Marshall Garvey: One of my favorite scores of all-time has been, and will always be, Grant Kirkhope’s magnificent one for “Banjo Kazooie.” One of the reasons for that is how eclectic it is. Given the game’s original level variety, Kirkhope not only matched each one thematically, but made each level’s theme a classic gaming tune […]
Category Archives: Reflections
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 Reaction
Yesterday, the much beloved indie-horror sensation Five Nights at Freddy’s series just released a teaser trailer for the third game in the series. While this isn’t an uncommon thing to hear about, this is the third game within a year. Here are some reaction to the trailer from our Last Token Gaming staff: Terry Randolph: […]
Top 15 Most Annoying Enemies
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Last year, we put together a list of what we considered the 10 worst sidekicks in all of gaming. Not surprisingly, it provided a great source of agreement (and catharsis) for both the LTG staff and our readers. To start this year, we present a new (and slightly longer) […]
On to the Next One: Elder Scrolls Online going Subscription-Free Route
In what’s already becoming a standard trend in the MMORPG world, Bethesda is going to be ditching subscription fees for The Elder Scrolls Online in preparation for its release to the Xbox One and Playstation 4 in June. Considering the lack of a splash the game made in the MMORPG world, this was something many […]
Throw it Away: The Rig shaking e-Sports and CounterStrike
In the recent days, another major storm of controversy has surrounded the e-Sport arena of CounterStrike. This time, it’s in the form of fixed matches and betting dating back to a match in August 2014 between the two teams iBUYPOWER and NetCodeGuides.com. As IGN says, “iBUYPOWER went in as the favorite to win, but ended […]
Hitting Restart: How LTG almost ended, and how it’s come to be.
“Should we call it and end Last Token Gaming?” At that point, it felt like Last Token Gaming was running on empty. The content we were churning out reflected that. While each piece we published was written well, they carried a feeling of both exhaustion and tiredness to them. It was as if each article […]
What We Want to Play Next Year – Last Token Gaming’s Most Anticipated Games of 2015
by Last Token Gaming 2014 was a bit of a doozy don’t you think? So much has happened in the year of gaming; 2014 is a year that brought up intense competition between two consoles, the renaissance of another, and swirling controversy that had wonderful intentions but became murky through mishandling. I think 2014 is […]
What We Played This Year, 2014
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Well…what a year it’s been, huh? 2014 was, to put it concisely, insane. From the terrifying (the rise of ISIS), to the improbable (the Kansas City Royals playing in the World Series), to the tragic (the death of Robin Williams), to the joyously surprising (who the hell thought The […]
An LTG Holiday Question: What Would You Ask For?
By the Last Token Gaming Staff Ryan Goddard: The holidays are upon us once again. Remember when you were a kid, you would have a list to give to your family for gifts? Once the big day came for the gifts to start flowing, you tear through the paper looking for that one huge game. […]
All about that Relic: The History Behind an Overlooked Bonus in Microsoft’s “Age of Empires II”
By Patrick Johnson Age of Empires II has been noted by many as one of the best RTS games ever written, a gem among many from the large gallery of 1990s PC games. It even got an updated re-release just this year for modern PC gaming. It stands as a relic in its own right. But I’m not here to […]