There are days where normal society deems that we will succeed with greater furver if you hide our geekiness, or just quel it enough to pass through unnoticed. These days are the ones I have deemed “Sucky days”. Vancouver is still a baby when it comes to celebrating our geeks, our gamers, and our nerds. But the intention is strong...
Round-Up: Playstation 4 Event
Hey guys! Like many others, I was glued to my stream of the Playstation event from Sony last night. A lot of things were brought to the table, and a lot of things were completely brushed over. I’m going to go through all of the biggest announcements and ghosts from the event and rate each one in a score that...
Golden Gun: Video Game Drugs
If you’re at the age where you’re old enough to find yourself questioning why the hell you even play video games anymore, then you almost remember the “Winners Don’t Use Drugs” arcade slogan. That ugly blue pixelated logo goes hand-in-hand with arcade memories for me, so much so that I half feel like I’m about to get my ass kicked...
CoNoJo’s Top Games of 2012
2012 is officially the year in video gaming that confused the hell out of me. It took me far too much time and research to even really remember what came out this year, and of the AAA titles I could remember off-hand, none of them came to mind without serious caveats. Far Cry 3 grew too tiresome too quickly, Diablo 3 came...
THQ – The Rise and Fall of the Headquarters for Toys
The final bell has tolled, the curtain’s been called, the…ending metaphor has been exhausted, and the once-great name in gaming that is THQ is no more. If you’ve been following the stories in the news for the past week you’ll likely know as much as I do as to how it all carved out, but I’ll give you all a...
GB Visits: East Side Games
Family. One thing that is always lost in any transactions, of nearly any amount (be it employees, money, businesses), is family. I’ve never heard an employee at a major developer talk about solidarity within their walls. However, this has been something that indie developers have grown to be known for. Here in Vancouver, the “underground scene” has been rising from...
Game of the Year 2012
It has been a monumental year for gaming and all of us so who take part in that world. So I bring you MY list of the best titles of 2012 and my game of the year, with a couple of runners-up thrown in. This year we’ve seen Assassins built on Vengeance, and the abduction of Little Girls. We’ve seen Galaxies...
Adventures in Azeroth Update #1
To my darling Dawwn, It’s not friendly out here. It hasn’t been easy. After I solved some major issues at the grove on the Darkshore, I headed south. I met the most curious character. A human dark wizard from the eastern islands. His name was Durrca and he taught me a few things about being higher rank in Azeroth. He...
Adventures in Azeroth
09/06/12 Dear Dawwn and Family, I started my journey today. It was hard to leave you and the boy behind in order to perfect the ideals of our future, but as a provider I didn’t see any other way. I know we argued this for years before it eventually came to fruition, and I hope it’s still not held against me among my...
Borderlands 2′s “Girlfriend Mode” Sets Idiots Ablaze Online
It’s and odd conundrum and one that I tend to stray away from. I know a lot of great female gamers, even ones that can completely kick my ass (aka Mrs Violence) but I’ve never once saw a female gamer and thought “oh, she probably sucks”. However, the “smrt” people at EuroGamer struck another blunder today when they apparently accurately quoted Gearbox...
10 Reasons why The Amazing Spider-Man is the best Spider-Man Film.
As a giant Spider-Man fan, I was extremely excited that we got another shot at a great franchise of movies starring the hilariously tainted teenager. Out is Raimi and Maguire and in comes Webb and Garfield. 10. The Tone: You see, the deepest concern I had with the original trilogy was the tone of the setting. New York in the eyes of Peter Parker...
A Small Tribute to Radical Entertainment
These past few weeks have brought us a lot of things, one of which I don’t think anyone saw coming. The closure of Radical Entertainment. For years, Radical has been a homestead and headquarters of awesomeness in Vancouver. Since its conception in 1991, this subsidiary of Activision has made some great games that will forever be remembered. The founding members were...
Golden Gun: Cities in Gaming
I’m at a point of my life where a lot of my friends take time and travel the world in order to see the beautiful thing that other cultures have to offer. This inspired me to think about my favorite destinations in the virtual world. What are the top cities in gaming? Runner-up: Midgar, Gaia (Final Fantasy VII) It was the first time...
Honor & Shame: E3 2012
In our latest feature, We will be taking one subject and highlight the best and the worst of said concept. With this week being the big thunderous E3 week, we want to choose what games we thought had the high point, and the low point of the show. Watch_Dogs The new title from Ubisoft boasts what I assume is all...
E3 2012: The Nintendo Conference
It’s to be expected, I suppose, that since this is the year of Nintendo’s next hardware launch that we’re not going to get a conference chock full of new first-party announcements. In an interview soon after the conference Reggie Fils-Aime himself even said that the focus of Nintendo’s press conference was less about big titles coming in the distant future,...
E3 2012: The Sony Conference
Sony, as they are often want to do, had themselves a press conference today. And the fact that now moments after its conclusion I’m looking through my notes to see what was discussed can only really tell me that there wasn’t too much to get excited over. There were a couple of announcements, some potentially novel new gaming ideas, and...
E3 2012: The Ubisoft Conference
It was at about the moment where they showed off Rayman: Legends, their third of three games they had brought out at the press conference that made me say “Damn I want that game” when I realized that Ubisoft was having hands-down the best conference of the day. I don’t know what’s going on. Everything’s turned upside-down. The list of...
E3 2012: The EA Conference
It’s slowly dawning on me that this may be the E3 year that’s not about games or hardware. Gaming is now a service industry, with platforms and software coming in secondarily to that all-important, ever-financially-viable service provision. And no one seems to be as on this as EA. While there were some interesting games shown, it felt like everything else...
E3 2012: The Microsoft Conference
The lines have opened, the starting gun’s been fired, and with the conclusion of Microsoft’s press conference we are officially underway. Well, technically E3 proper starts tomorrow, but that’s just being nitpicky. But, yah, Microsoft just had themselves a conference. And I took notes! A lot of them, in fact, though most of which would likely be inelegant to say...
To The Polls! #3
So considering that we keep getting bigger, and we can’t keep everything stagnant for more than a few months before we need to upgrade, we’ve introduced the GB Forums! YAY! This weeks poll is in relation! Last Week: you guys voted and it was “Intruiging Gameplay” that came out on top of what you guys like from the Indie...