Loot boxes are absolutely terrible for games. This should just be well known, but there are people out there who actually defend the practice. Even the tamer implementations, such as Overwatch have hurt the games. While there is obvi...

  Now that Atlus has joined the dunce club along with Nintendo, I feel it important to talk about streaming. After reading the blog by GWJosh, I actually got frustrated that someone could actually come up with an argument for blo...

  Repition and video games are like a teenager and their cell phone. They go hand in hand until one starts consuming the user's attention until they crash their vehicle and kill two small orphans who were just about to be ad...

  It's no secret that games tend to struggle with telling a great story. By struggle, I mean they would have more success chucking dead puppies at a keyboard and just using whatever that creates. Okay, writing isn't quite that ba...

In my last blog post, I got into a bit of a nice discussion with someone who argued that it wasn't lore that was important to Dark Souls and Metroid, it was ambiance. While a good ambiance is certainly important, I'm not entirely sure...

Lore is often an overlooked aspect of a game, much to the detriment of the games. I'm going to talk about Horizon Zero Dawn once again and you can just deal with it. If it wasn't such a great game that did so many things right, I woul...

It is no secret that the Triple-A game industry is terrified of unique ideas. Publishers love to stay with what is safe and what works. Clearly, this is a sound strategy. It is why Call of Duty's sales have not fallen drastically at a...

A good story is like sex. You have your beginning, where you warm your partner, or partners, up for the main event. You have your middle, where the bulk of the activity lies during your bedroom adventure. And then you have the end. Th...

The Nintendo Switch is an interesting beast. I admit the idea of having a home console that you can take on the go is an interesting idea. However, the problem comes with the power of the Switch, or the lack of it. Compared to the Xb...