ‘Planetary level’ beings. So even if someone like Raiden (from Metal Gear Revengence) isn’t here, there’s someone who repre...