Gaming Culture

Nathan Drake is a nearly perfect human being. He's multilingual, has a vast knowledge of historical explorers, he probably knows where every country, capital city and street is in each continent and he's not even 40 years old.

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Take the customization for instance. The main draw of Infinite Space is acquiring starships and steadily upgrading them using the "Tetris" system. As in Valkyria Chronicles, there's only so much space on a given starship, and the parts tend to look like Tetris blocks.

Rayman Origins is a brand new Rayman game from Ubisoft. This isn’t some kind of cash grab repurpose; it’s a whole new game with Rayman and his friends. The game is incredible fun and surprisingly challenging. At least it was surprising to me.

It’s been a long while since a game made an emotional impact on me. In fact, truth be told I can’t remember a time that one ever has. I suppose my shock and disgust in response to several different events in the Modern Warfare series come to mind, but not to this extent.

It’s been a while since Supergiant Games’ indie smash Bastion insinuated itself onto the Xboxes of unassuming Summer of Arcade gamers everywhere, instantly capturing hearts and minds with its charming look and deep, emotionally charged narrative.

Imagine you're going out to a restaurant. Scanning the menu, you find the entrees you're used to, the ones that you know you'll enjoy. As you flip to the next page, something in the specials section catches your eye.

And by virtue of appearing on the Dreamcast, it's almost automatically lumped in with the likes of Phantasy Star Online and Jet Grind Radio as the ideal, making it a shining example of Sega gone right. Basically, it's the personification of aching nostalgia.