OPINION PIECES

If you’ve played Fallout 4, then you probably already know of the greatest companion ever, Preston Garvey. To the enemies that you meet in the main game, he goes by many names: the Settlement Sergeant, the Colonial Crusader, the Boston Boy Scout, and on the list goes. That may be all fine and dandy for the existing enemies of the ...

Following up on one of the largest game releases in recent history, Bethesda has just announced that Fallout 4 will receive a substantial amount of DLC content. Among other things, you will get to go to Maine (to exterminate some dirty synths, if that’s what you’re into), fight the Mechanist and his robots in the Commonwealth, and capture some of the Commonwealth’s ...

From time to time, a modern FPS comes along and presents an interesting story that doesn’t put you in the boots of some super secret special forces guy who has to kill all the terrorists to save the world. The original Homefront does that, whereby the United States is invaded and you are a resistance fighter who is trying to ...

When most people see a game title with the Tom Clancy name attached to it, they usually equate it to a fairly realistic, modern combat shooter with some gadgets thrown in to give it that extra “near future” feeling. The Division on the other hand, carries the Tom Clancy brand, but deviates from most of the other Tom Clancy games ...

As we turn our backs on 2015, it’s time to round up our favorite games of the year. We saw a lot of excellent video games last year, and everybody has their own list of favorites. I thought that a fun way to start off the year would be to share my favorite games of 2015 with you. So, without ...

(Skip to the end for an abbreviated version) When the first Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare was announced at E3 2013, it can be safely assumed that most people had a reaction that was a mix of delightful surprise and healthy skepticism. After all, it’s a game that is based on a tower defense mobile game that, upon cursory inspection, ...

Many years and one generation of consoles ago, a developer called Bungie set out on one of the most ambitious projects of all time. Though people were anxious, they had faith that Bungie would bring about a new franchise that would last for years, the same way that Halo has become one of the biggest gaming franchises ever. And at ...

Now that Fallout 4 has been out for just over a month, it’s entirely possible that you may have finished the main quest and are looking to complete your second playthrough. Maybe you want to experiment with a different playstyle, maybe you want to see if there are any major decisions or interesting locations that you missed the first time, ...

Now that the holiday season is over, and we are finally making some progress in getting through our backlog of games, it is only natural for people to think ahead and wonder what 2016 might have in store for games and gaming technology. After all, 2015 was the year when developers finally started to slowly leave the last gen consoles ...

As yet another year reaches its conclusion, it’s only natural for one to look back and marvel at how far gaming has come. From the early days of Pong, to the modern era of online multiplayer, to the glimpses of the future where VR and AR headsets might have a place in the living room, gaming has come a long ...