Alternative Games to Try Out in 2025
Online gaming has developed into an exciting world with an incredible amount of choice for players. Of course you have your classics such as solitaire, blackjack and bejeweled. There are now also a number of…
Mario Katharsis: Portal 2 Multiplayer
[Mario Katharsis: an ongoing series in which an intrepid video game journalist cracks open her sternum to reveal the most emotionally affecting moments of her gaming experiences, rated on a scale from single banana peel…
Six Secondary Video Game Characters Who Should Have Their Own Games
I am not normally a fan of the spin off. You see the spin off most on television, and for whatever reason, the characters who get spin offs are often weak, and the shows flounder…
Mario Katharsis: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I had four games to play in the early days of my NES ownership. I don’t remember if I got them all on the same fateful Christmas morning I got the system, or if I…
7 Things I Learned About Dota 2 After my First 100 Hours
It took me a while to wrap my head around the idea of DotA 2. I played the original for a long time which explains why the shortcut icon for Warcraft III remained on my…
Five of the Most Magical “True” Multiplayer Games
“Multiplayer” is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, and its meaning has completely shifted from what it used to be. Multiplayer formerly meant you were sitting around in a room with…
Five Super Mario World Enemies that Ruin Lives
One of my favorite video games growing up was Super Mario World. It was the first game for the first consul I ever had, and I loved every minute of it. Traveling across seven unique…
Why Gameplay, Mechanics, and Graphics Rule the Online Gaming World
Imagine entering an online game where the controls seem like you are battling a wet fish, the characters move like they have had one too many beers, and the graphics? Allow me to remark that…
25 Years of “Go-To” Games – A Timeline
Growing up I had one of those 10 disc CD shufflers that could, incredibly, play more than one album at a time. While I was always psyched to hear some new tunes, I only ever…