The history of gambling in Japan is a fairly interesting subject. Even today, the Land of the Rising Sun’s gambling laws are some of the strictest in the world. So strict… it’s simple just to say gambling is banned. There are exceptions, usually in the form of races or the prize-for-cash exchange in stores next…
There is something more than a little special about The Outer Worlds, a new game franchise from Obsidian Entertainment. The masters of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and Fallout New Vegas seem to be experts in putting out games and projects people can champion. For me, on a deeply personal note, Fallout…
In my last article on the controversy Blizzard and the other US cooperate entities are facing over their loyalty to their money over their morals, I ended the article with some imagery, describing the situation of this year’s BlizzCon as “With so much scrutiny under the social microscope, it will be a tightrope for Blizzard…
The Red Scare was the event of monumental public hysteria in the United States that shook the average American citizen’s trust in one another – where politicians and even a federal agency used it to disgrace political enemies. At the height of the Red Scare, a phrase was often tossed around. A rough translation of…
What is a legacy in eSports? Any major DOTA 2 or League of Legends fan will tell you about their biggest fan moments, of a single player or a specific roster that changed the landscape of the game, if only temporarily. But rosters change, these teams move, shuffle, get bought out, go bankrupt, etc. There…
Maybe…maybe the REAL loot is the friends we’ve made along the way. Destiny recently turned five years old as a franchise. Its first iteration was what got me to buy a PlayStation 4 about six months after its release. Working part-time for minimum wage takes a toll on saving enough for one of those bad…
BM, short for “Bad Manners,” is a short term acronym for the biggest issue inside gaming as a hobby and passion: Toxicity. Gatekeeping, among other exclusionary efforts, has made the pursuit of gaming notably difficult for new gamers, particularly those who aren’t represented well in gamer demographics. In professional eSports, it’s rare to see massive…
Grand Theft Auto V was originally released in September of 2013, rereleasing on current-gen consoles and PC one and two years later, respectively. It’s the third best selling game of all time, trailing only behind the likes of Minecraft and Tetris. It has also been ranked on the NPD Group’s top-selling games every month with…
The budget is in the red, I have an employee in jail over selling some special blend I cranked out of my lab in Boulder, but this last batch is exactly what I need to help this ultra-conservative father help his son’s chronic pain after he’s finally recovered from opioid addiction. Then I’m in the…
When Lab Zero Games, the developer of Skullgirls, one of the most successful independent fighting games of all time, announced a new game about an axe wielding super naturally empowered chieftain’s daughter in a Valkyrie Profile-esque RPG-Platformer hybrid, it felt like a weird flex. But it works. In the time I spent platforming, leaping, and…
