Many people, myself included, think of PCs as being the absolute cream of the crop when it comes to gaming. After all, you can customize your systems however you want to, and with programs like Steam you can have literally hundreds of games on your hard drive, with no disc swapping required. Really, the...

When the original Crysis was first released 5 years ago it became the benchmark for new computers, thanks to its ridiculous requirements. A running joke appeared on the internet where somebody would show some incredible new technology or something, and inevitably somebody would ask “but can it run...

2012 was the year of the Kickstarter. The service emerged to give people a chance to support projects that they love, and the Kickstarter for the Ouya is perhaps the best candidate to show just how powerful Kickstarters truly are. After all, the creators were only looking for $950k, but ended up making over...

You know what I miss? I miss the days when you plugged a game into your console, turned it on, picked up the controller, and just played your game. No gimmicks, no “syncing”, and no handwaving, just mashing buttons and cursing when you’re a split second too slow and fall to your death. I...

As most of you are aware, THQ has been in some pretty dire financial straits lately. From the failure of the uDraw tablet, which led to its stock sinking so low that the company had to perform a reverse-split of said stock, THQ has just not had anything going for it. Fortune favors the bold, however, and...

With the release of the Wii U last week, many people are wondering about when Microsoft and Sony are going to make their move into a new generation of consoles. We’ve heard rumors that those companies are working on new consoles, but up until this point nothing definitive has been released yet. We...

Many people nowadays complain about the lack of truly hard video games. Gone are the days of Contra, where the slightest mistake can undo hours of grueling work. Instead, what you get these days is unlimited lives, where if you die, it’s ok because you’ll be transported back about 2 or 3...

In these economic times, originality is often considered a luxury, one that a company can usually ill-afford. Think about it: what are some of the most popular games to come out in the last year or so? You’ve got Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (or is it 4? They all look the same to me), Battlefield 3,...