Video Games

Ah yes, the glory days of Nintendo and if you move back even further, Atari.   You see back then video games seemed better to me.  But I know it’s only because I was younger then…

When I play a video game I never really stop to think about how big a franchise is or how much money the video game makes.   Maybe that’s just the old school in me.  I…

For those of you who don’t know, Steam Greenlight is a platform that encourages users to pitch their game ideas using compelling gameplay videos, pictures and summaries. If a certain title generates enough interest through…

You know how they say that first impressions are the most important? Well, there’s really no better way to show the differences between Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3 other than to compare each on their…

I’ve always said that each one of Mass Effect’s loyalty missions for the individual crew members could have been entire games themselves, so why not movies? That’s the idea one designer, Miri Strahovski, ran with,…

Read Journal #1 here first. Well, my journey through a revamped Pandora is finally complete, my first one, that is. Borderlands, like Diablo before it, has always been about multiple playthroughs with different characters on…

(click for full size) Though I cover Pokemon a lot on the site here, the truth is that I haven’t picked up one of the games since Gold/Silver like, ten years ago. Now that I…

(click for full size) I was doing boss runs of The Bunker in Borderlands 2 yesterday when I picked up a custom head skin that caught my eye. It’s called the “Unreality,” and it’s absolutely,…

A few weeks back our man Paul wrote an article about how Unreality got its name and it reminded me that the stories behind popular names of brands or products can tend to be pretty…