The Modern Day Pirates

I adore being scared. Not the “ew-blood-and-gore-and-oh-god-are-those-brains-I-can-see-pouring-out” kind of scared, but the “tiptoeing through the dark woods and hearing a noise you can’t identify and holy-crap-maybe-it’s-a-killer-or-a-werewolf-or-a-sparkly-vampire” kind of scared. But alas, I am now in a relationship with someone who is pretty ho-hum when it comes to scary movies, so I don’t really get a [...]

At look back at the titles that made me a gamer as a kid, and how they hooked me back in as an adult.

Last October I decided that going to the gym is boring. Well, I thought this all along but still went on a semi-weekly basis because it was the right thing to do. Although I never minded the actual exercise, I really hated the monotony of the programs. So when Nintendo announced last fall that it [...]

I am rarely interested in games that involves regular people. Most of the time I like video game protagonists that are supernatural or supernormal with attributes that move them beyond the realm of hum-drum realism. This is one of the reasons I like playing-I get to be someone else and usually their story is epic [...]

Today, at 11AM Eastern time, The Super Mario Marathon will return for its third annual charity drive. What does that mean, you ask? Picture three guys sitting on a couch playing Mario games for nearly three days straight, only instead of this being a scene from my middle school years, they’re raising an incredible amount [...]

None of my friends will play Scene It! with me anymore! After working in the video rental world for about ten years of my adult life, I have to admit that I am a mighty challenging opponent. But come on…really?

A look into what could prove to be the best “I have no idea what’s going on” game of the year.