Video Games

Video game reviews and thoughts on gaming.

  • The Unrequited Android

    CAUTION SPOILERS! Kara at Zlatko’s, Connor in the police archives, and Markus in Jericho. All of my androids are dead. They never got to the camps or did they pacify the police with a song. This past July, Sony Playstation Plus offered Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human as a “free” download (“Free” in quotes because

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  • SPOILERS! SPOILERS! I’m writing about the ending of the main story in CD Projeckt Red’s The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. If knowing how a story ends hampers you’re enjoyment of it, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER! Bookmark this post to read after you are done. Leave a comment to let me know whether you

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  • I had fun at last month’s Play NYC Convention. I enjoyed meeting the game makers and playing their games. I went with my sister and my son. We started at the top of the Hammerstein Ballroom and wound our way down. The first game we played was Frost Lab Studio’s Orbit Quest. It’s a single

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  • ImaJunation’s Bad Days is one of my favorite sources for superhero parodies. POSSIBLE SPOILERS WARNING! I liked the movies (the new ones and the old ones) and the TV shows (the cartoons and the live-action), but it wasn’t until I played the Arkham City video game that I actually wanted to read a Batman comic.

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  • Pictures from the Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 celebration at SIR Stage 37.

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  • This Year’s NYCC 2011

    Like talking to teenagers about sex, not enough conversation happens between elementary/middle school students and their adult counterparts (teachers and parents) about video games. If the questions are asked the responses are finite “Nos.” (I don’t think I need to tell you how well abstinence works as birth control.) At my local library kids stand

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  • Conversations about this year’s combined New York Comic Con (NYCC) and New York Anime Festival (NYAF) would not be complete without mention of Marvel’s Superhero Squad – cute cherubic depictions of existing Marvel characters with oversized hands and feet and Kewpie doll smiles like Japanese Super Deformed (SD) or Chibi drawings. In addition to the

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  • PS40-something

    http://www.youtube.com/v/-EDAjoLGQyQ&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> I’ve been calling it my “succumbing to mid-life crisis” purchase (in addition to the electric guitar). For my birthday this year I bought myself a Playstation 3 (or as the young people refer to it – a PS3). I convinced myself that the PS3 was more than just a video game console –

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