I always have topics for the Coin-Op that are simply too short to stretch out into an entire post. It’s really unfortunate, but I’ve found a way around that — the mystical, Internet omnibus. I decided that it was time to go over a few of my grievances and solutions. Price and Content Games are [...]

With the advent of online gaming, and software sharing applications such as Steam, we are gaining a newer and greater modes of gameplay.  The most recent earth-shaking revelation has been ‘free to play’ gaming, or FTP.  Games of this nature follow the trail of microtransactions, a model by which you play the entirety of the [...]

If you’ve played any recent games touted as ‘survival horror’ you have almost definitely played Dead Space 2 or Resident Evil 5, or if you’re a big indie player you may have played Amnesia: The Dark Descent.  If you played either of the first two you’d understand that, while those games make you jump in [...]

I found it necessary, when I realized that 2012 was fast approaching, to purchase Bethesda’s Fallout: New Vegas and play through it on its ‘Hardcore’ setting so I might prepare myself for the coming apocalypse. It’s pretty much been proven by science, or something, that the world will meet its demise sometime in December and [...]

Name dropping has never really gotten gamers anywhere. Do you know anyone who has honestly never heard of Martin Scorsese? Or what about anyone who’s never heard of Stephen King?  But, what about Peter Molyneux? Or Cliff Bleszinski? Will Wright?  Bing Gordon? Dave Jaffe, Richard Garriott, Hideo Kojima, Sid Meier, Suda 51, Tim Schafer, Jonathan [...]

The most rampant problem among gamers is Occam’s Razor.  If you’ve never heard of this principle, it is that the simplest explanation is probably the best.  This is a problem because it means we can’t get to the real root of something being wrong, and in the case of Brink that’s a big problem. When [...]

The point I immediately want to get to is that motion controls suck.  See, a bad control scheme can ruin a game and a bad controller can ruin a system.  Motion controls have some of the worst problems plaguing gaming today, and most of them have to do with how large the amount of work [...]