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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Fan Game Showcase – Finding Shepard
Were you a fan of Mass Effect 3 but could do without the shooter style gameplay? Were you disappointed by ME3’s color coded endings? Well fan programmer Nightfable has the game for you. Her project Finding Shepard continues the story of Mass Effect 3 after the destruction ending in a unique way: as a point and click adventure game.
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z Review (PlayStation 3)
On the surface, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z looks like a shallow mess of unbalanced gameplay mechanics meant solely to satisfy die-hard fans of the DBZ anime and manga franchise. However, when you sit down and actually play the game, you realize that it’s so much worse. In an attempt to simplify Battle ofl Z’s mechanics and introduce new team battles, Namco Bandai has managed to remove what little depth Dragon Ball Z fighting games had to offer.
Kickstarter of the Week: Glyph the Mobile Personal Theater
No matter how awesome running around a dynamic virtual world is with an Oculus Rift headset on, you are still sitting in front of your computer.
The History of Fighting Games: Part 2 – From The Pits to the Streets
It’s tempting to skip directly from 1987’s Street Fighter to 1991’s Street Fighter II to celebrate the success Capcom had in refining the fighting game formula, but a lot can happen in four years.
Game Experiment: Be Another Person With The Machine To Be Another
It’s called The Machine To Be Another, and it uses psychological principals to change the way you perceive yourself.
Fan Game Showcase – Pokemon Evoas
Interested in a Pokemon game with a bit of a darker twist? Enter today’s Fan Game Showcase: Pokemon Evoas.
Nidhogg Review (PC)
Forget Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Smash Bros., Nidhogg is where it’s at.
Arcade Sushi Quick Tip – The Best Way to Connect Your PS3 Controllers to Your PC
So the next generation of consoles is out, which means it’s about time for your last gen consoles to start collecting dust. Luckily, there will still be some use for those old PlayStation 3 controllers far after we have re-bought the entirety of our PS3 library on Sony’s new PlayStation Now game streaming service.
Connect them to your PC! They are still perfectly good dual analog stick controllers
Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD Review
The Vita is a powerful little handheld, but not a particularly popular one. It can deliver gameplay experiences comparable to the PlayStation 3, but doesn’t have anywhere near as big of an install base. That’s why many companies are porting their Vita games to the PS3 at later dates. Ubisoft is the latest company to showcase a PS3 Vita port in the recently released Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD.
Arcade Sushi Quick Tips – Replace Your Arcade Stick Buttons
So you shelled out $200 for a fancy schmancy arcade stick early last generation, and it’s starting to go. Your buttons are getting sticky, inputs aren’t being tracked correctly, your combos are dropping, and everything feels loose and rattly. Time to drop another two hundo on a new stick, right?