Plastic Pickup: Link Figma from Max Factory / Good Smile Company

 

I'll admit, I wasn't going to order this figure initially, but my Zelda fanboydom eventually got the best of me. I'm glad I did pick it up, because it's really an awesome addition to the collection. Plus, I thought …

Another DAMN HALO game?!?!?

 

Another HALO game.  An easy passing statement.  When you’re accustomed to something being of quality you tend to give it certain level of disregard.  The ‘oh another’ feeling’s almost nail in the coffin to many a long term series, …

A crowded year: Javy’s top 5 games of 2012

Year in Review

2012 was a crowded a year for video games.

A slew of high-quality AAA titles were released this year: The Darkness II, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Twisted Metal, Max Payne 3, Mass Effect 3, The Walking Dead, …

The Five Reasons We Play MMO’s: On Guild Wars 2 and Project Copernicus

 

Let me just get this off my chest; I was born and raised in The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In fact I only live four miles away from the former 38 studios location. I consider myself to

Nintendo Wii Mini

 

Nintendo is no stranger to sliming down their video game consoles. The NES and SNES both had a slimmer redesigned model released a few years after their initial debut. At it again Nintendo has just released specifics on the …

5 reasons why gamers are tired of Military Shooters.

 

Military Shooters– if you aren’t familiar with this ever popular sub-genre of the First Person Shooter, you may as well have been living under a rock for the past five or six years. These high profile games: Call of …

Weekend Gaming: Halo 4, Xcom, Persona 4 & Jet Set Radio Vita

 

Nothing like a holiday weekend to catch up on some gaming. Thanks to a few extra days off this weekend I managed to finish yet another fight, command troops against an alien invasion, return to high school, and take …

Persona 4 Golden PlayStation Vita

Only 4 years have passed since game developer and publisher Atlus released it's fifth chronological installment to the Shin Megami Tensei series, Persona 4 for the PlayStation 2. Persona 4 was a major success, selling 193,000 copies within a week …

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Review

 

The annual release of yet another Call of Duty game has arrived once again, smashing sales records and deriving us from our social lives to beat our buddies to the level cap in multiplayer. And that's all there is to …

Next-gen and PC, who will win?

 

 

So today ( November 21st, 2012) marks the beginning of this year's Autumn Steam sale where games are reduced to 25, 50, even 75% off their normal price. Even games released just a month ago are reduced to …

Why the Wii U may not gain back the hardcore gaming community.

Since the 1980’s, Nintendo has been one of the biggest, most widely known names in the video games industry, and a dominating force in sales, not only with home consoles but also with handhelds, as well as their various video …

Playstation Plus for Vita – Will Membership Have Its Privileges?

 

 

 

Now that Playstation Plus has finally opened it's doors to Vita owners I handed over my $50 entrance fee to Sony and joined the club. I had some reservations about doing so, but ultimately decided to to …

Foresight: Fallout’s Future

 

Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls Skyrim. What do these games have in common? Besides being made by Bethesda Game Studios they are both among the greatest games of their generation.

I've played Skyrim for about 30 hours, not to …

Book Report: The 31 Days of Zero Suit Samus by @chrisfurniss & @IronRinn

 

Been wanted to post a write-up of "The 31 Days of Zero Suit Samus" ever since it arrived at my door. I don't recall where or when I heard that this project was fundraising on Kickstarter, but once I …

Wreck-It Ralph shows, finally, games and movies can make it work

Finally, someone gets it.

For decades, Hollywood has been trying to take the story of a video game and then translate it into a film. And as of now, that plot has yet to bear a single juicy fruit. As …

Community Vs. Cancer

 

Gaming Warriors “Power Up” for an American Cancer Society Event!

Now Playing! Gaming World Wide, with the help of RetrocadeMagazine.com, Retroids.com, Doublekill.us, PatrickScottPatterson.com and WhereIsRachelLara.com have launched their 2012 American Cancer Society Fundraising Event! This Event is currently underway …

More games should be reinvigorated from a different development perspective

Halo 4 is the best entry in the series since the release of Combat Evolved. No, this doesn't mean I think all of the Halo games released between the two aren't worthy of praise, on the contrary, every one of …

15 More Tunes to Blast While Playing Battlefield 3

I never expected Battlefield 3's official Facebook page to share my Bitmob article of music playlists. I wanted to create a third and final one to please those fans.

After two months of compiling, I finished my third Vicious War …