Tagged PlayStation
Feb 19 2021
Apex Legends Season 8 Is an Explosive Success
Apex Legends was released during the height of the battle royale craze that started with the success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite. While interest in those games seems to have waned from their heydays over the last year, as noted by their significant drop in Twitch viewer count,…
Jul 29 2020
Persona 5 Royal Puts a Cherry on Top of a Favorite Past Release
The original Persona 5, released back in 2016 on the PlayStation 3 and 4, welcomed gamers to the mundane and everyday activities of your typical Japanese high schooler: hanging out with friends, studying for exams, and of course changing the hearts of corrupt and selfish adults. Since then, the Persona…
Mar 11 2020
The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo Gives Players Their First Taste of a Long-Awaited Game
It’s taken us a delayed release date, seemingly inevitable leaks, a branded tie-in candy bar that is a pretty grotesque contrast to the themes of the original game, and five years since the official announcement of the Final Fantasy VII remake to get to this point, but here we are. Square Enix has…
Feb 02 2020
Meet Game Phoenix, a New Video-Game Trading Platform for Minnesota Geeks
Jon Bauer and I are sitting down for lunch at lively Catrina’s on an early Friday afternoon to discuss a new video-game startup in the Twin Cities. Bauer is the chief marketing officer for Game Phoenix, which looks to capitalize on the game exchange market. The company is taking a novel approach…
Aug 19 2019
The Void Virtual Reality Experience Opens at the Mall of America
I felt like I had stepped directly into Ready Player One as the staff at the Void strapped me into a virtual reality suit for what would quickly become my favorite experience at the Mall of America. The VR suit I strapped into had some heft to it—not too heavy, but heavy enough to make me feel like I was wearing…
Jun 09 2019
12 Predictions for E3 2019
It’s that time of year again. Christmas for video-game nerds. You can almost smell it in the air—the crappy convention food, cheaply made swag, and all the beautiful sweaty hype that surrounds it.
That’s right folks: it’s E3 time, and even though big publishers such as EA and Sony…
Feb 26 2018
10 of the Best Video Games of 2017
Although 2017 was mostly a garbage year for those who those who care about things like decency, respect, representation, and the common good, it was a real good year for video games! So I guess it wasn’t all bad, right?
I mean, Nintendo released a new system, the Switch, alongside a new Zelda game…
Nov 24 2017
Help or Hinder a Murder Case with Your Friends in Hidden Agenda
Game developers have been experimenting with interactive drama on PlayStation for some time now, from the early days of Indigo Prophecy on PlayStation 2 to the very successful Heavy Rain and the polarizing Beyond: Two Souls of recent years. Hidden Agenda takes this one step further by adding in a group…
Nov 22 2017
Mechanically Satisfying but Often Frustrating, Wolfenstein II Feels Like Two Different Games
When I finish a game, I am very rarely at a loss for words. Almost never, in fact. But Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the exception. During my entire playthrough and for a considerable time after, I’ve slowly been making peace with the fact that I don’t think I like this game a whole lot.…
Oct 20 2017
Adol’s Adventure Continues in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
For many years my only connection to the Ys series was the music. The OST accompanying each release is always really, really, very, quite good. There were always so many barriers keeping me from actually playing any of the games, though. For starters, the series is 30 years old and packed with eight main…