I felt that Kylo Ren was done decently, with the early scenes showing that he is immensely powerful with the force, but showing that under than power, he’s laregly untrained and immature. He wants to be Vader, but he’s got the trademark Skywalker impatience to get there.

After seeing the movie my wife and I discussed Kylo Ren and his quest of finding and killing Luke Skywalker. Does anyone else feel like things would have gone poorly for Ren if he’d ever been able to find Luke? He’s strong with the force, but he had trouble taking on a former Stormtrooper with no force powers and…

I find this way more baffling than infuriating. Getting to level 25 doesn’t take much time or even grinding. Make your way through the story levels and play a few strikes and you’re there. The grind is getting from 25 to 40 and then getting your light level up. If you really are going to spend $40 to skip to level 25…

I recently rewatched ESB, and my daughter watched it with me for the first time. I decided that the best argument for Empire being the best of the Star Wars movies can be found in how little was changed with the special edition for the movie. There were a couple slightly extended scenes and a few more panning shots…

I picked up Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate as it was about the only AAA title this fall that I did already have. I also decided to try out one of those $35 Amazon Fire tablets. I’m glad I got the tablet, it the perfect device for playing Catan, or poker in the bathroom.

I come from a background in politics, so the media and its relationship with the people it covers is a subject I have some experience with. There always has to be a balance, both from the journalists and the subjects of coverage. If you run a negative story (or any story really) about someone, in the spirit of…

Awesome! Well, I know what I’m doing this evening.

My experience has been all over the place. I’ve been playing more Crucible than I did before The Taken King dropped, partly in response to my insatiable need for Legendary Marks, and partly because Rift is awesome. I’ve had the 40-second games where I’m tossed onto a losing team and then mercy-ruled. But I’ve also had…

It’s a game with a wide audience so you’re going to get a lot of different layers of quality. I ‘play’ it with my daughter who is seven and when she designs a level she considers it hard if there are three enemies and a pit. I try and design levels like the ones I played when I was her age that I think ‘feel’ like…

Yeah, this is kind of how I feel right now. It sucks we had to wait a year, but yesterday I got five new strikes! Granted two of them are the ones PS4 users had for the past year, and they still have one I don’t, but five new (to me) strikes is a lot of new material for me to chew through.

Last year I picked up a used game from the GameStop near my office. When I was checking out the clerk asked me if I wanted to pre-order Destiny (which was a few weeks from launch at the time). I said that I was going to do order the digital version which gave me both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One version. Undeterred…

Since the dawn of time mankind has yearned to destroy the sun...

Mine was not a conscious decision at first. My then-girlfriend/now-wife owned a condo when I moved in with her in Boulder, CO. She was in graduate school and had been saving for years. After our daughter was born we moved to Tulsa and did a joint purchase of a house there.

The first piece of Etheric Light I received I dropped into my ancient Shadow Price. Thanks to a good roll that gave it a 42 round magazine and excellent range I’d still been using that 300 strength gun up until I ascended it to 365. My main go-to in almost any PvE without a burn, and even some with a burn.

I’m usually all for things that make the game more ‘playable.’ I’ve got a two-year-old and a six-year-old, and a wife who all make demands on my time that can interrupt my gaming. But in this case I don’t see a high need for a way to take breaks. Horde mode has always had an element of endurance to me. Some of my…

I recently spent a good chunk of time with this game, getting through the main quest line and a good amount of the side missions. It’s very similar to FarCry 3 in structure, but the execution is more confident. I just took it off my Xbox One hard drive (stupid 500GB filling up too damn quick) but will probably jump…

A big one is to figure out the deal-breakers for what you want out of your new house. Do you want space? Do you want proximity to transportation? Proximity to dining and entertainment? A quiet neighborhood? Figuring out your absolute priorities will help you avoid overspending on a house.

There is a third untranslated Witcher book: Sezon Burz (Season of Storms). Published in Poland in 2013. I only know this because I picked up a copy when I was there in 2013. It was a challenge to myself to learn Polish better, and I’m still working on that so I can’t actually say too much about the book. My wife (who…

I think it has less to do with ‘broken promises’ or what ever whiny excuse the internet comes up with than it does with one thing: The PC version is not phenomenally better looking than the console version. PC folks are a prickly crowd, and the one thing that seems to get them riled up like nothing else is that some…

Mine would definitely be from Gears of War 3. Me and two buddies played a LOT of hoard mode. We were determined to beat level 50 as often as we could, but usually this required having some decent team mates, as just the three of us would quickly get overwhelmed.