When it comes to gaming and the current social standing of college males, I am woefully unskilled. While I wish I could be good at FPSs and spend my free time yelling at my television screen or laptop “DIE YOU BITCH! MOTHERFUCKER! IMMA TEABAG YOU! THAT’S RIGHT BITCH! N***A!” as thirteen year olds make more…
Nexus Ops is a strategy board game that was originally released in 2005, though Fantasy Flight Games released a reprint in early 2012 that included new ways to play in the rulebook. This game functions very differently from many other strategy games. Each player takes control of a company that is attempting to harvest…
Originally released as an expansion for Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, it was released in 2008. Command and Conquer 3 is an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, and is one of the few to ever make a successful launch on a console (versus a PC). The story picks up where Tiberium Wars left off, with…
E3 is right around the corner and every gamer can’t help but continue holding their breaths for just a few more days. Press conferences begin on Monday, June 4th followed by the exhibition on June 5th through June 7th. As one of the most anticipated annual gaming event, what exactly will be unraveled at…
Although the release date is TBA, rumors are circulating around the possibility of co-op action (Isaac fighting alongside another ally with his own RIG etc.) as well as significant gameplay changes including an Icy setting and new enemies known as the “Hive Mind”. For those who have played the previous installments, is it wise to…
From eliminating Borgia influence in Rome to zip-lining throughout the streets of Constantinople, we now turn to the next chapter of the Assassin’s Creed series that launches us into one of America’s most historic moments. While we have enjoyed carrying out countless assassinations with the hidden blades of Ezio Auditore, we now turn to a…
As a Star Wars fan, I was looking forward to see if Star Wars Kinect would come close to satisfy the feeling of wielding a lightsaber. Unfortunately, the force was not strong with this game, and our hopes of being that much closer to battling Sith Lords have been put on hold. In terms of…
Record of Agarest War is a turn based strategy game for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It is quite similar to Final Fantasy Tactics in both the battle system, the world map and story flow. Many games have departed from this simple, yet fun and strategically rewarding formula, so it’s nice to see a game…
Advance Wars is a turn based strategy game. It was originally released on the Gameboy Advance and sequels have been released on the Nintendo DS. Made by the creators of Fire Emblem, the game is an in depth turn based strategy game that can be a bit difficult to get the hang of at first….
Advance Wars was originally released in America in 2001. It presented a very new system of turn based strategy. Since then, three franchise sequels have been released, all of them following the same basic formula, though adding on to the original. (Note: The newest game (Advance Wars Days of Ruin) is quite a bit different…
Fans of the extremely popular Halo series of videos games will be delighted to discover that a live-action version will be premiering in the fall of this year. Before you get your hopes up, this is not the long anticipated feature film version of the Xbox games, but, instead a multi-part web-series to be released…
Final Fantasy VII has come to be the most well known RPG of all time. Released in 1997, it has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. But why did it become so popular? Why did it become so famous while other good RPGs remained obscure? The answer is much more than the fact that Final…
