For those with unrequited love, lost love, forsaken love, and heartache, this post is for you. It is Valentine’s Day.
Video Game
A critique of the gore-spattered boomer shooter Boltgun from the grimdark Warhammer 40K universe that harkens back to the golden age of FPS.
Action figures duke it out with wrestling legends in WrestleQuest, a turn-based RPG from Mega Cat Studios that hits like a pile driver!
From aliens to zombies and everything in between, Gamescom Opening Night Live featured a host of announcements and we’ve got ’em all here! Well, most of them, maybe.
Learn about the stories that inspired the themes of Final Fantasy VI: Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke.
Here’s the start of my top 365 games list! How many of these favorite video games do we actually share in common?
You may be surprised just how much some of these iconic video game characters have changed!
It’s Super Smash Bros. except with indie characters… but is there actually a game worth playing underneath any of that?
Can two space operas perform in unison? Find out in the latest “Cause and Effect Ratio”, focusing on The Fifth Element and if it inspried Mass Effect.
With the “Super Mario Multiverse”, we take a look inside the spooky and spectacular handheld sequel to Luigi’s Mansion! Does it stand a ghost of a chance?
Today I woke in a chocolate haze… I felt sick. I called out to…
Despite my multiple frustrations, countless deaths, and whispered curses every time Mike took forever to turn around, StarTropics is a game I’m glad I stuck out to the end.
Fight’N Rage for Nintendo Switch, developed by sebagamesdev, fixes many problems with the beat ’em up genre. How? Find out.
Some geese aren’t looking for anything logical … Some geese just want to watch the world burn.
-Alfred Pennyworth [paraphrased]
When I was a kid, growing up on three acres of land in the middle of the Hawaiian rainforest on an electric generator, I didn’t have many video games and I didn’t get to play them as frequently as I can now. This is more than I deserve.
In the name of Loric, King of the Elves, Demon begone!
-A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
It is time to ask ourselves: is game quality improving? I approach this question through the lens of averages and total releases across platforms.
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!
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?
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
If you can’t play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it’s not a song.
-Christopher Cross
“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”
(We are but dust and shadow.)
-The Odes of Horace
Friday’s TWRM Radio “Hearth”, a collection of town and city themes for homesickness.
This new series is dedicated in loving affection to the great musical artistry of gaming.
“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock n’ roll.”
-Shigeru Miyamoto
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
2 years, 552 posts, and 1,132,132 words later… The Well-Red Mage is now entering Year Three!
Over two dozen wordsmiths lent their voices to this collaborative project, which must certainly be among the largest and most diverse undertakings ever to honor Final Fantasy in writing.
