The Sims 4 came out with a slow sizzle of news on September 2nd. I’ve been playing it since then on and off, and I now feel well qualified enough to tell you about the ways The Sims 4 improves on the life-sim formula, and also the places where it […]
PAX Prime 2014: Weekend Recap
The weekend at PAX was nothing short of a whirlwind of panels, game demos and running around, digging my gigantic camera from my bag and snapping pictures of the floor. I woke up every day at about 9 and headed straight to PAX to attend a morning panel on Saturday […]
PAX Prime 2014: Day 1 Recap
PAX Prime is a lot like Christmas for gamers. This is the expo where big studios and tiny indies alike turn up to show their projects with the public. PAX is not the show where ground breaking announcements are made, but rather where consumers are united with their passions and the developers […]
Iconica Day #3: The World of Rynaga Prelude Review
The World of Rynaga: Prelude Author: Eric Torres Release Date: 2007 Publisher: Specimen Press Source: Eric Torres Genre(s): Fantasy, Game Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Medium GoodReads | Etsy The Prelude to the World of Rynaga is set up in a simple, yet beautiful way. In a set of post cards sent from the traveler and adventurer Solan Sylis, the […]
Identity & Agency in Games: Diplomacy
So, you may be looking at this title wondering what is going on. Well ladies and gentleman, for my Fall semester of my senior year, I have enrolled in a Video Games and Rhetoric class. A part of my class, I have decided to do an honors contract, which is […]
Zombies, Run! Update Boasts Streamlined Features and Base Customizability
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlRgBvYFxTo&w=560&h=315] Season 2 of the wildly popular running app Zombies, Run! may have been officially released in April, but the apocalyptic game’s recent update has been what users have been waiting for (even if they didn’t know it). Last week brought a massive overhaul of the old interface, revamping the […]
Sony Drops Price and Details on Playstation 4
I’m just going to go out and say it, I am a Playstation fan. I have a lot of reasons for being one, but my most irrational reason is because the Xbox that I started Mass Effect on booted my save and forced me to restart the game like four […]
What We're Looking Foward to Seeing at E3 2013
With E3 approaching in less than a week the gamer community is a buzz with speculation. We still don’t have an official list of what games are going to be featured by the individual publishers and the news that’s going to come out about the next generation is anyone’s guess. […]
Playstation Campus Tour @ ASU
From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM tomorrow representatives from Sony Playstation will be on the Arizona State University Campus promoting the PS3, PS Vita, and assorted games. They held their first round of events today and will be doing pretty much the same stuff tomorrow as well. If you’re on […]
Steam’s Annual Sales Do Weird Things To Me and I Have the Backlog to Prove It
I love Steam. I really do. I bow down to Gabe Newell and Valve. Top notch thinking there. But as much as I love Steam, their annual sales do things to me. Before my friend Tom convinced me to get an account I had never been much of a computer […]
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