E3 Impressions: Tank! Tank! Tank!
Tank! Tank! Tank! was exactly what I needed. Every E3 I see and play somewhere between ten and three hundred first person shooters, most of which, despite a few individuals flourishes, boil down to Captain Army telling you where to go and who to shoot amidst a sea of grey and brown hues. They’re fun, usually, but they’re also homogenizing into an unrecognizable mélange of the same thin...[Read More]
E3 Impressions: Dead Space 3
For some of its most passionate fans, Dead Space 3 wasn’t born into the same open arms that welcomed Dead Space 2. Check the buzz on Twitter or your favorite forum and you’ll encounter the same series of gripes; co-op and/or a divergent setting have purportedly un-Dead Space’d Dead Space. Perhaps this is why our closed-door demo of Dead Space 3, handled directly by representative...[Read More]
The Flap Jaw Space Power Rankings – Episode 52
Welcome to the Flap Jaw Space Power Rankings (text edition), a written recap of the dynamic perversion and informal melee that unfolded on the previous episode of Flap Jaw Space: The Digital Chumps Podcast. Power Rankings is a running segment where we continually update the ten best games of 2012 every episode. If you’re new, there’s quite a bit of nuance and havoc that goes into these...[Read More]
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II
Something blue.
The Flap Jaw Space Power Rankings – Episode 51
Welcome to the Flap Jaw Space Power Rankings (text edition), a written recap of the dynamic perversion and informal melee that unfolded on the previous episode of Flap Jaw Space: The Digital Chumps Podcast. Power Rankings is a running segment where we continually update the ten best games of 2012 every episode. If you’re new, there’s quite a bit of nuance and havoc that goes into these...[Read More]
Datura
Legends of the Fall
Introducing The Flap Jaw Space Power Rankings
Flap Jaw Space: The DigitalChumps Podcast finally hit Episode 50 last week (well, it was really our 57th recording, but 50 official episodes). Up until Episode 48, the bulk of Flap Jaw Space followed a fairly standard podcast model of three hosts (and an occasional bonus character) discussing all of the games we had played since the previous podcast. Flap Jaw Space also used to feature special seg...[Read More]
Impressions: Hybrid (beta)
Hybrid, the first downloadable console game from the folks at 5th Cell, is a competitive, online cover-based third person shooter. Shooters, be it first or third person, are seemingly one of the most packed genres these days, making one wonder what in the world 5th Cell, whose best known work includes Drawn to Life, Scribblenauts, and Run Roo Run!, is trying to do in that space. The answer; a fund...[Read More]
The Best of the Rest at Namco Bandai Global Gamers’ Day
On the night of April 10th I was witness to a relatively new phenomenon in gaming: e-sports, as represented through Namco Bandai’s Soul Calibur V World Championship in Las Vegas. Debate has raged over e-sports actual definition, be it a simple tournament or an event worthy of coverage associated with traditional sporting events, however from the position of a person who has seen a lot of crazy stu...[Read More]
Preview: Star Trek (Namco Bandai Global Gamers’ Day)
Movie tie in games usually run the gamut from dreadful to inoffensive. Trying to crank out an interactive experience in a relatively short window of time while trying to oblige filmmaker’s wishes is usually a recipe for disaster, as evident by the glut of awful licensed titles over the past thirty years. From E.T. to Avatar, it’s been a long line of disappointing software. When Namco Bandai slippe...[Read More]
Preview: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Namco Bandai Global Gamers’ Day)
Tekken executive producer Katsuhiro Harada is a rock star. As if his legendary penchant for alcohol and abundance of tranquil responses to ridiculous tweets weren’t enough, observe his entrance at the end of Namco Bandai Global Gamers’ Day keynote; Harada was introduced, but then the host seemed puzzles when Harada failed to show. Harada’s translator Michael Murray goes off to find him...[Read More]
Preview: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Namco Bandai Global Gamers’ Day)
One day a friend of mine, fed up with her current life predicaments, exclaimed, “I want to live in Miyazaki world!” Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has produced some of Japan’s most endearing and lighthearted works of feature length animation, and the daytime fantasy to abandon one’s dilemmas and escape into those beautiful narratives is as appealing as it is implausib...[Read More]