While it was super-cheap on Steam the other day, I grabbed myself a copy of BioShock Infinite for my Mac. I originally played it on PlayStation 3 last year, but since I’m currently a seven-hour drive away from my PS3 I seized the opportunity to be able to play Burial at Sea: Episode 2, the game’s final batch of DLC, [Read more…]
The snow is finally starting to melt, and you know what that means: we’re now at the start of Spring Break season. It’s that glorious time of year when most college students head for the beach to binge-drink and then make decisions they’ll probably regret once they sober up and notice every drunken action they forgot about is up on [Read more…]
Take all the time you need to absorb that question; I know it’s a pretty bold one to ask. When you consider most triple-A titles today contain more gunfire, bombs and destruction than the collected film history of Michael Bay, it can be hard to imagine that video games could also be a medium to resolve global conflicts rather than [Read more…]
It was on August 7, 1865 that the New York Daily Tribune declared America finally had a popular sport of its own. “We have several clubs; but they are mostly patronized by English citizens. Our American game seems to be baseball. We had an illustration of its popularity over the river on Thursday, when twenty-thousand men and women assembled in [Read more…]
I recently dropped $399 on a beautiful Wii U, capable of high-definition graphics and endless gameplay configurations thanks to its tablet-like Gamepad. But the game I enjoyed playing the most on my Wii U so far is a traditional platformer that only uses a D-pad and two buttons. That’s right, I can’t get enough of my $20 copy of DuckTales: [Read more…]
I know, that may be a tough headline to read for people familiar with the “Sonic cycle,” the seemingly never-ending sequence where a new Sonic the Hedgehog game gets announced, people get into a frenzy thinking this game will revive Sega’s most famous franchise, only to be disappointed when they play the game and find it’s just as mediocre as [Read more…]
I’m getting extremely excited for the next installment of Super Smash Bros. You could argue it’s the only game franchise that draws the hardcore gaming audience to Nintendo consoles (and as such I expect a surge of Wii U sales to occur around the time of Super Smash Bros.’ release later this year). Smash Bros. brings together two very vocal [Read more…]
This past weekend, after being nothing more than a green-colored screen with a logo on it for more than a year, NormalBoots.com returned to the Internet as a full-fledged gaming entertainment site. Normal Boots is once again the official home for several video game personalities, including JonTron, PeanutButterGamer, The Completionist, and Did You Know Gaming, as well as some newcomers [Read more…]
A great prophecy was foretold on the Internet this week. The brilliant bearded bespectacled deity of the PC gamers, Gabe Newell himself, descended upon Reddit, making an account to deliver his divine word to the gaming world. So it was spoken, and written in the Book of Steam: “I’ll do an AMA [“Ask Me Anything”] once we hit $500K in [Read more…]
The day finally came for me this week: I got around to buying both a Wii U and a 3DS (the latter of which was long overdue, having previously only owned an original DS bought shortly after the handheld’s launch day). Though I don’t own many games for the two yet, I started off both consoles with titles from one [Read more…]