May 09
The debate of video game violence isn’t something new, and anything I have to say about it is probably nothing new either. But recently an interesting series of tweets grabbed my attention. Katie Couric, a journalist and author, hosted a show titled “Are Video Games Ruining Your Life?” that “explored” the effects of violent video …
Apr 17
It’s been a few weeks since Bioshock Infinite has come out and the general consensus has been varied. While those that love the game have called it a masterpiece at best and “art trapped in violence“. It can be summed up as a fun game but fundamentally flawed. Now you can argue which ever way …
Apr 04
Late yesterday morning I heard the news via Kotaku, that Disney had shut down LucasArts as an internal game developer. This also meant a cancellation of Star Wars First Assault, which had a chance of reviving the Battlefront series, and Star Wars 1313 which looked like Uncharted in space. At first, this sent me into …
Apr 01
It turns out that I’ll never be as popular as Equestria Daily…so why even try? I should get back to my roots, I should get back to the thing I love: video games. Seriously video games are timeless storytelling mediums that will one day surpass all things like movies and books. Now there are lots …
Apr 01
Okay, so the Naruto thing is kind of a dumb idea. I dunno they’re in filler right now so I can’t bring myself to even look at Naruto right now. But that’s why I decided that the site’s new direction is going to be the second best animated show out there: My Little Pony Friendship …
Apr 01
Okay, so right now we’re in the transition from changing this site into a Naruto based news central hub, featuring intelligent articles and news stories about the best anime series in the world: Naruto. We’ll still talk about some video games, but it’s pretty clear that the fad is dying out. As much as I …
Mar 22
A long time ago, many of us played an N64 game called Pokemon Snap. The premise of the game was simple: take pictures of wild Pokemon in their natural habitat. The better your photo, the more points you received and the game was full of so many secrets that I’d bet you could still learn …
Mar 19
If there’s one thing that I pay attention to quite frequently like it’s a new boyfriend is the most popular demos page on the Xbox marketplace. Upon my investigation of the stack one Wednesday morning after I gawped at all the games on sale this week I saw a Tom Clancy demo that I’d never …
Mar 18
Ever found yourself wanting to finish a game that just isn’t clicking with you? Is that game El Shaddai? On paper El Shaddai is a game made for me. Beautiful visuals, an intriguing story, and an easy to grasp control system. I should love this game. But finding motivation to continue on this tiring …
Mar 12
I walk into my local GameStop store determined to get the game that I’ve been saving for. As soon as I enter the store I can tell some people are staring at me as I grab the new Max Payne title from the neatly stocked supplies. I know that I’m not a normal customer. The …
Mar 06
It’s rare that I play any Ipad game to completion. To be frank, a lot of them just aren’t good, either suffering from just a lack of meaningful game play experiences, pay walls, poor controls, or just being bad games in general. Then I heard a recommendation for this adventure game called Year Walk and …
Jan 24
If you ask a gamer if gaming is art, their most likely response is of course, “yes”. This includes myself and it is something that I hold as an undeniable fact. Video games are as much an art as any other kind of medium, in that they are a vehicle of expression that requires a …
Oct 24
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It is something that connects our childhood to our adulthood, for those creative types like game developers, it is a source of inspiration in how to bring joy to other people. But something that nostalgia can do to people is paint a better picture of the world that what it …
Oct 01
I’m a bit of an architecture nerd. Hell, I grew up in a household where I knew about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater before I went to kindergarten. I would read interior design and architecture magazines happily as a kid. My current favourite architects are Safdie, Hadid, and Gehry. And they strongly influence this coming rant. …
Sep 15
For all the discussion of how cinematic video games are, there is not major thing that separate them from film: they attempt to preserve your sense of a continuity of space. For instance, the famous hotel in The Shining has a variety of impossible apartments and windows. Kubrick, naturally, wasn’t interested in creating a hotel, …
