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Spec Ops: The Line (PC) – Review

I hate war shooters, and I have since I was a child. For my 10th birthday, I had been given the recently released Nintendo Wii and several games, including Call of Duty 3. This was my first foray into the genre now…

MP Spark Debate on Rape Day & Steam

Video games have been catching a lot of headlines in recent weeks. THQ Nordic, the publisher responsible for Wreckfest, Satisfactory, Darksiders 3, and Several others hosted a Q and A session on a site called, 8 Chan. A site which is known…

The Witcher 3 Should be Ported to the Switch

As I’m sure so many have, I enjoyed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and gave it high praise. As someone without much interest in high fantasy or RPGs previously, I oddly found The Witcher 3 engaging, fun, and compelling. Admittedly I didn’t…

Following Anthem Flop – What do Gamers Want?

As Anthem has proven to be yet another slow debut for a AAA game, I’m left wondering what it will take for a game of this magnitude to actually do well. These are my takeaways of what gamers want from a bigtime…

Run The Jewels – Defining The Decade

Every decade has music that defines it for specific people, sometimes spanning out into genre, sometimes it is an artist that defines other artists. For Folk music, many would turn to Bob Dylan. When asking for a Rock group, it is Queen.…

The Problem with TCG Single-Player Modes

I grew up playing Trading Card Games. I loved the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG and the Pokémon TCG, for most of my formative years. My biggest hurdle though was that I didn’t have very many people to play with. When TCG video games came…

Watch_Dogs 2 (PS4) Review

I have nothing but burning hatred for the first Watch_Dogs and Aiden Pearce. Like most, I saw the hype, I saw some of the “hacking,” and I thought: “Damn, maybe this will be the open-world I can interact with, bend, and break,…

Brütal Legend (PC) – Review

I’ve posted five reviews of different games through Steam’s review system. One among them was posted in 2014, and it stood out to me due to its brevity. The review in question stated the following in its entirety: “Metal. All of the…

Nintendo to Release VR Labo for Switch

The Nintendo Switch has been praised highly for its versatility, large games library, and other things. Now it seems the system is becoming even more versatile. About this time last year, it was announced that Nintendo was to launch something new called…