Jan 18, 2012

The Asura’s Wrath demo is out and the community response is…lackluster at best?!  Wha?  You mean nobody was clamoring for the bastard offspring of a profane ménage à trois between DBZ, God of War, and Heavy Rain?  And here I was thinking that Capcom’s Japanese homebrews were always designed around a built in market… Clearly CyberConnect2 has no...

Jan 9, 2012

We as gamers should really count our blessings to have been graced with two such games in two years.  It would seem absurd to conjecture back in 2007 that a title was conceived and destined to be born in Japan’s own Bethlehem of From Software.  A savior that could rise above the dismissive label of hardcore niche and absolve the sins of the modern...

Jan 5, 2012

Oh Legend of Zelda, how do you always produce winners here?  Is it something about Link setting the baseline standard for androgyny each time, taunting his foes, spurring them to somehow top his flowing blonde locks? I would point out that Ghirahim is constantly taunting Link, questioning his ability with a sword.  Ahem.  Again, let’s remember, Link isn’t...

Jan 5, 2012

Commonly thought of as the category reserved for puzzle games, I’d like to point out that we also lump in Action-Adventure-ey titles such as Uncharted 3.  What makes this better than said “Triple AAA” titles?  It’s a matter of purity; it truly owns its identity.  Not one nucleotide in its DNA is designed to soften the blow of zero replayability,...

Jan 5, 2012

As is our tradition, we must once again honor this timeless game, the apex of culture in Western Civilization at large.  Could we name this Game of the Year per annum until riots broke out in every major metropolitan area?  Abso-fucking-lutely.  Consider this our yearly show of restraint. It didn’t invent flashy, and Bayonetta may have ultimately trumped...

Jan 2, 2012

In a world where all our genres have long been decided, the release pipeline for any given year becomes less and less surprising. We are guaranteed to have at least twenty-five First Person Shooters on the Xbox alone – two thirds of those will tend towards realistic military “simulators”, the remainder will be chock full of ‘roided out space marines....