Home is where the heart is and I left my heart in these seven places. These are my favorite video game towns/cities/villages/etc.
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My top seven superhero games are here to save the day… UP, UP, and AWAAAAY!
I guess I’m a real fan of Generation 1… these are my top seven favorite Pokemon!
These are my top seven favorite developers, and my favorite games from each one!
These are my seven favorite VGM composers, the musicians behind the games.
Marvel’s Spider-Man may just be the greatest Spidey film ever made, but with great hype comes great responsibility.
In this EarthBound episode, the idyllic vision of America, the death of innocence, the lost art of memorable NPCs, and more.
These are my picks for the must-have games that the PlayStation Classic should definitely include but probably won’t!
Final Fantasy Tactics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, themes of equality and corruption, and how the heck you are supposed to pronounce “Beoulve”, anyway.
Horizon Zero Dawn is a feast for fans of all things science fiction from Planet of the Apes to Terminator to Asimov’s Foundation.
It is time to ask ourselves: is game quality improving? I approach this question through the lens of averages and total releases across platforms.
Alien: Isolation podcast with much fear and trembling in the context of the Alien film franchise and other Alien video games.
The Punisher follows a rich tradition of incredibly fun and actually decently designed licensed video games by Capcom.
Cosmic Star Heroine is a combination of recognizable influences but it doesn’t let all that inspiration go to waste.
Journey was the subject of the very first episode of Mage Cast but like sand, the pod was course and rough and got everywhere.
I sort of promised a list of hidden gems but I came to the stark realization that figuring out what a hidden gem is is hard!
Here it is all in one place: my Top 111 (that’s one-hundred eleven) favorite games of all time! It’s a faves list, not a best of!
Vectrex, Tim Skelly, and Armor Attack may not mean a whole lot to many millions today but learning more about this era of gaming with its ghostly vector lines can be fun.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse de Lamartine
What is the function and purpose of a game review/critique?
Slime-san: Superslime Edition worms its way onto PS4 and it’s smarter, faster, and tougher than you. An evolutionary advantage.
I’ve got eight slugs in me. One’s lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop and I pack a revolver.
-Tracer Bullet, Calvin and Hobbes
Certainly, I’m sure you’re very busy and I’m very busy and maybe we don’t have as much time to play games as we would like. But my hope is that with Nintendo Switch being a system that you can play at home and bring with you, we’re going to be able to find more of those moments where we’re able to play the games that we all enjoy and be able to enjoy them that much more.
-Yoshiaki Koizumi
The Xbox 360 is the first console that I’ve ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we’ve had on PC.
-John Carmack
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo’s success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
-Hiroshi Yamauchi
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
My wife asked me what I wanted to do this weekend for Father’s Day and I thought about it… then a grin crept onto my face and I began writing this article.
Riffing on the anti-predictive post I crafted for the upcoming Smash Bros. Ultimate, here are like a billion honorable mentions that just couldn’t make it on my list of 24. Thank the internet for these (except for Altered Beast; I made that one)! Hire me, Nintendo.
Happy Father’s Day weekend!
-The Well-Red Mage
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One of the reasons that older gamers mourned the loss of the Dreamcast was that it signaled the demise of arcade gaming culture … Sega’s console gave hope that things were not about to change for the worse and that the tenets of fast fun and bright, attractive graphics were not about to sink into a brown and green bog of realistic war games.
-1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Duncan Harris
Marvel: “Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history!”
Me:
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
