On Making Rent As A Games Writer
Recently, something popped up on Twitter where a writer – I guess a former writer? – brought up the topic of discussion that it was very, very hard to make ends meet in the industry. The centre of the...
View ArticleTaming the Backlog: Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Like most people, I have a huge backlog of games. My mission: use my Backloggery to try to knock it down a bit. Whether I play these games five years or five minutes depends on the game. I work in IT,...
View ArticleGames I’ve Been Playing: 2014 FIFA World Cup Brasil
I hate to admit it, but 2014 has been a rough year for football games. I think my issues with FIFA ’14 were largely those of perception; I hated the new tackling they put in, which caused defence to be...
View ArticleThen and Now: Metroid (NES)
This weekly column looks at classic video games both in how they looked back in the day and how they stand up today. Though scores will be assigned, our tough review standards will be relaxed a bit for...
View ArticleThe Highest Fidelity: Five More Games That Need HD Remasters
The later part of the prior console generation, up to and including now, has been marked by a load of games remade from prior generations to fit today’s high definition standards. This has been a...
View ArticleGames I’ve Been Playing: Final Fantasy X (PS3/Vita)
Since the fateful day it occurred, I call it the Tragic Memory Card Incident of 2003. When I was in the service, one of the first games I bought for my PlayStation 2 was Final Fantasy X. Nowadays, we...
View ArticleAmazon Buying Twitch Could Become a Complete Disaster For Everyone But Amazon
Earlier today, after earlier flirtations with Google, Twitch announced that they were being acquired by Amazon. The move is partially denoted by Google’s fear of antitrust legislation, and partially...
View ArticlePerpetual Hatred
I don’t watch the Boondocks, and have never seen more than a few clips, the only one prominent being the one involving Ann Coulter. I know so little about the show that I can’t even find the clip I’m...
View ArticleGaming Bus’s Games of the Year for 2014!
Welcome to the 2014 Gaming Bus Game of the Year awards! Before I begin, a laying out of the ground rules, as usual: 1) These are for games released between December of ’13 and November of ’14. 2) These...
View ArticleIwata-Senpai
Some things, and some people, are big enough, and important enough, to end what one would call a sabbatical. The news of the passing of Satoru Iwata has been making its way around, and notably, has...
View ArticleGaming Bus’s Games of the Year for 2015!
Gaming Bus LIVES!!! OK, “lives” might be relative. The DNS still works. The website loads. Our archives are there. But for how long it will live as a place that takes posts, I don’t know. I honestly...
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