The Minecraft Trailer Needs to be Fed To a Creeper
I have watched the Minecraft trailer a few times now and I’m still not convinced this isn’t a dream after eating a moldy burrito.
Tagged: Video Games
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Wizardry Overhaul Is a Home Run
When I heard that Wizardry was being reimagined for modern computers, I was a bit nervous. This was an important part of my…teenagehood?
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Year to Come In Video Games
You’d think that Cyberpunk 2077 would have taught me to not look forward to video games. But here goes…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Children of Morta
If played Hades until you couldn’t play it anymore…but then pined, wishing you could play a game a lot like Hades?
Then get Children of Morta.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Added Value
The game just keeps getting bette…And it’s all thanks to the fact that it remains malleable even 16 years after coming out in stores.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sets a New Path for the Series
Whether you’re a seasoned Animal Crossing fan or have never touched the series before, I can offer nothing but a wholehearted endorsement for New Horizons.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Looking back at 2019
I’ve no doubt that my look back at 2020 will have a similar opening statement to the one above: “I played a lot of games from previous years…
Saturday Morning Gaming: One of the Greats Turns 20 Years Old
Before I can talk to you about Disco Elysium, I’m going to need to talk to you about Planescape: Torment
Mindless Diversions Extra: Video Games and the Death of God
Red Dead Redemption 2 has many bad things happen to good people.
You are one of the bad things.
SIHTAF: The Video Game Addiction Lawsuit
SIHTAF means “S[omething] I’ll Have To Apologize For,” as in readily-mockable conduct by a brother or sister member of the bar. Today, I contemplate my cocktail-party response to some guy suing video game publishers because his adult son has become a Playstation waste-oid.
Crooked Cops, Judge Dredd, and Arkham Origins
Jaybird and I discuss the latest installment in Warner Brothers Studios’ acclaimed Batman video game series: Arkham Origins.
The Best Video Game Ever: “Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord”
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on the Best Video Games Ever. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, please click here. I’m an RPG guy....
Driving Blind: Fake Geeks and a Dying Middle Class
And we’re back. Friday afternoon I got sidetracked trying to buy a car, but that fell through because the one I was looking at had already been sold. That’s what happens when you take...
Considering the Corruption of Charitable Sentiments
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. When THQ, a company which publishes...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Game
Over at Forbes I have a post detailing why I think somebody needs to make a Monty Python and the Holy Grail MMORPG. I list out monsters, character classes, etc. So if you have...
A New Ending Couldn’t Destroy Mass Effect’s Artistic Integrity
[Note: This is a companion piece to something I wrote earlier this week on the same subject but from a different point of view. In addition, while there are no spoilers per say, the way...
Confirmation Bias, Video Games, Art, and Interactivity
Mass Effect 3 was released two weeks ago today (Tuesday) and there have been a lot of little swirling dynamics when it comes to the game, consumer response, corporate response to the consumer response, and...
Another Open Thread
Okay, this one is for people who want to talk about what video games they’re playing right now so that I can enjoy them by proxy. Or any good books people might be reading...
