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Xbox One Reveal – Everything You Missed & First Impressions

Xbox One Reveal – Everything You Missed & First Impressions

The Microsoft event to reveal the brand new Xbox console is over. We came out of the event with a new name, Xbox One, and a ton of “innovative features,” but were left wanting when it came to games. At ...

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No Reason To Hype

No Reason To Hype

As I recall my past experiences in dealing with games I knew nothing about, I realize the less I knew, the more I was surprised. Back when I only received video games as gifts, I was happily receiving about two ...

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Roll On: Why Katamari Speaks To Me

Roll On: Why Katamari Speaks To Me

I want more games like Katamari Forever. That sentence may not be too strange for you to read, but for me, coming from myself, reading my own words, it sounds odd. I never thought I would like a game like ...

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Zombies Are Upon Us!

Zombies Are Upon Us!

Everyone loves killing zombies. It is in our gamer blood, from the days of the original Resident Evil games to the recently released Dead Island Riptide. Zombies will always hold a special place in our hearts, no matter how dark ...

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Breaking The Mold: RPGs

Breaking The Mold: RPGs

For years, we’ve been playing through RPGs with a repeated sense of deja vu. Oh, my character has amnesia, this is familiar. Oh, my character is “the chosen one” and possesses a power to save the world, this sounds similar ...

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Multiplayer Musings

Multiplayer Musings

Online play has quickly overtaken the world of multiplayer gaming. Long lost are the days of sitting side by side on the floor, noses mere inches from the television screen, squinting at whichever tiny corner you were designated. Many a ...

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Can’t Kickstart My Game

Can’t Kickstart My Game

In the past five years we have seen a throbbing jolt of indie games. Many of these games have been developed with only a handful of people, and only with a limited supply of funding. Some companies have taken the ...

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Five 3DS Titles I’d Like To See

Five 3DS Titles I’d Like To See

Since its release two years ago, the 3DS has impressed many with both its initial game lineup and constantly expanding eShop selection of downloadable games. These first couple of years have been great for the 3DS, but now is that ...

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3DS Sales Exceed Xbox (Original) and Gamecube Lifetime Sales

3DS Sales Exceed Xbox (Original) and Gamecube Lifetime Sales

Nintendo has recently released the sales report regarding the total 3DS sales. Now, to be clear, this includes both the standard 3DS and the 3DS XL combined. According to the document, the combined 3DS sales reaches a whopping 31.09 million ...

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A Modded Game Will Live Forever

A Modded Game Will Live Forever

Modifying video games began as soon as players were able to view a game’s contents on their PC’s. Modifications could include a simple texture change in a game like Quake or Counter-Strike. Eventually, we saw total and complete overhauls in games ...

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Thinking Too Much: Ocarina of Time’s Pale Man

Thinking Too Much: Ocarina of Time’s Pale Man

“People are disgusting. My own father and mother are disgusting. You must be disgusting, too!” Welcome to Thinking Too Much, a new series where we will think way too much about certain small aspects of various video games old and ...

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Gamers on a Budget: 3D Dot Game Heroes & John Woo’s Stranglehold

Gamers on a Budget: 3D Dot Game Heroes & John Woo’s Stranglehold

  There are a lot of things that gamers disagree on. Genre preferences, the benefits of single-player as opposed to co-op games, PlayStation versus Xbox versus PC; the list could go on and on. One thing we can all agree ...

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Victim is Offline

Victim is Offline

I spend a lot of time on the Internet and playing games. It’s kind of my job and, believe me, I’m not complaining; I have the best job in the world. But, on occasion, my job causes me to stumble ...

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The Top 5 Double Plays in Gaming

The Top 5 Double Plays in Gaming

Spoiler Warning!: This Top 5 contains spoilers. And by spoilers, I mean spoilers on the level of Bruce Willis being the ghost. Consider this your warning about said spoilers. A spoiler warning, if you will. Anyone who complains about spoilers ...

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Video Game Violence is Controversial… Again?!

Video Game Violence is Controversial… Again?!

Round and round we go. Whenever there is violence, a shooting, murder or homicide that ends up headlining mainstream media, there is always one culprit: video games. There are many reasons why the gaming industry is to blame when troubled ...

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