FanFiction Friday: Knuckles

It can be difficult to play the part of the red-headed step-child; the one who gets the short end of the stick, the one left out of plans, and/or the one who swells inside their own isolation. Unfortunately for our…

P.T. – The Perfect Reveal

P.T. may be the most excited experiment we’ve seen in video games.

The Return

It’s been nearly a month since I’ve written article here at IrrationalPassions, and I figure that’s too damn long. Plenty of excitement has been stirred in the mix since last time we talked. With events like E3 and San Diego…

2014 “Half-Year” Game of the Year

Let’s see what the team considers the best game of 2014, so far.

Liberty for All

Sulfur fills the air from fireworks that burnt mere minutes ago. A dim night showered in sparks and embers from families all around. A small flame illuminates the faces of all those around who impatiently await the char-grilled food. A…

Aneudys Top 5 Picks of E3

E3 is long gone, and it’s safe to say the dust has settled. With solid conferences all around, from Ubisoft to Sony, I took some time to pick out some of my favorite announcements from the event. I’m not going…

What I’m Excited About After E3 2014

We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief because The Big Three has come and gone. Beforehand, we had only seen small slivers of what was going to be shown and with E3 over, the windows are opened to…

Opinion: It’s Time to Stop Being Excited About The Last Guardian

A fiasco happened a few weekends ago – the calm before the E3 storm. IGN, the internet’s largest game related site, reported that The Last Guardian was cancelled. The same day it was published, Sony’s Scott Rohde confirmed that the game…

The Timeless (and Frustrating) Tropes of JRPGs

There are few genres as synonymous with hardcore gaming like the RPG. There was a time in history when the Japanese dominated console gaming with their particular brand of role playing, based loosely on the pen and paper variety at…

The Long and the Short of it: A Debate Over Longevity in Games.

The essence of longevity in a game is something that most gamers strictly ask for, but do we really want a long game? A game that keeps us away from playing others because of its length? Does the fact that…

7 Ways to Get Awesome at Hearthstone

If you’ve gotten this far, than you and I have at least one thing in common: we think Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is pretty rad. But maybe you’ve given it a couple games and things just aren’t working out. Or maybe…

Microsoft: Primed and Ready

Microsoft has set themselves up for a huge success come this June. With the Xbox One reaching parity price with the Playstation 4, all they need is another software push to really drive home how serious they are about games.