In a perfect world, I'd like to think your internal monologue when purchasing a new game – a new game you've been looking forward to and want to support with your money and know you will enjoy – should not be Christ, why am I doing this to ...

With the much deserved sleeper success of King of Fighters XIII, it seems like any day now the irrepressible horse-throttlers at SNK Playmore will be unsheathing their Emphasis Cudgels and announcing the fourteenth installment of this stori...

So I went ahead and bought KOFXIII, even though I have no idea how SNK plans to distribute any follow-up content. Mostly because I want there to be follow-up content. And as seemingly straightforward as paying full retail for a game to sup...

The Golden Avenger was far and away my favorite superhero back in my comic-reading youth. By day: a hard-drinking millionaire playboy; by the-rest-of-the-time: a garishly-colored, nigh-invulnerable, still hard-drinking robot man who took ...

While normally I love it when a storied game series gets the next-gen anthology treatment, Konami’s upcoming slew of HD compilations has yet to give me the months-long case of consumer blue balls that a gussied up ZoE or Silent Hill really ...

We all know the drill: intellectual properties typically make the jump to video games only as the geek-beseeching arm of a vast marketing strategy, cross-promoting some other product on the verge of release. Usually, it’s a movie. And such ...

I waffled over whether to put an exclamation point after that, but since I’m only trying to casually say hello, not greet the living shit out of you during your unsuspecting blog rounds, I didn’t use punctuation. Which, admittedly, makes it...

I'm one of the few that preferred the original Prototype over Infamous. By a lot, actually. In fact, whenever the debate came up, I would begin to feel like a Twilight Zone protagonist: everyone I know, everyone online, and every critic in...

Does anyone else think the incessant demand for a Final Fantasy VII remake is one of the most thunderously stupid sentiments in gaming these days? It seems any bit of news regarding SquareEnix is inevitably met with the same comment repeat...