We Came to Smash!

By Kevin Kennedy The newest edition of Nintendo’s popular Super Smash Brothers garnered a lot of hype in recent months.  Fans of the series, myself included, have been waiting for a new Smash for the last few years, and we wondered how it would fair on the Wii U.  But then Nintendo revealed that this installment would, in…

Sure it’s New, But is it Tasty?

By Kevin Kennedy New ‘n’ Tasty! Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee   is a remake of the PS1 Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee game, originally released in 1997.  New ‘n’ Tasty is available now for PS4, and coming soon to pretty much every other major system later in 2014.  The game follows a Mudokon named Abe, formerly an employee at Rupture Farms,…

Magic 2015-Duels of the Planeswalkers Review

By Kevin Kennedy (Theonekk) The top real life Collectible Card Game is back for another yearly installment of Duels of the Planeswalkers, promising more freedom and new gameplay, but does it deliver?  Strangely absent from Playstation this time around (available on iPad, Steam, Android and Xbox 360), I found myself playing the Steam version. This…

Why I’m saying NO to DLC in 2014

By Kevin Kennedy (Theonekk)                 Now, it may be a little late (I mean it’s already late January), but I think I’ve figured out my gaming resolution for 2014: stop buying DLC.  This may seem a bit extreme, but it makes a lot of sense in context, and with a few qualifications. First, let me…

First-Person Understanding: Interpreting our Reality through Gaming

First-Person Understanding: Interpreting our Reality through Gaming Kevin Kennedy (Theonekk)                 When discussing video games, there seems to be a fundamental understanding that the world of the game exists as it is produced by the game’s creators.  Yet, if one starts to think about it in a more complex context, this is simply not true.  For…