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By Kristen Spencer, March 27, 2013 Comments Off News

The first reviews of Bioshock Infinite are rolling in, and it’s a landslide of praise – from the combat to the setting to the narrative, series creator Ken Levine and Irrational Games have literally blown Rapture out of the water… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, November 29, 2012 Comments Off News

We’ve made some pretty great strides in gender equality since the first suffragette chained herself to a railing, and yet women in the games industry are still struggling against sexism on a shockingly Mad Men-ian level. Following an Edge article… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, October 23, 2012 Comments Off News

Our beloved worlds of 1′s and 0′s might be fake, but the time spent exploring them is very real. And now you can document your imaginary travels with these gaming luggage labels, first in a series from British illustrator AJ Hately. Inspired… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, May 30, 2012 Comments Off News

When TVGB’s Rain Anderson asks you to risk life and taste bud to review a new energy gel shot targeted toward gamers, you cleanse your palate and fire up your word processor. You can read my review of GungHo below,… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, March 13, 2012 Comments Off News

The bad part about running a non-profit video game blog – the non-profit. Or the tentacle rape, if you’re running a Japanese non-profit video game blog. But I digress. My point is that I’ve been forced to strip off my… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, November 10, 2011 Comments Off News

Unlimited dragons, meet unlimited quests. According to game director Todd Howard, you’ll have plenty of time to master defeating Skyrim‘s infinite supply of dynamically generated wyverns, thanks to the game’s Radiant Story system, which will continue to generate quests ad… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, August 23, 2011 Comments Off News

The world of Borderlands was big, as in “it would take a solid hour of pedal to the metal driving to traverse planet Pandora’s Mad-Maxian wastelands” big, but its story – not so much. Out of 126 total missions, only… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, August 23, 2011 Comments Off News

Damn, that was one hell of a trailer! The game has yet to hit store shelves, and Dead Island already has a book deal. Bantam has announced it’s publishing the official novelisation of Deep Silver’s zombies-in-paradise game, penned by award-winning… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, August 23, 2011 Comments Off News

Level-5, the Japanese developer behind the delightful Professor Layton series, is making a game focused on those things girls love best – decorating their rooms, changing their clothes, and flirting with boorish Japanese business men. Girls’ RPG Cinderellife is basically… Read More »

By Kristen Spencer, July 19, 2011 Comments Off News

The Dead Rising series isn’t about the mundane concerns of the coming Zombocalypse, like finding shelter, food and water as you wait out mother nature’s final f*ck you, it’s about cramming as many zombies as possible onto the screen. And… Read More »