This weekend Horrible Night is poised to have our biggest group yet in attendance of the Louisville Arcade Expo. The expo features a family friendly environment where one ticket gets you free access to enjoy classic arcade games, pinball machines, and every console imaginable. There are also plenty of panels and guest speakers, cosplay competition, music,… Continue reading
After a week of sickness prompted a Spelunky vacation, Justin returns to the mines only to find the game bitter, angry, and more stupifying than ever. We can’t give up now. Spelunky has taken more than a few of our lives in the past month, thanks in no small part to the PC version’s addition of… Continue reading
In between daily challenges the enemies of Spelunky have started strategy sessions on how to work better together. Either that or Week 6 is when paranoia sets in and cripples all of Justin’s abilities. Spelunky has taken more than a few of our lives in the past month, thanks in no small part to the PC… Continue reading
I don’t really carry much change around these days, but I still associate it with the classic arcades of my youth. Exit 73 Studios must have a similar reverence for metal money because its new animated short, Coin, features Donovan Murdock’s quest for revenge on the man who stole his coin. Naturally what caught our… Continue reading
One giant step backward into spikes is how I would describe my Spelunky skills in Week 5. Absolutely nothing went well, and the game just had it out for me. The few times that it decidedly to let me enjoy myself, I promptly took the opportunity to die as quickly and as stupidly as possible. Why am… Continue reading
Some technical issues make this Spelunky video almost a week late, but the only thing consistent about Week 4 was my ongoing abuse of my best friend. There were two bright spots as I finally made it to the 4th level and achieved my personal best score overall. Of course, that was all balanced out with… Continue reading
We’re pretty excited for the Oculus Rift, and a new horror game demo, Dreadhalls, has been making the rounds for the virtual reality device. It first caught my attention with the above video (skip to about 3 minutes in if you want to get right to the scares) and it only made the wait for… Continue reading
Week 3 was one bouncing step backwards into traps and onto spikes. All because I was scared of a little flying mouse. Two and a half weeks is apparently my limit on optimism without progress, as silly Spelunky mistakes really started to break my spirit by the end of the week. This game is lucky that… Continue reading
Week 2 technically went better, but Spelunky also decided to get a bit nasty after I got the better of it, once. That’s how it goes though, you have one good run, you get cocky, and then all of a sudden even your every day spikes will reach up and grab you. No matter how careful… Continue reading
In watching Ultrabrilliant’s Other Places video series, it is clear to me that I haven’t stopped to smell the video game roses (usually for fear of my character’s safety) in too long. Exploration is probably the biggest sole factor in maintaining my interest in gaming in general. From the technical marvels to the thick atmospheres… Continue reading
On Saturday August 17, 2013 I took my first step into the world of MOBAs. I want to make sure that date has been documented as it may be key to historians in determining why I suddenly stopped interacting with friends and family and why my self esteem suddenly plummeted. These historians will eventually be… Continue reading
Spelunky has taken more than a few of our lives in the past week, thanks in no small part to the PC version’s addition of daily challenges. After I got off to a truly horrible start, I decided to record/livestream as many of my daily challenge sessions as possible. Maybe I’ll learn something, maybe I’ll… Continue reading