No, Games Can’t Change The World Of all the garbage claims made by the soapbox brigade in the niche games press, this is the one that gets me the most: The idea that “Games can change the world.” When someone like Jane McGonigal — a (rich, white, well-maintained) woman who was granted an honest to […]
Destiny Review
September 30, 2014 by
Destiny Review For all the hype and marketing, Destiny really is nothing more or less than Halo meets Borderlands. This is to say; it’s like playing Borderlands, but with combat that doesn’t make you want to stick your massive firearm in your own, real-world mouth. The first dozen hours of the game deliver a pretty […]
Zoe Quinn Proves Game Journos Are Literally In Bed With Developers (UPDATED 8/22)
August 20, 2014 by
Zoe Quinn Proves Game Journos Are Literally In Bed With Developers Zoe Quinn: Literally?in bed with game journo who covered her work. (UPDATE 8/22/14: Bill Zoeker of Destructoid appears to have had an inappropriate relationship with Zoe. In addition, the number of people in games “journalism” who are financially supporting Quinn through her Patreon is […]
Watch Dogs Review
June 23, 2014 by
Watch Dogs Review At least it’s sorta fun to beat people in the face… It’s not often that you get the chance to sit courtside for a case of mass delusion, but that’s exactly what happened when Ubisoft first revealed Watch Dogs at E3 2012. Overnight, the game announcement took on a life of its […]
E3 2014 Postshow Tampon Tally
June 17, 2014 by
E3 2014 Postshow Tampon Tally While E3 2013 saw Microsoft get demolished in a massacre that wouldn’t have been out of place on Game of Thrones, E3 2014 had a bloodletting of another kind. This year, the entirety of the games press whined – loudly and at length – about violence and sex in a […]
Ruthless Reviews E3 Drinking Game, 2014 Edition
June 8, 2014 by
Ruthless Reviews E3 Drinking Game, 2014 Edition His grace, Geoff of the house Keighley, first of his name, king of the Doritos and the Dew Men, lord of the softball coverage and protector of the Metacritic average, does hereby sentence you to suffer three days of wankery. It’s time, folks! Once again, it’s time for […]
Wolfenstein – The New Order Review
June 4, 2014 by
Wolfenstein – The New Order Review You’ll be doing a lot of this in Wolfenstein! Yay! In Wolfenstien: The New Order, we have a strong frontrunner for Game of the Year, 2014. Here we find the very definition of lateral thinking by way of extreme violence: It’s a game from an alternate timeline where developers […]
Indie Games Rockstardom: A How To Guide
April 26, 2014 by
Indie Games Rockstardom: A How-To Guide The world of independent game development is exploding. There have never been more people making more games with more tools or for more platforms than at this point in history. If you want in on that action, there’s good and bad news: The bad news is that the market […]
Infamous Second Son Review
April 16, 2014 by
Infamous Second Son Review Spoiler Alert: Things blow up in this game. Infamous: Second Son, the third in developer Sucker Punch’s open-world superhero franchise, has the distinction of being one of the first games on either next-gen console to truly look the part. Sucker Punch is based in Seattle, and the in-game version of their […]
Five Great Game Developers Turned Insane and Irrelevant
April 2, 2014 by
When insane game developers attack, we all suffer. Here are five of the worst.
