Welcome to my belated second annual “Favorite Games of the Year” list! Due to a combination of the holidays, stress, and dealing with a personal loss, I’ve had a rough start coming into 2018. As I sorted through these mixed emotions and tried to pick up the pieces, all I can do is try to maintain some level of…
In the wake of E3, lots have been said; lots have been seen. So much, that I actually bought a Switch right after seeing the Nintendo show. But nothing has left me so excited and in awe than seeing my man B.J. alive and kicking (killing?) again.
I began playing Wolfenstein: New World Order a few weeks ago. I started the game in the usual way, by selecting ‘New Game’ and then perusing the available difficulties. I was curious to find a whopping five levels of difficulty available to me. It struck me at that moment that it’s been a very long time since I saw a…
Splash Damage, developer of first-person shooters Dirty Bomb, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and the infamous Brink have been bought out by big poultry.
Ever since its widespread popularization in the early 1990s, the first-person shooter has developed a reputation for delivering heart-pounding experiences in which the avatar is dropped in a virtual space awash with enemies, and tasked with dishing out as much punishment as humanely possible with a wide assortment of…
Sorry it’s been awhile since I posted one of these, finals are irritating. Regardless, I finished this game all the way back in April and didn’t put the finishing touches on the review until now. Also, this isn’t exactly a retro game, but it’s been out for awhile and there’s already a proper TAY review. Without…
As many of you on TAY have noted, everyone has put out their various Year in Review articles. Hell, I've already published my best anime of 2014 list, and that went well... I think (I maybe should have switched Kill la Kill and Log Horizon's places, but that's my only lingering thought on that piece). That said, I'm…
General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse is a gnarly looking old man, with the kind of exaggeratedly evil voice, mannerisms and disfigured face one tends to associate with modern depictions of Nazis. He's crouched down staring at me through the screen, flanked by two giant Über-Soldaten, each with one of my comrades,…
