I really hate boss fights.
I understand why boss fights still exist in modern video games. As the player, we usually want to defeat the big bad at the end of the game, to feel that satisfactory finality of the …
When Evoland begins, you find yourself in a very constrained area that is also in black and white. Your character is between two chests, one to the left and one to the right. Trying to go left reveals that your …
We all like to get our money’s worth when we buy a game. How many times have you brought home a fresh new game and been absolutely frustrated with it? Or finished it in just a few stiff, unfun …
April Fool’s Day. Probably one of my least favorite days of the year. It doesn’t affect my life at all in reality, at least not with my current social relationships I have. In fact, if I didn’t go online, I …
Tomb Raider's direction and character realization is fresh, but it doesn't always maintain tone or originality.
TressFX is a new hair-rendering technology included in the PC release of Tomb Raider. So is it impressive or a stylist's nightmare?
Irrational Games, the developer of BioShock Infinite, seems to have made a small but important change to a female character's design.
With new gaming consoles looming on the horizons, speculation is spreading throughout the Web. How powerful will they be? Are the controllers going to be the same or change dramatically? Will I need to overcharge my credit card in order …
Tutorials, as many of you have probably experienced, have gotten a little out of control in the last generation. Not just tutorials but the constant guiding hand of the game creators leading us through the game. Assassin’s Creed games are …
With all the discussion about how violent video games truly affect us, I thought I'd weigh in.
I was amazed to hear about the MLG's refusal to use Halo 4 as one of the games for their next season. Here are some of my memories about Halo 2 and the early days of the MLG.
Nintendo’s Wii U is having quite a gaggle of problems in its first few weeks of life. A games library made up almost entirely of games easily found on other platforms and are worse on the Wii U. Egregiously long …
I really hate it when games hide scenes after (or sometimes even in the middle) of their end credits. Oftentimes, this scene is crucial to what will happen next in the series and is cool to see. The problem is …
Halo 4 has a hard job. It has to convince us that a new trilogy of games is worth it. It also has to make us want to play yet another Halo game on the Xbox 360 hardware, even though …
This article contains spoilers for Diablo III, Halo 4, and The Walking Dead: Episode 4 — Around Every Corner.
This year, we’ve seen a surprising increase in the number of “chosen one” storylines in games. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Diablo …
I played Metro 2033 to completion for the first time more than a year ago. It had been on my radar (and my Steam list) for quite some time, and I finally got around to actually playing it. I’d heard …
I am a staunch non-drinker. In fact, I’m not a fan of anything that alters or limits the way my body feels, even something as simple as Novocaine at the dentist. I’ve been putting off getting my wisdom teeth pulled …
When I sat down to write this article, I intended to write a list of things that would make a perfect survival-horror game. It only took me about half of it to realize that I kept bringing up Dead Space …
Gamers widely regard Ubisoft as one of today's worst PC publishers. The company's games have implemented horrible digital-rights management (DRM) in the forms of install limits and forcing users to maintain a constant connection to a central online server in …
My backlog is absolutely massive. Thanks to Steam sales and Amazon daily deals, I have more games then I know what to do with (and this is as an unemployed part-time college student). Most of my gaming time is split …
A soldier named Big Bo. A French speaking robot. Robots that look like humans that don’t actually know they are robots. These are a few of the crazy things you can find in Binary Domain. It’s a Japanese take on …
There’s been a fair bit of buzz, both negative and positive, around the announcement of the Nintendo 3DS XL. Some people cheered at the longer battery life and bigger screen. Others have bemoaned the potential image quality loss with that …
“Zanarkand” is the first song that plays upon booting Final Fantasy X. It also plays when players start a new game. It appears regularly throughout the game as well, in rearrangements and it its most iconic original form. While “Suteki …
I don't usually get up in arms about things. My temperament is pretty calm and I can usually see both sides of any argument. I find it hard to review books or games because I find myself being too understanding …
For those of you who haven't heard already, there is a man who claims that the idea for the Assassin's Creed games came from his book. He is suing Ubisoft for stealing his ideas and plans to seek both monetary …
Dark Souls was a surprising hit for From Software last year. The game that came before it, Demon's Souls, was well-liked, but it just did OK in the sales department. Dark Souls was a more well-received release, and it …
SPOILER ALERT: I will be talking about a few of the endings from Heavy Rain so if you don't want to be spoiled, you probably shouldn't read this.
I just played through Heavy Rain again after not having touched …
The late 90's were a hell of a time for gaming. PC games were in their prime, consoles were on the up, and good games were coming out left and right. One of the most widely-accepted "best years of gaming" …
Suda51 is fucking crazy. If you’ve played any one of his games, you know that he comes up with the most random but creative gameplay scenarios in video games today. Unfortunately, those creative ideas usually come with a bit of …
I've been playing quite a bit of Star Wars: The Old Republic over the last few days. I want a max-level character, so I can stop before I have to pay for another month. As I played, I kept noticing …
Human nature is responsible for many things – why we keep starting wars, why people feel the need to be dicks on the Internet, etc. One particularly vicious part of this is rumors. As a people, we seem to feel the need …
Storage space is becoming a big issue for modern consoles. As games and movies start to take up more disc space and downloadable content becomes more prevalent, we need more room to store it all.
Installing a single Xbox 360 …
Jamestown, with its optional subtitle Legend of the Lost Colony, is a fairly odd name for a game. At first hearing of the title, I assumed it was one of those old CD dictionary/historic/educational "games" that told you about Jamestown. …
The quality of a game or story's characters can make or break the whole thing. A good character is a wonderful thing, perfectly encapsulating the marvelous thing that is a human being and making you feel like this fictional person …
I Am Alive is a game that many thought had been canned until just recently, when a flood of information about the game surfaced, including the fact that it is a downloadable game coming to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. …
Games really aren't that hard anymore. The so-called 'roller coaster ride' approach to a game's campaign/story is the predominant way companies choose to design their games. Instruction manuals may be disappearing but games are packed to the brim with tutorials …
The early days of gaming were tough – dozens of games on a shelf and it was up to consumers to make uninformed decisions about which were the ones worth spending their money on. All they could do was go …
Advertisements are a huge part of our lives. Every day we are bombarded by dozens if not hundreds of ads telling us to buy one product or another. Of course, video games are no exception. Over the last console generation, …
Like many game enthusiasts, I peruse dozens if not hundreds of news stories and forum posts a day. Anything that catches my eye or seems important in some manner gets read. The most important ones get bookmarked to go back …
Alan Wake. Issac Clarke. Nathan Drake. What do these three characters have in common?
They are ordinary guys who are thrust into extraordinary situations that they just happen to luck through time and time again. They aren’t the only ones; …
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