Opinion: Why E3 is Nintendo’s Last Chance with the Wii U
I am an avid fan of the Chicago Cubs. Yes, I know they are the worst team in professional sports history. They haven’t won a championship in over 100 years and the end doesn’t seem to be in sight anytime soon. Many ...
Road to E3 – Where’s My Sequel?! – Crash Bandicoot
When we pick games for ‘Where’s My Sequel?!’, we generally try and stick with titles that never received a sequel at all, or franchises that have been dormant for more than 10 years. I took the initiative to f...
Road to E3 – Lies and Deceit
In just over a week, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will begin. Gamers all across the world are already salivating at the thought of all the games that will be revealed, the hardware shown off, and ultimately arguing with fr...
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
Hello, SpawnFirst readers! My name is Stephanie, or Squirrels as most people know me, and this is my introductory article where I run you through how I game now, how I used to game, things connected in my life to gaming (quite ...
Road to E3 – Speculating Halo 5: Guardians
E3 is around the corner and 343 Industries told us they would be announcing a Halo game during the event. This November, Halo 2 will be turning 10, meaning an anniversary edition is not that far-fetched. However, the big que...
Should E3 Be Open to the Public?
If you consider yourself an avid gamer then chances are you’ve heard of a little yearly press event called E3. Many gaming enthusiasts would love to gain entry to the event, but since its inception in 1995 it’s only...
Is Minecraft the Scariest Game Ever?
Minecraft is a lot of things. It’s the ultimate sandbox and creative outlet. Anything you can imagine can be made in Minecraft, even replicas of entire countries. It’s one of the best multiplayer experiences ever, working toget...
The Stigma of Blockbusters: Big Budget, Bigger Problems
Video games are expensive. This is an obvious and unavoidable fact. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of gaming will tell you that prices only ever seem to increase. The release of a new console generation has only hiked...
Games We Wish We Could Forget
As gamers, we generally like to experiment. Whether it be impulse buying a game you know nothing about because you saw it in your local game shop and it caught your eye, or, playing a game critically praised you just can’...
Games We Wish We Could Relive
Every now and again I have these brief periods of time where I lack the desire to play any video games whatsoever. I was going through one of these periods recently when my good friend and colleague Buddy Acker, who is no stran...
SpawnStaff Picks: Top 6 Games We Can’t Wait To See at E3
We all know that E3 is the biggest time of the year for gamers, websites, developers, companies, and all other forms of gaming media. Every year it seems to get bigger and bigger, increasing the excitement tenfold. The expo is ...
Is There Something Deeper About the Zombie Theme?
I’ll admit, I’m not a huge zombie fan, even though one of the first games I ever played was House of the Dead. But so many of my friends—including my fiance—absolutely adore zombie games, and their popularity is unq...
SpawnStaff Picks: Top 5 Songs in Video Games
Can you imagine playing a video game that had no sounds or songs? It would extremely boring, dull, and just plain weird wouldn’t it? Songs make the difference between a dull dust collector to an always in the disc tray ti...
Code Name S.T.E.A.M.: Star Fox Team Eliminating the Andross Menace?
Could Nintendo's Trademark for S.T.E.A.M. signal a new Star Fox?
Xbox One Without the Kinect Is a Good Thing
SpawnFirst recently published a rumor that Microsoft was going to sell a version of the Xbox One without the Kinect, and Microsoft announced it will be doing just that. Xbox Ones will be sold without Kinect on June 9th, lowerin...
