By Michael Mygind This past March, my wife and I were able to make a trip that I’ve wanted to make since I was little: Japan, the land of the rising sun, Mount Fuji and culture that is still intact. Despite this being a video gaming blog, I feel it would be a serious injustice [...]
Video Games: Art you can be bad at.
"Video games are the only form of art which you can be bad at experiencing." A friend repeated those words to me a couple days ago, echoing a popular statement among game developers, game journalists and those who love the www.casinodames.com games, comedians and grumpy people who hate Ninja Gaiden everywhere. They represent a [...]
Five Nights At Freddy’s: The Movie? LTG weighs in!
By the Last Token Gaming Staff A month has passed since Five Nights At Freddy’s 3 has arrived on Steam, and it seems that Freddy Fazbear and his pals are heading to the big screen. Warner Bros. has decided to jump on the Fazbear train and lead the production of the film. Roy Lee of [...]
Hall of Fame Review – Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
By Marshall Garvey Developer: Rareware Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 64 Release Date: June 29, 1998 Genre(s): Platforming, action-adventure Mode: Single-player Rating: E for Everyone I’d just like to start this review by saying that it’s every bit as much a nostalgic salute as it is a professional review. Banjo-Kazooie is one of those [...]
Reactions to Nintendo Direct
By the Last Token Gaming Staff As is the case, Nintendo just held another of their live conferences this year called “Nintendo Direct”. In these nearly hour-long events, Nintendo sends out their medley of top people to make major announces such as a new game or console. Other times, it can be relatively minor news, [...]
Good Cop Gone…Good? Battlefield: Hardline Review
Because Payday TOTALLY didn’t do cops n’ robbers good enough… Over the last few years, the FPS hype train has trudged back and forth between the two biggest (and blandest) games for top spot of the FPS genre; Call of Duty and Battlefield. The pattern is easy to predict: Call of Duty would announce the [...]
Question: What video games should be made into movies/TV shows?
By Marshall Garvey Mere weeks after we geeked/stressed out over the news that Netflix was developing an original TV series based on the Zelda franchise, the anxiousness (in both sense of the word) was quickly halted when Nintendo’s CEO, Satoru Iwata, officially denied any rumors that such a project was being developed. Many breathed a [...]
My experiences from GDC 2015
By Jake Rushing Hello all! It's been 3 weeks since Game Developers Conference (GDC for short) came to San Francisco. I took some time off work to attend the latter 3 out of the 5 days of the event. I always try attending the conference every year because it's the closest conference to home. [...]
Kickstarter Profile: Super Slam Dunk Touchdown!
By Jake Rushing While I was at GDC, I decided to take a stroll to GDC Play, where many Game Developers are looking to showcase their games in hopes of gaining more attention. I came across quite a bit of games, but there are few that I remembered from GDC Play. One of them was [...]
“Pixels” Trailer Response: A potentially bad comedy, and potentially bad for gamers and gaming
By Isaac Smith I'm going to start of by saying that I don't really like Adam Sandler or Kevin James. There, it's off my chest. Now I'm going to objectively (hah, yeah right) tell you why Pixels is going to be a terrible movie even without the dynamic duo dragging it down to the circle [...]