After last year, I thought there was no way in hell 2024 would be able to offer a comparable swath of such enjoyable vidya gamin as 2023. And it didn't. BUT, it sure got a lot closer than I was ever expecting it would. For a better part of the year I was struggling to even have a close to full list of 10 games I thought felt worthy of being on a list, but now I'm flirting with extending the lis...
Anthony Mackie took the stage at the 2023 Game Awards a week ago to present the award for Best Video Game Adaptation. Ironic, isn’t it? Game adaptations to the ol' silver screen have routinely been a concept of ridicule and here we are - giving them awards. Do you remember the 2016 Michael Fassbender Assassin's Creed movie? Imagine that being up for an award. But hey, I’ll be fair. I really did...
This year’s The Game Awards is an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power with little respect for the devs it’s supposedly honoring. — Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) December 8, 2023 The Game Awards has always felt like a show that's trying really hard to be taken seriously but consistently falls short. That's beginning to feel like a thing of the p...
Let's talk about some games. I played so many games this year. Currently, my list sits at 47. No, they didn't all come out this year and also no, that isn't all of them. I didn't bother to count the Netflix edition of Dead Cells I just downloaded and played for an hour on my Retroid Pocket or the ROM hack of Super Tecmo Bowl I'm halfway through a season wherein I can play as Kirk Cousins and Ju...