Do Grand Theft Auto Games Actually Need Strong Protagonists?
Story and characters are usually the last thing on everyone’s mind when a new Grand Theft Auto game is announced. Usually, people want to know: A) Where is it being set? B) Is there any…
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An Ode to GTA 5 Cheats, Which Have Gone All But Extinct Elsewhere
Ten years ago or so, if you wanted to make a new video game website, there were a few keywords you wanted to put in your main logline. GamePlace! The place for game walkthroughts, cheats…
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Who Made the List of Best PS4 Games So Far?
PlayStation 4 has been out for a year now, which has been enough time for the big-selling system to amass a collection of must-have games. Though the best PS4 games aren’t all exclusive to the…
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Diablo III, The Ultimate Pavlovian Mechanism
I was a little hesitant to pick up Diablo III for my console – I’d played the first two games on a PC, and I had trouble seeing how some of the finer points of…
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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Digital Downloads vs Physical Copies
Invariably, when a video game console announces that it will be digital-only, all hell breaks loose on the internet. The vast majority of vocal gamers seem to loathe the idea of digital downloads. People generally…
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Evil Within Isn’t So Scary After All
My roommate was raving all summer about this video game called Evil Within. He wouldn’t shut up about how scary the trailer looked. Evil Within is the latest foray of Shinji Mikami in the genre of horror. Gamers…
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The Six Most Soul-Sucking Video Games
How many hours did you spend playing video games this weekend? And I mean anything. 10? 20? More? The latest technology in video games is constantly evolving and new ways of sucking the life out…
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Ten GTA Missions That Are Designed to Make You Throw Your Controller
For years, Grand Theft Auto games have given me and millions of others a way to vent our real-life frustrations in the form of raining down bullets and grenades on the hapless populace of its…
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Video Game Locations Recreated
Here’s a rather beautiful video that shows a number of famous video game locations, recreated through the magic of 3D recreation. Chances are if you’ve played any major games in the last decade or so,…