Opinion

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...

Everyone seems to have their takeaway from 2014. I know some who think of it as an excellent first step; still others regard it as a total flop. If one thing’s for certain, it was...

You know, I love food. I love eating it, I love looking at it, I love smelling it, I love making it. But there's one thing I just can't stand about food, and that's when...

Tecmo Koei recently turned an old staple in gaming into something extremely new and different for the franchise. Hyrule Warriors has gotten great reviews and DLC coming its way and I've been enjoying it recently, so...

Hello, readers. I'm Rob, AKA Colonel Crayon. I'm going to be doing a new article\blog-type series...Er, thing called "The Nostalgia Vault". *echo* *echo* Yeah, pretty sweet, right? Basically, the posts will be myself ranting and...

Over the past ten years, Gamestop blossomed from a small subsidiary of Barnes & Noble into what is arguably the most dominant force in the gaming marketplace. Partially impart to the mainstream acceptance of gaming,...

https://youtu.be/sGbxmsDFVnE As every corner of the Internet's surely told you already, there's a new Star Wars movie on its merry way and today, it just happens to have a real trailer to go with it. The...

It's happening. It's really happening. A new Star Wars film is being made and 88 seconds of it is premiering in a select theater near you. As North America and all parts beyond await their...