It may not seem that way, but I'm a big fan of simplicity in reviews. My theory is that, unless you are doing something all hip and new-games-journalismy, the review should really let the reader know where its going in that first paragraph. Maybe not in an overly overt way, but the feeling and meter of the review should be known almost immediately. ...read more!

I hate to weigh in on something that everybody else in this industry is going to write some hit generating cop out article for, but I just can't sit by and watch this nonsense happening without making a knee-jerk argument against it. First, to honor full disclosure, I should let you all know something. ...read more!

"Stop the presses!” The young journalist yelled this at the top of his lungs while he came careening into the office, his feet sliding comically and he is forced to regain his balance before he crashes into some of his peers at a stereotypically dense water cooler area. “You've gotta stop the presses!” Everybody simply looked at eachother, the awkwardness is thick in the air like smoke in a dive bar. ...read more!

"ExploitaFest Wrap Up” continued from page 42. showed many exploitation mainstays like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and the venerable I Spit on Your Grave. However, it is the lesser known films that keep me going to the theaters yearly marathon of the classics in “grindhouse” cinema. ...read more!

Halo 3: ODST is the best Halo game made so far. Now, what that actually means and if that is a backhanded compliment is up to some debate. It also depends greatly on the level of your Halo fanboyism. If you are like me and find the overall plot to be kind of goofy and the multiplayer to be underwhelming in the face of so many other, better multiplayer experiences, you are obviously going to have a differing opinion from somebody who constantly wishes a PIN could be three numbers instead of four so theirs could be 117 or owns a Xbox 360 and hasn't purchased a game since Halo 3 dropped into their lap like Chris Rock in Dogma. ...read more!

Ah, anime. The most often maligned, yet entirely enjoyable, form of foreign entertainment available to us on these shores. This is due in part to how insufferable most people who declare themselves “otaku” (weeaboos to the rest of us) actually are, and isn't an indictment to the artistic capability of the anime in question. ...read more!

To be honest, I wasn't really entirely interested in Killing Floor before its release. I know a handful of people considered it an anticipated title, but I was hesitant. I only really became interested in it when my Left 4 Dead CAL clan all decided to purchase it. I gained a little bit more interest when I realized that this was actually the retail release of the UT mod of the same name. ...read more!

As it seems to be the thing to do, I would like to jump into the waters of the whole "intro blog" thing that others on this site have been swimming in. I'll try not to pee in it. My name is Gavin, you might have seen some of my work in Hardcore Gamer Magazine or In Another Castle. You probably didn't though, as my growing student loan collection can attest to. ...read more!

Velvet Assassin is a difficult game to attribute a score to. It seems that it gets a lot of things right that most games routinely miss the mark on, but then turns around and makes mistakes with certain aspects that should have been gimmes. In the game, you are Violette Summer, a particularly bad ass lady sent into the heart of the beast of World War II. ...read more!