The real life inspiration behind Tekken characters.

If you’re a fan of fighting games, chances are that you've been spending a lot of time with Tekken Tag Tournament 2 recently. If so, you may have picked up on a few familiar faces within the vast selection of …

Public Investment in Video Games is Dangerously Similar to Lending Money to a Friend

With friends like these…

Early November saw the unlikely continuation of a long running saga as another, less surprising one, entered its dark middle chapter. Earlier this year 38 Studios, founded by baseball player Curt Schilling, folded only a few …

The Pursuit for Player Two

I have never had the urge to join an online dating site, and after reading Patricia Hernandez’s article on Kotaku earlier today (http://kotaku.com/5957675/i-dont-want-my-okcupid-dates-to-know-i-like-video-games?tag=dating&post=54061478), I am even more motivated to keep my love life offline. I did empathize somewhat with …

Borderlands 2 Review (Video)

 

I didn't enjoy the first Borderlands. The story sucked, the gameplay was overly repetitive and its dusty sandbox world wasn't worth exploring. Given my issues with the first I consider myself fortunate that my best friend convinced me to 

Doom & Destiny Review (Video)

At its core, Doom & Destiny, is an oldschool RPG mixed with a few modern-day conventions and supported by what I felt was an overall excellent presentation.  

Doom & Destiny is our very first video review to use our new Gamer …

Assassin’s Creed 3 – Not quite as graceful

Assassin's Creed pens a history rife with conspiracy illuminated by Templars and Assassins. It makes players part of a mosaic of pivotal moments that decided the fates of nations with a clever blend of stealth, parkour, and philosophical challenges shaking …

Video Games: Children’s Heroes and Role Models

 

One of the most important features of childhood and adolescence is the development of an identity.  When all our children are seeing in not just video games, but in all media around them, is the same stereotypes, expressions, and …

Game journalism and lack of integrity

There has been a considerable amount of discussion currently about game journalism, ranging from the debate about the representatives in the field actively pursuing freebies, how objective they must be, their attitudes and demeanour towards various fields, and the list …

Is DmC running on a game leg?

 

Capcom Japan's decision to let the Cambridge-based Ninja Theory studio run DmC at a relatively torpid 30 frames per second has met with mixed responses. Gametrailers say that the gameplay feels responsive and Capcom have rallied themselves valiantly against …

Review: Dishonored

Dishonored is a bit of a surprise. It takes concepts from a few prominent games, but is distinct enough to stand-alone and even surpasses certain elements of those titles. The controls manage to put to shame years of FPS-action games, …

Defending Papo & Yo

 

Lately, I've found myself getting into discussions online about whether or not Papo & Yo is a "good game." I'm not going to say I convinced myself that the game would be universally loved, however, I did believe that …

Microsoft Hispanic Culture Flub

 

(Source: Kotaku - http://kotaku.com/5955488/note-to-xbox-live-this-is-chong-not-cheech)

It saddens me, as a gamer and as a Hispanic, that Microsift would not only relegate Hispanic culture to the Cheech and Chong films, but they didn't even put the Hispanic member of the stoner duo …

Diversity in Video Games: Where Did Everyone Go?

Diversity is the state of being of a different kind, form, or character.  Something that when one plays video games would expect to see right away and would expect to help them immerse themselves into a game.  In fact, when …

Violence In Games

 

Violence in Games

 

Violence in games has been a widespread controversy as the media has used this to blame games for violent crimes throughout the years; it has always been the norm to blame games such as Grand …

Beheading enemies can only push Darksiders so far

 

Darksiders is a hack-and-slash title from Vigil Games that released in 2010. The obvious goal was to develop a God of War-like game to span the entire console market starring a theologically-rooted badass with vengeance on his plate. Its …

Morbid Mediocrity: Why Resident Evil movies suck

We have good zombie movies. We have good zombie video games. So why can’t we have a good zombie movie that happens to be based on a video game? It seems such a simple task—so why can’t anyone do …

50 Games in 2012 – #23 Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy [PS3]

 

50 Games in 2012 – #23 Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy [PS3]

To be frank I thought the idea of HD collections were pointless. “Stupid money grabbing companies trying to squeeze every last penny out of a franchise” …

All Journalism is Difficult: A Look At Gaming Journalism and the Profession of Journalism

The credible ethics of gaming journalism has been brought into question after it was discovered that a few journalists tweeted a hashtag in exchange for a PS3 during the Gaming Media Awards.

Now the question of how close gaming journalists …

Etch-a-sketch: a brief, disheartening experience with fanboys, sexism, and xenophobia

"People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a fucking Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed."

–Bill …