Are Games Trying to be Too Serious?
Based on 2013's game lineup, it appears video game writers are looking to bag an Oscar, or game equivalent, but is this a good or bad thing for gamer?
Does Infamous: Second Son Actually Follow Infamous 2’s Evil Ending?
(Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Infamous 2. Proceed with caution.) I distinctly remember sitting in my living room awaiting updates on the PlayStation 4 reveal through Twitter as I couldn’t watch the s...
Shadow of Mordor Hanging off of Assassin’s Creed?
You might have seen the many speculations and sometimes full-scale arguments on forum websites about the allegation that the upcoming third-person sandbox action game, Shadow of Mordor, has robbed many of its gameplay mechanics...
Is Now A Good Time to Own A PlayStation Vita?
When I was growing up I was a big fan of handhelds, specifically the Game Boy line. There’s something about gaming on a handheld that makes playing games somehow feel like more of a personal, intimate experience. Fast for...
Twitch Plays Pokemon: A 100,000-Man Pokemon Adventure
Let’s Play Pokemon! Who could have expected Twitch Plays Pokemon to reach the heights of over 100,000 people at once, all blurting out contradictory, often harmful, commands? Or that despite that, we would progress throug...
eSports Interview: Tyler “TsquezE” Pastorius Of Dienastic Ambition
Tyler “TsquezE” Pastorius is a member Dienastic Ambition, a team dedicated to teamwork, support, and leadership. During tournaments and training sessions, communication is key; in the video at the end of this interv...
Worth a Play – Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid is a series that means a lot to me, I grew up playing these games. I’ve played through each entry of the series more times than I care to admit and it all started when I got my hands on the demo for the f...
SpawnFirst’s Favorite Games of all Time
I’m Buddy Acker and I love video games! I love them in all their forms, from BioShock to Animal Crossing  to Bejeweled.  If I had to make a list of my favorite games ever, it would be the Frankenstein of video game l...
Final Fantasy XIII: Was it Worth it?
(Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Final Fantasy XIII, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns. Proceed with caution.) Back in October, I was writing a review for Beyond: Two Souls for my University’s newspaper, an...
“Why the PS4’s GDDR5 is More Efficient Than the Xbox One’s eSRAM and DDR3” For Kids
Sometime a visual representation of an issue can bring to light (and to rest) a long-standing argument. In this case, showing just how the Xbox One’s eSRAM can cause a bottleneck for developers looking to extract the best res...
The Top Ten Horror Games that Should Come to the PS Vita
Sony’s insubmissive handheld game console, the PS Vita, has one major shortcoming as opposed to its main rival, the Nintendo 3DS: it doesn’t quite tally the same amount of AAA game titles. Seeing as some of the most...
Call Of Duty Ghosts On Xbox One’s Framerate Drops To Sub 20fps Since Patch
Call of Duty: Ghost players on each of the two next-gen systems have been having quite the different experience after each version of the game was patched. Now usually, patching a game is meant to improve the game’s performan...
Mod User Shows the Beauty of Skyrim
It’s hard to believe that Bethesda’s fantasy epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is already 3 years old. However, with Bethesda now beta-testing The Elder Scrolls V: Online, we here at SpawnFirst thought that now wa...
Worth a Play – Eternal Sonata
One of the most famous composers in history, Frédéric Chopin, lies upon his deathbed. With his loved ones surrounding him, he falls into a deep slumber. Thus begins the events of Eternal Sonata. Up until its release and fo...
Five Changes That Need to Happen in The New Generation
As we enter the third month of the new console generation, I’ve been thinking about what I would like to see from this wave of gaming systems. I contemplated what needed to change and what shouldn’t even exist anymo...
