I’m an enthusiast, a tireless advocate for innovation, and occasionally a zealot of those games and developers who I feel warrant devotion and veneration.
More than anything else, I’m a person who feels privileged to have been at the cusp of this medium’s birth and evolution and I continue to be staggered and amazed at the incredible potency of gaming, both as a vessel for entertainment and as a potentially unique and unparalleled conduit for narratives.
As a medium, videogames have evolved rapidly and deserve a more analytical, deliberately academic deconstruction than they have been afforded by the mainstream grotesquery that is contemporary game journalism.
That said, I don’t pretend to give you anything more than my own perspective so feel free to disagree.
This is a three-part series exploring the subgenre of comic book videogames. This first part offers a brief survey from inception to the current state of the genre.
This article addresses the controversy over Capcom’s limited game save functionality in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and the paradoxical realization that developers may be harming their primary consumer base in pursuit of impeding the used market.
A brief editorial on the inflated and nonsensical pricing of full console game downloads and why the pricing structure makes zero sense in the current market.
@ John, The story was penned by Paul Dini, one of the most prominent and respected comic book writers working in the field today. His work on the Batman comic and animated series is damn near legendary and I d venture to say his grasp of the Batman mythos is ...
Ujn Hunter, I ve had more fun with Red Dead Redemption than the original by far. It is also disingenuous to call RDR a GTA-clone given how disparate it really is from that franchise.
Ernest, I couldn t agree with you more. There s a certain expectation and even pedigree associated with this franchise that EA has chosen to gloss over entirely. The saddest thing about regulating this game to a FPS construct is that the current tech could have facilitated a brilliant open-world ...
Speak for yourself Christian because I too played the originals and I have no problem with the direction they are taking this franchise in. I actually applaud them for doing something different and interesting with the IP rather than slap a new coat of paint on an old formula and ...
There is nothing at all mediocre about Far Cry 2. FC2 is easily one of the most ambitious games of this or any generation and it is one of the few FPS to actually try and innovate and expand the genre rather than rinse and repeat tired tropes and conventions. ...
Mistake 1: Require a peripheral to play certain games, including one of the handheld s most anticipated titles. Resident Evil Mistake 2: Charge 19.99 for a peripheral that should have been standard to begin with. Mistake 3: Make said peripheral exclusive for no logical reason whatsoever and alienate every other ...
