First Impressions of RE6 Look Good

Mephisto Mori/ October 7, 2012/ Video Games/ 0 comments

Played as much as life would allow these last few days. How did this game get such negative (polarized) reviews? I can’t help but feel some industry politics are at play here. Full Review incoming.

Wake Up

Mephisto Mori/ September 15, 2012/ Video Games/ 2 comments

Alan Wake is one of my favorite games this generation.  I recognize that the game resonates on a personal level for me but you need not share that connection to enjoy it.  Granted it doesn’t have the mass appeal of Call of Duty or, I don’t know, Peggle, but this games isn’t a completely niche phenomenon.   Its status as simply a “cult success” seems

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Nostalgia-ing So Hard Right Now

Mephisto Mori/ September 15, 2012/ Video Games/ 1 comments

Stephen King refers to writing (even for the struggling writer) as “the day job.”  An author before he “makes it big” has another job though – the one that pays the bills.  Well the job that pays the bills for me, is working middle management at a pretty sweet bookstore. While working today, I happened upon an old Nintendo Power

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Hey, Afro!

Mephisto Mori/ September 10, 2012/ Video Games/ 0 comments

It’s, by now, no mystery that I enjoy Beat ’em Ups as a genre.  From the NES Ninja Gaidens to Streets of Rage, I’ve long loved smashing the faces of differently colored street punks and robot ninjas.  It’s an art form really.  To that end, Afro Samurai the video game exists (for 360 and PS3).  The violence is downright artistic. 

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Lost and Wolverine (they’re related)

Mephisto Mori/ September 3, 2012/ Video Games/ 0 comments

OK, so it has taken me nearly a decade but I’m finally watching Lost.  I’m told it jumps the shark later (as decent Sci Fi has a tendency to do if it’s not cancelled in time – sigh, I miss Firefly) but I’ll stick it out none-the-less. An odd side effect of the show has been a more profound appreciation

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