The Omnivangelist

Summary: Fight Night is a great game. Best way to smack around your friends online.
Electronic Arts is a great company. My roommate in silicon valley worked there in San Mateo and I went on-site there many times to play games and hang out. That place was fun and the employees there really loved gaming and [...]

It’s about time we got to sit down with Sasquatchcabbie on Xbox360 and play some of Sega’s violent cult classic shooter, The Club. Sasquatch is a Club veteran having ranked in the top dozen players on XboxLive at his peak, and before the online community thinned out.
Critics haven’t spoken too fondly of the Club as [...]

Summary: Solid game. The Fight system and mechanics allow for amazing customization
This is not an easy game, even on the easy setting. The backgrounds in the game are bare and simple, nothing to write home about, but the enemy design, especially the bosses, and the fighting system are where this game shines!

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I read Beowulf during high school British Literature and my teacher made the reading quite enjoyable explaining all the details and background throughout the story. It was quite a remarkable story and Beowulf the game is quite remarkable as well despite a few shortcomings.
Set in three Acts the Beowulf story follows generally with the epic [...]

In the previous couple entries, we’ve covered some basic psychology related to video games. Part 4 specifically discussed the psychology of video game battle with a human opponent. David Sirlin has written on gaming psychology as well in his articles on Playing to Win. In those articles, Sirlin references heavily from Sun Tzu and his [...]

You’ve floated like a butterfly. Now you’re stinging like a queen bee. But even the best boxers and Phantom Dust players have to sometimes but their arms in front of them and block sometimes. The first thing you should know is when to defend. As you build skills with dodging, you’ll [...]

So, you’re dancing around like a digital Muhammed Ali.  Butterflies and all that.  At some point you have to hit your opponent with something or you’re not going to win.  What are you going to hit them with?  Phantom Dust has a lot of offensive skills for you to choose, but they are not all [...]