Author Archives: Marcus Lawshe'

Orphan of the Windy Mountains

An Interview with Orphan creator Brandon Goins “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious

The Big Book of Controversies: Chapter VIII

Zombies Ate My Internetz – The War Z 2012-2013 In the early weeks of October, 2012, OP Productions and Hammerpoint Interactive announced their open world massive multiplayer online zombie survival game, War Z. In its Steam description, The War Z

SVU: Social Victims Unit

Leveling Up the Rhetoric As she exits the bathroom stall, clothes disheveled and blood running down her lip, she stumbles towards the mirror, muttering something about how guys do not want women in gaming. She pushes back her hair from

Last Gen Lost Gems: Lollipop Chainsaw

Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Kadokawa Games, Warn Bros. Interactive Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Played/Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Released: June 2012 Genre: Action-Adventure, Hack-n-Slash Modes: Single-player Distribution: Physical CD Rating: ESRB: M, CERO: Z, PEGI: 18 Content Warning: Strong Adult

Fast Food Journalism

I’d Like Some Ethics With That Please “As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence,

An Ode to the Female Form – Female Game Characters

Lest We Forget I thought this such a small, trivial matter. When I began to look it all up, I thought this was going to be so simple. You see, according to many, there are so few female protagonists, so

Last of a Dying Breed

Are “Professional” Gaming News Sites Even Necessary, or Relevant Anymore? Phonograph cylinders. Vinyl records. Time marched on. 8 track tapes, a spindle of magnetic, plastic stripping tucked inside. Time marched on. Cassette tapes. Smaller, able to contain more music, popular

Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Released: May 2014 Run Time: 131 minutes Directed By: Bryan Singer Distributed By: 20th Century Fox in Association with Marvel Entertainment and Bad Hat Harry Productions Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, brief

The Big Book of Controversies: Chapter VII

A Reckoning Cometh: Rhode Island vs. Curt Schilling 2006 – Current In 2006, shortly before his pro-baseball retirement, Red Sox pitching star Curt Schilling began delving into the video games development scene, forming his own studio Green Monster Games, which

Days of Gaming Past: A look at 20 Superhero Games

With Great Power… My Fellow Gamers; I remember gasping lightly when I first saw it. That small cardboard box, lightly laminated with the gilded gold and black of the Batman insignia resting on the spinning display cage at the nearby