Games You Love and Why You Shouldn’t: Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite is the sequel to 2007’s unexpected hit Bioshock and continues the spirit of the game. Both are about a fantastic city that is built around a corrupted ideal. But where the original was an achievement i...
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...
My Most Emotional Moments in Gaming
Video games are an artistic medium. What does this mean? It means they can move you. They are an experience meant to derive emotion from you. And we’ve all felt it. We’ve felt anger as Ornstein and Smough steamroll ...
Versus Mode Episode 10 – Columbia vs Rapture (ft. Geron Roper)
In the Sky or Under the Sea? Nah. I’m Good On this episode of Versus Mode, wizards of gaming, Brian and Chris, are joined by special guest and fellow SpawnFirst staff writer Geron Roper. The trio get into a very deep and ...
3 BioShock Movie Domains Registered by Sony Pictures
Sony has been going on and off again with the BioShock movie and they have recently registered 3 more domains. Sony now holds bioshock-movie.com, bioshock-movie.net, and bio-shock.net. Those 3 domains, however, do not bring up ...
Courtnee Draper Interested in Portraying Elizabeth in BioShock Movie
Back in 2010, a planned film adaptation of BioShock halted development and was eventually shut down by series creator Ken Levine. However, Courtnee Draper, the voice of BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth, has stated that sho...
Versus Mode Episode 3: Portal Gun vs Plasmids, Lag vs. Rage Quitting, and the Best Halo Game
The Devil’s Playground: A Portal Gun, a Cat, and a Camera What’s better: being able to use portals in everyday life or plasmids? Which Halo game is the best? What’s more annoying: people who lag or rage quit? Brian an...
Top Ten Narratives of the Last Generation
Top 10 Remember when video games were just about chubby plumbers saving kidnapped princesses from killer turtle people? I do. Since the creation of video games the medium has been evolving with better graphics, hardware, gamepl...
BioShock Developer Announces Shutdown
On the developer’s website Irrational Games’ founder Ken Levine has announced the shutdown of the studio. Levine cited a desire to create different kind of games than the studio had developed before as a reason for ...
BioShock Infinite’s Last DLC Release Date Revealed
Today, Irrational Games announced that the third add-on for BioShock Infinite, Burial at Sea – Episode Two, will be available for download on March 25th for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. The follow up to November’...
Will Games Ever Get The Respect They Deserve?
In early November I was unloading a truck in the back of the Wal-mart where I am employed and found a box labeled “PS4 Hardware” coming down the line. I excitedly held up all my co-workers as I opened up the box and...
First Person Shooters: Could They Save the Vita?
Headshots In Your Hands Way back in January 2011 after the now President and CEO of Sony, Kazou Hirai, stood up at the PlayStation Meeting in Japan and officially unveiled the PlayStation Vita – or NGP (Next Generation Po...
January PS Plus Line-Up Features Don’t Starve, DmC, BioShock Infinite & More
Sony has an amazing line up for North American PlayStation Plus subscribers next month. PlayStation 4 owners will get the popular Indie hit Don’t Starve, whereas PS3 owners will get a bit more variety with DmC: Devil May...
VGX 2013 Nominees Announced
The nominees for Spike’s VGX 2013 (formerly known as the Spike Video Game Awards) awards show have been announced. All of the winners will be determined by a council (including Game Informer’s Andy McNamara and Spik...
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1 Review
Silver AwardGreat DLCIt’s probably easier to start by describing what Burial at Sea is, rather than what it does for the BioShock legend: it is, quite simply, BioShock in the first, recast with Elizabeth and Booker Dewitt.  BaS doesn̵...
