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Games don’t get the respect they deserve–there’s art, there’s storytelling, and there’s interactivity. Try making a painting or a book as interactive as a game (spoiler alert: you can’t). Interactivity and the opportunity for emergent meaning-making are true differentiators when it comes the games as a medium. You aren’t just passively consuming the media, you’re actually creating the experience actively as an integral part.
Without the player, there is no game. What is the sound of a game that is never played?
You Got Served in Mario Tennis Aces There was a point where I was ready to give up playing Mario Tennis Aces. One strike was being bored to death with a text heavy tutorial. Then I was brought to frustration because of the mediocre story mode filled with tedious challenges. I even lost 7 straight […]
A Nostalgic Recipe I didn’t really know what to expect when I purchased SteamWorld Dig 2. I hadn’t even played the original SteamWorld Dig or any of the SteamWorld series for that matter. What I did know is that it gets plenty of praise. A couple of weeks ago I was listening to the NVC […]
Final Round Was Just the Beginning This last Saint Patrick’s Day weekend a major tournament called “Final Round” was held in Atlanta, Georgia. Final Round’s 21st event hosted a whole slew of games from Dead or Alive 5 to Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite. The games in focus, however, were Street Fighter V and Dragonball Fighter […]
Fight Club It’s exhilarating being in the ring. There is a certain kind of adrenaline rush you get when it all comes down to one-on-one competition. Everything counts: the first hit, the counters, getting in their head. When you fail you only have yourself to blame. No team members who can become your scape goat. But […]
A Wild Climb Up Mt. Celeste Have you ever lived a moment in your life where you had to overcome some sort of obstacle through dedication and perseverance? Perhaps an event where you had failed over and over again to the point of self-doubt yet only to stay persistent until you succeeded? Do you remember […]
A Legacy Not Lost Uncharted: The Lost Legacy was marketed as a new kind of Uncharted game. The Lost Legacy was pitched to gamers as an Uncharted game focused on open world adventure and gameplay. With the rising success of many sandbox style games, Uncharted seemed to be very well suited to the open world […]
Total Magikrap. Back in May, Nintendo released a Pokemon across the mobile platform. That game is Magikarp Jump. Being a fan of all things Pokemon, I decided to give it a try out of boredom and curiosity. Basically Magikarp Jump is a virtual aquarium on your phone where you raise the worst iconic Pokemon to […]
First, how about you check out a short gameplay snippet of Fantasy Strike? Catch these Hands, Feet and Fireballs! This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend EVO in Las Vegas. EVO Championship Series is the World’s biggest international tournament for fighting games. Players from all over the world came to compete […]
Still Nintendo Switch’s #1 Game in my Book It’s been a solid four months since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been released now. Now that every cave, canyon, and mountain has been explored we have ventured onto other games like Mario Kart and Arms. The Switch’s top game is an experience […]
Bringing Out the Arms… So Nintendo’s newest franchise, Arms just released. I’ve maybe put a solid 9 hours or play or so. That being said, I’ve played pretty much all it has to offer. Yes, it plays like an arcade fighter. You fight ten characters in succession and you beat all of them and fight […]