Final Fantasy: Small Beginnings, Big Endings
Like most game series that have survived from their original 8-bit NES incarnations into the modern era of photo-realistic graphics, Final Fantasy has come a VERY long way. When this […]
Kingdom Hearts: A Kingdom for EVERY Heart
My favorite part of the Kingdom Hearts franchise has always been the incredible diversity of all of the characters that make it up. Gaming icons such as Cloud Strife and […]
Microsoft’s Minecraft Approach: Cross-Platform Cooperation
When Microsoft originally purchased Mojang, the studio responsible for Minecraft, fans were understandably worried that one of the largest franchises in the world would become an Xbox exclusive going forward. […]
Xbox, Halo, and the Master Chief: Destined to Carry the Flag
When launching the original Xbox console, Microsoft chose to make a new and completely unknown game the star of the show… Halo: Combat Evolved. On the surface, a mostly silent […]
Hawkeye and Our Feelings of Insignificance
Of all the people who make up the Avengers in the MCU, Hawkeye is the one who seems most out of place. He wasn’t given superpowers by exposure to gamma […]
Captain America and Mjolnir: A “Worthy” Moment
If you saw it without it being spoiled for you, then you know exactly what I’m talking about… the moment that ignited cheers in theaters around the world as Thor’s […]
Beyond the Surface
Some of my favorite gaming protagonists would not have won the “most likely to save the world” award in high school… from humble plumbers like Mario and Luigi to the […]
Halo Loadouts: Limitations or Strategic Design?
For all of Master Chief’s advantages over his video game peers, he possesses a “limitation” that most of them don’t share. While gaming protagonists like Solid Snake carry an entire […]
Unworthy: Stepping Forward from Self-Disqualification
From Mario and Link to Master Chief and Samus, all of these gaming protagonists have one thing in common… they started moving forward in their journey when we pressed start. […]
Sora: Under-Qualified but Uniquely Gifted
Sora was a very unlikely protagonist when we were introduced to him in the first Kingdom Hearts game… small, young, with no combat skills to speak of and barely able […]
Finding God in Video Games 