It’s not everyday that you can take credit for predicting the future, but that’s exactly what we did at Handsome Phantom. 2 months ago our boy Duddy made a video predicting that the SNES Classic would see light of day for Holiday 2017. A bold prediction after the catastrophic events surrounding the launch and “life…
Kevin recounts his journey to get the platinum trophy for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Remaster).
Hello fans of Handsome Phantom! My name is Josh and today I will be your token “PC Master Race Gamer” giving you a tour of some great deals for this year’s Steam Summer Sale! Below is a list of my top five Steam deals, their cost, and why you should buy them. The sale is going…
I’ve been waiting. And waiting. I’ll admit, I got pretty used to having a new Assassin’s Creed game every year. It was nice. Sure, things were getting stale in some ways; they had all but dropped the future storyline on its head after AC3, but I still looked forward the getting my hands on a new AC game every October/November. When they took a year off, I was a bit disappointed, but I felt it was honestly in the best interest of the franchise.
I’ve spent countless hours reviewing tons of trailers and conferences trying to find that one game that towered above the rest, that one game to be the Breath of the Wild Killer. While that journey led me to believe that Mario Odyssey could be that game, wasting your time rehashing ideas that have already been…
In early 2008 a friend of mine introduced me to a game that would change my life. Open-world games existed, but weren’t necessarily prevalent. Regardless of how familiar the general public may have been with them, I was almost not at all. It was like someone had just created non-linear games and made them just…
Disclaimer: May contain minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Batman: Arkham franchise, and Fallout 4 It’s that special day of the year we all set apart to celebrate dads. Some of our favorite dads wear jean shorts and taught us how to swear, and some of our very favorite…
Handsome Phantom Phans and Adventure Mode listeners will remember an episode a few months back where Brandon, Dustin, myself, and some other handsome gentlemen discussed our game of the year for 2016. The discussion always came back around to Overwatch, a smash hit of a game that managed to pull millions of players into a rich,…
Disclaimer: hyperlinked text includes Wikia articles and YouTube videos that may contain spoilers for The Witcher video games Readers who checked out my first piece on role-playing may recall I referred to the Witcher series as the greatest thing to come out of Poland since Lech Walesa. For those of you who aren’t link-clickers, Lech…
This Mother’s Day Handsome Phantom wants to take a moment to recognize the importance of moms in gaming. In a medium so flooded with shaven head white dudes standing in front of explosions, or high heeled clad warriors in miniskirts, archetypical characters like mummsies don’t get the recognition they deserve. So without further ado, here…
