I was first introduced to trading card games by my father when I was about 10 years old. The game was Magic: The Gathering, and while I was only a young kid who didn’t quite know the highest of grand strategy, I embraced it with gusto, and thoroughly enjoyed playing with my dad or watching him get beat in tournaments. When I got into middle school, I revisited the game with a group of friends where we’d face each other’s…
This last week of gaming has really shown me how fortunate we really are as gamers in the current gaming climate. I am agonizingly torn every time I sit down and decide to play a game. I have so many amazing options I sometimes find myself paralyzed by the choice. This very ‘problem’ has given rise to a new feature coming every Friday, called Rad Listed. In Rad Listed I will devote one short paragraph for each game I’ve played…
A couple of years ago, I picked up a game called Penny Arcade: Gamers Against Evil, and enjoyed it immensely. This was my first introduction to the genre of deck building games. Deck building games can basically be described as a game where you begin with a small deck full of basic cards, which you will expand with better and more efficient cards as the game progresses. The power progression of all the players and the interesting strategies that can…
You’d think with all the modern games on my never-ending steam backlog, I wouldn’t be booting up and playing games from 1997. When Steam had a sale on the older Fallout games over the weekend, I couldn’t resist picking up Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. Usually I’m paying five bucks just to have the game on my Steam library list, destined to be grayed out for all eternity. That’s when you own a game on Steam, but it…
When I was younger and penniless, I had all the time in the world to play games, but never the money to buy all the new releases. I was required to make the most of a newly acquired game to get me by until the next birthday or present-appropriate holiday that would land me a new game. I would replay the same game multiple times, mastering all the nuances until I tired of it. Today, I would balk at replaying…
I was recently introduced to a newly released game called Payday 2, a heist, first-person shooter RPG. Despite not having paid any interest in the previous iteration, I’m finding the sequel very interesting. The mix of genres combined with the heist element proves to be an addicting combination. While this may seem like a strange smattering of genres to combine, we’ve seen the combination of first person shooter and RPG becoming more and more prevalent. As it has become more…
I currently have a job where sitting at my desk all day and doing the same task over and over is a reality. In order to not go insane, I’ve developed the habit of listening to audio books and podcasts. The days go much faster this way and I actually get caught up on my reading, gaming news, and tech news in this manner. Today, I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite podcasts. I’ll start with my…
Would you believe me if I told you there’s a game out there that I’ve been playing off and on for over a decade? Technically, I’m now playing DotA 2, developed by Valve; however, DotA 2 is merely an exact remake of the original DotA map for Warcraft 3–just with updated graphics, better balance, and an actual matchmaking system. I discovered DotA in the slums of Battle.net, which is Blizzard’s online community that services the multiplayer aspect of their games….
Been playing some games, as I am wont to do, and have turned up a couple of interesting, albeit, not as well known games. These two games have managed to keep me away from DotA 2 for a time so that must be an achievement, right? One of those games is a fun little squad based post-apocalyptic real time strategy RPG called Krater. Now that may seem like a mouthful of gaming mechanics, but imagine it being a mix of…