Too Much Awesome

You know, video games have had a history of referencing or building mirrors of themselves for some time. I’m sure everyone remembers Mario showing up as the referee in Punch Out back on the original Nintendo. In 2009, we all found it oddly coincidental that two super hero sandbox games, Infamous and Prototype, released in [...]

Not too long ago, Mass Effect 3 came out and pretty much everyone bought it. And then immediately afterward they finished it and hated the ending. Right around this same time, Michael Bay came out and said some things about the new Ninja Turtles movie that’s in the works and infuriated fans there as well. [...]

By now you’ve probably played Mass Effect 3 a handful of times. If you’re a Toy-TMA regular, or perhaps stumbled over from The Escapist and wondered what I do when I’m not being a fool on camera, then you may be asking, “Hey Chris, where’s your review of Mass Effect 3?” Well random regular/confused Escapist [...]

Watching someone play video games is never that glorifying. In fact, it’s one of the reasons I totally get the animosity they receive from good chunks of the general public, high society, politicians, and etc. Watching any human being of any age, gender, or class zone out in front of a screen for hours at [...]

We here at Toy-TMA do a lot of writing. Sometimes we do more writing than usual, but we’ve been very good about creating content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at a consistent pace. Thankfully, a lot of our favorite articles have been viewed over and over again, and even have comments in staggering numbers for [...]

Escapism. Through whatever medium we use, we are all searching for that elusive experience that takes us elsewhere; that state of mind in which we aren’t concerned about our money problems, our painful lack (or disturbing presence) of a significant other, or whatever war or natural disaster is happening in whatever part of the world. [...]

Today is a special occasion for me here at Toy-Too Much Awesome. Today is my 300th post (according to my backend stats), so I wanted to celebrate by writing something very near to me as both an interest and part of my identity. For my last milestone I talked all about my greatest Pokemon accomplishments [...]

It is currently the third week of the PSN Blackout. How are you all holding up? In case you were wondering, here are my thoughts on the matter.

I’m not a very competitive person by nature but when it comes video games, there is always motivation to be better than others. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more difficult to actually be the best at any video game and it’s not because the games are getting harder; it’s thanks to the use of worldwide [...]

We’re hitting a critical time in the lifetime of video games where a great shift is occurring. Instead of all physical copies of games, the option to download parts or the entire game itself are opening up to those with an Internet connection. Even more, the way games are made has undergone a fundamental alteration [...]