Video games are often a power fantasy. You, the player, are put into the role of the hero or heroine with a special set of skills and powers, along with a mission, a hero’s journey. But, every once in...
Everybody has a story or two that they could share. Whether it’s a chance meeting, a feat of strength or whit, or that crazy relative/friend/neighbor that did a thing that you just have to hear! Much ...
We have come a long way in how we imagine and even understand robotics. We have sent them to the moon and to Mars, but we have arenas dedicated to robot death-matches. We have robots that aid in surge...
Many, many years ago, I huddled around a smallish, CRT TV with my early childhood friends, their Nintendo Entertainment System, and Micro Machines: The Video Game for a day of racing. If you were not ...
Forty years is an incredibly long lifetime for a franchise to remain center stage in the consciousness of a culture. There are few series in Science Fiction that have captured the imaginations of so m...
What do you get when you put a small, woodland herbivore through nine years of development and six beta release? My friends, you get more rabbit-on-rabbit violence than Watership Down! After a long de...
What do you get when you put the Doom marine, a dash of molotov cocktail, the entire catalog of ‘90s Techno-inspired video game soundtracks, ravenous alien hordes, and a fist full of Cuban cigars into...
I have to begin this review with some points of disclosure. Bungie has always held a formative place in my heart. While my peers were playing Doom on their 486’s, I was cutting my FPS-teeth on the off...