Keza MacDonald
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The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia
18Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…
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I Watched 10 Game Developers Get Demolished By An MMA Champ
In nine years of covering video games and the people who play them, I have seen some egregious displays of machismo, but it’s never gotten to the stage where men have literally ripped their shirts off and wrestled each other to the ground. On Friday, though, I witnessed game developers from EVE Online studio CCP…
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I’m Having A Ridiculously Good Time With Tomodachi Life
People have called Tomodachi Life a cross between The Sims and Animal Crossing, but there’s a third strong influence in there that determines the tone of the whole experience: Wario Ware.
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Why Fanboys Act Like Jerks
Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of affection for these people. There’s a passion inherent in fanboyism that’s actually quite…