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Will DLC Save PC Gaming

The PC has fallen from it’s once glorious position as the platform from which all innovation sprung. The PC was the home of the first curved surfaces (Quake 3), the place where all console FPS now get their “cutting edge features”, no more. The PC has largely been reduced to a port platform save [...]

Game Journalists, Fanboys, and Haters

Nothing is worse than a journalism outlet starts navel gazing, but recently there has been a spate of articles about the quality, content, and actions of video game journalism. Too much fanboyism, too many rumors, not real “journalists, amateur bloggers, industry shills. The list of quips, names and comments goes off into the sunset it [...]

Gaming Journalism Bias: Overview

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…….You used to be able to pick up any gaming mag or go to any site and see real objectivity. Multi-year delays would bring calls of vaporware instead of calls of “be patient”. A mediocre title would be given a review score of 5 [...]

Breaking the PC vs Console Gamer Myth

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away……..well, ok, the 80’s. Publishers and developers decided to divide the gaming population into two categories. PC gamers and console gamers. PC gamers were people that liked the indepth fun-with-spreadsheets type games and console gamers wanted action, action, and more action.