There’s a lot of things to be nostalgic about in any given childhood. For me, I had a big orange box filled to the brim with Hot Wheels; Dad would let me grab one every time we went to the grocery store…
I’ve spent the better part of this summer working on my backlog. In doing so, I’ve tackled both Days Gone and The Last of Us: Part II, in that order. I was thrilled to experience the former on my beefy PC in its full…
The sport of Golf is a test of patience, a practice in control, and something that may be better experienced in video game form than in real life. Most gamers have at least had a small exposure to the genre, whether it…
For the past three console generations, the open-world genre of video games has been heavily influenced by earlier Grand Theft Auto titles such as Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas. At the core of that franchise’s roots is a top-down, pedal-to-the-metal…
Twin-stick shooters have been my bread and butter for more than a decade now. I got my start on a mobile game called Gun Bros. and found that with ample weapon/enemy variation, the genre can get a lot of great hours of gaming…
When I started my job at GameStop in 2019, I bought a PS4 on my first day on the job to acclimate to console gaming after delving into the master race for more than half a decade. The first game I played…
I’ve had my fair share of twin-stick shooters ever since I was plugging away at Xbox Live Arcade indie titles. I also had a lot of fun with Geometry Wars, even when it was just a minigame in Project Gotham Racing. So when…
It’s fairly normal in this day and age for movies, television shows, and even video games to get a reboot, remake, seriously-delayed new iteration, and what have you to capitalize on a nostalgic property that hasn’t been acted upon in years or…
I can’t recall how many times I’ve been suckered into a piece of media purely based on the artwork on the box/display. It’s how I got into an entire genre of music, and experienced such titles as TellTale’s The Walking Dead and Sayonara Wild Hearts.…
What’s the main appeal of a first-person shooter? I’d wager the majority of gamers would answer that it’s the thrill ride one gets being in control of a protagonist up against an onslaught of foes, only given the tool in their hands…