October 4th, 2010 
Jay Bickford 
Twisted Pixel, creators of The Maw and Splosion Man have a new game hitting the XBLA on Wednesday. The company is based out of Austin, TX, and was founded in 2006. Their previous games have won the PAX 10: Audience Choice award at PAX 2008 for The Maw, and Best 360 Platforming Game at E3 [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured, XBLA 
Tags: Comic Jumper, Comic Jumper Review, Game Feast, top XBLA game, Twisted Pixel, Twisted Pixel review, XBLA, Xbox 360 
2 Comments » September 28th, 2010 Jay Bickford 
Guild Wars is a game by NCsoft and Arenanet, released in April of 2005. While it has made an impact on the MMO industry by offering free online play with no subscription, it has been sacked by many due to the fact that the “MMO” part of it is limited to the cities and PVP [...]
Posted in Featured, Mac, PC Tags: Arenanet, Guild Wars 2 hands on, Guild Wars 2 PAX demo, Guild Wars 2 preview, Guild Wars 2 release date, NCSoft 1 Comment » August 16th, 2010 Jay Bickford 
Uber Entertainment is an independent game company based out of Kirkland, WA. Their first game, Monday Night Combat was just released on Xbox Live Arcade. It was premiered at PAX East where Tycho of Penny Arcade spoke of its greatness. The team has a background in gaming, coming from Gas Powered Games, who worked on [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured, XBLA Tags: Logan DeMelt, Monday Night Combat, Monday Night Combat interview, Uber Entertainment 1 Comment » June 15th, 2010 Andrew Galbraith 
Project Natal, which has since been renamed to Kinect, is Microsoft’s next-generation motion control technology that was unveiled to the world this week at E3. Since then, there have been varying degrees of opinion regarding the overall usefulness, validity or even viability of Microsoft releasing such a piece of hardware. No doubt, there have been [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured Tags: Dance Central, E32010, Kinect, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Kinectimals, Microsoft, Project Natal, Xbox 360, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 13 Comments » June 8th, 2010 Dustin Deckard 
It’s been almost two years since Valve officially launched MODs on their digital distribution and community platform, Steam. Since that launch, we’ve seen a slew of new, massively popular Valve games running on their Source engine (Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead), a massive redesign of the Steam client, and the global launch of [...]
June 2nd, 2010 Andrew Galbraith 
Admittedly, there are some exceptional games created for the PlayStation that can be played on the PlayStation 3. While I could go on ad nauseam about all of them, I find it would behoove everyone if I split them into parts. As a small aside, it should be noted that this list is in no [...]
Posted in Classic, Console, Featured, PS3 Tags: Hydro Thunder, Jet Moto, Medal of Honor, Medievil, Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Playstation, Playstation 3, PS1, Sony, Top 10 9 Comments » June 1st, 2010 Jason Grantz 
When Alpha Protocol was announced back in 2008, it was touted as the next step for American RPGs. Two years have passed and following on the heels of such genre-stretching RPGs as Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands, the finished product comes up short, instead revealing itself to be more of a technical blunder with appealing [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured, PC, PS3, Reviews Tags: Action, Adventure, Alpha Protocol, Government, Jack Bauer, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Michael Thorton, Moscow, Obsidian Entertainment, PC, Playstation 3, Review, Rome, RPG, Secret Agent, Sega, Stealth, Taipei, Video Game, Xbox 360 1 Comment » May 29th, 2010 Joe Witthaus 
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following essay discusses the nature of Alan Wake’s creepiest moments and underlying themes, but may also contain spoilers that will ruin the game if you haven’t played it yet. Reader beware! From the get go, it’s clear that Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake lead writer Sam Lake has pulled inspiration for the game [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured Tags: Alan Wake, Essay, Music, Remedy Entertainment, Sam Lake, soundtrack, Stephen King 3 Comments » May 20th, 2010 Dustin Deckard 
This is a story about my surprisingly challenging quest to find a couple of Rock Band microphones. This story starts two years ago when my entire Rock Band and Guitar Hero peripheral collection was stolen from the flimsy storage unit that came with my last apartment. Two drum sets, three guitars, two microphones, a box [...]
Posted in 360, Console, Featured, PC, PS3, Wichita, Wii Tags: cheap USB mic, cheap USB microphone, guitar hero, Guitar Hero mic, Logitech Advantage, Rock Band, Rock Band mic No Comments » May 10th, 2010 Dustin Deckard 
To many gamers, MC Frontalot is more than just a musician. Yes, he’s a legendary rapper — he’s widely considered to have invented the entire genre of nerdcore. He’s shown the world that nerds can do anything, including make great hip-hop. He’s made enough waves that he even has a documentary all about him called [...]
Posted in Featured, TNG Show, Videos, Wichita Tags: MC Frontalot, MC Frontalot Interview, Nercore Rising, Nerdcore, Nerdcore hip hop, nerdcore interview 4 Comments »
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