The premier episode of the Writer’s Ramble spinoff mini-cast, Ramblets are focused discussions that put writers and their works on a pedestal, while attempting to mine a deeper understanding of the topic at hand. This time Irrational Passions own Aneudys…
Rise of the Machines: A Game of ?s
Since last October, Valve had been the catalyst for a lot of speculative banter surrounding the future of the console industry. The reason: the announcement of their official entry into the living room’s gaming ecosystem via the Steam Box, a…
Nidhogg Review
Me and my opponent stand a pair of fencing sabers length away, give or take the intermittent shuffles towards and away from one another. At almost 15 minutes, neither of us can seem to claim an advantage of the other…
Samurai Gunn Review
The best martial arts movies know how to wrap drama around a simple act of violence. A teahouse shootout thanks to a character’s inborn recklessness, for example. Samurai Gunn is the simple acts of violence, and you and three of…
The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode 1- All That Remains Review
Telltale is a company synonymous with tension and drama; they have no problem taking their narrative to dark, dangerous places, and their characters through many levels of hell. All That Remains should be considered by fans of the first season…
The Real Next Gen
The United States is aflame with Next-Gen fever this month. People are lining up to be the first through the threshold of the new console generation, and in our excitement we are letting ourselves be blinded. Or at the very…
How to Survive Review
Survival horror is one of those genres that has lost itself over time. Where’s the tension? Where’s the desperation? Most of the genres flagships have embraced third person shooting and explosions as the new things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. Allow 505’s How to Survive…
Rain Review
Acquire’s moody tale is a metaphor for many things, including my feelings about the title. The storms channel the sadness of this world that’s been built, and though subtle, the words and phrases are selectively McCarthyian in their weight and…
Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion Review
I had a dangerous epiphany about three hours into Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion: This game will never get better. I’ve seen everything I was going to see, did everything I was going to do, and any further steps I take into…
Top Ten Swan Songs
The video game industry has always been a volatile and unstable place to make a living. It was dangerous in the 80’s, and maybe even more so now. Games cost vast amounts of money, and has become a business model…
The Unfair War Against the AAA Publisher
Almost without fail, when you mention one of gaming’s giant publishers, “educated” gamers coil like snakes, and proceed to rattle off the many reasons that they won’t let these mega corps tread on them. “Annualised games are killing the business.”…