Posts tagged with "Gaming"
"The Escapists" Review
Escaping from prison has been a pretty consistent trope in pop culture. You’ve got shows like Prison Break and Oz and movies like The Rock, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Care Bears Escape From Alcatraz. Still haven’t seen that one. However, while it’s popular in other forms of media, we haven’t had that many video games about...
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Crowdfunded Video Games
Crowdfunding has given us plenty of interesting projects. Everything from the Pebble smartwatch to the popular board game Exploding Kittens originated on crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter. And then there was the guy that raised $55,000 to make potato salad. What a time to be alive. However, crowdfunding campaigns have also...
Utah Jazz All-Star Gordon Hayward Has Game off the Hardwoods
NBA All-Star Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz is a huge gamer. In fact, while he was playing at Butler he had to ask special permission from his coach to make sure competing in a Halo competitive tournament wouldn’t violate NCAA rules (it didn’t). And he won. He also took Butler to the NCAA Championship game in 2010. Although...
Nintendo Switches Things Up With New Console
Nintendo has experienced the best of times and the worst of times over its many decades in the video game industry. The Japanese giant has had ups and downs with its console releases, striking out with the GameCube in 2001 only to hit a grand slam with the Wii in 2006, and then striking out again with the Wii U in 2012. On March 3,...
Can the Foundation Update for No Man's Sky Bring People Back?
Video game releases are fickle. Sometimes an unknown gem is released to critical acclaim, and other times a heavily anticipated Triple-A title falls victim to its own hype, failing miserably to meet expectations (perhaps what you might call the "Half-Life 3 Problem"). The latter was certainly the case with the release of No Man's Sky...
NES Classic Edition In Short Supply
If you’re like me, your top priority over the past week has been obtaining the recently launched NES Classic Edition (or "NES Mini") console. And, if you’re like me, you were disappointed to see that getting an NES Mini at a reasonable price at the moment is about as easy as getting a self-driving car that prints money and makes...
