Lego Star Wars and “Broken Pieces”
The Lego Star Wars games are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me… the simple joy of smashing and blasting almost every thing in the level into little Lego […]
Star Wars: KOTOR and My Own Worst Enemy
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is easily my favorite game of all time, with an epic story that takes the classic “amnesiac protagonist” gaming trope and spins it […]
A True “Phantom Menace”
We all remember that moment… that feeling of shock when Darth Maul ignited the SECOND blade on his lightsaber and we realized he was even more dangerous than we thought. […]
A Tale of Two Tombs: A “Triggering” Event
In almost every narrative-based game there are invisible “triggers” built into the landscape that aren’t visible to the player until we cross them, and typically when we step over that […]
Dragon’s Dogma 2: A Framerate Predicament and The Reason Why We Are Here
In a bit of news that NOBODY saw coming, Dragon’s Dogma 2 has released and created a bit of a conundrum for players… how far are gamers willing to go […]
Orlando MegaCon 2024: A Reflection on Our Search for Significance
There is nothing quite like the convention experience… and this year’s Orlando MegaCon was no exception. Fandoms are expressed as far as the eye can see as you wade through […]
SCARS: Our Evidence, if We Choose to Embrace Them
We all have that moment… the traumatizing experience that took our favorite fictional form of media and made it REAL, complete with actual feelings and maybe even tears. For me, it […]
Answering the Question “What If?”
The animated Marvel series, “What If…?”, aspires to do something very rarely attempted in any other form of media… tell us what would have happened if the characters and stories […]
GameStop and a “Protection Predicament” (Broken Season – Part Three)
This one is a bitter one to write, because my personal history with GameStop and the brands over the years that it has absorbed (Babbage’s, Software Etc., EB Games, ThinkGeek, […]
Breaking Kong: Dealing With a “Broken Season” in Life (Part One)
Over the years, I have played a LOT of “broken games” … some that were based on licensed properties that were poorly made, others that possessed great potential but contained […]
Finding God in Video Games 