We gamers are an easy lot to judge, yet no one seems to judge us accurately. We are sometimes mocked in pop culture as geeks, yet video games are making more than Hollywood movies now, so clearly it is not just “geeks” who game. Everyone from little girls to single dads game, with every demographic […]
Nothing sucks you out of an immersive game experience quite like bad A.I, especially in NPCs. Think Sheva in Resident Evil 5 for a great example. You are trying run from a boss, and she is standing next to it, running in place at a wall, making her an easy kill. Even just keeping her […]
Over the last decade, indie games have really found their stride. Whereas once they seemed small and thrown together, those times have changed. Now there are games like Limbo, Journey, Bastion, Flow, Gone Home, and more that have thought outside the box and changed just what indie gaming means to people. For that reason, I […]
Thanks to series like Dark Souls and the growth in the popularity of roguelike games, it seems video games are getting harder and harder to beat. The end result of this for many gamers can end up being the infamous “controller-toss-ragequit” which many gamers can admit they have done at least a few times in […]
One of the most common questions I get asked about having a weekly D&D group is how to start it in the first place. Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer to that. But what some people fail to see, I think, is that even when you have a group it doesn’t mean instant success. Once you’ve […]
You would think by the 8th generation of gaming we would be past the “hit the glowing spot for maximum damage” hand-holding of boss fights, alas, here we are and gaming is still holding our hands. From glowing spots to quick time event (QTE,) here are 15 boss fights tropes that aren’t going away anytime […]
Glitches in a video game can be a laugh riot when they do not affect gameplay. If suddenly, a character is giant or a car is spinning 400 times in the air from getting barely bumped, that can be pretty damn funny. And with the increase in hardware specs and game demands lately, it seems […]
Yeah, we wont lie. As many good fighters as there are in the amazing Street Fighter series, there have been some real throw aways as well. This is a list about them. No, not the good ones. The hilarious and weird throw away characters that few of us ever actually play as. [ZoominGames]
Every now and then an indie game comes out that just begs the whole world to stop and play it. We had The Stanley Parable a few years back, Journey a few years before that, and many, many more in between. Hell, even the recent Undertale was one for the ages. But as of late, […]
Not to imply that kid games cannot be just as good as game for adults, but in most cases, they really aren’t. Challenge can often be dialed back and the story made ultra simple (go save that maiden!) but some kid’s games go out of their way to make sure they appeal to all demographics […]
2017 has been an incredibly strong year for gaming already and we are still only in the first quarter of the year. Between Horizon Zero Dawn and a brand new Nintendo console with a great Zelda on it (maybe the greatest Zelda yet, which is really saying something), there is no shortage of killer titles […]
I think a lot of us felt this way (but that had a lot to do with the console’s processing power and long expanses being filled with nothing) but it is funny how far we have come. Below is the map for the new Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, as well as […]