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James Arnold Taylor: The Personal Side of Voice Acting

August 20, 2010

I got a chance to have a short interview with one of the gaming industry’s best voice actors, James Arnold Taylor. Although you may not know his name, but he is the voice of some of Sony’s best video game heroes. Currently the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Plo Koon in Cartoon Network’s Star [...]

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A question for the readers: Have you ever beat the impossible game?

August 13, 2010

Having played video games for the majority of my life, I never actually beat that many of them. I would play many games for hours, but I only beat the games that I truly loved playing. However two games that I loved I never was able to beat them. These games were Super Mario Bros. [...]

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When will the remakes end?

July 9, 2010

As both a fan of film and video games, the synergy between them is understandable. While film is now churning out remake after remake, the world of video games is doing the same. There have been rumors swirling that Sony will do HD remakes of their classic games ICO and Shadow of the Collosus. With [...]

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Dear Aki, please make WWE wrestling games again.

July 2, 2010

Dear Aki (syn Sophia, Inc.) As a lifelong fan of both video games and wrestling, I would like to ask that you make WWE or even TNA wrestling games again. While a fan of Yukes and the Smackdown series, it’s clear that the level of quality established in your previous titles will not be surpassed. [...]

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Gamer Chicks: Not just a fairytale

June 26, 2010

Women Gamers. It used to be that a man, such as myself, would suffer the cruel barbs of my fellow schoolmates as they taunted me for being a gamer, often that I would stay a virgin until the day i died, and would never be looked upon by a woman. Fast forward to modern day [...]

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Why aren’t there more free-roaming comic book games?

June 21, 2010

After playing the brilliant and absolutely fun Batman: Arkham Asylum, a thought came over me, why aren’t there more free-roaming comic book games? While Arkham Asylum was finally the Batman game that fans were waiting for, I still felt it wasn’t what captured the moment of being Batman. Batman trapped in Arkham Asylum in a [...]

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A Call to Arms Nintendo: Bring back the Raccoon and Tanooki Suits

June 21, 2010

As a lifelong fan of the Mario series, Super Mario World is still my favorite game of the series. With the change to the Super Nintendo and the addition of Yoshi, Super Mario World made an impression on my childhood that still makes me appreciate the art of video games. However even with my love [...]

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Marketing Overhype is Overkill

May 26, 2010

In some of the bigger titles, gaming companies have no problem announcing the new release of each version to create hype and then continue to drop teasers until the game is actually released. This is good marketing. It allows fans to spread the word and considering how expensive games are nowadays, start setting aside the [...]

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Eggs in One Basket: The End of Blizzard?

May 23, 2010

Since 1995, Blizzard Inc has produced one game or expansion a year, all of which involve one of three games, Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft. World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG and possibly game in the history of video games, has roughly 11.5 million users world-wide. Even with such a large user and fan-base, would [...]

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Raystorm HD Demo – Seriously? That’s It?

May 12, 2010

Sometimes, you just want to vaporize waves of anonymous space ships with space lasers. Pew pew. I had fond memories of Raystorm filling this desire on the Playstation (as in the first one, yes), and it was a pleasant surprise to see that the game had been re-released on Xbox Live. Yeah, that didn’t last.

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