video games
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 18 – Mavis Beacon is a Babe
After another week-long delay, The Game Plan returns to find Nick dying a slow death at the hands of Dota 2 while mods are simultaneously
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 16 – Make It So, Number One
What makes a sequel a sequel? Why does Psychonauts hold up while Daggerfall doesn’t? Should The Walking Dead even be considered a video game? Today,
A Few Reasons to Consider Sitting Out of Next-Gen
Persistent rumors of an always-on (and anti-consumer) Xbox ensure the Internet stays worried about Microsoft’s eventual next-gen console announcement. Last week’s Adam Orth Tweet-frenzy debacle
More Than Just A Game
I recently spent a week doing mission work in Honduras. I was shocked by the poverty I saw. A village I worked in that wasn’t
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 14 – Spermaceti Power
After last weekend’s podcasting mishap, the Gamers Association guys return to reminiscence about the best of times with LucasArts titles that are impossible to get.
Reconsidering What Ebert’s Words Meant
Throughout my life, few people have influenced me with their words more than the late Roger Ebert. I collected the majority of his bound works
I Like To Play Games
Ever since I started writing for this website, I’ve been thinking a lot more about myself and my opinions. It’s beginning to get a bit
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 11 – Overrun by 26-Year-Olds
Looking for gaming news? Cast those eyes elsewhere; the strictly-news structure of The Game Plan was so single-digit episodes ago. Instead, today’s crew takes separate
Kart Racing’s Polygonal Golden Age
Welcome to part two of my history of kart racers. Last time I covered a time when kart racers burst onto the scene with the
Video Games & Gore: So Much For Being Desensitized
Warily wielding the weapon thrust between my fingers by an authority above my own, I brought the blade ever closer to the poor, unfortunate, and
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 8 – It Was a Full-Sized Cake
Officially praising Resident Evil 6 for being “not as racist,” the Game Plan returns once more to deliver deep insights into the most important issues
The Beginning of Kart Racers: Starring Super Mario Kart
Driving; it sucks. There are few things more frustrating than driving to work in the morning, being stuck in bumper-to-bumper in traffic, moving a couple
Labyrinth Legends Review
Labyrinth Legends may be masked in a cartoon-esque art style and cheerful music, but it all changes once you pick up the controller. Legends is a
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 7 – A Disturbing Lack of Bro
Feeling sorry for Mark Hamill and featuring more God of War than ever before, the Gamers Association gang’s all here. Still, don’t expect us to
The 5-Step Guide to Gaming on a Budget
Paying real money for better guns in Dead Space 3? Buried under mountains of high-priced DLC? And all these new systems around the corner tempting
The Game Plan Podcast: Episode 6
Ugh, can you hear that? That obnoxious popping? The random drops in sound level? Yeah, we had a few audio issues coming out of this
