We finally made it to the final act! By now, you are probably sick of my weekend long manifesto on the things that I hate about modern videogames. I started off with mandatory tutorial levels and quick time events. Then I covered the flaws of modern action games with regenerative health and the flood of [...]

In my last article, I brought up the first two things I hate about modern videogames. I began with how games I hate playing start off with mandatory tutorial levels and then I went into the greatest buzz kill in action games. Now I will cover what has hurt action games(specifically first person shooters) over [...]

Last week I was one of the speakers at the IGDA Orlando chapter meeting. I had almost missed it due to some… complications. (*ahem*) However, I did get to present my topic in Pecha Kucha presentation form to a captivated audience that consisted mostly of college students.
I am sure I told those students things [...]

Last decade, music games were huge and they haven’t died off yet. When you think of music games, you think of dance pads and plastic toy guitars. WRONG. Instead, you should be thinking about the video game version of a technicolor raveland.
Rez combined an interactive music experience with rail shooter gameplay that looks like something [...]

Tonight at 9pm Eastern standard time is another exciting episode of the Wheldon Smiley Show! Wheldon Smiley, the world’s greatest game show host, will be discussing Anime Festival Orlando and I will be the featured guest of tonight’s show!
What will I be talking about? There is another live action game at AFO this year called [...]

Capcom announced Marvel vs Capcom 3 a couple weeks ago. A list of characters was revealed and then a bunch of internet types started putting together lists of who they think should be in the game. All of them were terrible.
Dear Capcom,
I bought several of your games last week and I love you guys very [...]

This was already assumed but now it’s topical so I will talk about The King of Fighters XIII. SNK has announced that they will have a play test in April in Japan which leads me to believe that it’s been worked on since the last one came out.
I expect that it will be based on [...]

New screens of Hokuto Musou(that Dynasty Warriors game about Fist of the North Star) came out and Juza of the Clouds is in it! For those of you who don’t know, Juza is a fucking badass, a pimp, and a troll all at the same time. He was one of the five Nanto Chariot [...]

The second annual Global Game Jam begins tomorrow! Once again, I will be participating in the Orlando session. I’m pretty pumped because I’ll get to work with a lot of the Full Sail homies (how come nobody from the other game schools go to this?) and make something awesome! Last year, I got to work [...]

Brotha Kyo’s Banzai Pecan finally has a recording session underway! It looks like 3-5 characters in the game shall be recorded today, which is excellent news as it has taken many months for this session to come to fruition. One of my Propeller Anime Club members, Emilio Lopez-Centellas, is handling the session as the audio [...]