Celebrating The Art Of Video Games
As a companion book to the Smithsonian Museum’s exhibit on video games, The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect delves deeply into the concept that games are themselves art.
Category Archives: Reviews
Dawnguard Adds Life To Skyrim’s Vampires
The Dawnguard DLC for Skyrim adds a bunch of great things, like new perk trees for vampires and werewolves, mounted combat, crossbows and of course, a new adventure.
Ready, Set, Battle!
Billy hits the track this week as he wastes his time with Gas Guzzlers! You think he’d be past all that but, apparently, young men still like driving fast in circles. It’s Billy’s life in the Time Waster!
Putting The Amazing Back In Spider-Man
Years of playing second fiddle to Batman called for a reboot of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. And The Amazing Spider-Man game is as exciting as the new blockbuster movie.
Casting It’s Magic Spell
Warlock: Master of the Arcane eliminates much of the drudgery of turn-based strategy games and replaces it with a simple interface that lets players concentrate on what they love: combat.
Jack Sparrow and the Masters of the Sea
It’s Time Waster time again! This week Billy is costing his employers money by being a pirate! And not in some file sort of way. No, he’s got the Jack Sparrow thing going in the new Pirates of the Caribbean game!
A Dragon Takes Flight
Dragon’s Dogma is an action RPG with a lot of unique elements that set it apart from the pack. You can even loan your best AI helpers, known as pawns, to your friends.
An Ending We’ve Earned
Although it could be argued that we should have gotten this ending right from the start, the Extended Cut DLC for Mass Effect 3 wraps up a lot of loose ends.
Castle Defense Needs Work
Billy picks up after the storm, gets his power back, and then runs into another disaster in the form of Duncan Castle Defense, a game with a huge frustration factor to battle.
The Dark Eye Is A Bright Adventure
Although based on a popular pen and paper RPG from Europe, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is actually an old-school point and click adventure game with a new flavor.