It’s been over a month since I first slipped Skyrim into my Xbox 360, installed it and delved into its world. Maybe I should have installed Windows sooner so that I could appreciate it on a PC. There’s something about Elder Scrolls games that make them just work better when you’re hunched over a mouse [...]

Oh. Gross image. I now see Juno all faceless and talking on her hamburger phone. Alternatively faceless Kitty Pryde having to suffer through the “I’m the Juggernaut bitch!” scene in that movie I don’t want to talk about. Anyways here is a photo of Ellen Page as seen in the FANTASTIC Hard Candy. Now here [...]

VGAs, heir to the video game award throne (dur), we need to talk. I feel like you’ve missed the point of awards ceremonies. When the Oscars began waaaay back in 1929 it was to fix an image problem Hollywood had. Germany was killing it cinematically and Hollywood was a group of degenerates making naughty films. [...]

Look, we’ve all done some pretty unsavory things in video games. Hell, last week I spent over thirty hours murdering people with a giant purple dildo bat and taking cops hostage only to break their necks. It was truly awful. After a while the crunch of breaking bones grew wearisome. Then disturbing. Five minutes of [...]

Saints Row 3 is horrifically violent and exploitative. There is an entire sequence where you kill wave after wave of nubile strippers. Their half-naked bodies pile up as blood coats the screen and your cohorts call them bitches. And you know what? It is still some of the most fun I’ve had playing a game [...]

I’ve played a lot of AAA video game titles in the last month. AAA titles are the big ones. The ones your parents and grandparents have heard of. The ones you see commercials for at the movie theater. Games like Gears of War, Arkham City, and more recently, Modern Warfare 3. And as I’ve played [...]

My major issues with Uncharted 3 occurred late in the game. So if you want to avoid spoilers (and you should) it may be wise to go play the game and come back. I can safely say I loved the game and recommend it, I just can’t quite review it without either being absurdly evasive [...]

I’m new to the Battlefield series. My military shooter experience has always revolved around Tom Clancy properties and Call of Duty. Coming into the game I knew that vehicles were a thing and that maps were ginormous. What I didn’t know, what I couldn’t anticipate, was the lip service for people tired of sausage-fest in [...]

What’s really struck me as interesting regarding the kerfuffle around Arkham City‘s use of the word “bitch” is how many men have noticed it and commented on it. It’s not like 90% of misogynistic things occurring in video games and comics where women take note and men tell them to shut the hell up. The [...]

The Dragon Age II  DLC, “Mark of the Assassin” does a great job of highlighting everything right and everything wrong with the series. It’s especially good at subtly showing how excellent the new take on narrative in the game was. But before I get into eloquent criticism of the narrative style of Dragon Age 2 [...]