The 2018 Pokemon World VGC Championship

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact This past weekend, from Friday August 24, through Sunday August 26, was the 2018 Pokemon world championships. They took place in Nashville, Tennessee, and featured a total prize pool of $500,000 split between 3 different games and 3 different age divisions per game (with only 2 age divisions for Pokken tournament). Pokemon Ultra Sun […]

Review: Octopath Traveler (Switch)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact First before I begin, let me apologize for the delay. I obtained Octopath Traveler on release, and for the most part had been playing it every day. I decided to play through to the final ending, and it took me way longer than expected. Luckily, I finished this game on Wednesday August 22, 2018, […]

Nintendo News: Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact This past Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Nintendo released a Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct. It revealed many features of the upcoming Smash Bros. game to be released in December. Since I was on vacation at the time, I couldn’t cover this news in a timely fashion. Even so, I want to cover as many of […]

Blank Slate Characters in Video Games

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Have you ever played a video game and thought, “Why doesn’t the main character have something neat to say?” I know many games have this sort of main character. Throughout the entire game, they say absolutely nothing. This is all the more unusual, as most media (TV, movies, books, etc.) almost never do this. […]

Good or Bad: Free to Play Games

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact There are a few different models of how to monetize video games. There are the games you pay full price at retail, the kind you pay full price before you download, and there are free to play games, (sometimes called free to start), where the game is a free download, but some content can […]