Video game credits, Controllers, and Gunpei Yokoi
If you were to do some kind of audio Rorschach test on me and you said “video game controller” the first thing to pop...
Remembering ‘The Duke’
The history of home console gaming has seen its share of abominable controllers. From Intellevision’s disk and number pad combo attached with a phone-style cord, to Nintendo 64’s three-pronged torture device, to the controller so bad it was scrapped before it saw the light of day, the PS3’s bat-a-rang.
Hit or Miss Weekend Recap – April 11, 2010
This week on Hit or Miss: Microsoft’s Gears of War 3 rollout suffers more catastrophic road bumps than the Large Hadron Collider; a U.K....
Evil Dead Role-Playing Game: Too Cool to Be Real
One of the best movie series ever made is the Evil Dead trilogy. Many of us Deadities still have fond memories of the scares we...
Reviews Spotlight: Spring Training Is Over
Welcome to the start of baseball season…and this week's Reviews Spotlight! Not unlike America's so-called "favorite pastime" (we all know that football supplanted baseball...
Hexen Mod for Doom 3: It’s About Time?
When id Software is mentioned, the games that come to mind are the absolute obvious ones: Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein. Raven Software developed Heretic,...
Modern Warfare 2 Vs. Bad Company 2: A Senseless War for Senseless People
Editor's note: People haven't been this fanatical since hip-hop fans feuded over the superiority of East Coast and West Coast rap music. Chas introduces...
21st Century Worms: The Hedgehogs Have Taken Over
One of the best turn-based-strategy games ever made is Worms. In case you've never had the pleasure of playing one of the 23 iterations...
The Indie Scene: A to Z — ‘N’ for No Luck?
The letter N was a weird one. In fact, I can’t remember having so much trouble settling into a rhythm for an Indie Scene...
Mega Man Mosaic: 1500 Pictures Are Louder Than Words
I find it amazing that a computer can create one image out of tons of random pictures or screenshots. It turns out that these...