The original Borderlands ate me alive. I could not stop playing that game until I had done everything their was to do, and it was awesome. For the past 3 years, I’ve been fiending for my next hit. With Borderlands 2, I’ve relapsed hard.
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I Pre-Ordered a Wii U
After months of waiting for release info, Nintendo finally revealed most of it at their September press event. With the launch date and pricing info out there, and pre-orders running out fast at GameStop, I decided to throw my name in the pre-order hat for a deluxe set.
Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile Review
(Download Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile from iTunes)
Capcom’s track record with porting their fighting games to mobile devices are hit-and-miss. While their work with the Street Fighter IV series set the standard, their ports of classic fighters have been mediocre to poor. What sets those apart is that Capcom really took the time to optimize Street Fighter IV for mobile, while the rest are simply shoehorned in. Thankfully, Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile is not an example of the latter.
Out Now: Borderlands 2
To Buy or Not to Buy: Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Set
I have a hard time abstaining from purchasing items with the Street Fighter name on them. I’ve bought figurines, t-shirts, posters, fightsticks, and over 20 Street Fighter games – including Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight. I’ve always joked with my girlfriend that if Capcom released Street Fighter branded rocks, I’d probably buy those too. As a life-long fanboy of the franchise, the purchase of Street Fighter merchandise rarely gives me pause.
But then I saw the gargantuan Street Fighter 25th Anniversary set.
Asura’s Wrath Review
Asura’s Wrath suffers from a problem that exists outside of the game itself. It’s a problem that has divided the critics. A problem that factored into the game’s poor sales. A problem that Capcom probably could have addressed with better marketing. Granted, this was never expected to sell like Call of Duty, but I feel like Capcom did this game a disservice by not emphasizing the game’s biggest strength…which is also its biggest weakness.
Rock Band Blitz Review
When it comes to video game franchises and their influence on my life, not too many rank higher than Rock Band. Besides the hundreds of additional songs I’ve purchased, and the countless hours I’ve spent rocking out with plastic instruments, the franchise inspired me to graduate to real instruments. I am by no means the next Keith Moon, or Geddy Lee, but I know just enough about playing the drums, and bass to actually play in a band. Even without ambitions of unleashing my real-life rock star, those games were the best the genre had to offer.
Years after the genre collapsed, Harmonix is back with a downloadable music game devoid of the peripherals that defined the Rock Band experience in the first place. Is Rock Band Blitz enough to breathe new life to the genre, or is it way too late to the party?
Jett, Mat and Jason Present a Currently Unnamed Podcast
For the last two months or so, I’ve been secretly plotting with Jason at Inside Gaming Daily, and Mat at Biff Bam Pop on starting up our own podcast. At last, we can sort of let the cat out of the bag, as our first unofficial episode is ready! We still have a lot of kinks to work out, and apologies for the delivery method, but we’ll set up a proper podcast feed when we’re ready to go live for realsies. For now though, tune in to listen to us chat about the Canadian National Exhibition, Guild Wars 2, Growlanswer: Wayfarer of Time, The Walking Dead Episode 3: The Long Road Ahead, and my hands-on experience with the Wii U!
We hope you enjoy our first kick at the can, and please note that we’re definitely going to polish this show for prime time with a real podcast name, podcast feed, a better means of contacting us, and everything else you’d expect from a proper show. Hit the button below to download!
In Third Person Exclusive Interview with Video Game Production Manager Liza Wood
In general, we as gamers aren’t that familiar with the process of video game creation. It’s easy to assume that there are people writing code, designing graphics, and generating sound, but there’s a lot more to it than that.Liza Wood is a Senior Production Manager in the video game industry. By chance, we struck up an interesting conversation in the comments of my Dreams of Working in the Game-Making Industry post, and thought it’d be worthwhile to formalize this conversation into an interview. Without further ado, here’s my interview with Liza, where we discuss her role as a project manager in video game development.
The Walking Dead Episode 3: The Long Road Ahead
The Walking Dead series has been my biggest surprise of 2012. Going into it with no real interest in the franchise, or adventure games, its first two instalments have taken me on an emotional roller coaster unlike any other game has before. Based on what I’d seen of the trailer for The Long Road Ahead, I had concerns that the base premise wouldn’t be as interesting as the one in episode 2. However, all my fears were quickly quashed as revelation after revelation took place.
In Third Person 