By Michael Ros and Kazuo Koyama Naturally, we talk all over it.
Let’s Play Yakuza – Part 2 (Whiskers was my best friend)
By Michael Ros and Kazuo Koyama He was always there for me.
Let’s Play Yakuza – Part 1 (Golf Club of Death)
By Michael Ros and Kazuo Koyama Kaz sings a lovely rendition of "The Sound of Silence" to commence our playthrough of this PS2 classic. Also, Sega went pretty overboard with their company intro for this game.
What We’re Playing This Week – ‘Murica Edition
Jake Rushing - Muramasa The Demon Blade (Wii) I never got the chance to beat Wario Ware last week, due to my schedule, but I will come back to it later. However, after playing Muramasa for a bit, the art style, cooking mechanics, and the fast paced fluid combat kept drawing me in and kept [...]
Video Game Violence – A Personal Reflection
Video games often get a bad rap. They are subjected constantly to a stream of criticism from many sources. They are accused of wasting time, encouraging violence or laziness, derided as simple entertainment – the list goes on. In particular, though, many people seem to believe that video game violence makes people violent. Sociologists and [...]
Fist of Awesome Review
Release Date: December 17th, 2012 Developer: I Fight Bears Genre: Beat 'em Up System: Android, iOS, Ouya, Microsoft Windows, GameStick, Mac OS Fist of Awesome was developed by an Indie Developer named Nicoll Hunt who funded this game through a successful Kickstarter campaign. This games puts you in a shoes of a lumberjack named Tim [...]
A Tale of Two Drakes: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Review
Release Date: May 10, 2016 Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Genre: Third Person Shooter, Platformer, Action-Adventure System: Playstation 4 Completion Time: 15 hrs, 45 minutes (not including collectible hunting) Ludonarrative Dissonance, a heavy word to describe the contrast experienced between gameplay design and narrative structure. It’s a concept I’ve found a problem in [...]
Street Fighter X Mega Man Review
Release Date: December 17th, 2012 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Genre: Action Platformer System: PC A good while ago, Seow Zong Hui, a developer who was a big fan of both of the Mega Man and Street Fighter series, decided to create a platformer which combined both of these franchises. Later on, Capcom caught wind of [...]
What We’re Playing This Week – Inferno Edition
Jake Rushing - Wario Ware Smooth Moves (Wii), Muramasa The Demon Blade (Wii) Now that I finished with my PC games for now, it’s time that I start tackling my Wii backlog, since I have (almost) all of the Wii games for my personal collection. I’m going to start off with playing one of my [...]
What We’re Playing This Week – Father’s Day Edition
With Father’s Day around the corner (and E3 wrapping up too) it’s a good time to get a little gaming out of the way. Maybe be ready to do some fishing with your old man, or video game fishing if I can manage to get away with that. Actually fishing is better really, but I’m [...]