Category: Editorials

The story of Corvo in Dishonored is better than most games. But it’s not all that good. For a game that excels at immersive story telling, the main arch being told is not engaging. As gamers, we get a lot of crap thrown at us. Let’s face it, the games that sell big (Modern Warfare and… Continue reading About Story and Dishonored

Chapter 4: The Soul of Mario Joe got me thinking about something that has been an important part of my video game identity. I don’t know if that is real or not but to me it makes sense. Video game identity is or can be anything that relates to you as a person that is… Continue reading Fireside Discussion: Chapter 4: The Soul of Mario

Grind! A word pretty much all people recognize as being arduous but necessary. Today I bring up the term as it pertains to gaming and perhaps in a new light. Previous experiences of mine surrounding this idea just point to the amount of time I spent doing a particular activity, like farming materials, experience or… Continue reading The Grind: Is it your game?

Alas, another year has passed. 12 months of shooting blasters, scaling cliff-sides, and fighting off zombies (or avoiding them altogether). Feast your eyes on our top 3 games of 2012: Honorable Mention: Mass Effect 3 The promise came true! A game that lets you play the same character you started in the first game, through… Continue reading Game of the Year: 2012

Borderlands 2 offered me and my buddy many hours of carnage in the world of Pandora as we tore through hordes of bandits, Hyperion personnel, and nasty alien creatures looking for an easy meal. I played the first Borderlands and loved the one liners, crude language and lunacy surrounding character design and the second one… Continue reading Staff GOTY 2012 – Matt

Grimrock is a fantastic tribute to old-school dungeon crawlers. It’s also quite unique in today’s gaming marketplace.

Stay a while and listen….. I began this journey months ago and finally finished it after a few exhausting nights, sweaty palms, twitchy-eyes… hoping that death would not roll 666 and end my killing streak in Sanctuary. I do realize that the game was nerf’d several times since it’s debut, leaving Inferno a shadow of… Continue reading Diablo III: A Member of GWW Conquers Hardcore on Inferno