Why You Should Be Playing Boom Beach
The Helsinki-based developers at Supercell have had a great couple of years. In 2013, they made Clash of Clans, which helped them take in an average of USD $2.3 million per day. Now, they’ve conquered the free-to-play gaming wo...
SpawnStaff Picks: HD Remakes We Want to See
So far this generation we’ve seen quite a few HD remakes. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition has already made it out to market, Metro: Redux, and The Last of Us Remastered aren’t too far off the horizon. It doesn’...
SpawnStaff Picks: Favorite Indie Games
Indie games have been gaining mass amounts of popularity over the past couple of years. It seems everyone who considers gaming a hobby has at least tried an indie title. Some of my personal favorite titles include the Mutant Bl...
SpawnStaff Picks: Top 6 Non-Human Protagonists
There has been a lot of controversy lately over female protagonists in video games. For the return of the weekly SpawnStaff Picks feature I decided to take a step back from that and instead ask some of the SpawnStaff, “Wh...
5 Things I Want in Watch Dogs 2
Ubisoft released Watch Dogs last month. It was their fastest selling brand new IP ever and it received mostly good reviews. Those two facts alone pretty much guarantee we will see a Watch Dogs sequel in the future. While I d...
The SpawnFirst E3 Awards
E3 has been concluded for a week yet all of our minds are still swimming with thoughts of gameplay demos and trailers that we saw at the show. You could argue that this year was one of the best E3’s of all time. All of th...
What We Wanted To See At E3 2014
E3 2014 has come and gone. An abundance of new games were announced, and all those who sought justification for their newly purchased consoles can take a sigh of relief. New games are coming and they all look fantastic. But eve...
Five Games We Want Revealed at E3 (Plus a Bonus Pick)
The SpawnFirst staff often conjures up unrealistic expectations, so we decided to name some games we hope are revealed at E3. We pondered and pondered about our decisions and eventually decided upon three definite picks. Howeve...
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 ...
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...
Favorite Superhero Games
It’s a well-known fact that everyone loves superheroes. OK, so that’s not a fact at all, but it’s pretty accurate, especially in the gaming community. People who play video games will tell you that they love a...
Top 10 Kings in Video Games
I’m Buddy Acker and I’m the “king” of SpawnFirst. It’s a running gag, but it got me thinking. Video games have featured some of the most memorable characters in history. And, a lot of these charact...
SpawnStaff Picks: Top 5 Worst Gaming Experiences
We have all played those games that we absolutely loved. We play them for hours, days, months, and its all we talk about to our friends. In the gaming world the good stuff gets much more praise than the bad stuff. There is two ...
