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Ever made a mistake you wish you hadn’t? Of course you have… everyone has. Ever wish you could go back in time and pretend that mistake never happened? Or would you rather learn from that mistake and continue forward, all the wiser? In Braid, a game released back in 2008 by indie developer Jonathan Blow,…
Tuesday August 20th marks the release date for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, and PC for $59.99. While discounts aren’t available yet for the console versions, if there’s any PC download deal hunters out there, you can now sneak in a 20% coupon at GameFly and knock $12…
I’m going through a phase. Sometimes, I’ll catch myself on YouTube watching a game of Crusader Kings II unfold as a nervous guy talks off-camera in a monotone punctuated by bursts of uncharacteristic enthusiasm. The premise: a person records their gaming session, narrating as they go – highs, lows, awkward pauses, expletives and all –…
With just a month to go until GTA V is finally delivered into our greedy, clutching mitts, Rockstar have recently released details on the much talked about multiplayer. And it’s big news. I mean, really big. If Rockstar manages to pull this off, it will be quite spectacular. Despite the fact that it is yet…
Firefall is a first person shooter massively multiplayer online role-playing game. I’d say call it an FPSMMORPG, but let’s be honest that isn’t really much better on the too damn long front. Firefall is put out by Red 5 studios out of California, a team filled with game industry veterans. The game recently went into…
If you read about the new DoTA 2 edition tech coming from SteelSeries and were a jealous Guild Wars 2 player, then you are in luck. ArenaNet has teamed up with SteelSeries to bring out a Guild Wars 2 gaming keyboard. Of course if you play for DoTA2 and Guild Wars 2, then you should…
Have you heard of Gog.com? It stands for good old games, and is one of the best places on the web to pick up older titles for your collection. This weekend their hosting one of the best Dungeons and Dragons inspired role-playing game sales that I’ve ever seen. If you missed out the best of…
I’ve been struggling with writing this for the last few days. Every time I tried to sit down and write it, what would come out seemed like the ravings of a mad man. Now that I’ve had a chance to talk it out and have some debate about the topic, and as a result my…
For many of us, Metroid stood high among the titles that first ignited our passion for gaming. The adventures of the bounty hunter Samus Aran as she fought against space pirates and alien monstrosities will, for many of us, be etched permanently into our memory. To call the franchise iconic would be putting it lightly…
Zombies are everywhere. Well not literally, of course… you would either be battling the hordes of undead or eating brains (but definitely not reading this review). Zombies are in everything from books (Pride and Prejudice with Zombies) to movies (Warm Bodies, World War Z) to music (Rob Zombie). The Walking Dead (both the graphic novel…
Coheed and Cambria are a band that really stands out from the rest. Hard to define genre-wise (landing somewhere between Alt-Rock, Progressive, and shades of Pop), they have been releasing quality music on a consistent basis for over a decade now, all of which is impossibly high concept. The Armory Wars The New York-based four-piece…
So about a year ago, I was browsing this great website known as mfgg.net, which is home to a TON of Mario themed fan games as well as custom sprites and sound effects. One of the top rated games on the site was a little title known as “Psycho Waluigi” made by the same guy…
Nintendo’s got a lot to prove to me, along with the rest of the world, after the recent statistics showing just how much the Wii U is struggling. Luckily though, Gamescom 2013 is on its way, starting August 21st and Nintendo is promising a whole lot of quality First Party games to hopefully raise our…
I was in the dentist’s waiting room, browsing my phone for something to distract from the guilt and shame my teeth were about to feel, when I remembered a conversation I had with a friend where we discussed the representations of race, gender, and sexuality in media. Seconds later, I was where any respectable university-graduate…
Someone once said that Civilization V is the closest thing man has invented to a time machine. By this, the reviewer was not commenting on game’s stunning recreation of periods and personalities from history; rather that one could sit down to play it, stand up again almost instantly, and find twelve hours passed. That’s the…