(Images Captured By Hatmonster) Well it’s finished. After seven years of trying to get through the game only to be distracted away from it time and again, it’s finally done. I’ve finally beaten Final Fantasy VII! It took over 45 hours spread over a month of dedicating normal play hours (as well as sneaking in…
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Footnotes: Super BattleShip
Image By Flickr User: Andrew Malone (cc) It’s difficult trying to imagine the sheer amount of games that are available to play nowadays. For every major release gamers will be queuing up for this this year there are likely hundreds of smaller games made in the hopes of nothing more than becoming at least a…
Discussion Mondays: Early Access Games at Retail
Originally posted on Gamer Crash:
With as much controversy as “Early Access” type games are causing these days, one thing I’ve never thought to consider is how the discussion would change or intensify if these titles were sold at retail. Currently, they’re available digitally on Steam but if they were sold in stores, how would…
Finishing Final Fantasy VII: June Progress Report
Images captured by Hatmonster Well it’s almost the end of June so I figured now would be a good time for the first Final Fantasy VII update. I’m happy to report that the game is moving along nicely. More quickly than I would expected given how life in the working world tends to function. As…
Round Table Discussion: Do We Need E3
Image by Flickr User: Major Nelson (cc) With E3 done and over with, we at UWG decided now would be a good time to take a hard look at shows like E3 and ask a tough question: “In the digital age we now reside in, are these big media shows like E3 really warranted anymore?…
Destiny: How The Alpha Totally Changed My Mind
Screenshot captured by Hatm0nster (yours truly) I’ve never been happier to be wrong about a game. Never. I was all set and ready to write-off Destiny as a game I wasn’t going to like. Aside from its universe and setting, it seemed like most everything else coming out about the game was giving me reason…
Game Hype and CG Trailers
Image By Flickr User: BagoGames (CC) It’s hard not to get excited while watching game trailers isn’t it? Watching a trailer for a game you’re looking forward to feels a bit like looking into the future. It’s a glimpse of things to come, of what we might expect. How could it not be exciting? Just…
Resonance: Metroid Prime Trilogy Intro Music
Image By Flicker User: Jorgen Haland It’s been awhile since our last Resonance entry, so this time we’re doing not one, but three most excellent pieces of gaming music! Specifically the introductory themes from Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption!
Finishing Final Fantasy VII
Image by Flickr User: Borgs Dalisay (CC) Final Fantasy VII is one of my absolute favorite games from the good ol’ PSOne, probably number…4 after Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex, and Crash Bandicoot: Warped. (What can I say? I like my classic platformers!) I love…
Multiplayer is the New Pinball
Photo by Flickr user: Matteo Paciotti It kinda stinks what’s happened to pinball isn’t it? In the time since arcades began declining and our modern gaming age, that classic game of flippers and steel balls has fallen from the epitome of fast-paced, yet deceptively complex, frantic fun and transformed into simple franchise tie-in machines getting…
VIRTUAL BASTION 