Archive for the ‘Video Games’ Category
This article originally appeared on Kombo, through whom I was able to attend THQ’s Metro 2033 event in San Franisco.
It’s about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Pacific Standard Time, and I’m in downtown San Francisco standing beneath Route 80. I’m exhausted, and the Starbucks vanilla latte I called “breakfast” is not doing its job. Hours [...]
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a fucking amazing video game, and everybody knows it. On September 19, 2009, Chris Roper, Editor-in-Chief of the IGN PlayStation Team, published one of the first reviews of Uncharted 2. “There came a point when I was early in the game, and I couldn’t wipe the smile off of my [...]
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This past Saturday I visited the Second Circle of Hell – Lust. Actually, I visited Phoenixville, PA, but let’s be honest, there’s a bit of an overlap. While Phoenixville may lack all the scenic phallic and vaginal architecture that the Second Circle of Hell boasts, it certainly is just as desolate and detached from the [...]
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This article originally appeared on The Wiire. It was the third installment of my then biweekly column.
A new Zelda is coming. It’s official. So now seems as good a time as any to discuss what direction Shigeru Miyamoto needs to take the franchise in. I emphasize needs since Miyamoto recently told Nintendo Power that the [...]
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When Capcom unveiled the teaser trailer for Resident Evil 5 at last year’s E3, it was immediately put under a microscope to study the game’s supposed racial imagery. Many members within the video game community – white and black alike – voiced discomfort experienced while viewing the trailer, most notably game journalists Bonnie Ruberg [...]
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For my first freelance assignment with 1UP.com, Matt Leone asked me to write an article based off a Q&A with Propaganda Games’ Josh Holmes. Ultimately, the full article I submitted was trimmed down to accommodate the Q&A as well. I didn’t want the original piece to go to waste, however, so I have posted it [...]
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This article originally appeared in the 06-06-07 issue of Play, a Philadelphia-based entertainment magazine. The images below link to full-size scans of the magazine article pages.
Usually around this time each year, press from all over the world would flock to Los Angeles to cover the media blitz that was E3. Well, times have changed, [...]
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This article originally appeared in the 05-23-07 issue of Play, a Philadelphia-based entertainment magazine. The images below link to full-size scans of the magazine article pages.
Boop-boop-boop – that all too familiar timer counts down to my respawn as I tap my foot impatiently. Suddenly I’m back in the fray, the mayhem of battle still [...]
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