The SpawnCast Episode 14: Super Smash(ed) Bros
Time to Spike the Falcon Punch Super Smash Brothers. The name is synonymous with screaming at the top of your lungs while watching Nintendo’s biggest stars duke it out for honor and country. The extremely popular series has b...
Saving the Wii U: A Loving Letter to Nintendo
Nintendo: Y U No Luv Me? Hi there Nintendo, it’s your old friend Brian. Now I know that you’re a little sour with me because I haven’t gotten a Wii U yet, but don’t worry: I don’t intend on breaking my streak of o...
Madden NFL 25 Review
Honoring 25 Years In Style Twenty. Five. Years. That’s how long the Madden series has been around. Take a moment and let that sink in. That’s older than most of the people on staff here a SpawnFirst, myself included. Th...
Splinter Cell: Blacklist Mega-Review
Editor's ChoiceGold AwardYou Can’t Stop the Blacklist It’s very rare that a sequel can live up to its predecessor, and even moreso when the sixth installment makes a run at the best game in the series. Well, I can safely say that Splinter Cell:...
Ubisoft’s New IP Outed
Ubisoft has big some big plans for next-gen consoles. Games like Watch Dogs, The Crew, and The Division make me want to build a time machine just so I can jump to November and start playing. I was even more pumped when Ubisoft ...
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...
Scourge: Outbreak Review
I’ve always been a pretty big fan of third person shooters. I can’t even begin to put into words how many hours my roommate and I poured into horde mode on Gears of Wars 2. So when I was assigned to review Scourge: Outbrea...
Rack N Ruin Interview
Indie games are a growing genre these days. In an industry that’s been dominated by blockbuster games created by well-known developers, it’s a refreshing change of pace to see smaller devs with big ideas get some of...
Ring in the New Gen: Top 10 Xbox Exclusives
Over the past few days, we at SpawnFirst have counted down the best Nintendo and PlayStation exclusives in preparation for the next generation of consoles that will soon be upon us. When we were compiling our list of the top te...
Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep DLC Review
Great DLCROLL FOR INITIATIVE! I’ve been on a huge Borderlands 2 kick as of late, playing through the campaign five times in the past month, as well as playing all the DLCs. I guess you can say I was doing it to get ready for the gameâ...
Top 5 James Bond Video Games
Top 5 James Bond Video Games James Bond video games have been showing up on consoles since the 80’s, and with a new generation of consoles coming out, one can assume that the world’s greatest secret agent will eventually fi...
Prime World: Defenders Review
Prime World: Defenders Review As a newbie to the tower defense genre, I looked forward to playing Prime World: Defenders. I have only dabbled in strategy games, playing both RTS (namely Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun) and tu...
Recap & Review: Ubisoft E3
Recap & Review: Ubisoft E3 Killer guitar solos, dancing, sexual innuendos, pirates, epic car chases, guns, punching, and EXPLOOOOOSIONS; Ubisoft’s E3 conference had it all. The massive developer showed off a bunch of new ...
Recap & Review: Microsoft’s E3
Microsoft has been under a lot of scrutiny lately about their unveiling of Xbox One, the next-gen successor to the Xbox 360. A lot of people were upset that Microsoft showed too much of the One’s TV capabilities and not enoug...
The Bureau: The Disappointment of Change
Hop into my DeLorean and let’s take a ride back to E3 2010. That year, one of the biggest and most exciting games revealed at the show was XCOM, an exciting and creepy FPS take on the classic franchise with the same name.  H...
