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 …
Category Archive: Matthew’s Articles
Apr 12
“Truly Vintage Gaming: Four Indie Devs Who Can Do No Wrong”
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 …
Mar 21
The Age of Easymode: Games and their Difficulty
I’m an adult who hails from the late eighties with the NES as my standard system, so I could casually call myself some kind of fanatic for a challenge. For all the young kids who actually have an interest in gaming of the old days, I congratulate your curiosity and give you a warning; the games of …
Mar 05
The Most Blatant Xenomorph Rip-offs in Videogames
My, how the most deadly extraterrestrial to catch the silver screen has had such an illustrious career debuting and inspiring others to create deadly psychopathic monsters from beyond the stars. The acid-bleeders are got a whole new game for themselves released by Sega and Gearbox last month, so it’s fair to say that more humans …
Feb 20
Animaniacs Was Right: Stories and Cute Animation
For one of the most influential cartoons of the late nineties, Animaniacs knew many things about the current trends of animation and what would become a staple of not only the visual media, but videogames as well. One of those trends was a change in our conventional medium and how stories were presented; Like Batman: The …
Jan 08
Iron-Clad Mayhem: The Most Hot-Blooded Games About Giant Robots
Okay, is there anything more awesome than a Giant Robot? I believe most of those with their hands down are ignorant or simply too busy whining on Tumblr about their feels. Robots have always been cool because they are mechanical and can do things we can’t…but when we control them and kick all kinds of …




