Telltale Games has had a lot of success in the past creating memorable adventure games based on existing franchises. Its once-popular formula began to grow a bit stale, and when it attempted to mix things up with Jurassic Park: The Game, it was met with very little fanfare. Now it’s back with The Walking Dead, a five-episode adventure series that attempts to try something a little different once again, while staying true to the company’s winning adventure game formula. READ MORE
If you’re actually nerdy enough to come to this website, and even then actually read this column, you probably saw The Avengers in theaters this weekend. Heck, everyone did. I certainly did. And not just that, but I went to the midnight premiere. At a theater an hour away. And I got there at 11 a.m. and subsequently sat through every one of the Marvel Studios films leading up to The Avengers. What does this have to do with video games? Almost nothing.
But I wish it did. READ MORE
Like every good Nintendo fanboy, I awaited every bit of information about Nintendo’s next console like I’d just been tested after a week in Tijuana. Then one morning it was there: the reveal video for the Nintendo Wii. I loved the GameCube and couldn’t wait to see how Nintendo would fulfill all the promises made in that video. I’m still waiting. READ MORE
We’re back after a longer-than-usual break! In this episode, we discuss gray moral choice in games and how games like The Walking Dead do it so well. We discuss the world of MOBAs and MMOs more than we ever have before with talk of Awesomenauts and TERA, and we review the latest announcements and see that we’re finally getting all those multiplayer modes in our games. We’re not tired of that at all. We don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Hosts: Jeff DeSolla, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
A Valley Without Wind is a unique game and is almost entirely procedurally generated, which means the areas in the game are created randomly. An apocalyptic event has left the world shattered, broken, and untamed, with survivors scattered. Monsters are on the Earth and you are trying to overthrow the Overlord that rules the planet. READ MORE
