Let's be real, Burnout Paradise came out in 2008 and it is still the undisputed greatest open-world racing game of all time. Need for Speed 2015 doesn't change that. It doesn't even come close. Criterion, the developers who made Burnout Paradise were bought up by EA some years back and made Need For Speed: Most Wanted in 2012 which came closer to recapturing that old magic than this new game do...
Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth is an interesting case study in multimedia franchises gone wrong. Based on the popular, critically-acclaimed Uncharted video game series, Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth is the one and only tie-in novel and follows the hero of the video game series Nathan Drake and his partner Victor Sullivan on another adventure that takes place between Uncharted 2 and 3 (althou...
Originally published on Neopologist.com I am religious about backing up my data. If a device lives under my roof and it has a hard drive it gets backed up once a week, with an offsite backup at least once a month. I've been a Playstation 3 owner since 2008 and shortly after I bought my shiny new toy a friend of mine suffered a hardware failure on his own PS3. This served as a cautionary tale an...
Back in 2004 a relatively unknown hip hop producer came up with a mixtape that combined Jay-Z's seminal (and supposedly final) album, The Black Album with The Beatles' classic 'white' album. The mixture went beyond the simplistic crossfading of normal mash-ups in that Dangermouse sampled and re-invented the instrumentation of the Beatles record to create new tracks for Jay-Z's a capellas. The r...
The worst game I played this year was probably The Transformers (PS2) game from 2004ish. I was kind of bummed because I really wanted to play it when it came out and it got decent, not great, reviews. But suffice to say that game did not withstand the test of time. I made it to the second "zone" and threw in the towel. It just wasn't any fun, but I really wanted to like it. As far as new games...
With the release of Uncharted 2 just a few short weeks ago, I would imagine many people who missed out on playing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune are wondering if they should go back and give it a try before playing the hotly anticipated sequel. The answer yeah, kind of, at least for a little bit. Before, I continue, let me just state, unequivocally that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is a breathtaking...
I recently, found myself at a crossroads in my gaming lifestyle. For most of my video game career I would have described myself as a "hardcore" player without hesitating. Over the last 5 years or so, I've come to a point where I no longer think "hardcore" is accurate and... I'm okay with that. Times have changed and now I find myself looking back on the way I used to play versus the way things...