Let me start off by saying I'm not equating the hordes of fanboys that may have initiated a "correction" to Mass Effect 3's ending to evil in this case. While I do consider their ilk, as a whole, to be some sort of internet-bound omega bitc...

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! - Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest w...

I had the luck of being one of the runners up in the Army Corps Of Hell instrument contest that wrapped recently, so I figured I'd provide the intrepid with the misfortune of me trying out my fabulous prize as thanks. There're plenty of oth...

Apparently, it wasn't enough just to cry a river about the endings to Mass Effect 3. Some of the whiners trying to force BioWare's hand and get a new ending as DLC have decended to new lows by tying their selfishness to a Child's Play fun...

I must say, the news that there are Mass Effect fans out there with the gall to think they can get the entire trilogy's ending changed just by throwing a hissy-fit really took me aback. I already made a reasonably sized post in the article'...

While it was only recently released on Steam, the low-res MMO Realm of the Mad God has been a browser-based experience for far longer, having been around in beta form as far back as two years ago, and in "released" form as of mid-2011. Si...

The recent kerfluffle over the discovery of locked-away content on the Xbox 360 version of Street Fighter X Tekken has re-animated the debate over how far is too far when it comes to on-disc DLC. Previously called into question by games l...

The late 1990s and early 2000s, some of the earliest alternate reality games, or ARGs, would seep their way into small segments of public awareness. Sort of a blend of geocaching, viral marketing, social networking, and interactive stories,...

Chances are, I'm not the only person here who preordered Soul Calibur V from GameStop, thereby getting screwed out of the Dampierre DLC code in favor of some goofy chunk of plastic done up to look like Ivy Valentine. I thought they were giv...

After some waiting, a copy of the recent PS3 overhaul of Twisted Metal managed to stay in a Redbox long enough for me to rent it. I've no real nostalgia or anything in regards to the franchise, as I never got into any of the older titles ...

Back in the eight-bit days, you were lucky to get more than a splash screen and "CONGRATURATION" after investing however many hours in memorizing enemy attack patterns and the proper jumping techniques needed to finish an entire game. The...

Today, we gather to honor the beginning of a forty-day quest, in which Professor Oak gave his finest pupil to the world so all the Pok�mon may be caught, in all the regions across every land. Over the course of his journey to defeat the J...

Remember the SNES version of SimCity, where building and city management were all well and good, but some of the most fun times could come from unleashing natural disasters, nuclear meltdowns, or even a Godzilla-sized Bowser Koopa on your c...

Let me start by saying that I'm as thrilled as ever that SoulCalibur V came out. I bought it day one, and I'm in love with the game as much as I have been with all of the series' prior installments. The overhaul given to the multiplayer a...

A lot of game series, both classic and more recent, tend to rely on changing up their settings between sequels to help keep things fresh as they progress through new iterations. The Mario Brothers, for instance, have gone from slogging th...

There are plenty of great games waiting for release this year, and more than a few of them have crossed my radar, but I'm actually more interested in where some of last year's new releases are bound over the course of 2012. Three games in p...

There're a few projects I've been mulling over or putting off in regards to gaming for a while now, completely separate from the massive backlog that's been building up for years. Given that the world may very well end next December, if a...

While it was good to see collective nerdrage doing some good today (and reddit actually proving itself useful, for once), in regards to the whole Ocean Market(t)ing/Stratagy vs customers affair, there seemed to be confusion as to who or wha...

I've touched upon this tale before to varying extents, but here's the full rundown on the Christmas that got me into gaming, and/or how my parents ruined me for life. As far back as I can remember, I was regularly exposed to games to var...

I may've only been to one MAGfest out of what's soon to be ten, but there's a lot of convention (and common) sense that can be applied to the Music And Games Festival. Most of this advice is geared towards first-timers, but perhaps even s...

Now that I've had a few weeks to fully digest 343 Industries' revisitation of gamers' original assault on the Covenant, I figure it's high time I shared my impressions of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. There are some potential, albeit ...

Despite having been around since 1997, Konami's "Bemani" series of rhythm games has only made limited penetration in markets outside Japan. Sure, everyone knows about Dance Dance Revolution to varying extents, Beatmania IIDX saw a North Ame...

Prior to Skyrim, my exposure to Bethesda games had been fairly minimal. The time investment needed to plunge deep into any of the prior Elder Scrolls games, or Fallout 3 or New Vegas, is something that'd eluded me up until a few weeks ago...

Rather than trying to crank out one in a crowd of great posts for this week's theme about actually being thankful for something, I thought I'd play with some of the imagery at the core of the holiday. I had this fantastic idea to discuss vi...

The Legend Of Zelda series, despite its legacy and considerable fanbase, seems to have developed two primary camps of decriers as the years have rolled on and the series has continued. There are those out there who would have you believe th...

My tale of acquisition is less about getting my hands on a game as it is obtaining an in-game element, but it was a quest enough in and of itself. It was November of 1998, and I was far more into Pok�mon than was likely healthy for a 16 ...

I bet you thought this interview series was dead. NO- alright, fine, I used that in one article, I won't use it again. Thomas Mannino, There Will Be Brawl's wheelchair-bound Sonic The Hedgehog (and mic jockey), finally carved some time out ...

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine's free Exterminatus mode hit two weeks ago, but given that I have the game on 360 and there were some issues, I had to wait an extra week to roll around in it myself. That being said, it was totally worth the w...

It's been a long, long time since I played World Of Warcraft. After two brief bouts of getting a character or two to levels in the mid-thirties, I manage to break my addiction. Even membership (and friendship with some of the higher-ups) in...

Turns out my estimates were correct, and Matthew Mercer, the man who was king of the Gerudo (and Kirby, and Meta Knight, for that matter) in There Will Be Brawl, was busy as all get-out over the past few weeks. But in the end, answers comet...