Greetings, ladies and gentle-geeks. It has been a minute. Or two, but don’t worry, I’m still angry. I’ve been taking a break, to let the vitriol settle. Not to reduce its potency, but in fact to allow it to age in oak casks and triple-distill. Today’s target: The FPS. I say that like it’s a unified
By all rights, gamers and geeks should be free of shows like The Big Bang Theory by now. Let’s start with some figures, courtesy of the Entertainment Software Association’s 2011 survey. Seventy-two percent of American households now play video games. Over half of the gaming population lies within the 18-49 year-old range, and, in strict
SteelSeries, a staple of our past year’s E3 coverage, has released the new master of customizable gaming peripherals to join their previous Spectrum headphones and Diablo III line. The Sensei brings you eight programmable buttons, three zones of custom colorization and even an LCD plate on the bottom to identify your device (editable bitmap). The
With huge AAA titles like Elder Scrolls 5, Uncharted 3, and Modern Warfare 3 all arriving sometime in the fall, it seems like many gamers spend much of the year looking forward to the big titles of the holiday season. By comparison, the summer can seem an unbearably barren wasteland. With these huge titles on
The vision of an entire role-playing company can rest in the hands of their published campaign setting. With the release of Pathfinders hardcover Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide, I’ve reviewed this product on our Comic Issues YouTube channel. I’ll also be discussing what this book has to offer in regards to Paizo’s conceptual
In an announcement today, 2K Games revealed that a sequel to the highly successful RPG/FPS hybrid Borderlands is in the works, set for release during the next fiscal year. Few details have been released, but Borderlands 2 is slated for release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC platforms, with new characters, skills, environments,
Majesco Entertainment has released a new set of gameplay screenshots for BloodRayne: Betrayal. The upcoming PSN and XBox Live Arcade title is a violent, side-scrolling brawler being developed by WayForward. Featuring hand-drawn graphics, fluid animations, and a positive deluge of gore, the title is due in August.
Shadows of the Damned is a paradox. It’s the product of three acclaimed creators each considered a master of their respective craft mimicking the same sort of B-movie many professional filmmakers (aside from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, of course) scorn. It’s crude, lewd, sophomoric, and — most damningly — not nearly as action-packed as
Women who game are everywhere. We’re not all that new to the scene, either. Back in the early 90s, the people who first introduced me to the SNES were not my male siblings or even my father (he did, however, introduce me to the Atari console he had from the 80s). No, it was my