The recent controversies surrounding Palworld and its comparisons to Pokémon should be examined because, at the end of the day, Palworld does have a major problem, one that it may not be able to overcome
The recent controversies surrounding Palworld and its comparisons to Pokémon should be examined because, at the end of the day, Palworld does have a major problem, one that it may not be able to overcome
I was never the biggest fan of the Halo franchise. Even back in the heydays of playing co-op multiplayer across four interconnected Xbox 360s with my dorm mates for hours on end in college, it was always another multiplayer fad to me; a game with really smooth gameplay that is fun but not remarkable. Like Goldeneye before it, and Call of Duty after it, Halo is a sweet spot for that kind of mult...
It has been a long time, nearly nine years, since I have made a blog post here. Part of that is simply due to life getting in the way, but another part is how I have become almost a semi-professional critic within that time, working for websites such as Blistered Thumbs before it closed and now writing articles for the website TechRaptor. This piece though, is fully based on my own thoughts and...
The recent release of Dragon Age II has kind of compelled me to write this piece. It is something that has been on my mind for years, something that is starting to become a grim reality that anyone who is a fan of video games is facing. It is also something that, whenever talked about, usually is met with skepticism and scathing remarks, probably because the subject is difficult to discuss. For...
A disclaimer before I begin. I guess I am one of the few exceptions for this, but I normally hate reading and making top ten lists. It is just an excuse for people to pretty much spew their opinions, however validated, onto internet forums and blogs and then bash trolls, fans and readers everywhere which may disagree with their opinions. Let’s face it, top ten lists are popularity contests that...
With “Medal of Honor” being released today, I did want to bring up another first person wargame that has been in development and was released in the year 2000, a classic known as “Under Ash.” Now many of you reading this right now may be wondering, what game I am talking about. Well, the game in question “Under Ash” is a 2000 first person shooter conceived and developed by independent game deve...
Throughout my years in school, even to this day, I have always been fascinated by the stories of mythology and legend. The fantastic stories of Greeks like Perseus and Odysseus to Athurian Legend have been great facets of shaping my psyche on storytelling and narrative, as well as my current interest in the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy to this day. Now, a lot of people have at length d...
As the holidays draw closer to us, three things happen. One, a ton of shopping for your respected holiday, but it Christmas, Chanukah, or Festivus to name a few, will likely get done. Second, you’ll get fat with all the food you will eat. Always. Lastly, it becomes award season for all the entertainment industries, which begin to pump out the best stuff of the year, supposedly, in the span of e...
Today it is hard to imagine a world without video games, let alone the style of games many newer generations have become accustomed to. Like in “Back to the Future, Part II”, the scene where Marty McFly plays “Wild Gunman” in the Café 80’s, a young kid exclaims “You use your hands?! That’s a kid’s toy!” It’s stranger still to think that video games have essentially been perfected to the point w...
They say that you are often harsher on the ones you love. When a family member did something stupid, or a girlfriend said something nasty, people push back because they have a deep affection for them, and eventually work out their problems through various means. True love and passion comes from solving differences, and accepting changes and compromises from others. But, sometimes it is very har...
Note that this was written back in April of 2009, before the announcement of the PSP Go. In the month of May, the game Patapon 2 will be released for the Sony PSP. This is a game that will be very critical in shaping the future of gaming, even if it doesn’t know it. It’s not due to some innovative gameplay mechanic or a new game design either. It is actually due to its distribution, which will...
Note* This was written in October of 2008. Today I heard some news that I didn’t find surprising but at the same time was adamantly against. The sequel to the hit game Bioshock was revealed as a cutscene extra on the Playstation 3 version of the game. Yes, a sequel to a game that is the perfect storm of gaming, excellent story, sharp graphical design that really is considered art, and fun gamep...
As a gamer, you sometimes forget about the differences that people may have from each other. The stereotypes of gamer geeks and manchildren are somewhat eradicated now, because of am emerging casual market, and a lot of different groups of gamers are coming into the fold. Recently though, the LGBT gaming community has hit a speedbump, thanks to a ridiculous Microsoft policy. Now as a bisexual,...
*Note: This was written in January of 2009. It was before "Cursed Mountain" and "Silent Hill" were announced for the Wii, but the point of the article is still significant if you ask me to share here. Recently, IGN just did a little piece on this Survival Horror game called Winter, that was made exclusively for the Nintendo Wii by developer n-Space. The game is essentially a Survival Horror gam...
Today on Serebii.net I was browsing through they’re in-depth pokedex and I suddenly realized something, something that has not crossed my mind in years. Pokemon is pretty damn old now. Maybe not as ancient as most game franchises are, like Tetris , Pac-Man, Mario or Zelda, but it now has over ten years on their belts notched ever since the game graced the game boy back in 1997. And with the Pok...
Note: This was written back in May, 2008. Over the past few years that has been a lot of talk about games are possibly taking a backseat in creativity, as sequels are constantly pumped out that become major productions for the respected developers. For me, this is a critical topic for the gaming industry to truely tackle on it's own, mainly due to the fact that the industry itself is suffering...
Back in 1918, a group known as the Bolsheviks, lead by a man named Vladimir Lenin, stormed the capital of Russia, and in a bloody revolution, took control of the Russian Government. Lenin was a Marxist socialist who wanted to start over in Russia; but he died in 1924 and another man, Joseph Stalin took over. Stalin ran Russia down a dark path, creating the definition of a Totalitarianism state....
I feel like i'm watching the same movie too much now a days. What movie you ask? Why, none other than "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." This was a DVD that I actually won in a contest recently off of another gaming website, one where I had the choice of picking this, or some video games. And let me tell you, I chose wisely! The entire documentary is a quasi-comedic look at competitive...
Why is it that every year, we have the soldiers of the console wars sling mud and abuses at each other in every forum on every website around the world? What causes this fervor of fanaticism for something that is as crazy as loving the game system that your favorite games come from? I bet that in the past fans, who were by then young boys, said similar things when it was the Atari vs the world...
Please note that I wrote this back in October 2007. History is a funny thing. It never ends, it’s never predictable, and sometimes, the course of history can be traced to singular events in the timeline of the grand scheme of things. The ebb and flow of history just as strange, because it can change before it’s written, before it’s etched into the annals of manuscripts that scribe them down. Vi...
Well, here we go again. I got a lot of old blog entries I can use, so expect a lot of updates every now and then. Most of them are over two years old, but the reason I am posting them is to get them archived here, since I have done it for other sites already at this point. So enjoy my ramblings as they come, expect maybe a post a day, or every other day. I won't go overboard for you all.