Welcome to the New Year! Enjoy an hour and a half of Wes and Dave discussing bullshit and their year in video games.

You may remember that I included Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure in my article about gaming trends I despise. I absolutely despise the multi-pronged marketing tactic used to sell this game because it is so goddamned brilliant. The only thing those marketing bastards could have done to be even more devious would have been to include particular [...]

  Developer: Bethesda Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: 3/20/2006 Genre: RPG Rating: M Developer: BioWare Publisher: EA Release Date: 1/26/2010 Genre: Action-RPG Rating: M Developer: Epic Games Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: Multi Genre: Action Rating: M

In the spirit of our last reactions post, we are going to react to some of the E3 highlights, albeit slightly late. Again, let’s start off with an easy one: Nintendo announces new game console!!! Behold the… WII U!! Now that you see how it works, let’s continue.

There seems to be a lot of jubilation about this year’s E3 Conference amongst the gaming press.  You can count me unimpressed with the 2011 offering.  Having watched the three main press conferences (Microsoft, followed by Sony and then Nintendo) I am comfortable in saying that I am displeased with each company as this year’s [...]

Developer: Rare Publisher: THQ Release Date: October 14, 2008 Genre: Sandbox / Third-person Rating: M

The flawed hero, Byronic hero, vigilante, tragic hero, they go by many names but they are generally the most memorable characters in the stories we experience. Be they books, movies, comics, or other, the characters portrayed as anti-heroes are the most compelling in my opinion mainly because their flaws make them more accessible than the [...]

The idea that it is bad to have an abundance of choices seems counter-intuitive. The more things you have to choose from, the more likely you are to get exactly what you want, right? Or can having too many options overwhelm you, driving you into indecision or simply cause you to ultimately question the value [...]

One week into the new year and I have made no resolutions of any kind. This isn’t really anything out of the ordinary for me, I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution in quite some time. I don’t need that kind of pressure. However, this year, I am going to try something new. Unlike my [...]

Dave and Wes once again ramble on incessantly because once we get drunk it’s very difficult to stop us from talking about video games. Even if we don’t really end up saying anything meaningful. At all. Anyway, at least this time we gave you some pictures to look at. Enjoy the randomly placed, gratuitous boob [...]

This may or may not be the full and final setlist, but RockBandAide has decoded the small, blurry text from a now removed YouTube video in which a Harmonix employee was scrolling through the setlist on a Rock Band 3 demo station. I am digging the variety and hoping this setlist turns out to be [...]

Developer: Pandemic Studios Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 12/8/2009 Genre: Sandbox, Action Rating:M (Mature) Around the Game Drunk offices (my basement) we don’t often get a chance to play the newest games to completion and post timely reviews and hence game reviews tend to be left on the back-burner. Reviewing and discussing games, however, is [...]

Studio Ghibli is responsible for some of my favorite all-time animated features and they are collaborating with Level-5 to make a Nintendo DS and PS3 game called Ni no Kuni. The games are completely separate games built from scratch – no porting of content from one to the other. The PS3 screens and trailers released [...]