Predator Cestus 500 Mouse Review
While the PAX show floor is the main event, PAX doesn’t end when the show floor closes. There are plenty of events to attend. Various studios, companies, and groups host parties where people can mingle, get free swag, play games, and perhaps even score some free food or drinks. The MR team was invited to attend one hosted by ACER, specifically to show off their Predator line of products, including...[Read More]
Lord of the Rings LCG Digital Hands On PAX East 2018
A few years ago I came across Fantasy Flight Games’ Lord of the Rings LCG (Living Card Game, is a format of card games with an expanding card pool that is not randomized. Yet the elements of building customized decks is still the core element, but without the gambling aspect of collecting cards that are rarer than others). It drew my attention as it featured one of my favorite fantasy series and u...[Read More]
AimPad: Interview with Principal Engineer of Awesomeness Lance Madsen
While I was running around PAX East I came across a booth boasting something I hadn’t heard of before, pressure sensitivity in a keyboard. Ever drive, well anything, in a video game? At best is annoying, at worst, completely unplayable. There isn’t any subtly in using a keyboard to drive in L.A. Noire, hit “W” and take off at full acceleration, then to turn tap “AR...[Read More]
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Review
I’ve always been a fan of oral storytelling. There’s a specific atmosphere created when there is a single person telling a story to a group. I actually participated in Speech in High School in the Storytelling category. So when I saw the trailer prior to PAX West 2017 I knew I needed to see this game. Oral storytelling is the central focus of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. A game about collect...[Read More]
Banner Saga 3, and Series Switch Port Hands On
At an early age, I had a fondness for chess, the different pieces having different moves available to them across a simple grid battlefield yet opened up to practically limitless possibilities. As I got older and discovered strategy and tactics RPGs and expanded on those same ideas I grew to love the genre. Controlling characters around an environment, using their abilities to gain advantage over ...[Read More]
Disco Elysium PAX Hands On
PAX East 2018 had a strong Strategy and Isometric RPG showing this year! With Divinity Original Sin II bringing the console version, Pillars of Eternity II, and Banner Saga 3 it was a treat for fans of the genre. Amongst all of these established heavy hitters, there was a Disco Ball shaped gem that stood out from everything I saw on the show floor, Disco Elysium by Zaum Studios. “Disco Elysium A D...[Read More]
‘Pillars of Eternity II’ Deadfire PAX Hands On
Following in the wake of Larian’s sequel to their Divinity: Original Sin and knocking it out of the park, Obsidian hopes to do the same with their own sequel, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Motivated by a strong desire to build upon what was established in the first entry, Obsidian had a lot to show off at their booth during PAX East 2018. The competition was kept alive on the show floor too, a...[Read More]
Daddy Gamer Episode 10: Wizardry V
My first thought writing this feature is the fact that there are now 10 episodes of Daddy Gamer out there for people to enjoy! Wizardry V is the game that marks this achievement, and looking back it motivates me to keep going. It’s been a long journey to get this far, but we’ve finally done it, so here’s to the next 10!
ReviewTubers: TomatoGhost
It’s been amazing to be able to interview and get some behind the scenes insight on some bigger channels. Meeting the people behind some of my favorite channels that have gone through the grind and have established themselves and building up their audiences to 50,000, 100,000 and more! I’m just as excited this time around interviewing an amazing channel that still has less than 1,000! YouTube rece...[Read More]
ReviewTubers: Dex the Swede
One of the best things about watching video-based reviews is that the personality of the person reviewing the game comes through so strong compared to written reviews. This is what makes them so unique and fun to watch. Each reviewer is allowed to do so much with the video format that their voice, sense of humor, and passion really shows. There will definitely be some crossover as the community do...[Read More]
ReviewTubers: Lazy Game Reviews – LGR
Reviewing games in entertaining ways and keeping an audience is hard enough, but reviewing hardware too? That is its own beast entirely. It takes more research, tools, and mechanical prowess to properly review a piece of PC hardware, and Lazy Game Reviews, or LGR for short, has all of this in spades. LGR specializes in all things Retro PC, his videos take a look at not only games, but also hardwar...[Read More]
RapidX Carbon Line Gaming Chair Review
I’m not someone who spends a lot of money on furniture; garage sales and picking up my friends’ old couches when they get new ones is more my style. The only significant pieces of furniture I’ve actually purchased are my wife and I’s bed and my desk. Even then, we didn’t get too extravagant with it. So when I get asked to review a new chair and realize that the nearly ten year old hand-me-down cha...[Read More]