Let’s face it. Gaming isn’t perfect. We fell in love with its ability to engross and involve us like nothing else can, but we take the good with the bad. Video games fall flat for a number of reasons, but the most f...
What It’s Like to Be a Kid I think “life simulation game” is a label some people slap on games that are hard to describe. Series like The Sims and Animal Crossing are labeled as such, but they each come wi...
Still undecided about whether or not to buy Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons? Let SlasherJPC help you out; watch him play this interesting and somewhat innovative Indie-licious game by Starbreeze Studios, the developers of Syndicat...
SlasherJPC heads into the land of the frustratingly hard platfomers. Watch him try and understand just what the heck is going in Cloudberry Kingdom. Constant deaths are standard, and irritation a given, in Cloudberry Kingdom, y...
The kind folks at Krillbite Studios were gracious enough to answer quite a few questions that the gaming public has about their upcoming game, Among the Sleep. This unique indie game, involving the adventures of a 2-year old ch...
Join SlasherJPC as he gives you the skinny on Dragon’s Crown, for both the PS3 and PS Vita versions. Find out why this game is one of the sleeper hits of 2013, and why it absolutely needs to belong in your gaming library,...
Attention Spawners and Slashers! We here at SpawnFirst are excited to announce a partnership with SlasherJPC, the oh-so Optimistic Gamer. SlasherJPC records some pretty amazing videos, filled with absorbing commentary, comedic ...
Charming As All Get Out Animal Crossing released in 2002 for the GameCube. It was unlike anything anyone had ever played before. However, the GameCube had its limitations. The multiplayer mode in Animal Crossing was dead on ...
Hey, Spawners! This is the beginning of a new regular feature, the SFQA, in which we, the SpawnFirst writing staff, answer a single question a week about games. This question will change from week-to-week, and we’d love f...
Randomly Generated Goodness Cloudberry Kingdom is based on a novel – yet extremely promising – concept: It’s a platformer with nearly limitless replayability, because every level is randomly generated.  While this might ...
Shadowrun Returns. Evolving from the deep and popular role-playing game, four iterations of video games, and countless novels in between, Shadowrun is back with its true essence of tech and magic, thanks to developer Harebraine...
Driving Into a Wall It should come as a surprise to no one that Fast & Furious: Showdown sucks. It’s based on a film franchise. The developer, Firebrand Games, spent little to no time working on it. It was rushed out ...
It’s almost over. The summer game drought’s been keeping the ‘Staffers busy with their backlogs, and they can’t wait for August’s smorgasbord of new releases. Right at the tail end of July and the dawn of August, itâ€...