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Bleepin’ Blips: Never-Ending Fantasy
Another Bleepin’ Blips article is on the front page of RadNerd—and this time it deals with none other than Final Fantasy. But what’s not to like about Final Fantasy, you ask? Just hop on over to RN and find out, and leave a comment ...
Game Over: Video Games on the Silver Screen
I really heart Spawn Kill. It’s bursting with video game action of every flavor, and it has a team of writers to its name who work hard and help make it such a thriving website and community. So I’m always giddy when they let me submit ar...
PS3 Review: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
From childhood to adulthood, Naughty Dog has remained one of my favorite games developers out there. As a PlayStation owner for the majority of my life, it brings me the faintest amount of self-indulgent pleasure that all the alternative console elit...
Demos: Bayonetta & Dante’s Inferno
There’s a slew of exciting games waiting for us in 2010, and Bayonetta and Dante’s Inferno are two of them. Demos are up for grabs, but which action hack n’ slash will combo its way to victory? Either way, the competition is just be...
Book Review: Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames
Need one last gift for the holidays? Or maybe you just want to splurge on a little something for yourself? Put your wallet away, because over at RadNerd we’re giving away a copy of Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Videogames (3rd Edition)—cu...
Arkham Wants You!
Batman: Arkham Asylum brought a sort of peerless glamor to 2009: a cutting-edge marriage of video games and comic books that together fostered a near masterpiece of a game. But Rocksteady and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment aren’t sittin...
Last Minute Holiday Buy Guide
We all know them. Every time the holidays roll around, we have to face them: Friends and family who couldn’t make a candy cane work with their aura. They’re the ones on our lists we save for last, because when it comes to a fitting gift, ...
PSP Review: PaRappa the Rapper
I still remember the first time I ever played PaRappa the Rapper. No, it wasn’t a bright, sunny day. The birds weren’t singing some cliche tune, and everything wasn’t as right as rain. The shining debut went down in my musty basemen...
Halo Gets 2D Animation Magic
Countless Halo fans have been salivating over the notion of a movie adaptation for the series, and while they haven’t been “graced” with a live-action filmmaker just yet, they have been thrown an anime-styled bone. To those who ar...
Bleepin’ Blips: Nostalgia Goes Next-Gen
More rage than you can shake a stick at! That’s usually the tone of the ongoing Bleepin’ Blips feature over at RadNerd, but this time the rage really was sculpted in a positive way. In fact, you can barely tell it’s there at all ...
At Least Heat Miser Would Be Proud
Inferno—it’s the Italian word for Hell. Dante Alighieri knew it, and he warped the first part of his Divine Comedy around the concept and all its nasty little nooks and crannies. But four different years inspired movies with the same titl...
Has Yamaoka Escaped Silent Hill?
UPDATE 12/2/09: Joystiq reports that Yamaoka has indeed officially left Konami. There’s a rumor floating around over at Kotaku that the musical genius behind the popular Silent Hill games has finally discovered a loophole in the town’s un...
Holiday Gaming
The holidays are almost upon us, which means sooner or later we procrastinators really need to start, you know, shopping and stuff. December is always a wonderful time of year for gamers—sure, November starts the race … especially on Blac...
Frolick with 3D Heroes and Chocobos This Spring
Spring holds some pretty nifty things in store for us gamers, two of which are sure to be a hit. Final Fantasy XIII finally (no pun intended) struck a release date for March 9, 2010, but while you’re drooling over gorgeous pixels, you better pr...
Gamers, Yes We Can
In a move that would probably make Rupert Giles (since we’re on a Whedon note here today) cry and babble on about standards and the delightful smell of musty books, libraries across the United States have declared this Saturday, November 14, &#...
Konami Just Won’t Break the Ice
Our appointment with the psychiatric Silent Hill remake, Shattered Memories, has been moved … again. The game that was supposed to debut in late October was then pushed back to early November, and now Amazon and other sources have the title lis...
Bleepin’ Blips: When Games Change Developers
We all know it happens. Sometimes a games series changes developers, and our hopes and dreams come crashing down as a result. Crash Bandicoot 2 was my first game on the PlayStation; although I had a NES before that, on which I played my sisters’...
PSP Review: Daxter
As a long-time fan of Naughty Dog, I expect only the highest quality and entertainment from games stamped with the infamous red and white paw. The Jak and Daxter series managed to pull at my heartstrings and win me over—from its charming yet un...
Leveling up to Volume 2: When Video Games Hit the Splash Page
If you love video games and comics alike, then there’s a good chance you’ve picked up a video game comic adaptation (say that three times fast!). I certainly have, and there’s plenty out there. But is it a good idea, or an over-the-...
Bleepin’ Blips: No Rooster Hat Can Save It
Do you ever feel the overwhelming need to throw a fit over something in gaming that just ticks you off beyond belief? I certainly do. So this week at RadNerd I launched a new ongoing feature in which I do just that. Instead of chucking the controller...
Explore Silent Hill: Where Your Dreams Become Reality
The very first Silent Hill game was re-released in North America this month on the PlayStation Network for both the PS3 and PSP consoles in anticipation for the new Shattered Memories game in October. This is a great chance to shake off the chains of...
Your Pet Zombie Ate My Homework
Remember all those virtual pets and monsters you’ve had over the years? Of course you do. That lazy Tamagotchi of yours always got sick and died, no matter how much you played with it. God forbid you bother to engage in the real world for an ho...
Princesses Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too
Fat Princess reigns as one of the better PlayStation Network games to come out in the last month or so. While I haven’t exactly gotten around to writing a review—ahem—I made up for my slacking by writing a new RadNerd article involv...
PS3 Review: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Like the Joker, the latest Batman game comes prepared with all sorts of tricks up its sleeves. Thankfully, you also step onto the grounds of Arkham Asylum with a cue or two from the Dark Knight—armed with the power of the dynamic duo, Kevin Con...
Do You Remember Chrono Trigger?
Ever heard of that classic RPG called Chrono Trigger? It showed up on the video game scene once upon a time for the SNES, and set a standard for its descendants in its genre henceforth. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. Or you should. It&#...
Sounds of Nostalgia: Legend of Legaia
Do we need an excuse to play old games? Hell no! But sometimes music from OSTs can inspire us to try new ones or revisit past loves like dirty, secret affairs. Before Sounds of Nostalgia ends on an indeterminate hiatus, I thought it would be best to...
Featured: Batman: Arkham Asylum Interview Pt. 3
Talking with voice actor Kevin Conroy and writer Paul Dini about Batman: Arkham Asylum was fantastic, but the roundtable stepped down to earth when I got the chance to interview developer/game director Sefton Hill. From gameplay to inspiration, Hill ...
Featured: Batman: Arkham Asylum Interview Pt. 2
Kevin Conroy might stun with the awesomeness of his voice acting as Batman, but Paul Dini is someone many fans, including myself, admire. His creativity spans years and never ceases to be fresh and entertaining. I’ve interviewed Dini before, bu...
Featured: Batman: Arkham Asylum Interview Pt. 1
One of my life dreams has been accomplished—marked off the list of to-dos: I met Kevin Conroy. And interviewed him, no less! Hearing Conroy talk on recorded interviews, and even hearing his voice as Batman on television or in Batman: Arkham Asylum,...
SDCC09: Day 4 Wrap-Up
My last day at San Diego Comic-Con consisted mostly of saying goodbye to a lot of great people: the GEN crew, David LeVack, Beau Ryan, Leo Camacho, Rick Basaldua, Archaia’s Mel Caylo, Top Cow’s Filip Sablik, and more. Joined by my friend ...
