Video Gaming

Two of my biggest passions are video games and playing musical instruments, whether I actually know how to play them or not. Combine them both and you have me attempting to play video game music. Instead of showing you boring videos of me trying to play music from Final Fantasy on the piano, where t…

Let me start by saying I know nothing about stocks and bonds and share holdings and all of that. For my birthday this past April my family bought me stock in Nintendo. It came in this giant, framed, gaudy thing that's better compared to those checks they hand you in the Price is Right.
No matter…

Sega, the awesome company that still believes in the arcade, has a new game ready to transform and roll out.

Super Mario Bros is one of the most iconic video games of all time. It's the game that turned Mario into a house-hold name, the music is legendary and video games today still use Super Mario Bros. as their main source of inspiration. It was the game that was included in the Nintendo Entertainment Sy…

Over the weekend, I had a chance to go to the annual Seattle Retro Gaming Expo. It was an awesome experience as many of us who all share the same passion of retro gaming (and current gaming) all crammed into the Seattle Center for shopping, demonstrations and, of course, gaming. Here's what I s…

Well, here we go again, someone is offended about The American Flag! Are you kidding? What is this world coming too!

In pretty big news, it turns out that Microsoft is not going to require the Xbox One to connect to the Internet ever 24 hours and will have the ability to play used games.
Don Mattrick, president of interactive entertainment at Microsoft, released this statement...

Bullying online isn't a matter of fun and games.

New Challenger Approaching!
That's the sign that you're about to face a new character in Super Smash Bros.
One of the funnest parts of the Smash Bros. series is seeing what video game characters will join the party and become unlockable. They're usually from Nintendo games, but there have been others,…

E3 2013 has come and gone, but there's still quite a bit of fallout to cover from the show. Angelo will have more game previews up shortly. In the meantime, here are some images from the show floor that snapped while walking around looking for coffee and a game to play. The show this year was defini…

Though most efforts to transfer video games into feature-length films have been a bust, it's no surprise that Ubisoft is looking to bring their most popular titles to the big screen. The company already has 'Assassin's Creed,' 'Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon,' and &…

I decided to start playing a game I got last Christmas... and have just been too busy to start, and since that's my plan... I might has well celebrate Timmy's Basement with the "lil blue lady" from that certain game... from the Halo series (Halo 4 is what I'm about t…