I always find myself trying to convince my friends to try out PC gaming. I show them my huge Steam library. I show them how I have my PC set up to play games on my TV. I show them how I can connect a controller to the PC effortlessly. Everything! I show them everything! How many have I converted? One. Just one. But, that only encourages me to continue my efforts! This post is simply an attempt to convince…
No Woot Wednesday post this week, I know, total failure! Expect a Woot Wednesday post next week talking about my favorite announcements at E3. In the mean time, here’s a fresh Rad Listed! The Witcher 3 The Witcher 3 has been out for a month, and I’m still working on it! This game is so full of content I am not even sure when I’ll manage to finish it. I guess I could beeline through the main story content, but…
Mortal Kombat X I still recall playing the first Mortal Kombat on my Sega Genesis in 1992. It was my first introduction to a fighting game, but also my first introduction to my father and I spewing trash talk at each other. An introduction to Mortal Kombat also resulted in me playing just about every other fighting game out there, such as Virtual Fighter, Tekken, Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, Soul Caliber, and even Clay Fighter. In high school, my friends…
After a long five year period with barely a whiff of a Fallout 4 announcement — we finally have one! Not that there was any doubt it was being made, but it sure seemed grim for a while there. Bethesda kept a tight lid on the very existence of the popular series’ next iteration, not even commenting on the Fallout 4 website hoax back in December 2013. Don’t lie, it tricked you, too! The trailer itself is chock-full of referential…
The Witcher 1 was released in October 2007, back when I had the oldest, jankiest PC imaginable. I’m shocked the game even ran on my old rig that I had been upgrading piecemeal for over five years! Despite the terrible performance granted by my archaic machine, I became a rabid fan of the game. The Witcher hooked me with its interesting storytelling, mature settings, the brutal fast-paced combat, and a world full of shades of gray where no decision ever…
Slim week this week, as I’ve been mostly focusing on one game: the much-anticipated Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt! Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt My oh my! I have not been so enamored with a game since Skyrim! The storytelling, the combat, the music, and even the card game, Gwent, all have me hooked. The Witcher 3 is unparalleled when it comes to creating a large world while remaining dense with interesting characters, quests, and environments. This may be the…
Rocksteady’s next game is finally coming out! After a four year development cycle, we’ll be seeing the fruit of their labors on June 23rd in the form of Batman: Arkham Knight, the sequel to the 2011 hit: Arkham City. Sadly, Arkham Knight will be closing the book on Rocksteady’s involvement in the Batman series, along with the end to the Arkham Trilogy. This new iteration is chock-full of new features; including better traversal mechanics, a game world five times…
The present climate of video games can make it difficult to discover particular games. Small, independent studios are releasing games left and right. The Steam Marketplace has become a monster of a service that provides sale and access to a ridiculous amount of games. The importance of properly marketing your game and getting its name out there has become a real challenge for smaller developers. There’s only so much space on the Steam store front, and while I think Valve…
I know. It’s been a year and a half since my last post. I could bore you with the myriad of excuses I’ve come up with for my own benefit, but, we’ll just sum it up with: life happened. Before we jump headfirst into video games again, though, I’d first like to thank all of those friends that approached me throughout the hiatus and asked me what happened with this blog. It meant a great deal to me to know…
Sometimes, in the gaming industry, a game comes along that makes you redefine what a game really is. A lot of individuals like to limit things with their definition. To claim a video game isn’t a game because it doesn’t have the particular mechanics you are accustomed to seeing in a game, is absurd. What I’m trying to say, is, that the definition of a word is flexible. As independent developers continue to emerge, we begin to see more and…