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 [...]

Saints Row 2 is one of my all time favorite co-op games for the Xbox 360. It even ranks up there as one of my favorite co-op games of all time, so needless to say I have eagerly been anticipating the next installment in the series. Saints Row 3 (or the third) has not disappointed. [...]

  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

Developer: Lionhead Studios Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Release Date: 10/21/2009 Genre: RPG, Action Rating:M (Mature) Yes, you read that right. Fable 2. Not Fable 3. In fact, this game came out before my previous “Fashionably Late Game Review.” Perhaps I should call this one an “Inexcusably Late Game Review”? Enough of this digression, back to [...]

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 [...]

As a continuation of Dave’s earlier post, I thought I’d contribute a few of my own personal favorite games that really had an impact on me. That’s what art is really about right? Evoking emotion, making the consumer feel. Although some of the visuals in the games I list may not shine in comparison with [...]

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

There are rare occasions when sitting down to play games feels like such a burden. On these occasions, I dread how much time it is going to suck out of my day. I never used to feel this way about games, and I think I have finally realized why this feeling has slowly been growing [...]

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 [...]