Last week we were discussing the series of scandals we’ve seen in the first weeks of the NFL. The scandals (which seem to just keep coming) all have a common element of victimization, whether the victim was a spouse, girlfriend,…
Destiny took in approximately 325 million dollars in just a few days of its release but, if you’re like us, you aren’t necessarily convinced to buy a game based on how much money it makes (some of us still haven’t…
What a slow summer! We’re not sure about you, but we’re excited to put the third quarter of 2014 behind us. The summer seems built for knocking out the backlog of games we’ve been meaning to get to. Despite the…
You may want to sit down for this. We have some earth shattering news to report. Marketing campaigns will, on occasion, if necessary, attempt to mislead the consumer in ways to make their product seem somehow more attractive. Our minds…
We have been reading a bit about Amazon buying Twitch and thinking about the implications for us gamers. What does it mean for us when Amazon buys Twitch? Sure, gamers sometimes like watching games get played (and we pray that…
Starting today and for the next 12 days DVRs across the US will be running around the clock to capture the first ever Simpsons marathon on FXX. We couldn’t be happier to revisit the classics like “Marge vs. the Monorail,”…
Gamescom is in full swing this year with almost as many game reveals and updates as E3. Microsoft and Sony continued to duke it out although the reveal that Microsoft’s exclusivity of the next Tomb Raider is really a timed exclusive and…
When summer time finally arrived, we were excited to finally get around to playing some games that had lived on our backlog for a while. Some have been pretty great (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons!) and some have not…
We were playing Earth Defense Force 2025 this weekend and we had nearly had enough. Gigantic spiders had defeated us a few times with their unusual tactic of launching webbing at us through nearby buildings. We had almost given up…
We finished Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons last week and we thought it was an extraordinarily great game. The graphics are fantastic, the gameplay is innovative, and the story is moving. It’s a concise (not brief!) experience with a…