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.
I have the XB360 version as well and I ve yet to encounter any of the bugs and glitches you describe. r n r nI m not saying it didn t happen but having spoken to a great many people about this game, your experience seems to be radically divergent ...
It s interesting that nobody has mentioned the Dead or Alive franchise, which has always straddled the fence between hardcore sensibilities and a casual, easy-input methodology for gameplay. It s an easy game for even ultra-casual players to enjoy but also contains a deeper layer of competitive play. r n ...
Timothy, r n r nSo now you are claiming really grotesque sick violence can compel a person to murder r n r nIt must be nice to operate in an intellectual vacuum where a persona can literally conjure baseless claims and subsequently offer them up as facts.
There s plenty of derision being levied at the service here but as somebody who owns all three consoles and a PC XBLA is my favorite place to purchase digital games. r n r nAs to the quality of the promotions, the recent House Party included: r n r nWarp ...
Your critique is rife with logical fallacies and obvious inaccuracies that either reflects your own misunderstanding of what you played or were purposely and misleadingly injected to buoy what I would assert is a very poor critique of one of the best games of this generation. r n r nYour ...
Joshua, r n r nConsoles are already a major part of the culture and are very much entrenched in the mass market. You are clamoring for a revolution that has already occurred. r n r nAnd your list of supposed console encumbrances is amusing in a juvenile way. Especially when ...
