Angry Birds, didn’t exactly create a genre of games, but it certainly did popularize one. In fact, in a press release for their newest title, Siege Hero, Armor Games is quick to point out that the game’s predecessor, Crush the… Read More ›
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Upstairs, Downstairs, or Maybe a Little of Each – The Complete Series 40th Anniversary Edition
Sometimes I am faced with a review so monumental I don’t quite know how to begin. Normally this occurs with some sort of overwhelmingly massive release, a classic television or film series which is so monolithic that it becomes somewhat… Read More ›
ZombieSmash! – Another way to Prepare for the Coming Zombie Apocalypse
I’ve told you this before, but I remain ever more convinced of this fact, the zombie apocalypse (or zombiepocalypse if you will) is coming. I don’t know when it’s going to start, but I do know that television shows and… Read More ›
Legitimizing Videogames: All Your Base are Belong to us by Harold Goldberg
Videogames have, slowly but surely, crept into our daily lives. Even excluding the recent woeful news about Sony’s issues with the PlayStation Network, television shows, movies, and other forms of media have made fairly regular mention of videogames. Games have… Read More ›
Exploring Kidlandia and Loving it
I have a nearly five-year-old daughter, and she is of the inquisitive type. A day with her is a nonstop barrage of questions followed by her own personal extrapolations based on the answers to the questions. I wouldn’t call her… Read More ›
(Said in a Yell) Mortal Kombat!
Back when I was in high school, more years ago than I care to remember, I had an English teacher who liked students to write short papers. He would tell us this on a fairly regular basis and would always… Read More ›
GLaDOS Lives: Portal 2
People like to make things complicated that don’t have to be. It happens in life and it happens in the world of videogames. Look at some of the progress trees games like those in the Final Fantasy series sport. They… Read More ›
