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You’re Gonna Get It Anyway: Darksiders
Coming off an incredible year in video games in 2009, I was just starting to get my bearings when Darksiders arrived in stores in early January of 2010. Darksiders ended up being my biggest surprise of the year and one of my favorite games of this generation. While it was a day-one purchase for me, [...]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Looks like my Kind of XCOM
The XCOM series has been responsible for the rollercoaster of emotions I’ve been feeling as of late. Sometimes I’m happy, sometimes I’m sad and sometimes I scream at strangers for no apparent reason. With two XCOM titles coming out in the near future (one from 2K Marin and one from Firaxis), you’d think I’d be skipping [...]
Aliens: Colonial Marines Do Not Have it Easy in Latest Trailer
While I love the Aliens movies, the series has not translated well at all to video games. Aliens: Colonial Marines has shown promise and has a competent developer behind it that has more than raised a furor with our resident Aliens aficionado, Justin Gifford. Even after yet another recent delay, his enthusiasm for the game [...]
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Reflex Review: Two Swords are Better than One
There’s a disappointingly high chance that there were a lot of gamers out there who are not well acquainted with Geralt, the heavily scarred hero from The Witcher. In fact, I was one of these poor souls until commotion of a sequel began to get louder and louder. Not to be out of the loop, [...]
Roguelikes: The Fun of Random Permadeath – The Cursed Checkpoint #104
After discovering roguelikes through playthroughs of The Binding of Isaac and Dungeons of Dredmor, Ethan talks with Josh about the history of this unforgiving video game genre and discovers that he’s only scratched the surface. The Cursed Checkpoint is a topical video game podcast focused on discussions and interviews about a single video game, genre, news [...]
Merge Games Brings The Binding of Isaac and Terraria to UK Stores
In a curious reverse trend, Merge Games will be bringing two indie hits to the physical realm in the UK. Previously only available as digital downloads, Terraria and The Binding of Isaac will both be making the jump to physical copies. Collectors and fans rejoice, because outside of that I’m not sure who the actual [...]
I Learned Something Today: Skyrim is Not Meant To Be
Sometimes the world isn’t fair. There are things that happen that can’t be controlled. Whether it be something in game or an outside source, your whole experience can be ruined in a short period of time. Thanks to the time I’ve spent playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, I have learned many a lesson about [...]
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Review: These Old Bones
The latest installment of the Assassin’s Creed franchise takes you on a journey in which Ezio Auditore’s story is ending. He’s much older and somewhat “retired.” Yet, in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, he will find himself in one more adventure and a race against time. What about Desmond Miles? He’s been the “puppet master” in the Animus as [...]
Bad Box Art Mega Man Included as Street Fighter X Tekken PS3/Vita Exclusive Character
Capcom just increased the crazy on Street Fighter X Tekken, a game that has enough selling points in its title alone. Capcom has revealed 2 additional exclusive characters for the PS3 and Vita versions of the game, one of which is Mega Man, but not just any Mega Man, we get the bizarre Mega Man [...]
Gaming Regrets: Dosage of Indie Games
There are periods where the indie genre commands attention. In 2011, the debut album Torches by Foster the People is nominated for Best Alternative Music album at the Grammys, The Artist won the Golden Globe for Best Picture Musical or Comedy (and is expected to receive many Oscar nominations), and a little game called Bastion made several top ten games of 2011 lists from [...]
I Learned Something Today: Atom Zombie Smasher
People tend to transform into big stupid animals the second crisis finds its way into their daily lives. This is no more evident than in the type disasters where immediate evacuation is required to insure the survival of a city’s occupants. In the last few years, those in charge of such missions have needed to [...]
Star Trek Online Goes Free to Play with Announcement Trailer
Star Trek Online, the only MMO I’ve gotten a character past level 50 in, just went free to play this week. Sure, this is probably only exciting news to those of us who know what a warp nacelle is, but I’m ok with that. I’ve run into less douchebags in STO than any other online [...]
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo Impressions: A Familiar Challenger Appears
The role playing game genre has never been more popular than it is right now. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has sold 10 million copies. Mass Effect 3 is coming out in March. Those two series are arguably the two most popular RPG franchises ever made. It’s going to be hard to find a place [...]
Q.U.B.E Makes Return on Indie Fund Investment in 4 Days
It has been a week of milestones for Indie Fund as the arrival of Q.U.B.E marked the release of their first funded game and ultimately their first successful venture into publishing. Q.U.B.E, developed by Toxic Games, has sold 12,000 copies in the four days it has been on Steam, thus enabling Indie Fund to recoup their $90,000.00 investment. Indie Fund was [...]
Battlefield 3 Takes Action Against Cheaters
Justice is a dish best served cold, but is that dish cold because it was intended to be cold or just cold because it got served a bit late? That is the question going through many Battlefield 3 players heads as the rampant cheating associated with the PC version of the game has made it difficult [...]
