Metal Gear Scanlon is a Giant Bomb video series that follows Drew B. Scanlon's quest to play the core games of the Metal Gear Solid series (1, 2, 3, 4), a plot hatched by none other than Daniel J Ryckert. Drew has zero experience with Metal Gear Solid. Dan says it's his favorite thing , period. You may be on one of the two extremes as well, or you may be somewhere in the middle - either way, MG...
So I been playing games. Ever since big daddy PS4 came home and took the spot in the big TV room, ye old PS3 has been relegated to "The Office". And by office I mean room-where-I-do-most-of-my-playing-because-no-one-is-watching-Netflix-there. Through a twist of fate I also discovered a dusty ass Wii in the office. Oh and there's a PC there too! Long story short, instead of playing shiny new PS4...
So after a wee bit of shipping troubles my launch PS4 arrived yesterday, Monday November 18. Not counting handhelds, this is my 12th console, but only the 5th I picked up at launch (GC, PS2, PS3, 360). I'm a big, big lover of the launch - no , I don't need any software to justify my purchase. Since I've been gaming in 1990 I really can't remember very many years that didn't see the release of s...
For too long now there has been an idea spreading, and this idea is that games age out, and become no longer awesome. It's one thing to say a game's old graphics make it unplayable (you know who you are, you sonsofbitches) but it's another thing entirely to insult the integrity of its design. Facts aren't a nebulous concept that applies to half of this thing and half of that thing, no - a fact...
Music of the Day Music Blog Volume 1 Since Giorgio Moroder has been (re)introduced to so many people recently I thought I'd take the opportunity to share some of my favorite tracks and reflect on how awesome he is. Good Old Germany & The Best of Young Giorgio: A Young G Rises Long before he was a half-robot genius, Giorgio Moroder exhibited a penchant for dark synth and bass and a general tende...
I told a special amigo I would post this review last night (sorry boss) , but since the Douche Defender page is still pending approval from our moderators, I've decided to blog it here in the interim, and maybe get a little more attention for this game. Very often Douche Defender feels like the videogames your mother warned you about. It’s a little bit like those old websites that still exist i...
If you hate long, meandering, nigh-pointless internal dialogue that’s all shoot-from-the-hip then I’d say you should either run away or just scroll down, type TL;DR, and peace out. The Promise Was the wait worth it? Will the juice be worth the squeeze? I thought we couldn't have images with watermaks? Shadow of the Eternals will be an episodic, horror adventure action game developed by Precurso...
This Year's Last Year's Game of the Year Award Winner Runners-Up Year 2008's 2007 Game of the Year Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Rock Band , Mass Effect , Assassin's Creed , Super Mario Galaxy , Halo 3 , Crackdown , WarioWare: Smooth Moves , The Orange Box 2008 2009's 2008 Game of the Year Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Fallout 3 , Fable II 2009 2010's 2009 Game of the Year Borderlands Forza Mo...
I'm using Giantbomb and Wikipedia to run through all the games that have ever come out. I'm going to note every game I've ever played or finished. This was pretty fun to do if you want to give it a try, I learnt a lot about myself and it was really eye opening to see what came out when. I'm using a title's original release date for consistency. I was born in the late 80s and had few consoles gr...