The Memorial Day countdown reaches its last new review at #3. We Were Soldiers covers the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965 with the respect and emotional weight it deserves. Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, and the entire cast are extraordinary. Full review. Continue reading We Were Soldiers Review (2002)
Titan Quest is one of my all-time favorites, and it’s part of why this site exists. The PS4 version has real problems, but the game itself is the greatest ARPG ever made. Continue reading Titan Quest Review (PS4/PC/Mobile)
Terence Young directs Audrey Hepburn in the most underappreciated film of her career — a claustrophobic thriller that ranks among the best ever made, with one of the great villain performances from Alan Arkin. Continue reading Wait Until Dark Review (1967)
William Wyler directs Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the film that made her a star. Charming, beautiful, and honest enough to skip the fairy tale ending. A perfect film. Continue reading Roman Holiday Review (1953)
Super Mario Bros. is the first game I ever played and my first gaming memory. This week’s Retro WedNESday game review looks back on the all-time classic. Forty years later it’s still just as fun as it ever was. Some things don’t need improving. Continue reading Super Mario Bros. Review (1985) (Retro WedNESday #5)
WrestleMania week calls for a look back at the best wrestling game ever made. WWF WrestleMania 2000 brought the AKI engine to the WWF roster and nothing in the genre has topped it since. Continue reading WWF WrestleMania 2000 Review (Retro WedNESday #2)
Harvest Moon 64 is one of my all-time favorites. A year of waiting for it, a Christmas surprise, and a farming sim that somehow turned me into a real-life gardener. Here’s why it still holds up. Continue reading Harvest Moon 64 Review (Retro WedNESday #1)
Richard Dreyfuss delivers the best performance of his career in a film that spans thirty years of one man’s life and earns every emotion it asks you to feel. The ending alone is worth the price of admission. Continue reading Mr. Holland’s Opus Review (1995)
Gary reviews the latest entry in his favorite franchise, Assassin’s Creed. Mirage is a return to series roots and a love letter to the first games in the series. But how does it hold up compared to the earlier titles and is it worth experiencing? Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Mirage Review
John Wayne was reported to have been offered a part in Blazing Saddles. After reading the script he called back and said “I can’t be in this, it’s too dirty… but I’ll be first in line to go see it when it comes out.” Imagining Wayne in the Wilder role makes me glad he turned it down. The other casting question that often comes … Continue reading Blazing Saddles (1974) Review
Almost Famous is a movie I not only love, but was important to me in my formative years, and my life in general. It tells the story of William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a 15 year old kid on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine. He has to cover an up and coming rock band during what critic Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) calls the dying days … Continue reading Almost Famous Review
It’s been almost a month since Fall Guys took the world by storm. Since its release on August 3rd, the game has quickly become of the most popular (both played and watched) games on the planet and also is the most downloaded game in PlayStation Plus history. While it’s been free on PS Plus, it has still managed to sell over seven million copies on … Continue reading Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Review
Book of Demons is the first installment of developer Thing Trunk’s series Return 2 Games, which is creating a “Paperverse” of games inspired by the “early golden days” of PC gaming. Return 2 Games is planned to be made up of seven Books where the game world is a pop-up book, paper style. Book of Demons kickstarts the series with a tribute to and parody … Continue reading Book of Demons Review
It has been over one and a half months since Destiny 2’s first big expansion, Forsaken, released. I don’t even want to guess about how much time I’ve put into the game during this time, but suffice to say it has been A LOT. I’ve gotten two of my characters to 600 (and my third is very close), I’ve completed the raid a couple of … Continue reading Destiny 2 Forsaken Review
In January, WWE’s flagship program, Monday Night RAW, celebrated it’s 25th anniversary. It was a huge milestone and one that came near the 1,300 episode mark. Unfortunately for us fans, the actual program itself was a huge let down. While WWE creative did a poor job of celebrating the event, the folks at DK and WWE Publishing worked on the RAW: The First 25 Years … Continue reading WWE RAW: The First 25 Years Review
Assassin’s Creed first released in 2007, and two years later saw its first sequel. After that, fans of the franchise got a new entry every year from 2009 to 2015 with the release of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. With a technically flawed release in 2014 with Unity, many fans began to feel burned out on the series. Thus, 2016 came and went without any major Assassin’s … Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Origins Review
Stardew Valley hits all the right notes and checks all the right boxes as a feature rich farming based RPG. If it can be done better, I’d certainly like to see it, but no one person could make a better game for this genre than Eric Barone has done. I’d say it’s the peak, the Harvest Moon game many of us always wanted. Continue reading Stardew Valley Review
Wrestling fans rejoice – the 3rd Edition of the WWE Encyclopedia is finally here. Back in 2009, WWE and DK teamed up to bring wrestling fans the first ever WWE Encyclopedia. At the time it was “the definitive guide to World Wrestling Entertainment,” and it was truly a must have for any wrestling fan as it covered everything in WWE history to that point in … Continue reading WWE Encyclopedia 3rd Edition Review
Back when it came out I and many other people considered Black Flag a watershed for the series and rightfully. Simply put: This is the next watershed and if they can continue to crank out games like this at this level of quality the I hope they making these games for as long as they sell because I’ll never get tired of something like this. I’ll welcome a game like this every year with wide open arms. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Review
A few years ago I wrote a little piece about FPS Freek Havoc and Infinity thumbstick grips for PS3 and I really liked them. But, like the PS3 itself, they’ve been pushed aside (well actually one of the Havoc’s broke sometime early last year and that was my fault). Out of the box, the Dualshock 4 is an all around better controller than the Dualshock … Continue reading Gaming Accessories: FPS Freek Galaxy Review
