Just yesterday, some terrible news was announced on giantbomb.com: the sudden and tragic death of Ryan Davis, of only 34 years old. I realize that few people that read this blog have any idea who Ryan Davis was, so I will briefly explain. Ryan Davis was a well-known game journalist, but that’s putting it too plainly. Ryan Davis was an entertainer, someone who brought joy to thousands. He was also a friend to many, even those that had never met…
I suppose in an age where we are practically inundated with countless games, it can be hard to get to all the great ones. Especially with the emergence of the independent game scene, I’m even hard pressed to play them all, and I play far too many games. My Steam library literally has over 50 games that I have yet to even install. Fortunately, despite that problem, I managed to pick up Bastion and play it, and I quickly became…
There’s a game I played back toward the beginning of June that I was falling over myself to talk about with my friends. Unfortunately, I probably did not do a great job of explaining it to them, as they were not clamoring to play it as I had hoped (perhaps my persuasive skills need work). I’m hoping I can redeem myself here and possibly get some people to give this great little game a try. The game I’m speaking about…