Custom Retropie Console Attempt; Part 1

A post on Reddit, my second favorite website to this one, inspired me to try my hand at the Retropie Project.  The project has gained popularity for its do-it-yourself appeal that has encouraged many retro gamers to build their own emulation consoles from scratch.  Really, all you need is this tutorial and some spare time to make it all work.  Skills in electronics are helpful but not required.  A little research on your own time can go a long way with this project and results are bound to be good... supposedly.

Games based on movies: Back to the Future

Most games based on movies are notoriously bad due to a whole list of reasons that covers everything from inception and development to marketing and release.  The poor quality can usually be attributed to the game being released with a short development cycle so it can be marketed alongside the film and people will throw their wallets at it by association.  But it's no a surprise that even in 1989 after the movie Back to the Future  had been on VHS for over three years that the game based on a Spielberg and Zemeckis masterpiece was trash.

Death That Matters: Part 3 - Death of the Player

This post contains heavy Walking Dead spoilers!  In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I talked about some examples of death in video games that make a lasting impact on the player.  Particularly, deaths which are a result of the player's actions (Part 1), and deaths of friendly characters (Part 2).  In this last post of the series, I'll discuss the death of the player's character, and how it can be more than just a punishment for failing.

Magic: The Recent Addiction

I avoided Magic: The Gathering for the longest time.  The people who I had seen play it either in my old high school cafeteria at the lunch table or in the dark corners of a rundown gaming store had always kind of creeped me out.  That's not to say some of them still don't but now that I have recently been introduced to the game I can't believe I didn't fall in love with it sooner.  The game has encouraged me to overlook the creepiness of some of its players and embrace the "magic" of the game.  To quench my undying urge to play, I downloaded a couple of digital versions to get my fix and teach me the ropes.