A few months ago, my friend and local gamestore owner handed me a demo pack of a game he received called Iconica. Knowing I was a game designer, he wanted to know what I thought, because the designer of Iconica lives in the same city as I. I read through the rules and examined the [...]

Let’s review: 1991 – Final Fantasy IV is released in the USA as Final Fantasy II. I was 7 years old. Sometime around 1995 or so I finally get my hands on this game and play the hell out of it…to the end. Circa 1996 – Emulation rises in popularity. I learn that I can [...]

…is awesome. Go play it. Have a great week! Okay okay okay, I guess I need to do a little more than that, don’t I? If you haven’t been told yet (in which case, your friends are jerks) Fallout: New Vegas is the latest installment in the Fallout franchise; think of it as an aside [...]

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 a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]