(The above picture is strangely fitting) I was on the bus yesterday talking with Zero, about the evolution of character development in video games over the years. The topic of Final Fantasy IV was brought up in discussion. I know, surpr...

I've been on a "Point and Click" adventure kick lately. I started playing Phoenix Wright 2, which I got for Christmas. I enjoyed the stories enough that I moved immediately to Phoenix Wright 3, which I got when it came out for the Phoen...

I had every intention of writing another Awesomely Underrated editorial on Phantasy Star 3, the black sheep of the Phantasy Star series. I've found myself in a Phantasy Star kick after the Retroforce Go! Phantasy Star episode aired. This...

This one is a quickie today, but since the announcement of a Puzzle Quest focus group for residents of the Los Angeles area, I figured I would announce that after a looooong-ass questionnaire and grilling of various aspects of the story t...

If my avatar isn't obvious enough I will say I am an FFIV fangirl. While I've lamented the direction of the later Final Fantasies I still pine for the old school ones. When I heard last summer Square-Enix was remaking FFIV for the DS I ...

I love video game music. I love it so much I want to make a career our of it. In my pursuit of making a career out of it, I've met some people that work in the field and have learned some of the differences between the method from American...

After a small amount of time off from talking about underrated games, I've come back to talk about the games that deserve a little extra love. While Nintendo was the king of platformers for the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, a small little...

(I would have had a picture, but it's being stupid) I've been stuck dealing with the trials (pun intended) and tribulations of jury duty in Los Angeles, CA. I was actually summoned today and sat around for a torturous 7 and a half hours...

(I'll try not to fangirl all over this rant. I promise. This is also not meant to sound eloquent. This is a rant after-all.) Something has been bugging me a lot in the last few months. In fact this has bugged me ever since Blue Drago...

Poor Rare. They had such acclaim in their Nintendo days and seem to have become a joke on their formal self like many other companies. Perfect Dark failed to have any long term staying power for the 360, Viva Pinata didn't sell quite ...

This is me thinking out load instead of sleeping. But I have wondered what others have thought about the following topic... I've spent the last eight years griping about my gaming backlog. I always have about a dozen games on my shelf ...

(awesome wallpaper is awesome) (Naia apologizes for the lack of Awesomely Underrated last week. She spent all last week getting ready to and finally move to a bigger apartment. She's still living in boxes.) I make it no secret that I...

Due to demand (okay Chad suggested it) I will continue giving love to underrated games that most gamers don't play but should. I skimmed through my library thinking about what game to talk about next. While the game for today isn't nece...

I've added a new segment to my blog called " Awesomely Underrated." I want to talk about games that I believe are underrated by the gaming community (at least by the vocal ones on the "intertubes"). There is one key criterion for this segme...

http://www.destructoid.com/luke-skywalker-meets-debbie-does-dallas-fox-report-on-mass-effect-is-saddening-66295.phtml I'm sure many of you in Desctructoid-land have read the article mentioned above. Perhaps you have watched a video similar...

I'm crawling out of the hole I've been hiding from, recovered from a big head cold and wanted to write about something that has been bothering me for a while. It seems like the hardcore gaming community, both readers, stores, journalists a...

I'm relaxing in my parents house in cold New England, eagerly anticipating my flight back to warm Los Angeles California. While I keep warm I take a listen to my favorite podcast ever Retroforce Go! (I swear I'm not kissing up either). I...

Since everyone else is doing it, I will give my two cents on how this year was for gaming, the biggest surprises for me, and my top games. I'm not a journalist and am limited by my cash, so I haven't played everything. I also play mostly ...

ZOMG Chirstmas!!! Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it (well it's technically after midnight where I am but whatever). I'm back in New England visiting my family in the cold Santa was exceptionally good to me this year. For s...

http://www.watercoolergames.org/archives/000868.shtml I read this on Kotaku and found it amusing and accurate in some ways but not in the ways the study suggests. The overall conclusion when they surveyed preferences in kids aged 13 and...

I've been meaning to post this for the last few weeks, but my fiancee and I decided we were going to begin a tradition of buying one new Christmas ornament each year. My parents have done that for years and have some of the cute eskimo guy...

http://www.rpgland.com/content/?p=2772 FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX! My heart leaped out of my body for about two seconds until I saw the fucking words cell phone. I've been annoyed with your fucking milking craze the last few years with the Fin...

I've needed a few days to come up with exactly what I wanted to say in this whole situation. It's been a pretty busy week for the video game industry, at least on the journalism side. It seems that when reviews of high profile Quarte...

http://www.woodus.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9867 I'm surprised this hasn't reached the likes of places like here and Kotaku at least, but it appears in light of the release of DQIV for the DS, hackers took a look at the game to try t...

I was looking around for some gift ideas for my family while I went to a store in Culver City called Games 4 Less. They have old retro games and while most of them are duds, but I saw this little beauty in the store: I blame the RetroFo...