Welcome to State of Play, an editorial column from Pixelated Geek. In State of Play, we’ll be dealing with major issues in the gaming community, and we’ll be reaching out to our community for feedback and interaction. Our goal with State of Play is to create a respectful, professional, and insightful dialogue within a group
The tagline reads, “No Warning, No Escape”. No better words could describe the feeling of watching Paul W.S. Anderson’s new action/romance, Pompeii. The movie is set in the Roman city of Pompeii, where Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave turned gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues love a good Blaxploitation action film, and this week we watched one of the best ones in showing us a strong female kicking ass and taking names: Cleopatra Jones from 1973. We follow Cleopatra Jones, who is
A community-driven group of modders is taking on the task of recreating one of the most ground-breaking video games in the early 90s, Descent. Using the Unreal 3 engine, the creators are hoping to recreate the popular game under the name of Sol Contingency.
We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve
A surprise open letter to the public from Ken Levine (creator of the Bioshock franchise) today has announced that Irrational Games will be “winding down” and will be forming a smaller entrepreneurial endeavor over at Take-Two. In the letter, Levine details his plan to take “all but around 15 members of the Irrational team” to his new,
In an unexpected twist, the company behind major music video games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Dance Central is releasing information about their newest game: Chroma, a first-person shooter with “music as your weapon”.
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! 3 years ago four friends started a podcast that would one day save the world… Well some of the names have changed and we haven’t saved the world, yet. But Comic Issues has marched forward and though some of the faces have
im·pres·sion noun \im-ˈpre-shən\ : the effect or influence that something or someone has on a person’s thoughts or feelings. … 2.C: an especially marked and often favorable influence or effect on feeling, sense, or mind. We’ve had several teeth-jarringly intense hours to get our feet wet in Respawn‘s high-profile FPS-Hybrid Titanfall. And boy, are we impressed. Unless you’ve