May 13
A recent release that may have flown under your radar is Soul Sacrifice, an action RPG for the PS Vita developed by Marvelous AQL and Sony. One of the main combat mechanics is the decision between sacrificing or saving downed enemies and allies. Saving an ally brings them back at the cost your health, while …
May 11
[Ed's Note: This is a sponsored post paid for and created by an external party. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the entire HalfBeard's HUD writing staff.] The hero’s journey is an important one, and one of the most important aspects of that idea is the quality of the villain they …
May 06
History keeps changing all the time. We learn that things we took for granted like great libraries and technologies we lost long ago due to fire and war, interpreting the dark times differently with new information. Literature and video games like to use history as a narrative tool, changing small parts of our history to …
Apr 30
Don’t worry JRPGs aren’t on this list. I think we’ve had quite enough of that genre’s attempts at humor…cough cough…HyperDimension Neptunia…cough cough
Apr 24
Welcome to a land where your wildest dreams can come true. To the left you can see the vast wastelands of Pandora; to the right Liberty City. Take a peek up and you can see the floating sky-city of Columbia. A quick flash later and spread in front of you is a desert to be …
Apr 18
Sports games don’t get a lot of love on this site. If genres were children, sports games would be forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs, and sit quietly in the corner when first-person shooter comes over to brag about their fantastic opening weekend and thriving multiplayer community. Imagine dealing with friends, family, …
Apr 12
I was into the Independent Gaming circle well before it was cool. After all, what was I going to play? I’d seen Modern Warfare back in the nineties with the rest of the good parts of the genre, and hey Dead Rising? Zombies Ate My Neighbors called. It wants its style back. It evokes the …
Apr 09
While no game has beaten WoW in the single combat that is the MMO marketplace, some games didn’t even make it to the arena.
Mar 31
Remember when Battlefield 3 was first announced? Remember how the trailers promised deep engaging gameplay? That destructible environments would enhance and intensify the combat experience. Remember how all that ended up as a really bland single player shooter with all those big moments shown in those trailers turning out to be heavily scripted, glorified cut scenes. The controls were …
Mar 29
With all this crazy tech gaming is getting in the near future, there’s a few places I’d like to visit.
