Well that was certainly one way to end 2012. Grimmy grew up a bit this year, adding over 20 new categories, and for the first time ever we livestreamed our games of the year selection process. Thank you to those of you that braved the argument marathon with us. We hope we didn’t get too much on you. If so, it shouldn’t take too much acid to get that off. Whether you can remember what happened or were just waiting [...]
A 45 minute recap after a 7 hour plus marathon session of awards deliberations. Justin, Josh, and Ethan clear the air, wipe down the arena, and revisit the finalists and winners of The 2012 Grimmys. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. This special episode is a part of The 2012 Grimmys, Horrible Night’s game of the year awards. This show was recorded live on Twitch.tv/HorribleNight. Live podcasts are featured [...]
The final 11 awards of The 2012 Grimmys are all that remains for Justin, Josh, Ethan and Aaron including the overall Game of the Year. Whose opinion will be the rightest? That answer is all that matters now. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. This special episode is a part of The 2012 Grimmys, Horrible Night’s game of the year awards. This show was recorded live on Twitch.tv/HorribleNight. Live [...]
The best video game we played this year. Mass Effect 3 It wasn’t easy, Shepard, but you really did it this time. The most talked about and targeted game of the year made it easy to forget all of the things that made Mass Effect 3 incredible. In fact, it is because of those things that the game conjures up so much passion from its fans and detractors. The best playing / looking Mass Effect game yet managed to finish [...]
I entered this year feeling like I had the video game industry figured out, but I can’t remember a year that surprised quite like 2012. I expected to have my personal game of the year well in hand even before spring ended with only a hint of competition to come from the fall. Instead, a lot of great AAA games had noticeable flaws, even more promising games were delayed, leaving room for more bite sized games to steal my playtime [...]
Holy cow did 2012 go really really fast! I’m still working on my backlog from 2010-2011 but that didn’t stop me from digging into a wide variety of really great titles this year. From Far Cry 3 to XCOM: Enemy Unknown and everything in between, it’s safe to say that 2013 is going to be dedicated as much to this year’s titles as it is to the amazing games it offers up. Top Games I’d Be Bros With 2012 XCOM: [...]
Deliberations continue for The 2012 Grimmys. Justin, Josh, Ethan, and Aaron try to figure out if doing horrible things in video games should be fun as they hand out character awards, horror awards, 2011 awards, the best looking award, and more. The Horrible Show – Join the editorial staff of HorribleNight.com as they discuss a variety of entertainment-focused video game topics. This special episode is a part of The 2012 Grimmys, Horrible Night’s game of the year awards. This show was recorded live [...]
Our level of frustration is only matched by the few sharp moments of pure bliss that come from being one step ahead of the pure evil that this game is designed around. We love to hate you. Spelunky Spelunky is lucky that it looks and sounds so adorable. Cave adventures haven’t been this harrowing since The Descent, and those girls were lucky that they didn’t have a massive ghost stalking them when they were taking too long (in his opinion). [...]
We had almost given up on these franchises either because they were starting to suck or they had been gone too long. The triumphant return of this franchise will be remembered until the next one. X-COM – XCOM: Enemy Unknown While the X-COM franchise is one of the most critically game franchises revered in the industry, its future was anything but certain until 2012. 2K Games continues work on an FPS addition to the series that rattled fans and was [...]
With this being the last year ever for Mayan ghosts to play video games, it’s only appropriate that we list our favorite games of the year once more. At first, 2012 didn’t feel all that grand to me. There were games I anticipated, but it’s not until I reflect back that I realize things were a little different this year. Some of my biggest winners came in smaller (and cheaper) packages. As 2012 marched forward, a number of my favorites [...]
