Austin Wood

Pick your pocket monsters: Pokémon vs. Shin Megami Tensei

3DS owners are at no shortage of collectibles to horde, menus to navigate, and all things monster-packed thanks to the…

11 years ago

Next-gen MMOs remind me of Twix candy bars

If you’ve spent at least five seconds on YouTube or in front of a television in the past few weeks,…

11 years ago

Amazon revisiting PS4 pre-orders following Watch Dogs delay

In the wake of the admittedly unsurprising delay of Ubisoft's next-gen projects Watch Dogs and The Crew, Amazon Video Games has…

11 years ago

Why the games industry needs to stop talking about next-gen specs

We’re now a scant month away from the dawn of the PlayStation 4/Xbox One era, and both the journalistic and…

11 years ago

Audiosurf 2 Impressions: It can make anyone smile like a kid in a candy store

Music-based video games, from Vocaloids like Hatsune Miku to Guitar Hero to Rock Band, are notorious for slapping reflex-heavy and…

11 years ago

Will both Vitas survive 2014?

The TGS reveal of PlayStation Vita TV quickly directed cries of redundancy at the original Vita, in spite of its…

11 years ago

Grand Theft Auto 5 is great for gamers and the industry, whether you play it or not

There are plenty of reasons to not like the Grand Theft Auto series. Anti-hero protagonists, criminal subject matter and aimlessly…

11 years ago

Steam Machines: The anti-consoles that are just late to the party

Ironically, Valve, a company notorious for its “avoidance” of a third anything, is looking at three potential markets for Steam…

11 years ago

Dark Souls reminds me of the original Super Mario Bros.

The initial beta for Dark Souls 2 is now well underway; developer FromSoftware recently detailed the entry process for North…

11 years ago

Legend of Dungeon Review: Where everything’s made up and the pots don’t matter

It’s difficult to gripe over kinks in Legend of Dungeon’s engrossing armor since the game isn’t even finished. With that…

11 years ago