The Amazon Console May Be Dead on Arrival
On August 8, news spread of a new console in development by the online retail company Amazon. The new console is supposedly an Android-based console in which consumers can buy and download games through Amazon’s digital...
The Battle Between Gameplay and Story
Hello there, beautiful readers! This is BrowQuirk back again to serve you guys some brain food that might provoke some more thought while you’re smashing away through all those games you kids play these days (insert ̵...
SFQA: The Game That Made Me a Gamer
Aloha, Spawners– here we ago again, another entry in the SFQA, in which we answer hard-hitting and not-so-hard-hitting questions about games. Â Tell us how you feel in the comments below! The Game That Made Me a Gamer Bri...
A Message for People Who Play Video Games: Stop Being Dumb
On July 23, David Vonderhaar, the design director for Treyarch, received death threats and other disturbing messages via Twitter after tweeting out details of a Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch that included some minor tweaks t...
Zombie Games Reanimated
I still remember the old days when a few friends and I used to religiously play Call of Duty (and more to the point, Call of Duty: Zombies) all night long until it was time to go to school again; it absorbed our lives. Many a t...
Xbox One: Changing Policies for the Worse
The console wars have been going for many years now. Previously, archenemies Nintendo and Sega were the two colossal companies competing with each other. Now, this battle has been replaced with the frenetic, amusing and ugly wa...
The Art of Games
Hey guys’n’gals! It’s BrowQuirk here, and I’m going to talk about one of the stranger problems in the games industry, and probably the hardest to solve. The question, of course, is whether or not video games are...
NoFriendo for Nintendo
Nintendo, as we all know, has been having some ups and downs lately (possibly more downs than ups). The 3DS is doing majestically well as Nintendo announces that Pokémon X/Y pre-orders have passed 260,000 in Japan alone!  Tha...
I’m Gonna Raichu a Love Song
I’m going to be honest with you, dear readers. At the time of writing, I haven’t sat down at a console, computer or television for over a week. Given that videogames occupy the part of my brain ordinary people reserve for u...
Numbers Are Fun
Numbers are fun. Until recently I would have considered this a personal opinion and not simply  of counting. Hit points, Experience Points, damage counters, cool-down timers, all different mechanics hinging on the applicatio...
All My Friends Are Mics – The Lack of Local Multiplayer
Remember a time, before online gaming existed? When the 10 year-old that cursed you out was your little brother sitting next to you, instead of some brat from another state? When multiplayer meant fighting for couch space so th...
Top 5 Frustrating Gaming Moments
Let’s face it. Gaming isn’t perfect. We fell in love with its ability to engross and involve us like nothing else can, but we take the good with the bad. Video games fall flat for a number of reasons, but the most f...
I Heart Kingdom Hearts
Ah summertime. The time when life settles down and I try to run through as many games as I possibly can. It’s also a time where I pick up some of my favorites from past generations, mostly RPG’s because, well, that’s just...
Women in Video Games
Video Games are a wildly expanding industry, with inspiring examples of story-telling and masterfully crafted interactive experiences that has put the argument on the table that gaming is an art form. And not to get too Uncle B...
Bioshock FINITE
Before I begin, let me just make the point absolutely clear: I love Bioshock Infinite. The narrative, the characters, the setting and the aesthetic design of the whole game are absolutely stellar, and a big tick in favor of the...
