Modern games have advanced in multiple ways over the past decades. Technologies such as physical based rendering or adaptive tessellation have been deployed to great effect and help make modern games look amazing. As awesome as this may be is one more concealed yet even more important piece of technology that seems to feature less, [...]

Some video game genres are more popular than others thats just a simple fact. As a massive fan of city-builders, I can safely say that Anno 1800 will never be as popular as Fortnite. And while many of these genres thrive for decades, others end up dying. By dying, I do not mean that they [...]

Minecraft is perhaps one of the biggest success stories in the gaming industry. It was created by one man, way back in 2009, and proceeded to become a crazy popular experience, eventually being bought out by Microsoft and, for a brief period, even surpassing Tetris as the highest selling video game ever. The game has [...]

Bethesda had a rough time in 2019, mostly thanks to the numerous and seemingly never-ending disasters surrounding Fallout 76. Include with that the mediocre response to Rage 2 and Wolfenstein: Young Blood, along with the delay of the much-anticipated DOOM: Eternal, and 2019 was a bit of an annus horribilis for the company. However, 2020 [...]

Tropes are common in any storytelling medium, be it books, movies or video games but because here on SAPPHIRE Nation we love games and technology, we will focus on the latter. Below is a list of five interesting story tropes that you are likely to encounter in many video games, especially narrative-heavy ones. Amnesia How [...]