While at PAX East, we had an opportunity to get an in depth look at the game Watch Dogs. Yes, the hype train is correct, this game looks to be every bit of awesome that you have seen in previews, sneak peeks and trailers all over. What we saw at PAX, however, was an exclusive [...]
This year’s PAX East was a bit of a different affair for me than last year’s show. Last year there were a bunch of high profile games I was really excited to see in action, but there were far fewer games being shown this year that really had me interested. Of course there were a [...]
After a pretty heavy hitting March, a dry April has finally arrived. A dry spell might not be the worst thing however as I know I’m not the only one needing time to catch up on some of the releases in the past few months. That and I just want to keep playing more MLB [...]
Did you know that the RTS game series, Blitzkrieg, just had it’s 10 year anniversary? No? Well fortunately for you GOG.com is celebrating Blitzkrieg’s ten year anniversary by discounting Blitzkrieg Anthology and Blitzkrieg 2: Anthology 60% on GOG.com until March, 31st. But what is this? You are broke? You aren’t sure if you like this classic RTS series? [...]
A week before PAX East, I received a quirky email detailing how a controller that could be used with only your feet would be at PAX East. I initially put it with the rest of the clutter in the ‘follow-up if I have time pile’ but then another email came through that said something to [...]
There is nothing more exciting than coming home from the store with your brand new video game console. That anticipation as you set it up, just waiting to see what kinds of experiences this new system can provide. For many systems, the first thing you see when finally boot it up is the start-up animation. [...]
This week’s Top 10 Tuesday is the fourth installment of “This Year in Gaming”. This time I am taking a look at a year many people consider to be the best year in the history of gaming from a game release perspective; 1998. I’ve always heard people say this about 1998, and on the surface [...]
As I sit here writing this, 3 major releases sit on my desk; Tomb Raider, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate and SimCity. It’s been 15 years since the last truly good Tomb Raider, 10 years since the last true SimCity game and up until today, I refused to acknowledge the existence of [...]
This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of Mass Effect 3, and Bioware has chosen today to release the final piece of single player content for the game. Oddly enough, I also recently played through the game again for the first time in over 11 months, so I’ve got Mass Effect on [...]
Tomb Raider Developer: Crystal Dynamics Inc. Release Date: March 5th After the four hundredth Tomb Raider release, Crystal Dynamics has finally decided to reboot the series and start anew. I’ve always had a love for Tomb Raider in my heart, like most people I’m sure, but the recent games never hit the spot for [...]
This past week, as everyone that follows games was expecting, Sony announced their next generation console; the Playstation 4. I am personally very excited about the PS4, and I can’t wait for the next generation to finally begin and to put the longest console generation in the industry’s history to bed at long last. I’ve [...]
February is the month of love and while the time for chocolates, flowers and romantic dinners has passed, our coverage of certain colorful characters continues. This week we take a look at Wascot from Super Monday Night combat. Whether or not you had a good Valentines weekend, you’ll be thankful you didn’t run into someone [...]
Assassin’s Creed III released this past November to mostly positive critical reception and a bit of a mixed response from fans. Last July I did a top 10 list of the things about Assassin’s Creed III that had me excited to play, which you can read here. Coincidentally, just days after I finished Assassin’s Creed [...]
Naughty Dog shared some brand new info and gameplay footage for The Last of Us this week, and this reminded me of something; The Last of Us is going to be awesome. This game is far and away my most anticipated game of the year, and right up there with Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim [...]
As most people that follow the gaming industry are now no doubt aware, Toy Headquarters is no more. THQ, as most people knew them, spent most of their over 20 years in the game industry publishing mostly licensed games and kids games. However, over the past several years, THQ had made strong push towards putting [...]
This week’s edition of Top 10 Tuesdays is the third installment of “This Year in Gaming,” but this time I decided to go with a more recent year. The last two installments have been more than a decade ago, but with the current console generation coming to close, I decided to look back at one [...]
For 27 of the 30 years of my life, I’ve been playing video games. I am the second oldest of 4 brothers and my childhood was spent jumping on Goombas and memorizing the Konami code. I remember my first run ins with video game violence, I was huge into karate and I saw Fist of [...]
Last week I counted down my Top 10 Most Anticipated games of 2013, but about a year ago I did a similar list; the games of 2012 I was most looking forward to playing. I am currently working on my overall Top 10 of 2012, which will be next week’s list, but first I wanted [...]
(Which awards you give is as important as the selection process of giving awards. The Philosophy behind award categories is essential for Video Game Award committees to understand.) The mission of this column has always been to analyze gaming culture and the gaming industry and a great topic around this time is end of the [...]
At the start of every year, we all make a whole bunch of stupid promises to ourselves that we’ll do something we meant to do last year, this upcoming year. Sometimes we stick to them and they can be life changing, such as resolving to start working out more or adopting better eating habits – [...]
Annualized sports games are something that never gets the attention they deserves. They’re a nuisance to some and there’s no doubt that they never change too drastically from year to year but as most sports fans will tell you, they change just enough. Though that can’t always be said as some games seemingly churn out [...]
Like most other January’s, this upcoming month is going to be quite the bore in the video game department. We luckily have Devil May Cry but no one is really sure on how that will turn out but at least that’s one game to be excited about. Also possibly coming at the end of the [...]
This year was a year dominated by the rise of the Arcade. Half of the games in my top 10 were 15 dollars or less and that’s a huge testament to how big the Xbox Live Arcade has gotten in the past year. Apart from the ones on my list, other games like Fez, Journey [...]
(So yea, Gaming hasn’t improved, it has simply gotten simpler so we imbeciles can enjoy it. Right? Wrong!) Commonly in Video Game culture there comes a discussion of how games today are just far too easy and they’ve developed this way to make it easier for the masses to play games. This idea perpetuates [...]
Here it is! The fan vote for Gaming Irresponsibly’s Game of the Year Awards! Vote for your favorite nominated Online Game, your favorite games of the year and for one of our Game of the Year nominees! Leave a comment below and we’ll enter you in a chance to win one of the few extra [...]
Here we go! The announced winners of the Game of the Year Awards. We haven’t awarded 3 awards as of yet: Online Game of the Year, Reader’s Choice and the much coveted Game of the Year. We are going to need your help with these. So keep an eye open in the next day as [...]
Annualized sports game is something that never gets the attention it deserves. They’re a nuisance to some and there’s no doubt that they never change too drastically from year to year but as most sports fans will tell you, they change just enough. Though that can’t always be said as some games seemingly churn out [...]