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Final Fantasy Primer! (part two)

Here’s part one if you missed it. Now onto to letters I thru P! I is for… Irvine: The lone wolf cowboy sharp shooter from Final Fantasy VIII, and also the last member of your party you gather in the game. Irvine is as girl crazy as he is gun crazy and doesn’t get along [...]

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Final Fantasy Primer! (part one)

How much do I love the Final Fantasy franchise? Enough to tattoo an icon from the series on my body. But believe it or not I actually got involved with these games out of boredom. I really never thought they would appeal to me. RPG’s seemed boring and repetitive – point, select, fight repeat. But [...]

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Where’s Waldo? He’s Always In Your Heart. Also on your iPad.

I’m pretty sure this is the exact sentence that came out of my mouth while I was browsing the Apple App store the other day: “I really don’t need any more games for the iPad…ohmygod they have one with Waldo!” Did I download it? Considering I have an excess of credit from a recent birthday [...]

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Mortal Kombat: A MK Fan-boy’s Bloody Dream Come True

Fresh off the heels of Street Fighter simultaneously revamping their series but adding an old school throwback of game play with new age graphics and technology, Mortal Kombat released its first release for the next gen systems (by which I mean worth talking about, because Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was a disgrace).  The developers [...]

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3 Ways to Save In Video Games That I Don’t Miss

Lots of things have changed in games over the years, like graphics, sound, gameplay – pretty much everything. Pac Man and Grand Theft Auto don’t have much in common besides a controller. But the methods of saving games has evolved along with all the rest of that flashier stuff.  And thank god for that. Because [...]

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