Yesterday Sony decided to show at least something related to the upcoming PlayStation 5 console by showing us…. The logo for the console. Okay, that’s fine. We have an official logo to use in media. Great. Awesome. Time to move on with my day and oh, this is being talked about.. quite a bit… by […]
I know, I’m late to this one. I’ve been busy but didn’t want to let this one go by without saying my peace on the subject. A week and a half ago Mike Matei (of Cinemassacre fame) posted a tweet which became a pretty “hot take” for a while regarding the use of “rewind” features […]
This rumor has been circulation for quite a few months now, but it really got into gear this past weekend when an article was published on comicbook.com (yes, a comic book website… what they are doing covering games is beyond me) saying that, based on speculation from some guy called “HipHopGamer” (someone I’ve never heard […]
Well, that’s it. The final post of the year, the one where I take a look back at the previous 365 or so days and ask myself “was this all worth it?” Okay, not really, but I like to see what all happened over the past year. As I kind of “go with the flow” […]
With the Christmas holiday behind us I thought I’d do something nice for the community at large, for what its worth, and share some simple tips on taking care of the console you, or a friend, may have gotten (new or used, it’s all the same here), all from the perspective of someone who’s been […]
Another Christmas has come and gone and, being the nostalgic person I am, I realized much like Christmas of 2018 marked 25 years since I got my Sega Genesis as a kid, this Christmas marked 25 years since I got a Game Gear, Sega’s very awesome (and very battery hungry) portable console of the early […]
Ah, Season 4 of The Angry Video Game Nerd. My favorite season by far for a great many reasons. Firstly, it was the first season I began watching as it was new, and thus marks the point where I was “current” with the series. I do believe the Metal Gear review was the first one […]
In the past I’ve mentioned how late Microsoft can be about putting out the Games with Gold video for each month — sometimes waiting until a few days into that month to get it up. This time, they jumped the holiday gun early and pushed out the video on the 19th! That’s right, a week […]
Ah, Pong. Not the first video game, but the first one to really become popular. Through the mid 70’s Pong was pretty much it — the genesis of gaming in our cultural consciousness. In the wake of the success of the original arcade hit, a home version was made. Then another, and another, with tons […]
The Atari era of gaming was something special. It was a time period where things were kind of wild and companies were throwing pretty much anything out there to see what would take. Atari itself, as a company, was doing wonderfully and the VCS, later renamed the 2600, was dominating the gaming scene. This success […]
Today, December 15th, 2019, marks 30 years since the film “The Wizard” premiered in theaters. This film is famous among gamers of a certain age for the fact that it heavily features video games — not just any games, mind you, but the Nintendo Entertainment System. For those of us in the late 80’s and […]
Yesterday, as a part of “The Game Awards 2019,” Microsoft revealed their next console in quite the theatrical video. Quite the work of art, the video showcased a monolithic, tower like machine drastically different from previous designs in the Xbox family, The Controller is, incidentally, quite familiar and mostly traditional — save for the “Sega […]
Long time readers may recall an article I wrote back in 2016 regarding an online game I used to play in High School around 2001-2002 range called Vagabond’s Quest. It was a straightforward game, played from the website itself and functionally through text rather than any kind of awesome graphical world — more akin to […]
The past week has been quite the roller coaster in gaming, particularly with the much anticipated and (depending on who you ask) much loved new cloud gaming platform, Google Stadia. I discussed a few days ago that there’s a very vocal group of Stadia users and fans who reject all criticism of the product, namely […]
We’re coming up on December and the end of 2019 and with the new month just days away we have a new set of Games with Gold. Always fun to see what’s to come… well, so long as the games are ones you want. Right, let’s get to it! On the Xbox One we have […]