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Fourth Worst Game of 2013: Star Trek
#4: Star Trek Another year, another terrible movie tie-in game. Whereas 2012 was bequeathed with Men in Black: Alien Crisis and Battleship, 2013 received the most heinous Star Trek the video game. Like many licensed games, St...
Fifth Worst Game of 2013: Dead Island Riptide
#5: Dead Island: Riptide I believe it is about time to officially welcome zombies into the Hall of Overused Villains right alongside Nazis, Russians, vampires, and giant spiders. Since zombies are about as cliché as explodin...
Twelve PS Vita Games You MUST Play
What did you get for Christmas? If the answer is anything other than, “well, I’m glad you asked, Mr. Reece! I received a brand new PlayStation Vita!” then I sincerely have to wonder why you haven’t inves...
Christmas Crash and Burn: Overloaded Servers
It’s Christmas morning. Some kids stayed up until 12 to open their presents on Christmas Eve, and some slept merrily in their beds awaiting Santa’s arrival to tear into their presents when the sun rose on another Ch...
The Walking Dead Season 2: All That Remains Review
Silver AwardWaking the Dead TellTale Games returns with season 2 of the superlative The Walking Dead game, shaking its choice-based moneymaker for all that it’s worth. It’s an emotional, occasionally scary, occasionally slow entry in w...
Starbound Newb Adventures – Chapter 1
Starbound is one of those games that is epic in idea, and in execution. Starbound takes the player across a procedurally created universe (you heard that right), with every planet within it uniquely generated with its own flora...
Next Generation Gaming: Max: Curse of the Brotherhood Walkthrough – Part 1
Max: The Curse of the Brotherhood, developed by Press Play, is one of the Xbox One’s most recent arcade titles. With a Metacritic rating of 71% (as of December 26th, 2013), it’s one of those games that you either lo...
Gone Home Review
Sleeper Hit!Offbeat GemHouse of Mystery In an industry flooded with first-person firefights and zombies, it is always an invigorating breath of fresh air to get the opportunity to play a game from an independent developer. For the most part, indies t...
The Stanley Parable Review
Sleeper Hit!Offbeat GemA Never-ending Narrative When it comes to video games, I believe a strong narrative to be just as important as the gameplay and that both should complement each other to create an engaging experience. Currently, more games are ...
Last Gen vs. Next Gen Graphics: Halo 4 vs. Killzone Shadow Fall
In our Last Gen vs. Next Gen Graphics feature, we pit the best late-in-the-lifecycle game of our choosing from the previous gen, to as similar a title as we can find in the next gen line-up. We’re not restricted to one consol...
The Five Best Reasons to Dig Out Your Genesis
And In the Beginning, There Was Sonic… As Christmas is virtually upon us, I thought I’d share a memory of mine from years ago: the day I got my Genesis (or Mega Drive to anyone my side of the pond). I’ll also ...
Dementium 2 HD Review
An Asylum of Hilarity In the world of entertainment media, most of the time a movie or TV show is considered to be either good or bad, but on a rare occasion, an anomaly occurs in which the entertainment is so terribly bad, tha...
SpawnFirst’s 10 Best Games of 2013
2013 has been an amazing year for video games. We here at SpawnFirst wish to recognize that as we look back on a year filled with a lot of ups and some downs (here’s looking at you, Ride to Hell: Retribution). The games...
Hyrule Warriors: Has Zelda Been Ruined?
Ever since the announcement of Hyrule Warriors, many a Zelda and Nintendo fan have been slightly anxious about the direction this new game will be taking. A Zelda game based on open and free-form Dynasty Warriors-type gameplay?...
Final Fantasy XIII Series: Yay or Nay?
SlasherJPC is getting needy. He wants your opinions about the Final Fantasy XIII series. What you like, what you don’t like, what you would’ve loved to see, and what you wish would just go away. Everything from the ...
