Opinion

Rocksteady Studios is set to release the final game in their Arkham trilogy and once Batman's behind them, they'll surely have plenty of free time on their hands. Since they've done very well using comic...

In the beginning, there was physical media. When digital media came along, we were more than happy to move the clutter from our shelves to our hard drives, where it was easier to transport and...

In just four months, Bethesda will be taking the stage in LA's Electronics Entertainment Expo – or E3, as the cool kids like to call it – to bestow on the gaming masses something big...

For the people that bought a GTX 970 know about the "Memory Allocation" issue. It has been quite disappointing to see Nvidia not caring about resolving the issue at hand, but simply deflecting it instead, which begs...

Richard Ogden is a man with almost 20 years of experience in crafting racing games for Codemasters and BigBig Studios, including the Pursuit Force series and the Vita oddity Little Deviants.  He’s now operating a...

In a rare moment between blizzards this month, I braved the mountainous snowy sidewalks of Cambridge to grab lunch with The Molasses Flood. Named after the historical Boston disaster for which it shares the first...

The PlayStation was the console to have back in the day if you were an RPG fan. It was the system where Final Fantasy took root and Square-Enix created some of the most beloved games the series...

Parks and Recreation has brought laughs and entertainment to homes for more than six seasons, offering a satirical “behind-the-scenes” look at the bureaucratic hurdles found in the smallest of government offices at the Pawnee Parks...

If you ever lay awake at night wondering what a turn-based strategy game set in a steampunk fantasy would look like, then Codename S.T.E.A.M. is your answer. The offbeat heir to such role-playing classics as...

The land of Mordor is once again exploited to another media. We’re treated to another venture into the dark and Orc infested land in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. To be honest, I'm not a...

After attending PAX South 2015, I was certainly satisfied with the experience of my first PAX ever. There were many games, despite PAX South being in its first year of operation, and I've compiled my...

With From Software about to release Bloodborne on the PS4 this year, the company just might be looking for a new series to play with. There are plenty of franchises that have been dormant for a time,...

Do you like Bullets, Blades, and Blood? (Everyone cheers and shouts) Raise your hand if you enjoy the sound of brutally killing wave after wave of Zed specimen! (Everyone raises their hand and cheers) Raise...

So, there's no way to cushion this blow – Marvel's decided to destroy all of its comic universes in May. Here's what we know so far – the Secret Wars will kick it all off...

Erik Asmussen On a snowy night in Cambridge, I got to sit down with the founder and sole employee of 82 Apps, Erik Asmussen. Growing up in the woods of Austerlitz, New York, Erik typically...

It's a new year and a new dawn for those gaming systems on your shelves and hop boy do we have a ton to play this year. Amidst all of the rivalry and the hysteria,...

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” – Andy Rooney The indie gaming landscape oftentimes tries to challenge the idea of just what a game can do, exploring deeper facets of...

Have you ever bought and played a new game only to find out it has a strange glitch? Or perhaps unbelievable lag that causes you to die without end? Maybe you can’t even get the...

The video game industry's had a stellar 2014. They gave us piles and piles of games to enjoy, so many in fact that not everyone got to play all the gems that this year had...

As each year takes its turn, we gamers are blessed with bigger and better games than the previous year provided. Who could have known back when Atari's Pong was a big hit, that forty years...

Watch Dogs. A revolutionary next-generation game that would allow converts to smugly stand above their cynical partners, showing off a new era of open world gaming and visual fidelity. This is the game that was...

The Christmas season officially begins on the evening of December 24th and ends on January 6th. That means there are plenty of days to celebrate so why not spend some of those days watching some...

“One shot can change history." These simple words instantly give you a preview of what Sniper Elite 3's like. Sniper Elite 3's celebration of the exuberant carnage of its predecessor’s linear and stiff gameplay and replaced...

Comics have been all over the place lately like the always are at the end of the year. As such, pull lists have been either humongous or a scant few. This doesn't just apply to...

In 1997, developer Running With Scissors tried to push the boundaries of good taste with Postal, a game which put you in the trench coat of the titular Postal Dude as he carved a bloody...