Gaming Culture

The initial experience can often make or break a game for me; games are inherently a large time investment and the game has to convince me that I should invest the necessary time into it. Here are some of the best first impressions that I’ve ever gotten from video games.

“Do what you love, and love what you do” –Some Random Guy Whose Name I Forget (or never knew in the first place) It...

Valve’s digital gaming service Steam is one of the original platforms for digitally downloading PC games and playing them with friends, and with over 54 million users, Steam’s player base easily rivals those of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

I’ve always liked MMO reviews. No matter when you decide to actually sit down and do them, it is a very difficult thing to write. The game is never really done unless it is one of the unfortunate ones to get shut down. Most MMO reviews are done after a month of playtime. That is a pretty good time to get a nice measurement to score something.

In the past decade, zombies have become a cultural phenomenon, with the undead popping up in numerous books, movies, and games. Zombies are a fun idea, and I won’t admit I don’t enjoy a good zombie apocalypse, but I’m sick of zombies in games.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. I find a glaring error with the long standing supposed truism. It misses a key component of our humanity that brings infinite joy to our collected gaggle of peoples – farts. Farts are hilarious. Now you know the whole truth.

Out of all the PlayStation 2 mascots Ratchet & Clank has always been my favorite. Ratchets adventures with Clank were always fun to explore and the world they inhabited was full of great lively characters.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is one of my favorite games I’ve played this year. It combines great stealth mechanics, a great ascetic, cool RPG...

Too many games look like Call of Duty. They suffer from generic soundtracks, generic color palates, and uninspired environments. One game that bucks this...