Too Much Awesome

Games used to come with more than just the game, and extras made gaming a lot more fun and interesting.

As we narrow toward the end of the first month of 2012, new rumors have recently surfaced of the next generation of consoles. Microsoft has revealed it’s development of the Xbox 720, and updates on the Nindendo Wii U are all but imminent at this point. No rumors yet on Sony’s new system (I’m gonna [...]

Bioshock Infinite just sounded like more of the same until I read about going back in time…to 1999.

I’m a big Pokemon fan and have been ever since my cousin let me borrow Blue Version and told me to play. I was as hooked as a kid could be, and to some extent I still am. This extended from the games to the toys, as well as the anime, and eventually it settled [...]

I recently got back into Minecraft but this time I’m taking my friends with me, and I didn’t even have to do anything.

Is that fancy smartphone your mobile gaming device? That’s too bad. There are a lot of great mobile games out there but let’s not forget that people still play games on consoles.

I am a very biased Mario Kart fan. There, we got that out of the way. I’ve been going on and on about how excited I was to finally get my hands on Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS, going so far as essentially promising that I’d love it. Now that I’ve had a [...]

Every series seems to have its Black Sheep. For one reason or another, the go-to answer for the worst game in the Zelda series, besides the Zelda games on the CD-i of course, tends to be Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Why exactly does this title get so much ire from gamers and the [...]

Today, we at Toy-TMA bid farewell to the fond memories of 2011 and look forward to a whole new year on the horizon. 2012, Year of Democratic elections, Disaster predictions, and the Dragon (gotta love the dragon). Will the year be dramatically dangerous, or disappointingly dismal? I don’t know. But in the mean time, it [...]

It might have been a good year for big budget titles but there’s a lot of fun to be had in the bowels of the Xbox 360 with Arcade and Indie games.