As per my long standing tradition of being late to the party, I’m only now catching up on the Angry Video Game Nerd episodes, and it’s brought me to the horror of actually navigating GameTrailers dot-com. Up to this point, I’d really only ever gone to GameTrailers to watch sporadic- wait for it- trailers that [...]

We’re nearing the most wonderful time of year to be in the retail business, and if I meant that any less, my statement would probably be the Magna Carta of Bizarro World or something. Our store officially decided they were giving Thanksgiving a pass and putting the Christmas decor out early. I really intended to [...]

When loading up a Mega Man 9 session this morning and looking at the ESRB rating, it dawned on me that I don’t consider shooting football sized balls of plasma into the faces of dozens of enemies ‘violence’ anymore.

I thought I’d escaped from the world of plastic dice and doing math worksheets for the glorious reward of bragging rights to other nerds about what kind of imaginary monsters I could kill, but I’ve been being slowly drawn back toward the pen and paper rpg side. It’s like a cancer going into remission, then [...]