A Peek into the Next Generation, Part 2: Xbox
The 2011 holiday season marked 6 full years the Xbox 360 has been on the market in North America, and 5 full years for the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. By the measure of...
Author: Jason Ragatz
A Peek into the Next Generation, Part 1: Wii U
The 2011 holiday season marked 6 full years the Xbox 360 has been on the market in North America, and 5 full years for the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. By the measure of...
Top 7 Games of 2011 (Jason’s Picks)
Yes, we are doing a Top 7, not 5 or 10 or any other “clean” number. What is the reason for this? Well, there isn’t really one. Often 5 can be not enough and...
Editorial: The VGAs need to go away…or at least be renamed
Every year in early December, GameTrailers.com and games uberjournalist Geoff Keighley start pumping up the hype train for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards (VGAs). Every year, gamers are forced to sit through a total...
Review Shooter: Battlefield 3 (console)
DICE’s Battlefield series of first-person shooters has been heralded by PC gamers for its deep, engaging multiplayer that tries to simulate all aspects of a true battlefield, complete with medics, various classes of vehicles,...
STAR WARS: A New Hope: Facebook Version
What if the original Star Wars, known nowadays as Episode IV: A New Hope, was distilled to a Facebook Newsfeed? [due to formatting issues, please see the original post on The Paradigm-Shifting Blog]
Power Hour: L.A. Noire
I’m not very good at sticking to this one hour preview concept; one hour in, a lengthy game like L.A. Noire is still just getting warmed up. After 2 or 3 hours, which is...
Trailer Extravaganza!
The interwebz absolutely blew up over the last few days as publishers pumped out trailer after trailer for their AAA lineups in what is shaping up to be one of the strongest years in...
Review Shooter– Mass Effect 2: The Arrival
With the Mass Effect trilogy’s final chapter already on the horizon, BioWare has returned to last year’s Game of the Year for one last mission in “The Arrival”. While providing an interesting hook in the story that...
Power Hour: Dragon Age II
With Dragon Age II, acclaimed developer BioWare has retooled many aspects of its hit Dragon Age: Origins to fall more in line with modern expectations, especially for the horde of fans who eat up...
