Back in the day before the wide spread access to Anime, there were very few places to get your fix – let alone very few series you could watch. Let’s break it down: Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and Ghost in the Shell. Now I had somehow gained access to the Dark Horse version of
In a recent press release sent out by Konami, it seems Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is being released via the Playstation Network. The Metal Gear Solid series is known for a convoluted story and cut scenes that run longer than the entirety of James Cameron’s Titanic. Guns of the Patriots is the fourth installment in
This past weekend, the annual fighting game tournament Evolution Championship Series, Evo for short, took place at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighting gamers from all around the world converged on one location to find out who would be crowned as champions at the end of the tournament. As a fair warning, this
This past weekend the 2014 Evolution Championship Series, “Evo” for short, took place. Evo, the largest and most prestigious fighting game tournament was hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Westgate Hotel and Casino this year.
The Battlefield franchise is near and dear to my heart. I have incredibly vivid memories of the huge hype leading up to Battlefield 1942, the bewildered excitement, the confusion. What do you mean I can be a soldier and drive a tank and steer a battleship? HOW? Battlefield 1942 and its slew of excellent successors – Vietnam, 2, and especially
In a sense, the interactive entertainment based on the Alien universe have translated that universe quite well: some of them were solid and workmanlike, and some of them were complete train-wrecks – an almost-perfect parallel to the film series. Some of the Alien games were mindless, idiotic action-fests with little in the way of subtlety or pathos,
It has been about fourteen years since the last time Strider Hiryu appeared in a proper Strider game. But 2014 is a year of new beginnings, and so the long-awaited and much-anticipated new title in the Strider series has revealed itself. The new game, simply titled Strider, is a platforming action-adventure game in the vein
David Cage and I have a strained relationship. He makes movies that masquerade as games, and I don’t play them. Beyond: Two Souls, however, is an exception. It is a game that seeks to do exactly what David Cage does, try to bridge the gap between film and video games. Although Beyond is clearly a flawed a game,
Diablo 3 has finally been released to the delight of console gamers, while PC gamers worldwide let out a collective sigh of discontent. So before getting into the meat and potatoes of the console version of Diablo 3, it would be best to take a look at the original version that came out on May