Borderlands 2 (360) Review

Oct 14, 2012 No Comments by

Borderlands is best described as Diablo meets Doom – a first person shooter focused around gathering loot and shooting stuff. So, if Borderlands 1 was the equivalent to the first Diablo and Doom, then Borderlands 2 is the equivalent to their sequels – bigger, badder, and better in every way. Most importantly – it takes the skeleton structure of [...]

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FTL: Faster Than Light (PC)

Sep 29, 2012 No Comments by

“Shields up. Weapons to full. Target their weapon systems. FIRE!” “We’re losing power to the shields. There’s a fire in the engine by. Jenkins is dead. All hands, prepare to jump immediately!” For anyone who grew up with Babylon 5, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica or any of a bazillion space epics – these sort of situations [...]

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Puzzle Craft (iOS)

Sep 29, 2012 No Comments by

I don’t play many iOS titles, but when I do they tend to be casual.  Puzzle craft is a a $0.99 Chillingo title that focuses on city building by way of a matching game. You build your city by collecting resources like food and building materials. To get these materials, you can play two minigames [...]

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10000000 (iOS)

Sep 29, 2012 No Comments

10000000 is quite possibly the best iOS game I’ve played – with easily the worst title of any game I’ve ever played. 10000000 is a riff off ‘match 3′ games and endless runners. You start the game trapped in a dungeon with various doors. At first, only one opens and right then, you’re running for your life, [...]

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD (XBLA/PSN/PC)

Aug 19, 2012 No Comments

The Tony Hawk franchise has risen from the ashes in the form of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, a fifteen dollar (1200 MSP) xbox live arcade title (soon to be released on PSN and PC) that revives select levels from the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games in glorious high definition. Now, rather than [...]

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Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC Review (360/PS3/PC)

Jul 09, 2012 No Comments

8 months after Skyrim’s release, I can still find things to discover in this world that are new with my original character with over 100+ hours invested. So the idea of DLC for the game seems almost dubious – why pay for more content is a game so jammed with content in the first place? [...]

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Op-Ed: “Video Game Journalism” has the word “Journalism” in it.

Jun 15, 2012 No Comments

“Video Game Journalism” This is a funny concept for me. See, I went to college for journalism (print journalism, specifically) and part of that was learning what journalism is and why anyone would want to be a journalist in the first place.

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