I Said What I Meant and I Meant What I Said Male video-game protagonists deserve better butts. And you know what? Those butts deserve our attention. If you’re designing a character, why not include a…
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The Elder Scrolls VI – Going Beyond Skyrim Now that we have official confirmation that The Elder Scrolls VI isn’t going to become the new Half-Life 3 thanks to the brief teaser shown at Bethesda’s E3…
Disclaimer: This post was written in response to the Let’s Go Treehouse Presentation at E3 2018. A post updating these problems with first-hand experience will come soon. “Caterpie Can’t Hack it” Let’s Go, Pikachu!…
Subtraction by Addition I recently tried my hand at State of Decay 2, an Xbox One/PC exclusive where the player attempts to build a functioning community in a world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse. The…
The One Zelda Game Nobody Talks About The Legend of Zelda is one of the most famous and highly regarded franchises in the history of video games, but that doesn’t mean every entry in the series…
Was This Ever Really the Best Gaming Could Do? Before I begin my parade-raining, dream-crushing, actually-what-you-like-is-bad analysis of one of the most popular video games of my lifetime, let me make something clear: I like…
The phrase “they make it look easy” has never rung more true as it has regarding pros playing Fortnite. However, the more I’ve put myself out there, game after game, the more confident I’ve become in my play. And that confidence has manifested itself back in my everyday life in surprising ways.
How Donkey Kong Country Crafts a Foreboding Tale of the Unknown Donkey Kong Country is among the finest 2D platformers ever and one of the best-looking and best-controlling games of its time. On the narrative…
Putting Old Classics Under the Modern Microscope Though video gaming as a medium is still relatively nascent, enough time has passed since the original Pong that we as gamers have begun to set aside many…
Out With the Old, In With the New I always feel like my comments about gaming will age me. I doubt that’ll really happen; I’m only in my early twenties. If anything, it shows how…