The 80s are strong with this one…

SUPER TIME FORCE!! Sounds like a name ripped straight out of the pages for some cheesy 80’s action movie (love those films 🙂 In a way, that’s kind of what this game is like: ridiculous, futuristic (yet 8bit-ish), a bit over the top, and balls to the wall. It’s like contra meets….Prince of Persia? I…

Top 5 Ways Sony Can Win at E3

Sony has been making quite a splash in the games industry since it’s first foray into the market. After the hit that was Playstation 1, the Playstation 2 came out and became an instant hit. Fast forward to the PS3 era, and we saw a gaming behemoth get taken down a peg, and brought back…

Astro A40 Wireless System (2011 edition) Impressions

Everyone has their own gaming setup preferences, but I’m interestingly often asked about my own gaming setup. Amongst all aspects of a gaming setup, audio is always a prevalent topic. Although I don’t have in depth experience with every piece of audio equipment that exists in the wild, I do have a personal taste when it…

Wait, Did We Just Get Excited About a COD Release?

Gamers across the world have been criticizing Activision for its “roster update” style releases for the widely popular series known to bros and 11-year olds as Call of Duty. Although I’ve enjoyed a great deal of Call of Duty games, and acknowledge that many of their releases expanded upon things that made their last games popular and addicting,…

PAX East 2014: Oculus Rift Hands On

The line for Oculus Rift was insane; a line formed to get INTO the line, which seemed to be capped at all times of the day while at PAX. For some gamers, the Oculus Rift was their sole purpose for being there, and they were determined to get in line to check it out first hand. As…

Yep, I bought an Xbone

So why oh why did I do it? For those of you that know, over the past year I’ve almost made it my life’s work to show how much Mircosoft really sucks.  I didn’t START there, and I tried to look at everything objectively without bias back when the consoles were first shown off to…

Pushing the Envelope

  Video games often find themselves in a precarious position.  On the one hand, they are a genre with a fanbase that is open to many new ideas and mostly oppose censorship.  On the other hand, however, video games often find themselves under scrutiny from mass media, and often have fans that are the least…

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…

Black Oni Podcast Episode 17: Right Black Atcha!

Welcome to another exciting fupicsode of the Black Oni Podcast with SoILakaSOAD and JCMac120! This episode is filled with lots of juicy details involving recent releases, the Wii U sales forecast cut, and gaming popularity, and more! Follow along the agenda, and make sure to subscribe to JCMac120! (youtube.com/jcmac120) Download mp3 Agenda 1- I-I-I-Iiiice Breaker!!…