Ten years.
I’ve been lucky enough to be around for almost six of them, but even from the inside, it’s an impressive number. The site was started by four guys in San Antonio before it was common to set out on your own like that, writing about games you love under a united banner with a common goal.
The media environment is way more fragmented these days, and we’ve certainly reconfigured ourselves a few times to find a place for us in the changing landscape. I hope we’ve been successful.
In many ways, though, that’s not what matters. READ MORE
Not often can a game earnestly tout itself as a nigh-perfect package of gameplay, audiovisual presentation and narrative and, even if it can, there is usually some other critical flaw that it faces that sadly mars the overall experience. But, once in a very, very, very great while, some game passes through that gauntlet of development and reaches a state akin to Nirvana amongst games; a place where the true legends thrive and real gaming history is made and its players can count themselves truly privileged to have experienced it. This is where the game can stand with the classics of the other arts in a veritable pantheon of greatness.
One of these games is Persona 4 Golden. READ MORE
Three years ago, Batman: Arkham Asylum redefined superhero games, licensed games and even action games. We haven’t seen anyone attempt to re-create what Arkham Asylum did and pull it off as successfully. Arkham City proved that the formula still works, and the addition of an open world added a lot to an already great formula. Now we have the Armored Edition, the Wii U version of one of last year’s best releases. It provides all of the content you would want out of Arkham City with a few interesting Wii U specific changes, some better than others. READ MORE
The Wii U version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II had a very simple goal: replicate the true Call of Duty experience on a Nintendo system. For the first time, it’s succeeded, delivering a game that’s incredibly similar to its 360/PS3 counterpart and featuring just enough new functionality to forgive some shaky moments and occasional feature pruning elsewhere. READ MORE
For many years now, Tetris has been considered one of the best games ever made. Appealing to thousands and played my millions, it must be the most successful game of all time, selling to both hardcore gamers and grandmas alike and pushing the Game Boy ahead of its competition. It has joined the ranks of Space Invaders and Ms. Pac-Man in mainstream culture, and had an endless influence on the industry. READ MORE
