One of my great loves, as you may well know from my other articles, is the puzzle genre of games. These are for when you just need to kick back and enjoy solving problems at your own pace. Sure, there’s something to be said for fast-paced action and drama, but you can’t beat a refined,…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator and a founder of the studio, Studio Ghibli, known for making films that appeal to young and old. Through the friendship and work of fellow director John Lasseter, known for his work at Pixar, Miyazaki’s films have received star-studded dubs (translations) and imports into the United States, for enjoyment…
Syberia By Microids Genre: Old-school graphical adventure! Rating: Teen for Mild Language, Use of Alcohol (second only has Mild Language) A rather odd story, but still an endearing one, as well as beautiful pre-rendered art and suitably epic music surrounds this grand adventure written by Belgian comic author Benoit Sokal, the first installment of which…
Alice: Madness Returns By EA and Spicy Horse Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence Back in 2000, a video game designer named American McGee released his take on a possible sequel to the classic Victorian-era books by Lewis Carroll, known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through…
Duke Nukem Forever By Gearbox Software and 2K Games Genre: First-person shooter Players: 1, or up to 8 in multiplayer Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol The King is back; does he still reign? Spouting one-liners, kicking alien rear and…
When I first heard of Duke Nukem (not the Captain Planet character, of course), I was quite young; 12 to be exact. Duke was a pretty arrogant bad-boy hero type even back then, for how simple his first game, made back in 1991, was; bare-bones sci-fi story, simple blow-up-aliens-and-get-to-the-end gameplay, old-school EGA (16 colors at…
Tim Ajmani The Corsair I have personally seen the “Hangover” a billion times, and that’s not an exaggeration. So you can guess how excited I was when I heard that there was going to be a “Hangover: Part II”. I have been excited about many movie sequels before, such as “The Two Towers” and “Pirates…
Fallout: New Vegas DLC! War. War never changes. And neither does my love for this series. Brought back to life after ten years by Bethesda Softworks in 2008, and continued by Obsidian in 2010, the Post Atomic Role Playing Game never ceases to present a bleak yet continually enthralling vision of an alternate, irradiated, paranoid…
L. A. Noire By Rockstar Games and Team Bondi Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence Ah, the hard-boiled detective world of the 1940s. The subject of many a detective novel by Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard and others, this genre has a…
Travis Noonan Poetry – Third Place When my children ask how to ward off terrors brought on by darkness, I wilt suggest sleeping with two pillows: one under the head and the other wrapped tightly in their arms. “Treat the latter like a future lover. Tell it all of the things your mother’d never hear.”…