Category: Columns
Video Game Escapism
Ask ten gamers how they got into gaming, and you are likely to hear the recital of ten markedly different sequences of events. All gamers have some sort of recollection of how they were initiated into this virtual ‘club,’ but… Read More »
The Expense of Old Software
Along with Nintendo’s newest piece of hardware comes something never before implemented in a home video game system. What I am referring to is the Virtual Console, which offers gamers the opportunity to download games from all of Nintendo’s prior… Read More »
Perspective in the Virtual World
What makes up a video game? At the most basic level, they are systems of input (controls), output (graphics, audio) and the relationship between the two. Although the complexities of a well-made game extend well beyond this simple definition, the… Read More »
Will Code for Food: Funding the Next Generation of Games
So here we are, in the next — scratch that — current generation of console gaming, and I can’t help but ponder the issues that effect the direction of the industry, and ultimately impact gamers. As Microsoft might call it,… Read More »
A Long Game is Not a Better Game
Since the dawn of time, gamers have found themselves waging wars of words and carrying on conflicts of colloquialisms over innumerable issues eternally bonded to the very source of their every pleasure, pain, love and hatred: video games. One such… Read More »
Best Boss Fights
As a staple ingredient to the play experience, boss encounters are regarded by many as a measure of a game’s overall value. Simply stated, we play for the epic, not the mundane. Without further ado, here are the best boss… Read More »
The Ratings Game
Although my greatest aspiration in life has been to become a part of the video game journalism community, I have always had a bone to pick with the collective…critical…mass, as I have chosen to ambiguously entitle it. The idea of… Read More »
PS3 Launch Day Adventure: The Eddie Chronicles
If you were wondering where I’ve been lately, then have I got a story for you. What fun I’ve been having! I feel like a child on his first visit to the dentis- I mean, Disneyland… My Wednesday evening began… Read More »
System Launch
As the highly anticipated launch days of the PS3 and Wii draw nearer, the gaming community is reaching fever pitch. Internet buzz is overwhelming, as anyone with gaming RSS feeds can attest to. Personally, I’m getting exhausted trying to keep… Read More »
Top 10 Overlooked Videogames
The ever-popular Overlooked Games List: everyone has their own version of this list, and I feel very passionately about mine. Here’s a quick smattering of games that I feel have gotten less love over the years than they rightfully deserve…. Read More »
