By Marshall Garvey Developers: Gearbox Software, TimeGate Studios, Demiurge Studios, Nerve Software Publisher: Sega Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Release Date: February 12, 2013 Genre: First-person shooter Modes: Single-player, multiplayer It’s hardly unprecedented for a movie-based game to be terrible. If anything, it’s inevitable for the most part given how often they’re rushed […]
Tag Archives: Sega
What We’re Playing This Week – PC Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDKe3guiFq4 Jake Rushing – Super Time Force Ultra (PC), Undertale (PC), Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (PC) After beating Metroid II, I have tried to start playing Pokémon Trading Card Game, I have discovered that the save battery needs a replacement. As I’m waiting for the batteries to arrive in the mail, I decided that I going […]
This Day in Gaming History – Playstation 3 Releases (Nov. 17, 2006)
2001-2006 was a very interesting era for gaming. It was a generation painted in the mindset of the East (Sony, PlayStation 2) versus West (Microsoft, Xbox), beginning of of the end of Sega’s console development, as the Dreamcast was discontinued. Nintendo’s console, the Gamecube, sold quietly in the background and had a consistently strong line […]
This Day in Gaming History – The Sega Dreamcast is Released in the U.S. (September 9, 1999)
By Marshall Garvey and Sean Willis Marshall: Oh, Sega. What happened? These past 14 years trying to leg it out as a third party developer have been pretty rough, to put it nicely. The financial struggles, the layoffs, not having a booth at E3 this year, the disaster of Sonic Boom…and it’s not like you […]
E3 Preview – 2015 Edition
By the Last Token Gaming Staff With so many rumors running around the internet like children high on candy, it goes to show just how big E3 gets every year. There’s also an unabashed excitement for the conference; the anticipation of major announcements, the possibility of old franchises being revived, or of new exciting IPs, […]
Gaming in Translation (Part 2/3) – Nerd Culture in Japan
By Michael Mygind This past March, my wife and I were betting odds explained that I’ve wanted to make since I was little: Japan, the land of the rising sun, anime, manga and the video game developers that helped the industry recover from the crash in the early 80’s and make it what it is today. While my […]
“Growing Up an Unbiased Gamer”
By Michael Mygind On several occasions, I’ve had debates with one of my oldest friends about whether or not the Sega Genesis was a good console. He attests to how much better the Super Nintendo is/was and how crappy the Genesis is/was. I never took a side on this when I was younger and I […]
“The Rise and Fall of the Super K”
By Michael MygindGrowing up in the small farming town of Sanger, CA, there wasn’t too much to do as a kid if you weren’t into sports. In 1994, the greatest hang out spot ever for such a kid opened up: the Super Kmart. Although I would’ve wanted a party at a Jumper’s Jungle fun center […]