It is hard to believe that six months have already passed since fans of the YouTube let’s play/comedy channel “Game Grumps” were dealt a hard blow. If you haven’t been following this popular gaming channel, let me get you up to speed: in June one of the founding members of Game Grumps, gaming personality Jon “JonTron” Jafari, suddenly left the [Read more…]
We finally made it through 2013, a year that was quite an exciting one for gaming. We saw sales records break across the board with the launch of Grand Theft Auto V, the final two next-gen consoles released in November, and I can say I played so many independent games that I’m starting to really appreciate the rise of the [Read more…]
Can you believe it? We’re a week away from the greatest holiday ever! As a gamer, there’s only one way to prepare for celebrating Christmas. Here are the seven most Christmas-y levels out of any video game. Play one a day as you approach December 25 and you’ll be filled with enough holiday cheer to easily handle putting up with [Read more…]
Last Friday was the end of a two-week roller coaster for Fallout fans, sadly ending in disappointment. A very legitimate-looking “teaser” website, The Survivor 2299, fooled thousands of gamers into thinking Bethesda was preparing to announce Fallout 4. Video game blogs were discussing any significant updates as fans unraveled a complex trail of clues. Like many Fallout fans, I was [Read more…]
I’ll bet a lot of you are in a similar position right now: you just spent anywhere between 500 and 1,000 dollars on next-gen game consoles, games and accessories and now you have little to no disposable income left to buy Christmas presents for friends and family. You need cheap gifts for your fellow gamer friends, but nothing that’s of [Read more…]
What a crazy week it has been in the world of television fandoms. The BBC aired its much-anticipated Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special, and on the same day the Bronies donned their pastel-colored shirts and costumes for the premiere of the fourth season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. With all this excitement, I doubt people also knew that [Read more…]
It’s hard to believe seven years have already come and gone, and now we’re at the dawn of a new generation of gaming consoles. With the PlayStation 4 launching last weekend and the Xbox One launching this Friday, I too have been looking back at some of my favorite gaming memories on the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. “There [Read more…]
Video games starring famous superheroes have been around since video games themselves have been around, but for some reason I never played many of them. Perhaps it was because I noticed many superhero games that were released for the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube when I was growing up were clumsily thrown together and that they were nothing more than shameless [Read more…]
I am a die-hard Disney theme park fan, having visited Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California countless times with my parents and sister for family vacations. But this week I did something different. On Sunday I spent a day at Disneyland with Mega64, my favorite video game-themed comedy group on the Internet. And it was awesome. Disneyland [Read more…]
It’s that time of year again, when every public place is decorated top to bottom in fake spider web, rubber skeletons and quickly rotting jack-o-lanterns, all with “The Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters” and the entire soundtrack from The Rocky Horror Picture Show blasting out of a boom box on repeat. As dedicated gamers, isn’t it about time we broke the mundane [Read more…]