By Marshall Garvey Steven Spielberg is admittedly an odd, yet ultimately fitting, choice to emphasize for a gaming site. His history with video games is complicated, and more often than not, pretty underwhelming. As we all know, the go-to choice for worst game ever made is E.T. for Atari 2600, the hilariously rushed attempt to […]
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My Experience Working in QA
By Brian McKelvey I would like to start by addressing the Kung Fu Monkey in the room. The film Grandma’s Boy (shown above in the feature image) gets 99% of QA right. From some very strange workmates, immature antics, video game contests, and the look of the workspace, it is spot on. The only part that […]
“Getting Over It” could really be about learning to live with a disability
by Isaac Smith (Disclaimer: I have never suffered from a disability and only know what I have seen, read, and been told by people who do. Please don’t deride me for discussing Getting Over It in this context, though please do educate me if I put forth any misconceptions about it.) Bennett Foddy does not […]
Hold on Loosely – Guardians of the Galaxy Review
Release Date: Episode 2: Under Pressure – June 6, 2017 Episode 3: More Than a Feeling – August 22, 2017 Episode 4: Who Needs You? – October 10, 2017 Episode 5: Don’t Stop Believing – November 7, 2017 Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Genre: Third Person Perspective, Platformer, Action-Adventure System: Xbox One (Reviewed), Playstation […]
Meet Brian McKelvey – LTG’s Newest Staff Writer
By Brian McKelvey A bit about me: I was five years old when I picked up a video game controller for the first time. Right then, something changed in me immediately. It didn’t matter if I was using the controller to make Pitfall Harry jump over a hole in the ground, or to direct a […]
Last Token Gaming’s Top 5 Anticipated Games for 2018
Happy New Years to all of our readers from us at Last Token Gaming! Gaming can be fun and relaxing but it’s hard not to always be excited for the future. With a new year just starting out we here at Last Token Gaming are looking forward to not only new upcoming games, but games […]
Blades and Guns – ELEX Impressions
*This review is long delayed, but nontheless I am grateful to THQ Nordic and Piranha-Bytes studio for a review copy. Once I have time, and after some patching, I hope to provide a full, indepth review in the not too distant future* Release Date: October 17th, 2017 Rated: M for Mature Developer: Piranha-Bytes. Producer: THQ Nordic Genre: Role Playing […]
Rage Quit! Games We Gave Up On
By Jake Rushing and Marshall Garvey The rage quit: We’ve all done it. Let’s face it, rage quitting is just a part of gaming, like playing Mario as a kid and EA being a soulless corporate behemoth that makes shitty games. It’s a byproduct of our passion, really. We care so much about the game […]
TellTale’s Batman: Enemy Within: Episode 1 – The Enigma Review
Release Date: August 8th, 2017 Rated: M for Mature Developer: TellTale Games Producer: TellTale Games Genre: Point and Click, Narrative Focus Platform: Xbox One (played and reviewed), Playstation 4, PC As cannot be said enough, thank you to TellTale Games for providing a review copy of this game! Tonality and direction are pivotal when setting up a story’s delivery of theme […]
The Summer of the Platformer
by Isaac Smith This summer, I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours here and there exploring some games I hadn’t played before. Not as many as I’d like, of course! By and large, I was playing platformers. The lofty platformer is one of my favorite genres, behind sandbox games and RPGs. There have been plenty […]