I’m sure right now you are one of the thousands watching Awesome Games Done Quick, an annual charity gaming marathon that involves a solid week of speedrunners blasting through your favorite games. I made sure to tune in on Twitch shortly after this year’s event started on Sunday, mostly because one of the first speedruns featured in this year’s stream [Read more…]
There are so many popular weekend hangout spots I simply can’t stand. Nightclubs are far too noisy and only have cheap beer at exorbitant prices, sports bars may have a far better beer selection and killer chicken wings to boot, but I simply can’t relate to the conversations about the sportsballs being had at the barstools next to me. I [Read more…]
One of the biggest announcements from Sony’s mega-press conference this weekend really got the crowd pumped up: Street Fighter V is on its way… …But you can only throw those sweet next-gen Hadoukens on the PC and PlayStation 4. Sorry, Microsoft and Nintendo fans. Nevertheless, the crowd at Sony’s event didn’t seem to mind the console exclusivity for the next [Read more…]
Ahh, December… The month when we all look forward to what games will lie beneath our Christmas trees… When we also look back at gaming’s past year… and immediately feel embarrassed with how gaming culture is represented in other forms of media. I’m talking about the Spike Video Game Awards, which for ten years served as an awkward look at [Read more…]
I came to an interesting realization after spending some time this weekend playing Pokémon Omega Ruby, the sixth-gen remake of Pokémon Ruby for the Game Boy Advance: during the early 2000s, Nintendo was really obsessed with nautical exploration. You could surf the massive seas of the Hoenn region in Ruby and Sapphire on your Game Boy, then for more seafaring [Read more…]
Starting anew sure is hard. I think you can understand where I’m coming from, since you know I had to take a long hiatus from writing The Minus World for the past couple of months as I started working full-time. In the beginning I put in long and stressful hours, and I often doubted whether I was even capable of [Read more…]
By now you may have seen the latest horror-game-of-the-week that made its way around the Let’s Play community, Five Nights at Freddy’s. The premise is simple enough: you are a new security guard working overnight at a Chuck E. Cheese-like pizza restaurant, but at this pizza joint the animatronic characters become sentient after closing. They move slowly toward your office, [Read more…]
With every new official YouTube video and Nintendo Direct, I punched the air surrounding me with excitement for each new character reveal. I marveled at how well the team developing the new Super Smash Bros. has been able to keep such exciting reveals quiet, showing the same commitment to secrecy as J.J. Abrams with the filming of Star Wars Episode [Read more…]
Grand Theft Auto V’s fictional city of Los Santos is about the size of most real-world major cities. A world in Minecraft can generate to be larger than the surface area of the planet Neptune. So can you imagine how intimidating it will be to play in a game world that is literally the size of the universe? That’s what [Read more…]
This is a subject I’ve wanted to discuss here for a long time. Have you ever played your favorite game for hours on end, then turn on the radio driving to work the next day and hear what you think is the music from the game being broadcast straight to your car? Perhaps those strange coincidences aren’t as strange as [Read more…]