Earlier this week, I was writing about a game that I have been following fairly closely, RiME. If you aren’t aware of RiME, it was a PS4 exclusive announced about 4 years ago that seemingly dropped off the map and then resurfaced...

2016 has been, to say the least, a pretty crazy year for me. I actually took steps to get to the career I want, I got rejected when I applied, I restructured my efforts, and I started writing on a volunteer basis at another site. If yo...

Hey! Grow Up is out so let's reflect on one of my favorite games from 2015, Grow Home! There are few things in this world that are as adorable as a tiny cartoon robot stumbling around like he’s fresh off a 3 day bender while try...

When looking at a company that has been as prolific in their industry as Rare, it truly seems that they can do no wrong. That was certainly the case when I and many others went into the store and dropped some cash on their first game ...

E3 is officially closed and another expo is in the books. You know what that means? Hot takes from an outside perspective, that’s what. Let’s jump right into it.   Top 5 Announcements 1) Following in P.T.’s creep...

Way back in the year 2003, designer/director Patrice Désilets released a fantastic game titled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Directly after this title, Ubisoft put Désilets to work on the title Prince of Persia: As...

It's that magical time of year again, my lovely guys and equally lovely gals. E3 is right around the corner and with that comes some "informed" predictions from every major outlet with an internet connection. I've read em all and I can...

I've played video games for as long as I can remember. I'm not just using a turn of phrase there, my first ever memory is literally five year old me celebrating as hard as I could because I made it to the underground level of Super Ma...

In the past I've talked about the benefits of diving in the bargain bin and in doing so I described a few games that I found to be outstanding, despite not gaining much mainstream traction. These games have been buried through hectic r...

Much like Luke Skywalker in The Force Awakens, I've been away from the Jedi for quite some time. However, I'm back and I've finally done it. With the completion of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, My path to Jedi Knighthood is com...

At this point in time the field of Video Game Journalism is a wild frontier. A wild bunch applying every method in the book to find success. There is no set tried-and-true framework to do it right. We haven't had centuries of time to ...

NOTE: I wrote this at launch in November 2015 and just recently found the file. This does not cover online play. V has come to. The long awaited sequel and missing link in the ballad of the infamous Big Boss has arrived for the pleasu...

We all love the AAA hits and the indie darlings that are posted on every website, blog, and Twitter page, but what about the games that fade away without making any noise in the media? For example, looking through a game system's full ...

Final Fantasy has been the go to series when I think of RPGs and it's been that way for years. This is why I found myself a bit shaken when I bought XIII at launch and it ended up being a mess. There are a variety of reasons why I dislike...

Expanding on the Lavender town theme I discussed in my last entry of "Sing Us a Song, You're the Poké-Man", The next song I would like to go over is the Pokémon Tower theme. The Pokémon Tower is where the spirits of fallen Pokémon are...

gnvbn When I was a kid my family couldn't afford to buy my brother and I many games, so we played the same ones over and over. A lot of them were garbage licensed titles for Game Boy or Playstation 1, but I was fortunate enough to get a co...

  I'm no stranger to the freemium app market. As soon as I got a smartphone I had several town builder freemium apps to rotate in a way that let me continuously play without feeling the effects of the timers. After a while I realized t...

Unravel won the hearts of many when it was announced at the EA press conference during the 2015 E3. Many gamers instantly sympathized with the creator from Coldwood games, Martin Sahlin. Pouring his heart out through his trembling voice, ...

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is the first game in the series not developed by LucasArts; instead released by Raven software, known for their FPS games such as Hexen, Soldier of Fortune, and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force. Raven abs...

At this point, I feel it is safe to say that Kyle Katarn and I are official Jedi Knights. We have gone through the tests of battling the dark Jedi, resisting Jerec's calls to the dark side, and protecting the Valley of the Jedi, so I feel t...

My journey to knighthood is rolling along at a pretty good clip. Taking down Mohc in Dark Forces was a fine test of skill, but now it's time I step up to the big leagues and enter the Jedi world. I'm talking lightsaber battles, I'm talking ...

            Like many people, I consider myself a huge Star Wars fan. I've watched/read/played most of what the series had to offer, yet there is a huge gap in my Star Wars knowledge. T...

This is my first post on this site, so what better way is there to break the ice than a top ten list? Everybody loves lists. This specific list is of the top ten games I played that were released in 2015. So please, read, enjoy, scruti...