Angelo D’Argenio is an 8 year veteran of game’s journalism with an addiction to fighting games, artistic indie games, and JRPGs. He has written for several outlets and once served as an editor and video game liaison for Doug Liman, the producer of the Bourne Identity. He is the current president of Disorganization XIII, a panelist group that you can find performing at conventions all over the east coast. When he isn’t writing about games or playing games you can find him running the NJ Rejects tournament series, putting on video game based art pieces, or working on Broken Sky, an indie game project of his own. He also plays a mean game of Tetris Attack.
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Review (PlayStation 3)
The world of Final Fantasy XIII was actually kind of interesting. It had interesting character, strange techno gods, a cool creation mythos and an understandable power system. Sadly its sequel, Final Fantasy XIII-2 had little to do with that world and the latest release, Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, has even less. It’s just a completely new RPG covered with a coat of Final Fantasy XIII paint, and without the powerful nostalgia that comes with that branding, Lightning Returns barely holds up.
Fan Game Showcase – Mother 4
If you are a fan of retro games, you likely played at least one title in the Mother series. Better known as Earthbound, the Mother series of RPGs is unlike anything else on the market today or… ever for that matter.
Dustforce Review (PS Vita)
Perhaps it’s the rocking soundtrack. Perhaps it’s the fact that obsessive compulsion and gaming go together like peanut butter and exactly 14.3 grams of jelly. Whatever the reason, Dustforce is incredibly fun.
Game Experiment – Lose Yourself In a Virtual World With the Cyberith Virtualizer
There are a lot of virtual reality devices on the market these days. The Oculus Rift has made headlines multiple times, the Virtuix Omni has finally developed a way to walk in a virtual world, and there are any number of motion control devices out there. But finally, someone has put them all together. Say hello the Cyberith Omnidirectional Treadmill and Virtual Reality device.
Kickstarter of the Week – Kingdom Come: Deliverance
The medieval period was really interesting even without the hocus pocus. That’s what our Kickstarter of the Week, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is trying to show.
Arcade Sushi Quick Tip – Use Any Controller on Any System with the CronusMax Converter
So a new generation of consoles has come out, which means you are going to have to drop a load of money on a new set of controllers… or do you?
Loadout Review (PC)
In a world filled with grey-brown military shooters filled with grizzled space marines that are trying to one-up each other in a stubble and jawline competition, Loadout is here to say, “Screw all that!”
Fan Game Showcase – Project M
Just can’t wait until the next Smash Bros. comes out? Well this week’s Fan Game Showcase will hold you over until Mario and Mega Man duke it out later this year. It’s Project M, a reinvisioning of Smash Bros. Brawl that is currently the most accepted version of Brawl on the pro fighting game circuit.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch Review (PC)
Normally, when a game has crappy unintuitive controls it’s a deal breaker. After all, if you can’t control the game properly what’s the point in playing? This is not the case with Octodad: Dadliest Catch. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. Dadliest Catch may have the worst control scheme of any game I’ve ever played, and that’s the entire point.
The History of Fighting Games, Part 3 – Attack of the Clones
When we last left off, Street Fighter II had just been released and arcades were being flooded with the quickly growing Fighting Game Community.