• Three game console gimmicks that just didn’t work

    Gimmicks. Originally meaning an attractive and clever idea, this word has been used of late in the gaming sphere in a negative fashion in order to construe features that are either overplayed or underutilized. Today I will be using the word in both fashions, to describe my personal three...
  • Impact Plays: Fire Emblem Awakening

    With the newest installment of the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem Fates, on the horizon it is only appropriate to go back and take a closer look at Fire Emblem Awakening. This is the 2012 hit Simulation Role Playing Game (SRPG) released by Nintendo and developed by Intelligent Systems...