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 [...]

One of the biggest questions I pose to various friends of mine comes down to “Why is that game fun?” I’ll look at a title and not be able to clearly identify what makes the game and similar games in the genre fun to a variety of gamers. But I don’t want to live in [...]

Another year, another “modern” take on the war-based First Person Shooters. Medal of Honor, a game series originally praised, then panned, is now praised again with the release of their newest title which scraps World War II entirely and shifts to…a conflict in Afghanistan. Oh goodie. I can hardly contain my excitement for another breath [...]

The other day I gave a little rundown of the three main options for game rentals. I suppose I should have included “Borrow from friends,” but that’s a given. Today, however, I’m giving you a list of games that work better as rentals. Ready? Here we go!

Can anything come along and uproot Modern Warfare from its place as the dominant FPS? For a while it didn’t appear so, but just as Halo was ousted by Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare has been outshone by Battlefield: Bad Company 2. How is that possible? Read on and I’ll tell you.

I love video games. I play them frequently (and sometimes write about them, as you may have noticed). I always get excited with every new Mario and Zelda game, or anything that seems to interest me beyond a simple, “Oh, that looks like a fun game to rent.” But when I get down to it [...]

Gaming has begun moving past the point of a niche culture and broken into the mainstream. We all know this, so I’m not really covering new ground here. We’ve got a huge library of games to pluck endless references from, but something I’ve noticed is the same references come back again and again. These are [...]

Okay, is anyone really wondering if the sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is any good? I almost feel worthless here trying to talk about Modern Warfare 2 as anything I say is basically irrelevant (a stark contrast to how things usually work with me). But the bottom line is that Modern Warfare [...]