Category Archive: Bar Banter

Feb 20

Bar Banter: War Gods

The PlayStation Vita is set to launch this week, and the Wii U is expected to be released sometime this year. The excitement of video game launches have me feeling a bit nostalgic. I mean they are such rare events, that usually you are in a different place in your life with all of them. I’ve been …

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Dec 01

25 Days of Christmas

Welcome to the first day of December, which officially starts the countdown to Christmas and the holiday season! I’ve mentioned this before, but personally I dislike the notion of doing themed months. The problems isn’t finding content, but developing original content without making it feel forced or easy. But Christmas is just such a special …

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Nov 15

Bar Banter: Romantic Comedy The Game

  I can already see people grabbing their pitchforks to try and do harm to me. Why do we want more “Casuals” in the gaming sector, but hear me out before you make any threats! The video game industry is a relatively young industry even with that for the past 30 years or so, games …

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Nov 13

Bar Banter: Game Release Calender

Conventional wisdom in video games tells us the best time to release a game is the “Fall rush” that tends to take place between the start of October and the 3rd week of November. This year alone has seen more than a half a dozen solid contenders for game of the year released in that …

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Nov 02

Should Singleplayer and Multiplayer Be Reviewed Separately?

With the recent release of Battlefield 3, many critics have noted the large disparities in quality and enjoyment between the game’s campaign and multiplayer modes. The general consensus seems to be that BF3′s singleplayer experience strays away from the formula that makes Battlefield such an enjoyable shooter in favor of something more in the vein …

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Oct 01

What I Love About Gaming

Sometimes, it is impossible to see the forest for the trees, especially if you are a huge fan of the forest. I know what the hell is he talking about now! At times, I’m not even sure what I’m rambling about, but for once my head seems clear on the goal. Just in my experience, …

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Sep 11

Hierarchy of Gaming

A few weeks on an episode of Dual Wielding, we jokingly made reference to something we later called the Hierarchy of Gaming. An unofficial pecking order that gamers (at least on the internet) have begun to use to speak less of levels of gamers. We just wanted to highlight this chart in an official capacity …

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Aug 30

The Problem with Kevin Butler

Sony announced this morning that Kevin Butler is back, baby! After taking a job as a VP of Carpet sales over the weekend, Kevin Butler was lured back to the Sony HQ with the prospect of project LLP launching. An idea he claims he came up with! With this announcement, Sony has begun their roll-out …

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Aug 24

Bar Banter: Being a True Gamer

Growing up, the playground and cafeteria fights in school always went the same for us nerds. Which was better the Genesis or the Super Nintendo? When word of the PlayStation, Saturn and Nintendo 64 started hitting, we moved on to that, and talked about how awesome 64 bits would be, even though to this day, …

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Aug 09

Bar Banter: Why Game A is Better than Game B

There seems to be some culture/movement in entertainment, but we will mostly focus on gaming, that wants to justify one’s opinions. Sometimes even before a person has gotten their hands on a product! This behavior tends to pop up a lot when reviews start to get posted online. I will NEVER defend video game “journalism” …

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