Author: John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.

Answering The Call Again With Stalker Call of Pripyat

The third title in the critically acclaimed series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat takes the absolute best shooter and RPG elements of the original games and wraps it into an exciting open-world experience.

9 Shows What Blu-ray Can Do

The movie 9 sort of bridges the gap between a video game-like world and the movies, and looks amazing while doing it. But the plot is pretty much par for the course.

Combat As Real As It Gets

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising offers a shooter that is more like a military simulation. Whether or not gamers will embrace this concept is up for debate.

Putting Life Into The Dead

Left 4 Dead 2 brings us a whole new group of survivors from the zombie apocalypse. And while it maintains the flavor of the original, it also makes up for a lot of its sins.

Borderlands Sits Between Shooter And RPG Action

Borderlands offers a cel-shaded Mad Max-type of wasteland world where you can find billions of different guns to kill enemies in exiting and unique ways. What could be better?

Wet And Wild Action

New anti-hero Rubi comes to play with her sword, guns and tons of insane acrobatic moves in Wet. With more blood than a 70’s drive-in flick, Wet offers a thrill a second from beginning to violent end.

MMOing During The Apocalypse

If you’re tired of playing MMOs with wood elves and orcs, the world of Fallen Earth can offer fun with firearms and dirt bikes, plus a chance for a great suntan courtesy of the apocalypse.

An RPG Rising

Risen is a new RPG that was released without a lot of fanfare. But with a purely open world and unique character leveling, could it be an Oblivion killer?

Finding The Majesty Again

When developer Cyberlore went under, we thought the innovative Majesty series was gone forever. But Paradox brought it back, and Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is better than ever.

Keeping Up With The Movies

Nearly as cute as the movie, the Up game also proves that multi-person titles can be fun and challenging, as well as appropriate for children of all ages.