Top 5 Games Within a Game

The Smartest of us call it “Gameception.” It is when you are playing a video game only to stumble on another and different video game INSIDE that other video game. Often times, you can play it, too. Yes, you can play the video game that is inside the video game you are playing. That is […]

Five Things I Didn’t Know About Making Video Games (Until I Made One)

Anthony Burch thought he has some solid ideas about what it took to make a video game. Some imagination, a good team, and some passion. He slowly learned that, while actually developing a video game, that could not be further from the truth. He wrote about his experience for Kotaku and what he says will […]



7 Times Tekken Weirdo Heihachi Was Just the Weirdest

Tekken was a colorful and wacky fight game. Between fighting bouts with Bruce Lee’s look-a-likes you would sometimes have to fight a tree or a panda bear. For real. But of all the characters who SHOULD’VE been weird, Heihachi was definitely one of the weirdest. Seriously, though, any guy who ties family members he is […]

Missing Games We’ll See in 2015

As a gamer, little is worse than waiting on a game’s release only to find out it has all but vanished. The good part about that is you get something else and forget, and then when the game you wanted does appear, it is like a Festivus miracle. Think of this as a list full […]

Top 10 Cult Classic Games

American McGee’s Alice. They had me at American McGee’s Alice. [Image Via VideoGamesBlogger, List Via WatchMojo]

Why I’m Glad I Waited Fifteen Years to Play Majora’s Mask

The Legend of Zelda series has always been an institution for gamers. Many of us grew up playing the series and have seriously found memories of almost every game from the series. Yes, even Wind Waker. And while most of us can say we’ve played most of the classic Zelda games, we need to remember […]

Top 10 Interesting NPCs in Video Games

There are some games that have minor characters you cross paths with but secretly hope you get to spend more time with because they are so badass. On occasion, these NPCs get DLC down the road, but for the most part, they stay just that. NPCs. Here are ten very memorable NPCs from gaming. We […]

Are GTA V’s First-Person Car Crashes Too Realistic?

There is a great piece over at Kotaku today about how the new first-person mode in GTA V is so realistic, that experiencing car crashes is actually more jarring than anything the writer had ever experienced in gaming. The point is that the first-person mode in GTA has such weight and gravity to it, that […]