Too Much Awesome

I like thinking about video games, something you may have picked up on by now if you’re a site regular (do we have those? That would be just fantastic if we did). The more I think, the more I eventually cycle back to a handful of games that seem to define everything that is video [...]

I watch a fair number of video game-related videos during the course of my week, but one that stands out to me is Extra Credits over at The Escapist. A few weeks ago, the Extra Credits team (Daniel, James, and Allison), have been discussing how best to play games with a developer’s mindset firmly in [...]

When we last left off, I had finished listing out my twenty favorite video game tracks. To be honest, that was a misnomer. While the twenty I selected are indeed favorites, I couldn’t do a perfect list since so many of my favorites also happened to be battle themes. Therefore, to make a proper list [...]

Fans have been demanding a remake of Final Fantasy VII pretty much since it’s initial release, and today Yoichi Wada, the president of Square Enix, came out and made the remake plans official. Clear your schedules because Final Fantasy VII: Jenova’s Rebirth is slated for a 4th quarter 2012 release. Naturally, the plans are for [...]

You may not know it about me, but I actually think myself a pretty avid music lover. I just don’t listen to what most people listen to. What I listen to most of all are video game soundtracks, so when I want to up the stakes a bit I listen to video game remixes, and [...]

Thanksgiving is a time of year when families get together and eat copious amounts of food, then struggle to breathe as they fall into a deep stupor on the couch. What better time than this to play video games? But don’t overdo it with something overly stimulating like Ninja Gaiden or Call of Duty. Nah, [...]