Oh, right! It’s October. Usually that means having some kind of “spooky” game to write about. Under normal circumstances I would find some fairly obscure Halloween-themed action game and writ...
2022-10-24 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy family is a packrat kind of family. For the longest time, we’d just hoard things that we might need someday. But as time goes on, we’re slowly culling away those things we held onto, often t...
2022-09-13 18:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post(As always, feedback is appreciated!)
It’s no secret that I play a lot of competitive first-person shooter games. While I vary in skill from an absolute noob to top of the leaderbo...
2022-07-13 06:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Build Engine is a fascinating piece of tech. Made by a young Ken Silverman, the engine...
2022-06-14 17:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs I’m writing this, I’m listening to Steve Winwood’s Back in the High Life, his fourth solo album, and what spawned his first #1 solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100: “Higher Love....
2022-06-06 02:03:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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It really cannot be overstated how much Portal made an impact to gaming when released in 2007. Valve snatched up a few Digipen students, gav...
2022-05-12 20:24:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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It’s time to head back to the unofficial expansion mines once again. I’ve been down this roa...
2022-03-19 21:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post(What you are seeing is not the final text, but is what I consider “good enough.” I’m open to any suggestions or feedback on this post before it goes live on my website.)
Somet...
2022-02-15 17:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the 10 plus years I’ve been writing about video game stuff, one thing that’s stayed constant is me writing about the most jankiest, clunky games out there, often in January. So much so tha...
2022-01-19 18:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the holidays again – at least as of this writing – and naturally I thought about writing about a holiday themed game. Realizing that’s not a particularly big pool of games to choose fr...
2021-12-12 23:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
When I wrote about the previous Mods and Maps article about Soldier of Fortune...
2021-11-19 18:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostA few months back, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Bethesda re-released the id Software classic Quake on modern systems. Ported to the versatile KEX Engine by Nightdive Studios, it adde...
2021-10-13 17:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve had a Steam account for about 18 years. I got mine the day it was available to the public: September 12, 2003. More than half of my life has been giving money to Gabe Newell and the folks in...
2021-09-17 17:19:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Late last year, I had written about Interplay and Platinumware’s attempt at trying to make a fake game show, 2021-08-11 16:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
If there’s anything I kinda miss about the modern age of video games is that there's not enough video games based on media properties. They were so ubiquitous throughout the '80s and '90s where w...
2021-07-20 23:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs of this writing, the famous Electronic Entertainment Expo – E3 for short – has come and gone. Lots of companies announcing hot new games slated to come out later this year or the next, peopl...
2021-06-23 19:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been about several months since I last wrote a Weekend Writing post. Admittedly me playing games has slowed down considerably in 2021, due to a multitude of factors. Fed up with playing 2021-05-15 17:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(content warning: Depictions of violence and war within.)
In 2021, it was announced that the previously canceled game Six Days in Fallujah was being brought...
2021-04-10 00:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
As someone who loves the world of game shows, I’m honestly amazed that there haven’t been many game shows based on video games. We have game shows based on board games – Monopoly,
I’ve been struggling to find motivation to play new games lately. I’ve gotten a bunch of games thanks to them being on deep discount, but then I don’t play them and just default to playing
I never thought I’d be starting 2021 with an article about a game that's shutting down. While I’m often behind the curve and don’t play games until years after the fact – some of last year...
2021-01-18 19:21:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s that time of the year again. The Game Awards, a show that’s ostensibly about giving awards to the biggest games of the year, peppered with occasional celebrity guest talent and reveals for...
2020-12-09 01:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been writing about game show video games here on and off. It’s a fascinating genre, especially ones that aren’t based on standard TV game shows. I’ve written about ones using licensed ...
2020-10-13 15:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego is one of those rather ubiquitous edutainment titles of the late 80s and early 90s. A geography-driven game, the goal is to find clues around the worl...
2020-09-07 16:14:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a brief time around the 2000s where there were a bunch of shooters based on historic events. Medal of Honor in 1999 kick started the craze of World War II-themed shooters, which ...
2020-08-12 17:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey. I rarely get to talk about the behind-the-scenes nature of how I prepare blog posts in a public space, but I figure I should write about this. It's about how I was going to publish something, ...
2020-08-06 18:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostI rarely abandon games. Mainly because of the infamous “sunk cost fallacy”: I spent money on this, thus I must play it in its entirety to get my money’s worth. Even for a person like me who d...
2020-07-20 04:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
There was a time around the 2000s where you just could not avoid poker on television. Thanks to Chris Moneymaker making a decent bank in an online poker tournament, suddenly Texas Hold...
2020-06-19 14:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostI never thought I would ever come back to this. After a steady stream of music packs released throughout 2014-2016, I assumed Valve was done with the whole “CS:GO music kit” concept. After the ...
2020-05-01 19:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post