The first time I encountered Silent Hill was the summer following its release. I was spending the summer up at my Uncle’s house and it was one of the titles he had recently acquired from a big “Andrew’s coming up here” sale. Parasite Eve and a couple less notable bargain games were also included. I brought up my beloved Final
As previously mentioned, I intend to start a gamer holiday. I make fun of games pretty hard. Most of them deserve it. But even CoD began as a well-intentioned, dime-a-dozen, PC WWII sim. Between the pay-to-win micro-transactions stifling innovative game design and metacritic clauses in developer contracts killing healthy companies… we need a day to remember what video games are
In my Portal 2 Review I assert that the first Portal game is the one I would use to initiate the unfamiliar to modern video games. After much deliberation that list has grown. It’s difficult to find games to recommend to people with little more than a couple Mario levels or Farmville under their belt. I do think it’s possible
No, this post isn’t about Mortal Kombat. This is about one of my new favorite video game hobbies – speed running. A fascination I’d like to thank my friend Mike for. The video game speed run marathon gauntlet has begun! Two weeks of games being beaten as fast as possible by some of the best players in the world begins
By now you’ve all learned my thoughts on “casual games.” To annotate: I’m against them. But there came a time where all of our college friends became obsessed with Robot Unicorn Attack. It was all related to the Harmony fiasco on 4chan’s Vidya. We spent weeks outdoing each other’s score on that fucking game. We’d up the other person by
1. Visit Vogue’s UK webpage. 2. Yes, really, Vogue magazine. 3. Type ↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, b, a 4. Continue to press “a” as much as you like
It may be too early to think about screening my son’s video games; he’s still at the drooling on controllers age, and not quite ready to hold one. But in ten years I can guarantee two things about video games: The ESRB will still derive near sexual gratification from imposing their prudish values on art (for a fee of course)
Steam’s summer sale has a habit of sneaking up on me and ambush/backstabbing me for half my wallet every year. Well it’s done it again. Every game on my wishlist is 70-80% off. Fuck you Gaben… looks like my son won’t be eating this week.
If you traveled back in time 25 years and ended up in one particular trailer park in Jacksonville, NC you might meet a small boy running away from home. His destination: a kind teenage girl’s house that babysat him. There were a couple places he ran to, but she was the nicest and she had a Nintendo Entertainment System and
All this talk of Steam re-releasing a beloved game from my past (with some shitty DRM) has got me working up a fever. And the only prescription is Final Fantasy Seven. So I dusted off an old PS1 Memory Card and hooked my still working launch day PS2 up. Tomorrow will mark my triumphant return to FF7 a game I