The dramatic launch trailer for the third Mass Effect game shows just how awesome this game is going to be, and just how much love and care BioWare has put into the game. Building off everything that has made this series a success, Mass Effect 3 looks even more dramatic and graphically jaw-dropping than its [...]
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This is fantastic. Everything from Uncharted 3 to Skyrim done entirely out of Legos. How cool is that? From The Brothers Brick: Organizers for the 15th Interactive Achievement Awards approached Alex Kobbs back in October to create a montage of the top video games of the year, animated in LEGO. Alex used clips from some of [...]
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Matt Burns captions the above trailer: Back during the heyday of CrunchGear (now known as TechCrunch/Gadgets), we couldn’t get enough of Borderlands. The game masterfully combined the game play of a FPS with the best elements of an RPG. In a scene full of Call of Duty clones Borderlands is completely novel. Gearbox just released the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 13, 2012
Kickstarter is trailblazing the future of crowdsourcing. The site makes it possible for investors of all shapes and financial backgrounds to connect with creative types and innovators by allowing users to help fund projects that sound promising, interesting, or worthwhile. And this has been a really good month for the Kickstarter team, as not one [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 8, 2012
So I don’t know about you but I’ve played the old Battleship board game. You youngsters may not have seen it before, but if I recall correctly, it looked more like this: And less like this: See, I always thought that Battleship was a strategy game about naval warfare, but it turns out it’s actually [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 27, 2012
Few games rival Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham City in terms of game play or graphics. I’m sort of overwhelmed with various amazing video games at the moment in my project to catch up on the last four years of gaming abstinence. Between Skyrim, Killzone, and the occasional Little Big Planet level, I haven’t had nearly enough [...]
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Now that SOPA has been shelved, the Entertainment Software Association has dropped its support of the bill. Not long ago the video game lobbying group remained staunch supporters of both SOPA and PIPA. Piracy, they claimed, was hurting the booming video game industry. The political winds have shifted, and industry groups and politicians alike are [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 22, 2012
These days parents play video games along with their kids. This is a great opportunity for parents and kids to keep communication open. This piece by John Cheese is a bit dated – 2010 is like decades ago in the world of gaming – but it’s still a timeless meditation on how those of use [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012
I have no idea what being a female gamer must be like, but I know that girl gamers deal with a lot of sexism from other online players. I also know that games tend to portray women as scantily clad and unrealistically proportioned. Girls get plenty of this from media designed for them. just make [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 26, 2011
Video games can be violent, and thanks to all the shooting, maiming, and killing going on in many titles moralists of all stripes have deemed them a Very Serious Problem for young people. Many of the most popular titles immerse players into wartorn landscapes of the past, present, or future. In recent months, some of [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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