In the beginning of Syphon Filter 3, Lian Xing parks a van on the streets of downtown Tokyo. It’s nighttime and raining. Gabe Logan exits the van and enters Hotel Fukushima. Lian tells him that she prepared room 413 by leaving hi...

I wouldn’t want to be enemies with Gabe Logan. It’s bad enough that he’s short-tempered. The fact that he’ll kill you is even worse. WIth this in mind, let’s take a moment to reflect on the choices that Th...

When I write about old games, I tell myself to put nostalgia aside and be objective. I usually fail miserably. And since Syphon Filter was recently re-released for the PS4 and PS5, I felt I had to experience it on modern hardware. The ...

Since Lord Spencer and I are collaborating on a Syphon Filter blog series, I decided to use this as an opportunity to take a look at the PS4 and PS5 Classics Catalog. I was fortunate to pick up my PS5 only a few weeks ago! Thus, I test...

As many of you know, Lord Spencer is reviewing a list of classic games from the original PlayStation. As a bit of fun, he and I decided to collaborate on the Syphon Filter portion of his review series. So this blog is to kick off that ...

  I woke up this morning around 5:30, which is a late morning for me. I threw on my clothes, scraped ice off of my windshield, and drove to the donut shop to pick up some sweets for my roommates and me. And of course, there was co...

My taste in video games has changed. Genres that were once appealing to me have faded in favor of others. This is perfectly OK, in fact it's a good thing. Isn't it nice to know that you can always rely on strategy games to give you tha...

When I sat down to replay Riptide GP: Renegade for this blog post, I found myself playing the game a lot longer than I expected to. Originally, I just wanted to get a quick refresher of what the gameplay was like, but the game actually...

It’s June and it’s summer. I know that a lot of us are feeling the heat, so in order to keep the Band of Bloggers theme somewhere around the month of June, I started thinking about things we used to do during our summers: b...

When I was a kid, my dad and I watched a lot of WWII movies. So much so, that they have become a source of comfort. Patton, The Longest Day, Where Eagles Dare and The Dirty Dozen were among them, and they bring good memories to me whe...

As PlayStation moves into the future, some uncertainty still remains. Will the next PlayStation console live up to the success of the PlayStation 4? Will Sony slowly evolve toward app-based gaming, allowing you to play PlayStation game...

I boot up my PlayStation 3, and I'm greeted by the warm sound that accompanies the load up screen. I press X to cycle past the standard "health and safety" warnings that always wait while loading up this machine. Every time I turn on ...

It was a friend’s birthday party, probably more than 20 years ago, where a bunch of us gathered at the arcade inside the bowling alley near my home. There were two games that I remember playing, and those games were Raiden DX&nbs...

Somehow over the years I managed to remain ignorant about the story, mechanics, and overall world of Bioshock. The only thing I knew was that it contained horror elements, and that it was immensely popular. So recently I played it for...

In case for some reason you guys haven't had enough of these year end game lists, I decided that I might as well throw mine into the mix, despite the fact that we're already a month into the new year. Honestly, throughout many of the b...

Horizon Zero Dawn received a lot of hype when it released back in 2017. When I finally got around to playing it for myself, I was expecting to become completely absorbed in the game. Instead, I was left with the realization that I desp...

  How I Discovered Dtoid Some of you might know the dangers of having a job at a computer desk coupled with lots of free time. Back in 2014, I worked the evening shift at the writing center of our local community college. Sometime...