Opinion

featured image: Miltos Manetas, MY FLOOR (Zip Drive and legs), 1998, Oil on Canvas, 82x72inches, Courtesy The Artist and APT LONDON, London, UK Being a child of the 80s, I was lucky enough to be privy...

With the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle still clearly in gamers' minds, it makes one wonder if internet hate and response could continue to change endings in this medium. It also makes you think if...

Over the last three decades, video games have changed a lot. Although we’ve traded pixelated sprites for high resolution computer graphics, and chiptune music for sweeping orchestral scores, some things will remain forever constant. Princesses...

With the release of The Last of Us, Naughty Dog has proven itself in the survival horror genre.  They made their game atmospheric, frightening, moving, and all around delight to play. Hopefully The Last of Us...

Nintendo's adorable Animal Crossing series has been charming gamers for over a decade and the latest in the series, Animal Crossing: New Leaf (ACNL) continues the reign of cuteness. Since its initial release last year, over...

For those of you who haven't heard already, there's a new Pokémon anime TV special on the way based on the original games; Pocket Monsters Red & Green. You might be scratching your head over...

“Games here! Get your indie games here! Only 99cents! ... ...Anybody?”   Sound familiar?  If you’re an indie developer you have heard it all too much. The daily grind of selling, marketing, and pleading for...

Generally speaking, if you beat a game in today's generation of games you are privy to any number of things: multiple endings, new game plus, DLC and the like.  However, in 1989, a Russian game company...

At E3, it was revealed that Sora would be gracing the Playstation 4 sometime in the near future, and now that Disney owns Star Wars, Tetsuya Nomura has a whole new universe to play in....

We're only a couple of months out from the release of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, but the gameplay videos just keep coming. This time around, we have some more naval combat that then seamlessly...

One of the most popular developers out there has to be Valve. These guys are responsible for some of the most iconic titles in the history of gaming including but not limited to Half-Life. They’re...

When you hear the word “assassin”, what words come to mind? Stealth? Undetected Killer? The most recent Assassin’s Creed games seem to have taken a turn to a more action-adventure style game. Personally, I would...

Ducktales: Remastered is set to be pretty successful for Wayforward Technologies, so it seems logical that their next game should be another remastering of a beloved Disney classic.  You don't fix what's broken, right? So...

There have been many video-game-to-comic-book adaptations in the past. Some have been good (Resident Evil and Call of Duty), some bad (God of War and Gears of War), and some excellent (Mass Effect and Dragon Age).  Then...

These are five games that must escape the hell that is vaporware status. They have been kicked around by developers and are yet to see the light of day.  Hopefully by telling readers about them...

People who play video games have a tough time in the summer.  The summer season in the video game industry is analogous to a desert—a barren wasteland with a spattering of oases to hold off...

Polybius, the name comes from the Greek historian who believe that historians shouldn't report anything that isn't verified by eye witnesses and interviews. This Greek historian shares his name with one of the oldest gaming...

Jesse Custer was created during the '90's comic book boom, or to be more specific, April of 1995 in the first issue of Preacher. Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon and Glenn Fabry created this seminal character...

Memory cards have been rendered obsolete by the seventh generation of gaming, and as we move forward, they will be forgotten for things like The Cloud.  It is kind of sad really. Memory cards were...

Above all other forms of media, video games are the best when it comes to escapism. For a short time, they let you trade your crappy apartment and boring job for an ass-kicking, princess-saving lifestyle....

When the Xbox One and PS4 hit during the holidays, the death knell of retro gaming will be upon us.  Both companies have stated that their newest consoles will not be backwards compatible, and that...

Here we are, number one in our countdown. To this point we've looked at some really good games with really good music. The argument could be made that any of the top three deserved the...

5) Star Fox - Last seen on a non handheld console - October 25, 2004 - Star Fox Assault Star Fox began it's illustrious career on the SNES back in 1993 and continued its success...

As you’re probably aware, the next generation of gaming is nearly upon us with the launch of Sony’s PS4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One due sometime in November. Many places have already ceased pre-orders for these...

Does anyone remember the huge music game craze from a few years back? Well it all started in 2005 when Harmonix and Red Octane created a little game called Guitar Hero, which was distributed by...

With the release of WiiU and the upcoming release of the PS4 and XboxOne, gamers everywhere are wondering if they will see the return of old beloved franchises. Some of these franchises have simply faded...