**MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE LAST OF US PART 2*** — I can pinpoint the exact thing I was thinking when The Last of Us Part 2 was announced: “this is the one game that never needed a sequel.” It was about as clinical as a thought could get. This was made not only from how the first game never even…

A Quick Blurb About a Stupid saying — Everyone likes their entertainment delivered in different ways. For some, tv, movies and books deliver their comfort. Others enjoy the outdoors, or working on a project. There are a million different ways people entertain themselves.

If you told be I’d be waking up this morning only to play a first person horror game, I wouldn’t really bat an eyelash; anyone that knows me or reads my stuff on here can guess that kind of thing. So after my morning ritual of looking spitefully at the…

It’s no secret that I have a special love for Dino Crisis; it takes a slew of my favorite elements from games and combines them into a delightful package. I’ve easily played through Dino Crisis enough times that I have lost count. I still frequently think about the game almost…

How It Began My grandparents, of all people, had a large role to play in my young life when it came to the type of media I consumed. I remember going over to their house one time with my mom and my brother, and after dinner, we went to the theater and watched…

I’m not sure how much I’ve written about Doom in the past. Sure, I have the bit I wrote about modding, but I didn’t really cover it beyond that. A quick rundown: Doom and Quake laid the foundation for my love of first-person shooters, much like Resident Evil and Dino…

I’ve put more hours into Resident Evil 2 than any of the other mainline titles. Resident Evil 4 is a very close second, but at that point in the series, the old pre-rendered backgrounds were long gone, and the perspective changed completely. Resident Evil may have started the mainstream trend…

Zombies and my formative years go hand in hand; before the craze that swept the nation around 2009, I had already been knee deep in the dead since I could remember. Doom gave me a taste of what it was like to go against the undead and demonic hordes with…

A Modern Guide to Slaying the Demons of Yore — A game that has been a personal favorite of mine for going on twenty something years, Doom still has an incredibly active modding scene to this very day. Creators have made Things as “simple” as level packs and mega-wads to entire conversions of the game itself, sometimes to the point…