Category: Features
In recent years the length of video games has become something of a hot button issue in the industry. The question of “how short is too short” has been asked numerous times before. Just last year it seemed to be… Read More »
A couple years ago, a friend of mine called me up and invited me over his house to play Guitar Hero II. He just bought the game and, with the addition of owning the first game, now had enough guitars… Read More »
For many gamers, the Eagle eye converter for the PlayStation 3 will be of little interest due to the impractically of a mouse and keyboard as compared to a traditional console controller, but for a select group, this specialty device… Read More »
There’s a simple sort of poetry about Donkey Kong Country Returns that is rarely found in modern video games. It’s a resonant, age-old tale: the lumbering, broad-shouldered ape and his bite-sized sidekick on a long crusade for their stolen bananas… Read More »
With the countless number of great games released every year, sometimes it can be easy to forget what could have been. Every now and then, though, a promising game will go through development hell and end up being canceled, disappointing… Read More »
The re-release of Beyond Good and Evil and the near constant partnership that pervades the game made me realize something: The presence of genuinely helpful NPC partners are a luxury that only modern gamers have been able to enjoy. To… Read More »
Unlike today, where the powers of 3D graphics have taken over the majority of games, there was a time when the platformer genre ruled the earth. For those who are not familiar with this category of game, the main feature… Read More »
I offer the following story as a lesson, dear readers: no matter how well you perform against your friends in video games, no matter how good you think you may be, do not think you’re going to waltz into a… Read More »
David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg: I’m writing to you today to try to inform you both of the extremely hot water you have found yourselves in surrounding the upcoming Uncharted film that you are writing and acting in respectively…. Read More »
Roger Ebert, I respect you. I enjoy your musings about the world of film. I think you’re a very intelligent man with an endless, precise wisdom. I’m actually really jealous of you and your writing. But you don’t know video… Read More »
