I've been waiting for this moment for years. At long last, the next Star Wars Battlefront is on the horizon. EA announced yesterday that the beta will be playable sometime in early October (the game's official release date is still November 17th). The Star...

A lot has been made of the recent emergence of Youtube Gaming– Google's answer to Twitch and what the company hopes will become a serious and lucrative competitor in the real-time game streaming arena. Unfortunately for Google, the major obstacle facing...

Dying light is a game that even 6 months after release is still a full sixty dollars.  Instead of a reduction in price to boost sales, Techland has released a three hour demo of their game with the hope of it being so good  that people will feel compelled...

Updates to KF2 have been few and far between since the early access version dropped months ago. There is a swath of frustration that's been growing online in these months, as die-hard fans run out of things to do with the admittedly light offering of...

It's natural to get mad at video games.  Many of them are designed with the intention of pissing you off and gobbling up your quarters, and others have multiplayer.  If there's anything more rage inducing than annoying mechanics in video games it's people -...

#10 If you are new to Hearthstone there's a good chance this card has fooled you into trying to make a deck that can actually activate the +5 attack enrage effect.  First you decide you must run a buff card.  Then you must use that buff card on the...

On this episode of the Toadcast we discuss the psychology of the modern day troll.  They've evolved to no longer dwell beneath bridges, shaking down passerbys for a coin and scrap, into malevolent voices on the internet.  Gather round and lend an ear as we...

With Divinity: Original Sin II in development I wanted to reflect on some of the things that made the first game great, specifically the multiplayer.  Divinity was not the first multiplayer RPG by any means, but it was the first to translate the feel of an...

In this episode of the Toadcast we talk about the education value of games and how games impacted our childhood.  We think games have become too hand-holdy and instructional as opposed to explorational and intuitive.  John also promotes his love of Fig...

I've had worlds that I left behind.  Kingdoms full of people awaiting my orders or perhaps continuing about the same tasks I once assigned them but now for the rest of eternity.  Tombstones etched with the names of my fallen comrades immortalizing the...