I used to do that! I’ve been incredibly busy working a project that’s been sucking a lot of my time away. I’ve still been able to start a new homebrewing blog (New York Home Brew!) and get a bunch of reviews written, though…

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

I unabashadly love this game. I just picked up the first book from the series that inspired the game and am doubly impressed by how faithful a translation it is. Fully plan on going back through it on the harder difficulty, and I barely ever do that.
Review on Guyspeed

The Walking Dead

I’m loving that this game is finally getting some attention with mainstream press, including a massive article in the New York Times this week. It really is a great game, and both that increasingly middling tv show and Telltale’s Jurassic Park disaster seem to be convincing people not to bother with it. Their mistake- it’s one of the most exciting zombie properties in years.

Review on Badass Digest

Death Worm

Fun little game, even if there isn’t much to it. The Lite version was fun enough to earn my buck- I was just sad to find out that I’d already experienced all it had to offer. But hey, closest to a Tremors videogame we’ll ever get.

Review on Tapsauce

Sniper Elite V2

The most brutal Nazi destruction since Inglourious Basterds. I ain’t kidding when I say this one is pure, violent catharsis. I really, really need that DLC that lets you assassinate Hitler.

Review on Guyspeed.

Really love this one. This and Sine Mora in a few weeks? Xbox Live Arcade’s on a roll again. Not too sure how smart they were releasing it on Good Friday/First Day of PAX, though. Especially since most Xbox 360 gamers are used to Arcade titles hitting on Wednesday. Of course, it doesn’t help that the console’s new Games Marketplace is absolutely awful at letting you find anything. What a shitty redesign.

Anyway, definitely go for this one if you’re a Tower Defense fan. Plus, it’s only 800 fantasy points!

Full review at Guyspeed.

I love shoot’em ups. Absolutely love them. While I was a Nintendo fanboy as a kid I picked up a Sega Nomad years later along with a massive amount of shooters, finally experiencing all of those amazing Treasure games I hadn’t tried before. That was really the start of things, and I spent the next few years dodging bullets whenever I could. But besides some re-releases on XBLA there hasn’t been a great new shooter in a while, but Sine Mora is finally here. I really dig this game and can see myself playing it for a long time to come.

Check out my full review at Guyspeed, where I managed to sneak M.U.S.H.A. into an article without anyone noticing.

Couple new reviews of mine just went up-

Angry Birds Space- 

Great sequel, changes around the formula just enough to keep things interesting. Can’t wait for more levels, even though I still have a bunch more to three star in the second episode. 

Full review at Tapsauce.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City-

Huge disappointment. I enjoyed it when I played it last year at a press event but it turns out that the game’s only really good in short spurts. The first few levels in the game are mind-numbing, really. Picks up later on and the multiplayer’s decent but this is not a very good game. 

Full review at Guyspeed.

My second review for Guyspeed is up! I’m going to be doing some gaming news for them as well, can’t wait. 

As for I Am Alive, I was pleasantly surprised by this game. It’s a little rough around the edges but it’s certainly unique, a really bleak look at the post-apocalypse. It’s the closest to a videogame adaptation of The Road that we’ll ever get. 

Check out the full thing over at Guyspeed.

Since I’ve moved on from JoBlo (let’s call it irreconcilable differences) I’ve been looking for more places to freelance, specifically to review films, video games, and board games. One place I’m excited to start working for is GuySpeed. I’m going to be doing some game reviews for them and my first up is for Syndicate, which I liked a lot more than I expected to. It’s got a lot of flaws but the shooting is top notch, as well as the co-op. Of course, it’s hard to imagine picking the co-op in this game over Mass Effect 3…

Check out the review on Guyspeed here.

Received a pretty good response to my Mass Effect 3 review, even though it came out almost a week after the game’s release. I hate getting things up so late but sometimes I get a review copy only a day or so before- sometimes even after the game is in stores already. Doesn’t really help things. But I absolutely loved the game, controversial endings and all. 

Check it out on Badass Digest here.

You’re running through a dark alley clutching a shotgun close to your chest when the light from a nearby rooftop casts a silhouette on a nearby wall of a chilling-yet-familiar caped figure. You spin around and aim your weapon upwards, trying to catch a glimpse of the menace… but it’s already gone. Spotting a nearby trampoline and bouncing off of it far into the air, you pull out a grappling hook at the apex and shoot it towards a distant building. Zooming across the sky you spot your prey, running along a nearby roof, and you disengage your hook and drop down behind him. Up close he’s far less scary than he seemed- an overweight man in a homemade Batman costume running around with a machine gun. You pull a jack-in-the-box out of your pocket and throw it at him, cackling madly as it explodes in a direct hit and the screen tells you how many experience points you just earned from his death…

Read the rest of the review on Badass Digest!

Sometimes it’s refreshing to review a game that doesn’t require 50 hours of gameplay (ahem, Kingdoms of Amaldur- Reckoning). This is a damn fun fighting game, even if there’s not much to recommend it over the last few installments.

True to the nature of George R.R. Martin’s most famous work, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game is epic, complex, and will soak up a lot of your free time. At its most basic it’s a war game that sees you trying to control the castles and strongholds scattered among the territories of Westeros, but there’s a delightful amount of backstabbing, false alliances, and just generally screwing your friends over. It’s a good game for groups of friends that like to argue with each other loudly and often, preferably while drinking copious amounts of beer.

Read more: http://badassdigest.com/2012/01/11/game-review-a-game-of-thrones-the-board-game-2nd-edition/