Spider-Man: Edge of Time is a follow-up to Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. There were four Spider-Men in that game. This one has two. Activision and its developer, Beenox, aimed for a tighter focus with this game than they did in Shattered Dimensions – just not in the right places. (more…)
The following is the latest in a series of journal entries chronicling the author’s descent into next-gen gaming degeneracy – from getting his first television in years to trying to figure out why the @$@‚$)@ you need two goddamn directional pads just to walk down a fucking hallway.
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As much as I love to complain, I’ve gotta say I’d be hard-pressed to come up with many negatives about this Rookie of the Year experiment.
But perhaps there is one downside, one dark, dusty, cobwebby corner of my indoctrination into the hi-def world of next-gen gaming: I now dislike – nay, despise – my Wii. (more…)
Videogame reviews suck. Reviewers blast through games to get the review out before release day only to have readers skim the details and go straight to the rating, ranking or score – which doesn’t matter anyway because most people have already decided whether or not to buy a game before they sat down to read about it. Unwinnable isn’t into that. Instead, we present the videogame Post Mortem, a breakdown of important aspects of a given game, well after we’ve finished it and digested the experience. If you don’t want to know plot details about the games covered in Post Mortem, don’t read on.
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Bastion, from Supergiant Games, is the story of the Kid in the days after The Calamity. The Kid was a soldier at the city gates and he slept through the end of the world. He headed to The Bastion, the place to meet when the bad things go down. There, the Kid meets a stranger who tells him they must find their world’s cores to save The Bastion. The Bastion is the last hope for the world’s salvation.
An action roleplaying game with inventive level design and even more impressive sound design, Bastion is one of the finest downloadable games around. Yes, all of this has been covered in reviews before, but this is something that stretches throughout the entire game!
Twenty-year-old British man Chris Staniforth died in May after developing deep vein thrombosis from playing Xbox without moving for 12 hours at a time, the Huffington Post reported yesterday. The condition, which triggers swelling and dizziness, is usually attributed to sitting for long periods of time, such as during long flights. In Staniforth’s case, a blood clot traveled up his leg into the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism. (more…)
Lamenting Mass Effect 2 for PS3
I waited in line to buy Mass Effect 2. I never wait in line for games, never bother getting up at midnight and camping outside a videogame store to get home at 1 a.m. and fall asleep for another day of work. It makes no sense, really, makes less sense than weight loss diet based around beer and doughnuts.
But I actually trotted happily to my car on that January night, braved the cold (which if you know me you’ll know I hate), and stood outside my local Gamestop with some guys who were doing their Commander Shepard impressions and patiently waited for Mass Effect 2.
And I’ve now spent exactly 144 hours kicking myself – or rather wishing I could kick myself, since the idea of kicking myself makes even less sense than the thought of waiting in line for Mass Effect 2.
Why? Because I just attended a Sony PlayStation 3 event in Manhattan, and the Mass Effect 2 that’s going to hit the PS3 in 2011 blows the original Mass Effect 2 – the one I WAITED IN LINE FOR – completely out of the water. (more…)
The first coin-op video game I remember playing was Pac-Man. It was in the local supermarket, right by the entrance. Since this was the early 1980′s, my mom had no qualms about leaving me alone with the game and a few quarters, especially if it meant she could do the grocery shopping without me asking for an obscene amount of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish or Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch cereal. Now I’m a grown man and I can’t stop playing the brand new Pac-Man Championship Edition DX.
Pac-Man seems so simple a game now, but it was every bit the cultural phenomenon it is talked up to be. Witness the endless array of sequels, merchandising tie-ins, and repackaging Pac-Man has gone through in the last 30 years. For a lesser game, Namco would probably be accused of flogging a dead horse, but they have managed to keep the game fresh at each turn, whether it’s with new mazes and characters (Ms. Pac-Man, or the vastly underrated Jr. Pac-Man), improved graphics (Pac-Mania, Pac-Man Arrangement), or gameplay tweaks (Arrangement, Pac-Man Vs.). Pac-Man Championship Edition DX takes all of that and creates a game that is equal parts a reimagining of the game and homage to its roots. (more…)
My name is Violet.
I am a comic book reader. These days, I mostly read stuff like Sweet Tooth, Scalped, Umbrella Academy and Hellboy. When I was younger, it was all about Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Wolverine and an ongoing obsession with Batman. I’ve always loved the stories and the characters.
But I am not here to talk about comics. I am here because I want to learn about gaming. I want to start playing. (more…)
