Gamer with a Heart

General game talk
March 16, 2012 I went to the local mini mart to see if they carried any Gamestop coupons. My credit card maxed out, so I was reduced to hounding Walmarts to score game coupons. As I stood outside the store, holding to its bars not unlike a prisoner would, I had a change of heart against spending money {More...}

Making a Career in the Game Industry

General game talk
November 30, 2011 Some gamers are content with picking up a controller and playing for a bit, then putting it down and getting back to their lives. Other gamers, however, want to take their hobby a step further. These are the gamers that want to make a career out of their gaming habits, finding ways to make a {More...}

The Top Motivators of Gamers

General game talk
November 18, 2011 Face it: when it comes to that obsession of yours called “gaming”, you can’t pin on just being a Star Wars fan, or liking the graphics in Modern Warfare 3, or wanting to give the newest Need for Speed title a spin. No: when you an entire roomfull of CDs and three 2 terabyte hard {More...}

Making Girls and Games Mix

General game talk
November 4, 2011 They say that there are only two species in the world who have no hope of scoring with the opposite sex. One are asexual sea sponges. The other are gamers. Miracles do happen, however, and there are a few lucky bastards among us who manage to snag a female without threatening them at gunpoint or {More...}

Putting Together a Local Tourney

General game talk
September 26, 2011 Competitive gaming may not be mainstream just yet, but that doesn’t mean the community hasn’t embraced it. The urge to get bragging rights and claim superiority over other players has always been very strong, even back in the days when arcades were primitive and games were strictly single player. So even without aspiring to become {More...}

Playable UFOs, Anyone?

General game talk
September 13, 2011 Isn’t it amazing how flight sim games tend to be all the same? No matter what generation you are, chances are game devs will be focused on the current fighter jets of the era. For instance, in the 80′s we had the then new F14s, F15s and F16s. During the 90′s, and with the end {More...}

A Fun Game To Play

General game talk
March 13, 2011 For an action-packed, fun, easy to learn, and inexpensive video game, check out Plants vs Zombies. Just imagine zombies invading your home to eat your brains and the only way to conquer them is to use a vast supply of zombie killing plants. There are a variety of plants to choose from that the player {More...}

MvC3 and Fighting Game Elitism

General game talk
February 19, 2011 If there is one thing that hardcore, competitive fighting game players can be vicious about, it is the meta-game. The best and most competitive of any given fighting game’s fans can be rather stringent about things. They figure out the mechanics, then settle characters into tiers and then get to work on figuring out how {More...}

Mythos to be Released in April

Videogame News
January 22, 2011 Freeloaders rejoice! Frogster has just announced that new free hack-n-slash MMO, Mythos, will launch by the end of April. The micro payment-based game will be available for downloaded by April 28, just in time to get a little April canoodlin in the basement for those RPG fans out there. However, those willing to shell out {More...}