I was married before Tinder came out, which is fine, but Tinder produced my Favorite Internet Thing in 2015 with this: I can’t say I was waiting with bated breath – while I had dumped a lot of hours into Fallout 3, I took a pass on New Vegas and have never ventured into… Continue reading
Pequod is…I can’t entirely quantify Pequod other than to tell you that it got me (momentarily) past my pixel-art-indie-game fatigue and flipped some sort of switch in my brain that dumped the same dopamine rush I got the first time I saw a Water Bear (tardigrade) in a drop of pond water. It’s supremely weird… Continue reading
As a guy who normally likes to squeeze every bit of enjoyment/achievement points out of a game before moving on, I wasn’t sure what to do with Destiny when it came out other than play, hit the level cap, discover that the light level system was, in a word, stupid, and move on to something… Continue reading
I missed out on the absurdity that was Just Cause 2 so when I saw Just Cause 3 demoed at E3 last summer, I said, “Holy shit, infinite C4?” Then I said, “I will not miss out again.” This isn’t the best game I’ve ever played. It isn’t the prettiest, it’s not the shooting-est, it’s… Continue reading
To my knowledge, we’ve never publicly aired our conversations about pixel art. More specifically, I don’t think we’ve ever shared the fact that most of the time, I think pixel art/NES-era game design is played out, hard to see, and generally just not something I want to play. For me to voluntarily pick up a… Continue reading
I love horror movies. I have since my dad let me watch George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead when I was about five or six; I woke up at 10 or 11 at night on a Friday and Dad was watching it. He let me cuddle up with him and I think I… Continue reading
The thing about (gaming) accessibility is that it can be hard to get fired up about if it’s not affecting you. It can even be hard to get fired up enough to write about when your own accessibility issue really doesn’t bother you that much on a day-to-day basis, which is an embarrassing thing to… Continue reading
I was Nintendo-less until 1995 or so, which means I didn’t have the Super Nintendo, which means my only contact with the somewhat unusual puzzle-platformer Out of this World was over at one of my buddy’s houses (although I now know it was released on Genesis, too). There was always some strange attraction to the… Continue reading
My 2014 gaming year included becoming a new dad, which means that for the first time, when given the choice between Just One More Try and getting some sleep, I’m choosing sleep. Marathon sessions of gaming in 2014 were very few and far between; for all of my son’s wonderful attributes, sleeping soundly for 12… Continue reading
If you have an Xbox One console and you didn’t pick up Halo: The Master Chief Collection, you’re wrong. To be clear: it’s Halo CE through Halo 4, with CE & 2 made extra pretty. Oh, and all of the multiplayer maps. For $62. In a haphazard approach necessitated because of an insane 4th Quarter at… Continue reading
Let it never be said that I refuse to come out of my comfort zone and try new things. I was sitting in front of my Xbox One last night, about to use it for the first time in three weeks and realized I really didn’t feel like playing Destiny because it just hasn’t done it for… Continue reading
Because my new favorite non-traditional game-mode is to play a single player game while someone I know is playing the same game, I took a week or two and replayed Deus Ex: Human Revolution while Nicole had her first experience with it. Then, I went back to playing Titanfall, which I had been playing fairly non-stop… Continue reading