Video Game Review Rewind: Half-Life: Blue Shift
A great game series is like pizza: as long as they don’t completely mess things up, any serving is a good one, even if it’s not the best. Valve (with Gearbox) decided to create one more HALF-LIFE...
View ArticleSteam Summer Sale 2015 Guide
Are you ready for a miracle? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw] For those of you who don’t have a clue about what the heck I’m talking about, the STEAM SUMMER SALE is the biggest...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Half-Life 2: Episode One
If there’s one thing I respect about the HALF-LIFE franchise, is that each new addition isn’t simply a cash in. Rather than just cutting, pasting, and selling the same old thing, Valve Corporation...
View ArticleNECA’s 8-bit Godzilla Takes Over SDCC
NECA’s 8-Bit Godzilla arrived in the office just before Comic-Con and boy did he make an entrance. He came packaged in an 8-bit video game themed box. I was obsessed immediately. Another addition to...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Half-Life 2: Episode Two
If there’s one thing that the developer commentary on the HALF-LIFE games has taught me, almost every design is meticulously crafted and planned at Valve Corporation. HALF-LIFE 2: EPISODE TWO is no...
View ArticleVideo Game Review: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
As what seems to be the final game (at least with Kojima) for METAL GEAR series, we head straight into our METAL GEAR MARATHON. Rather than start with METAL GEAR and work our way up, I thought it would...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Metal Gear
We’re plowing through our METAL GEAR MARATHON over at Famous Monsters with the series’ first entry, METAL GEAR. However, what I mean by METAL GEAR is the MSX METAL GEAR that was only available in Japan...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
It’s amazing how much technology can radically change in just three years, especially when it comes to video games. While METAL GEAR 2: SOLID SNAKE was released on the same system as METAL GEAR, the...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Metal Gear Solid
Now we’re talkin’. After eight long years, Solid Snake finally returned for more tactical espionage action in METAL GEAR SOLID. I’ll say it a million times, the 32/64 bit era was one of, if not the...
View ArticleVideo Game Review Rewind: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY is to METAL GEAR SOLID what THE MATRIX RELOADED is to THE MATRIX. This might sound crazy, but think about it. Both are early ’00s sequels to late ’90s blockbuster...
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