2014 has been quite a year for gaming. From the Xbox One and Playstation 4 having a year under their belt, indie games still rising and Nintendo’s impressive Wii U lineup, there are many highlights for gamers this year. However, some of the biggest games have missed the mark, didn’t live up their to the […]
Super Mario 3D World was amazing. Every stage, every control, every little detail was given it’s own chunk of love and it totally shows. Even the smaller things were incredibly polished and played fluidly, like the Captain Toad mini games. This mode, which could have been nothing but a throwaway add-on, was very unique, fun […]
Ralph Baer, an engineer and life long inventor who essentially created the video game console, has sadly died at age 92. Gamasutra has an obituary posted which announced the sad news. The father of video games has died. In the late 60’s Baer began working on devices that would allow you to interact with a […]
Back at E3 this year, Nintendo announced their take on the Skylanders/Disney Infinity figurines called amiibo. These amiibos based on Nintendo’s characters are supposed to give their games more than they see on the game. At first, I wasn’t really excited about them since their roles have been pretty minor. Then I got a Pikachu […]
Geoff Keighley’s revamped gaming focused award show aired last night. The Game Awards 2014. The show seems to be a successor to the VGA shows from the last few years, the ones that aired on Spike TV. Similarly to last year’s VGA, which was rebranded VGX, The Game Awards were an online only affair. No […]
Unlike many Pokémon fans, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. In fact, I didn’t even play through all of it until Pokémon Emerald came out in 2005, and even then I didn’t really dig it (though I still managed to put 100 hours into it). After Pokémon Gold and Silver, which […]
After having it’s handheld debut on the 3DS last month, Super Smash Bros. is finally out on the Wii U. Ever since the two versions were announced, it was pretty telling that the Wii U version is the main event despite the 3DS version being pretty solid. Now on a HD console that can package […]
