Jul 30, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: D There are three terrifying things in this world: Bears, Zombies, and the stampede scene from The Lion King. Somehow, Blizzard managed to fuse equal parts of all three into one of the most devastating moves in the game: the Witch Doctor’s Zombie Bears. Although this build has some of the highest damage output in the game,...

Jul 17, 2012

Grab your jockstrap, bro. You’re delta force now (again). Or you’re a navy seal now (again). Read: Infinity Ward is putting the finishing touches on a new iteration of brotastic terrorist slaying bullshit for you. Dig deep into your sacred terminology. “Yeah bro, those guns are real. Our troops really use that stuff.” “I’ve had the Call of Duty 4...

Jul 10, 2012

The uncontested meta-winner of EVO 2012 was King of Fighters XIII.  Though the other grand finals matches displayed admirable skill and a furious intensity, no other matchup delivered so thoroughly or had as much on the line. For context, the developer for KOFXIII, SNK Playmore, was seemingly inches from a long-stalled death knell.  King of Fighters XII did...

Jul 7, 2012

Could Nintendo have again sparked another sort of homerun omen with the Wii U? The Wii ushered in a shortsighted, unscrupulous emphasis on motion controls – could the Wii U really pull off the same kind of full on zeitgeist shift? No, not in the active sense at least.  Nintendo’s motion innovation was the unmoved mover for this current generation in its...