By Jordan Nelson, Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis So far in Last Token Gaming’s interview series, we’ve grown accustomed to picking the brains of indie developers and their views on how to make it in the industry. In our latest interview, however, we spent an afternoon with someone who’s worked in gaming in a much [...]
Good Knight, and Good Luck – Arkham Knight Review
By Terry Randolph There was always a question of how to end the Arkham franchise; after all, each game has increased in magnitude of scope since Arkham Asylum. The games were no longer a chess match between Batman and Joker, but also psychoanalyzed their relationship, as well as between the villains and Gotham City. Gotham's darkest depths [...]
In Memorium: Satoru Iwata
By the Last Token Gaming Staff "Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages. Even if we eat too many chips, or rice balls. Even if we have different tastes in games. Every one of us, here today, is identical, in the most important way. Each one of us has [...]
Hall of Fame Review – Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)
By Marshall Garvey and Reshan Nicolson-Singh Release Date: August 25, 2009 Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, OS X Developer: Rocksteady Studios Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action-Adventure, Beat ‘Em Up, Stealth Mode: Single player By 2009, the superhero genre had achieved new dimensions in entertainment culture thanks [...]
Last Token Gaming Convention Coverage – Comic Con San Diego
By Jordan Nelson Comic Con is a magical time of year, where we get to see all kinds of new things. We get to meet new people, we get to go to parties that Stan Lee is at and completely ignore him because we are drunk off the open bar, and most of all we [...]
This Day In Gaming History – Metal Gear is Born – July 7, 1987
A red exclamation point flashes above my head, the timer starts ticking down as I run for cover, there are guards with fully automatic guns everywhere, and I’m a Snake. If you haven’t guessed by now I’m talking about Metal Gear. Today marks the twenty-eighth anniversary for Hideo Kojima’s epic saga. This game series is [...]
Welcome Back Shenmue!
By Terry Randolph I know -- it’s been a couple weeks since the announcement of Shenmue III’s Kickstarter and the hype around it has died down significantly. However, in order to ensure I approach this with a clear, open mind, I preferred taking my time to write this out. Obviously, it’s easy writing about a hotly [...]
LTG News Roundup – July 3, 2015
By Marshall Garvey Now that the annual hype train of E3 has settled down enough for everyone to sort through (which we tried our best to do here at LTG), we can get back to the routine gaming news cycle that isn’t bottled up in a mere three days. But just because E3 has ended, [...]
Anatomy of a Gamedev: The Programmer
By Isaac Smith When I first started looking into game development, I basically thought that gamedevs were computer scientists gone rogue. (Roguelike pun not intended, but whatever.) Much to my delight and chagrin, it turns out that's not the case. Sure, you find some CS people roaming around the game development world (most often without [...]
LTG Arcade Adventures – Coin-Op Game Room (Sacramento, CA)
By Marshall Garvey A short time ago in my World 1-1 movie review, I lamented the tremendous decline of the classic video game arcade in recent years. As the console wars rage on (and may even be supplanted yet by mobile games), it’s economically understandable why people don’t make the effort to drive out to [...]