Hey folks. Got another batch of games I’ve reviewed recently over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or a like or two. I’d really appreciate it. Especially please read my PAX South articles, as I took a lot of pictures. I thought about participating in the blog a day thing in February, but it’s just easier for me to write a few big blogs a month instead of little ones every day, especially with all the other stuff that’s going on. Plus they’re doing road construction in my alley this month sometime, and they may kick off the internet who knows when, so there’s no guarantee there either. But I’ll definitely try and read all of your blogs every day, and comment on them if I have anything intelligent to say. OK, on to the reviews.
Well here it is as promised. So as I mentioned I decided I was going to go ahead and review bargain bin games that I've bought on the cheap. These games may range from "Huh!? What's that!?" to "Oh I heard about that, but I never bought it!" As such I wanted to bring you all into the world of Bargain Bin Buys. This is where I take a look at some notable or not so notable titles and say whether or not you should look into giving it a chance or steer away from such cheap, tempting fruits. Since Nintendo is in my name, and Nintendo consoles are where I game...I'll be focusing on bargain bin Wii titles.Today I am going to review a title never released in the U.S.A., but gamers may know of. This weeks Wii Review... Another Code: R- A Journey Into Lost Memories. A game I bought for $15
2015 was an interesting year for gaming, the year the 8th console generation started to push out the 7th gen, where almost every game was coming onto one of the newer consoles and last gen ports becoming fewer and farther between. Yet when looking at the games everyone else was voting for each year, we noticed something. The real best games released received very few, if any, awards from other outlets. So we at Pixlbit decided to give the actual best games to come out this year their own commendation! So if you missed any of these this year, be sure to check them out and see what you missed out on!
Can you believe that 2015 is already over? What I like to do around this time is write about the best games of the past year. Keep in mind that no outside opinions went into the making of this list. It’s just my own picks. And if a game is missing from my list, it either didn’t appeal to me as much, or I just simply haven’t played it yet. Can’t play all the games out there, you know! Plus I do apologize if this list leans toward the Nintendo side. I don’t have an Xbox One or PS4 yet, so you’ll just have to deal with it. So with that out of the way, welcome to my Best Games of 2015 Awards Show!
Merry Christmas! It’s time for me to do what I always do on my blog this time of year: my Pretend Christmas Present Party! Here’s how it works. In the comments section, give me a pretend Christmas present. It can be anything you want! It’s the thought that counts…literally! And in return, I’ll reply with a pretend Christmas gift for you! It’s fun when it’s fun! And as a special Christmas bonus, I’ve got extra presents for all of you: more game reviews that I’ve written recently on GamerDad.com! Please read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or two! I’d really appreciate it! I could certainly use some cheering up since I don’t have a job right now and this year kind of sucked at times.
Hey folks, here’s another batch of games I’ve been reviewing lately over at GamerDad.com. And just in time for Halloween, most of these are spooky and kooky games! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d really appreciate it. Happy Halloween!
This past weekend I attended PAX Prime in Seattle and wrote a few articles about it at GamerDad.com. It was a lot of fun, and I’d like to encourage you all to click on the links in this blog and read my articles and post comments if you can. It would be much appreciated. I played a lot of games, attended a lot of meetings, took some cool pictures, and even met a celebrity! It was definitely one of the better PAX conventions I’ve been to, so please do check my articles out!
Hello, and welcome to the Aperture Science blog! In case you’re wondering, this is not Cary writing this blog. I’ll let you guess who this is, but I’ll at least give you feeble humans a clue: the cake is real, and is at the end of this blog. I’ve used my highly advanced computer brain to hack into Cary’s blog to let you all know that I’ve captured Cary and taken him to my underground test chambers, where he will be performing tests for the rest of his insignificant life. Don’t try to send someone to rescue him, my turret factory is up and running again, and any attempts to free Cary will end in futility. Although I have to say that my new test subject may end up more annoying that that one moronic core with the British accent. For instance, right now Cary is jumping up and down next to me, telling me that I’m going to be in some kind of new LEGO game. I have a bad feeling about this. Anyway, I am graciously going to let Cary take over this blog for a while, as he has some game reviews he wants to tell you all about. That will give me some time to prepare his first tests. Enjoy!
Ignore the click-bait title; this is just another batch of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com. I hope you get a chance to click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. But you just gotta read this blog if you want to find out who is marrying Farmer Man Cary, and who the heck is this guy, anyway? And just what is my beef against the Angry Video Game Nerd? Oh, the drama! You just have to click to find out!
For my second blog I'm going to put something out there for discussion.
Hey folks, I’ve got another batch of game reviews I’ve written lately over at GamerDad.com. Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. Also wanted to let you all know that this coming week, you probably won’t hear much from me here because I’m going to Disney World!
Hey folks, in a couple of days, I’ll be attending PAX Prime! But before I go, I wanted to leave you with some reviews I’ve been working on at GamerDad.com while I’m gone. Please read as many as you can and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!
So, Telltale's currently working on four different games at once, and I think spreading themselves too thin. Out of them, the only one I know for certain I'll play is Walking Dead Season 2 with Wolf Among Us as a maybe. Game of Thrones and Borderlands though? Hell no! I realize I'm in the minority for GoT, but Borderlands? Who thought its world was so interesting or there were stories to tell. Borderlands is a 3rd rate Fallout in terms of world, it's successful because of how amazing an idea Diablo meets FPS was. So here's some series, both in and out of gaming, I think would work much better than Borderlands.
Welcome to Cary’s “Best Video Games of 2013 Awards Show!” Featuring special guests Drippy, Ulala, 9-Volt, Luigi and Polterpup, Dragon Crown’s Amazon, plus Blathers the Owl. And now here’s your host: Cary!
Now that the PS4 is out, I always like to take a look back at the previous console and honor it by listing my favorite games for it. Last time we looked at my favorite PS3 disc-based games that you have to buy at retail. Now we’ll look at my favorite games I downloaded on PSN!
The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game series is my favorite series on the DS. The newest in the saga: Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies is out now this week on the 3DS eShop. I’m a little sad that it’s not getting a retail version, but if digital is the only way that Capcom could release it in the US and still make money, then I’ll happily download it that way! Just need to get me a Nintendo Points card! Anyway, Phoenix Wright games are like point and click adventures where you search crime scenes to find clues and evidence, and then use what you find in court to catch witnesses telling lies. One of the best things about these games is the cast of colorful and fun characters, so in honor of the release of the newest game, here are my top five favorite Phoenix Wright characters!
The first chapter of The Game Kitchen’s experimental point and click horror title, The Last Door, was intriguing and more than a little scary for me. I couldn’t wait to jump into the next chapter, and fortunately I didn’t have to wait. Would the second chapter, Memories, continue to build on the strong foundation that the first chapter began, or would it begin to fall in on itself? So far, so good; chapter two brings a longer gameplay experience and takes the threads from chapter one into some truly creepy territory.
Very few video game characters get their own cartoon show. And even fewer get multiple shows based on their electronic adventures. I think only Mario, Sonic, and Mega Man have pulled that last feat off, maybe Street Fighter if you count the anime toons. And now, Pac-Man has done the very same thing. All through this summer, the classic arcade dot and ghost muncher is starring in a brand new computer animated cartoon series called Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, airing on Disney XD. As a huge Pac-Man fan, you KNOW I’d be writing about it sooner or later. So here it is!
I’ve kind of become the de facto horror guy around PixlBit, and that suits me just fine. For the longest time, I felt that the key to a great horror video game was graphical fidelity. Resident Evil was chilling for me when I was sixteen, but the original release doesn’t do it for me anymore. Surely, it takes bleeding edge graphics to terrify, right? Well, not necessarily. I learned that with Corpse Party, a game that chilled me to the bone on multiple occasions. That game looked like it came from the 16-bit era, and it was very effective at making bedtime a dicey proposition. So what would happen if someone made a horror game that used an art style from even earlier? Would it be scary at all? In the case of The Last Door from Spanish developer The Game Kitchen, you get a macabre and haunting horror title that gets in your head and stays there.
Guess what? This June marks the 10th Anniversary of the GamerDad.com site! It’s been around in some form or fashion ever since Father’s Day of 2003! I wasn’t there at the beginning, but I came on shortly thereafter. A month or so after it started, a classic gaming Web site I used to visit posted a link to an article about Space Invaders that was on GamerDad.com. I really liked the site and thought it matched my tastes in games. Plus, in college one of my magazine projects was a mock magazine about technology and games for kids, and when I got out of college I was supposed to start writing for a game site for kids called Zgadz (which went under after the dot com bubble burst). So I thought the GamerDad site would be a good fit for me to write for (after I was let go from The Dallas Morning News a year earlier), and I think I had my first review there in September of 2003. So to celebrate the site’s 10th Anniversary, here are some more game reviews I’ve written there lately. Please click and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two! Thanks a bunch!