Top 10 Greatest Game Over Screens

By Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis “Game Over.” No words are as deflating, saddening and sometimes devastating to a gamer. Part of the elemental fun of gaming is its inherent boundlessness. In many titles, you don’t have a life; you have extra lives. But even then, there has to be something that deters you from […]

What We’re Playing This Week – 2k16 Edition

By the Last Token Gaming Staff Last Token Gaming has been on fire starting the new year, with bigger goals, challenges and ideas. One of these is to bring back our “What We’re Playing This Week” article series, which lets you know what games we’re currently playing and what we might be working on next. […]

Convention Coverage – Sac Gamers Expo

By the Last Token Gaming Staff A week ago today, Marshall Garvey, Isaac Smith, Terry Randolph, Sean Willis, and Michael Ros attended the first inaugural Sac Gamers Expo, with the latter four covering the event with Last Token Gaming’s first ever press badges. It was a special occasion not just for us, but for Sacramento […]

Disappointment from Ice: TellTale’s Game of Thrones: Season 1 Review

Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Rated: M for Mature Release Date: December 2, 2014 – November 17, 2015 (US) Platform: Xbox One (Reviewed), Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Playstation 3, PC,  Mac, Android, iPhone, Steam (Reviewed)  MSRP: $4.99 per episode, $29.99 for full Season A while back, Terry and Jake started playing TellTale’s Game of Thrones Season 1: Iron […]

Top 6 Craziest Baseball Video Games

By Sean Willis and Marshall Garvey Ah, baseball. It’s a game that’s anachronistic in so many ways, with roots that can be traced to the years preceding the Civil War. Yet it’s also incredibly modern, with many teams utilizing mind-numbingly detailed mathematics and analysis (better known as sabermetrics) to figure out the science of winning […]

Rhythm Game Retrospective: A Look Back on Guitar Hero and Rock Band from Michael Ros

By Michael Ros Remember when rhythm games ruled the world? We had Dance Dance Revolution, a slew of karaoke titles, Audiosurf (which Jake Rushing honored as Last Token Gaming’s first Obscure Game Review), and, of course, who could forget the Guitar Hero vs Rock Band debate? You know, the OTHER Activision vs EA Fanboy War. […]

This Day in Gaming History – The Sega Dreamcast is Released in the U.S. (September 9, 1999)

By Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis Marshall: Oh, Sega. What happened? These past 14 years trying to leg it out as a third party developer have been pretty rough, to put it nicely. The financial struggles, the layoffs, not having a booth at E3 this year, the  disaster of Sonic Boom…and it’s not like you […]