• MMO Home Away From Home

    MMOs Are The Perfect Home Away From Home

    My New Year’s resolution of 2016 is to swap out my time watching YouTube with gaming. My thinking is that watching videos is a passive pastime, but playing games is active. Since MMOs are huge and always getting updates I chose Final Fantasy XIV as my ‘Game of the...
  • Overwatch Taught Console Gamers Teamwork

    How Overwatch Taught Console Gamers Teamwork

    Multiplayer has long been a staple of the gaming community. Competitive titles like Unreal and Quake have provided PC gamers with years of intense matches and tournaments. These games were some of the first to base their gameplay off an exciting combination of first-person shooting and multiplayer competition. The games...
  • Will Pokemon Go Change the Public Opinion of Gamers?

    Everyone is probably sick of hearing about Pokemon Go but indulge me. Here in China, Pokemon Go is unavailable so I can’t sink my teeth into it despite being a Pokemon devotee. Still, my brain can’t help but veer toward the app. Trawling through my Pokemon saturated news feed got me thinking....
  • The Whole Konami Thing

    The Whole Konami Thing

    That whole Metal Gear Survive trailer shebang was pretty funny. A lot of outcry which is understandable, Konami being Konami and fans being fans. Me? I’m on the fence. Metal Gear doesn’t like me, and I don’t really like it. But since I’m enamored with other titles from the Japanese...
  • Toxic Game Community

    Is the Gaming Community a Toxic Environment?

    Recently, Blizzard has implemented a change to the in-game chat in Overwatch’s public test realm. Players could no longer type GG EZ in the in-game chat and instead would show alternative text. This was to prevent players from discouraging teams that had less successful matches with words of criticism....
  • Console Generations

    Console Generations Are Not Necessary

    Memories For a second, I’m going to pretend that it is 2006. The Nintendo Wii has just released and my father and I wait in lines outside of different stores each Sunday, to the point where it has become a weekend tradition for the two of us. The excitement...
  • Why Elder Scrolls Legends Worse Than Hearthstone

    Why Elder Scrolls Legends Is Worse Than Hearthstone

    Before I get started, I’d like to note that I am aware that Elder Scrolls Legends is not finished yet. I’ll even confess that I was skeptical about their latest mobile game. But I did enjoy Fallout Shelter. Yet, every time I look at the site for Elder Scrolls...
  • Saving Megaman Legends

    Mega Man Legends: Game in Crisis

    I have been a huge supporter of finishing the Mega Man Legends series since the third game’s cancellation in 2011. I have been with the Facebook page “100,000 Strong For Bringing Back Mega Man Legends.” since they launched as well. Recently they have launched a new campaign named “Operation...
  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Smartest Shooter of 2016

    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Smartest Shooter of 2016

    Deus Ex returns to the current gen after a 5-year absence, and boy is it good to be back. The game once again follows augmented super-cop, Adam Jensen, as he works with a top-secret Interpol group, Task Force 29. The squad’s main objective is to monitor and disrupt terrorist...