New Games, New Surprises from E3 2016

Every year, people who enjoy video games get excited for E3. It’s one if the year’s biggest events in terms of learning about brand new games and updates to ones previously announced. If every video game player could attend E3, they probably would, but the fact is that only a small majority get the chance….

Chrono Trigger – A History

Chrono Trigger, is a role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix ( at the time Square Soft) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. Chrono Trigger was designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi of Final Fantasy, Yuji Horri of Dragon Quest and Akira Toriyama of Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball fame. The game was a…

Saturday Video Round Up: Derek’s Picks Edition

The following post was submitted by Gamer Crash. See more trailers and news at GamerCrash.com! – As many of you know, this past week was all about the new games and announcements at E3 2015. This year there was a ton of great stuff and overall, I found the show to be extremely exciting with awesome…

21 Years, 21 Stories #gamersonwatch

This year marks E3’s 21st anniversary, and what a road this event with humble beginnings has traveled! To celebrate how far games have come in a mere two decades, I’m running down a year-by-year list of my history with game news and events since 1995, the year of E3’s first show. (Hence the throwback to…

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?…

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…

Some Backwards Thinking

Like so many others at the start of a new year, I made a short list of resolutions with the ultimate goal of getting my life in order.  At the top of the agenda: clean out my stuff from the parents’ basement.  The task was meant to be a sort of gift to my mother,…