His name is Chris Pranger, I don't know him. What media exposure I've had of him, he seemed pretty cool. He was fired because he went off script and appeared on a podcast, dropped a few truth bombs along the way too. Why does this bug me s...

1. Old enough to not have the internet growing up, young enough that I've always been around games. That's pretty much explains it. I was born just before the Nintendo launched the NES in the US, and grew up with that generation. Thankful...

Not a week goes by without seeing a comment or an article online about the Physical vs. Digital games debate. And for a while, I thought I had found my answer. I was perfectly happy buying the consoles that I was personally interested in,...

About a month ago, I stumbled upon The Cover Project, an online initiative of fans and enthusiasts to collect scans of video game box art. These scans are usually customized to be easily printed and slid into CD/DS/DVD/Universal game case...

Gaming as a cultural expression is growing. It is important to remember that videogames did not bloom out of nothingness, just as film and movies did not develop without the context of theater and narrative driven literature. Early videogam...

���� The internet is still an infant. A long and complex development lies ahead as this social/digital creation matures. But right now, we have some excruciating growing pains to go through. �Digital bullies and extortionists are going af...

���� March 31st, 2014, was the last day in the fiscal year for Nintendo. The previous year had not been particularly kind to the Big N in terms of profits and perception: low Wii U sales, the emergence of the next-gen competitors, a fisca...

On April 1st, 2014, Nintendo released an update for the Wii U. Reportedly, all it does is, "Improvements to system stability and usability: Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhan...

source: Shumworld ���� The indie games movement and Kickstarter has had an impact on the games industry, but more interesting than that is how each country seems to handle the challenges differently. In Japan, it seems to be functioning as...

source ���� With the upcoming release of Mighty No. 9 and Azure Striker Gunvolt, we can look back at the work of the creative people at Inti Creates and Comcept to get a sense of how their older games of this style are used to inform their...

���� Every so often, I find that it is worth my time to visit the local gaming store chains and large retailers. I like to see how gaming is being presented to a commercial mass market. Sometimes I make some awesome finds, but the experie...

...would still smell as sweet. On Oct 1st, 2013, Comcepts new project, Mighty No 9 was successfully funded through their Kickstarter campaign. From the beginning, it was billed as an opportunity for Mega Man creator, Keiji Inafune, to ...

���� Considering Nintendo is discontinuing of their Wi-Fi network, I began thinking about things that may have a life span within Nintendo's online framework. We have already seen glimmers of this before. TMNT, the Donkey Kong Country SNE...

Moving to a new city, it's sometimes hard to get acclimated. Typically, I try to find a couple staples: local boardgame store, a good retro videogames store, comic shop, dog park, a few good restaurants, that kind of thing. There is a perio...

(Above) Beck fan art from janimator0 ���� On March 3rd 2014, Beckers around the world got another update from the guys and gals over at Comcept/Inti Creates/8-4. The MightyCast! It was announced last month that there will be podcast updat...

Killer Technique, at your face! ���� In the Feb. 14th Nintendo Direct, Satoru Iwata announced that Level-5's Inazuma Eleven would be available digitally on the Nintendo 3DS eShop, immediately. A Nintendo DS game, released in 2008, which s...

���� Castlevania is a pillar of game design and story telling from the early days of modern console gaming. Released the Japanese market in 1986 and landing on US shores in 1987, it is sometimes easy to forget today that Castlevania not o...

At the Present Time... � � From 1988 until 2012, Nintendo Power was a companion, a guide, a way to gain an edge against your friends, a hype source, something to argue over and finally, another statistic in the downfall of print media....

The eShop Platform? wha? ��� Since the interactive medium of gaming began, our sensibilities as gamers or creators have changed over time. When you survey the styles and genres of older gaming generations, it becomes clear that the develo...