When I was but a wee lad, sometime in the early 90’s there was a new store that opened up in my hometown called Phar-Mor. It was not unlike your average Walgreens or CVS; a pharmacy with some essential grocery type goods. But Phar-Mor was something special. They had Nintendo rentals for 39 cents [...]

It isn’t often that I even want to make two consecutive posts about the same game, and it is even rarer that I actually do it. In fact, this may be the first–as far as I can recall.
That said, I have been playing a lot more of Borderlands and since my last post was only [...]

A friend of mine told me told me via Twitter about this newfangled game called Borderlands that he’d been playing.
He described it as “exactly what I expected from a game billed as first person Diablo. Loot, quests, and co-op play.” And, having grown up with this person and knowing that we grew up with [...]

Imagine being a kid again in the 80’s, the golden era of NES/Famicom videogames. I remember it like it was yesterday.
If you weren’t born yet in the 80’s, let me help you out, this is how everything went down: First you were kidnapped by an an evil Japanese man who digitizes himself and crowns himself [...]

Opinions about Final Fantasy VII have floated from “Best RPG ever made” to “Worst RPG ever made” and everywhere in between. Despite my personal opinions about the game itself, I can’t deny that Yoshinori Kitase wrote a compelling story full of genuine emotion and set the stage for something much larger than just a game.
Final [...]

War. War never changes.
It’s been several years since our last installment of a true fallout game. Fallout Tactics and Fallout Brotherhood of Steel were unsuccessful attempts to whet fans’ appetites while plans for a true sequel fell through. But finally, bethesda releases a true successor, both spritually and numerically.
This game is, in every sense [...]

Final Fantasy IV DS
Publisher: Square Enix
System: Nintendo DS
Genre: jRPG
This past July, Final Fantasy IV saw it’s fourth North American release since the original came to us under the disguise of “Final Fantasy II” in 1991. This game has appeared on the Super NES, Playstation, Gameboy Advance, and now on the Nintendo DS, (and even more [...]

The World Ends With You
Publisher: Square-Enix
System: Nintendo DS
Genre: RPG
I know I’m a little late on the draw here, but you know what, not every gamer has the chance to go out and buy every new game that comes out the day it releases, or much less has the time to play them all. Regardless, I [...]