Anthem is out, and the reviews have largely not been very positive. They tend to go like this: looks pretty, good combat, too many bugs, disruptive loading screens, not enough variety, disappointing loot, uninteresting characters, an eerily lifeless hub to walk around in, and a mediocre-at-best story. As of the…
Some of the most fun I’ve had with video games has been when I’m doing something the game doesn’t want me to do — whether it’s going beyond a map boundary or killing enemies in an unconventional way. Here are a few ways I’ve subverted developer expectations and done things my own way.
I don’t feel like I should put a spoiler warning in the main heading for movies that are more than 30 years old, but I will put one here. Major spoilers ahead for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
A “loot box” in video game terminology is a randomized chance at receiving one or more virtual items in a video game (often by opening a virtual “box” of some sort).
Star Wars: The Last Jedi had some problems. In my last article, I talked about plausible solutions in Episode IX for three of those problems. But there was one other problem that I thought was simply a lost cause. I barely mentioned it because I thought it was something that could not be fixed. I was wrong.
I enjoyed Star Wars: The Last Jedi for its spectacle, but I could see problems with its story.
I’m leaving the old man out of this since we barely got to know him. I’m also leaving out Hannah, Beth, and Dr. Hill for reasons that are spoilers* if you haven’t played the game (or watched videos of it). Speaking of spoilers, this post is going to be full of them. Read at your own risk.
Let’s Play videos — videos that feature gamers commenting on and reacting to video games as they play them — have become a pretty big thing over the past few years, with certain “YouTubers” even being able to earn a living through the advertising revenue their videos can generate. If I may, I’d like to take a quick…
I had never owned a Smash game before the Wii U incarnation, so I didn’t really know what to make of all the popularity surrounding the franchise. I was curious about the game, but I was also disinterested enough to wait for a sale. A few months ago, walmart.com gave me the sale I had been looking for, so I went ahead…
Master Reboot is a first-person sci-fi/horror/puzzle game from Welsh indie studio Wales Interactive. You play as a woman exploring the virtual realm called the Soul Cloud: a data cloud which stores memory and personality data uploaded from people’s minds so that their loved ones can interact with a virtual…
As a Wii U owner, I was really looking forward to this year’s E3 Nintendo Direct. With Zelda Wii U pushed to 2016, Nintendo needed a big, unexpected reveal like a Wii U Metroid game or a Wii U F-Zero game to wow their fans and get them excited about the future of Wii U gaming. Instead, we were treated to a…
Tonight, TAY Game Night presents Super Smash Bros. for Wii U! Join us tonight at 9:00 ET! My Nintendo Network ID is: JeffUWL
TV shows, movies, video games, books... a lot of stories come and go each year, some with more lasting notoriety than others.
The long-awaited Shovel Knight finally — for real this time — has a North American release date for Wii U and 3DS (eShop only): June 26, 2014. This game promises to have retro-inspired platforming action in spades. Can you dig it?
When a few of his fellow soldiers go missing inside an underground facility on the moon known as a "hatch," Major Kane navigates the mysterious and often dangerous corridors to find them — and to uncover the mysteries surrounding this strange subterranean complex.
Last night, I decided on a whim to start watching my favorite Star Trek: Voyager episode on Netflix. Now, Voyager isn't what I consider a great sci-fi series, or even a great Star Trek series. It's fine, but its premise (being lost tens of thousands of light years from home) is generally wasted. Throughout most of the…
I finished Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC and, well, it was... nice. I mean, it wasn't bad. It had some decent action, and the character interactions were good to see. It was clearly a love letter to the fans, but... that's really all it was. There was no epic adventure like we had in Lair of the Shadow Broker (still the…
Making my way through Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (on Normal difficulty), and I'm really enjoying it so far. (I'm a little bit past the second boss.)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (3DS) is a refreshingly forgiving experience. I'm playing through it on Normal difficulty, and I just passed the first boss battle. The boss battle was divided into different parts; and if I died, the game would merely have me start from the beginning of whichever part of…
I bought Bit.Trip Saga yesterday from the eShop, and I have to say... what's with the lack of lefty support for FATE? It's pretty much unplayable for me, which is a shame, because it looks pretty fun. The Circle Pad Pro was released months after this game first hit the 3DS, so I can understand why there's no CPP…
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