Author Archives: Baron Fang

Point Streak Podcast – Star Wars Battlefront 2 Controversy

Point Streak goes super topical this week and discusses the Star Wars Battlefront 2 launch and its attendant controversies.  IS EA up to pay-to-win loot box money-grubbing chicanery or is this just an overreaction on the part of gamers?  How

Point Streak Podcast – Wrestling Games

Do pro-wrestling themed games represent their own genre? We here at Point Streak say yes, and have happily devoted this entire episode to the subject.  From the humble days of NES to the feature-rich (if increasingly less innovative) WWE 2K series

Point Streak Podcast – Personal Top 5 Games All-Time

Despite the fact the Internet is already drowning in lists, Point Streak dives in this week with lists of our own – our personal top 5 games of all-time.  PC, console, handhelds, old-school, modern, no restrictions, no judgments (well, almost).  What games

Point Streak Podcast – Half-Life

Point Streak goes topical, again.  Recent events have compelled discussion on the subject of Half-Life: both the series itself and the unfortunate, endless purgatory it now dwells in.  Arguably one of the most influential first-person-shooters of all time, Half-Life, its

Star Wars Rebels Season Two Review

Despite enjoying the first season of Star Wars Rebels far more than I expected to, nearly six months passed before I got around to watching the second.  This was not out of any particular hesitance, just life, work and gaming

Point Streak Podcast – Sex in Gaming

Point Streak can avoid the topic of Sex no longer.  Gamers are almost nonchalant about violence, but sexual content can still predictably raise eyebrows and stoke up controversy.  Whether included purely for titillation or to achieve some arbitrary level of maturity,

Adventure Game Roundup #2

Once again, dear readers, I have plumbed the depths of Steam’s wide selection of adventure games in search of excellence.  I’ve recently completed another three titles and can offer up my impressions below.  As always, all three are reasonably priced

Point Streak Podcast – X-COM

Strategy games have been covered on Point Streak before – today we put the spotlight on one excellent representative of the genre, X-COM.  Sticking primarily with the best received games in the franchise, we discuss all matters related to kicking alien-invader

Adventure Game Roundup

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the size of my Steam “Stack of Shame”, I’ve been on somewhat of an adventure game binge as of late. This is a genre that I’ve previously cited as central to my early

Point Streak Podcast – Super Hero Games

There’s room enough on Enthusiacs.com for plenty of talk about heroes.  Case in point as Point Streak devotes an episode to games based on super hero franchises.  Whether straight from the comics or from the silver screen, these games always have plenty