The Good, Bad and the Ugly with TellTale Games
Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers about The Wolf Among Us and Season Two of The Walking Dead by Telltale Games (and implied spoilers about Season One). In a previous post, I discuss why I think Season One of Telltale Game...
Diamonds in the Rough: Awesome Parts of Awful of Games
I played Thief the other day for the first time. Thief is not a great game. It’s mostly a pretty mediocre game, especially if you’ve played the far superior Dishonored. The story is dull, poorly paced, often incoherent, and not particularly well...
Game-Breaking Glitches: A Problem That Needs Resolution
Maddeningly, we’ve all had the experience. You’re progressing through an enjoyable game, devoting your time and being rewarded for it, when all of a sudden there’s a glitch. A glitch that makes it impossible for you to carry on as you were. A game-br...
The Cream of the Crop! The Best Marvel Video Games
Black Panther Wakanda Forever just hit theaters, and it’s a joyous, fun-filled big screen experience, like all the other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s a great time to be a comic book fan, with several lesser known comic book character...
The 10 Most Popular Retro Game Consoles & Where to Find Them
Retro gaming has become a popular hobby for all kinds of gamers. Some want to revisit classic video games from their youth to relive the nostalgic magic. Others want to play these video games they've never had the chance to play before. Whichever way...
We All Want More Exciting Retro Video Game Sequels!
A gloriously old school trailer was recently released for Strafe, a Kickstarter first-person shooter set in space that insists that upon its 2016 release it will be by far the best game of 1996.  Strafe harnesses modern computing ...
Enough is Enough - When to Throw in the Towel Mid-Game?
When it comes to games with stories, I’m a completionist. I’m a story completionist rather than a gaming completionist—once in a long while I’ll aim for 100% completion in a particularly great game, but mostly I’m content to do the main content and a...
How to Start Collecting Old Video Games
If you're wondering whether it's worth it to get into the world of collecting video games — of course it is! There's a reason (besides gaming nostalgia) that retro consoles have stood the test of time and are still played today. In olden times, games...
Perfection! Telling A Compelling Story with in Game Music
In 2010, I was a music minor in a composer’s group at my college that met once a week to discuss various issues in music and composing. One day I proposed to the group that at an upcoming meeting I’d make a presentation on video game music as a serio...