Gaming Culture

  Only a few years ago, if a video game developer really wanted to make a game, they had to pitch their game to...

One of the most fun, yet least effective strategies in any real-time strategy game is turtling. Turtling refers to a player who wait for the late game to make any attacks, playing defensively early on with lots of defensive structures, while focusing on economic growth.

While Schilling himself may not have known too much about game development, I trusted that the combination of his significant fortune and such creative minds as Todd McFarlane and my then-favorite author, R.A. Salvatore would lead to great games. I was wrong.

Who knew that the best way to get me into video games was a magazine? Before 2007, video games were not a large part...

I've played my fair share of interesting games but Rock of Ages has to be considered quite unique. I had no real ambition to play the game but due to it being a PlayStation plus title I decided to download Rock of Ages and give it a go.

  While many games feature incredible opening sequences and levels, they don’t always focus on something that is just as important: the end. The...

I stumbled across BitMob a few weeks ago, and I’ve been an addict ever since. There are plenty of reasons for me to keep coming back; solid original content, a sincere interest in stories that are off the beaten path, the acceptance of uppity newbie writers like me.

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.