First Impressions: Titanfall Beta (PC)

The new title from developers Respawn Entertainment (better known as "formerly Infinity Ward") dropped the beta for their upcoming sci-fi shooter, with giant fucking robots, this past weekend, and wrapped it up on February 19th.  It goes without saying that the good people working on this title have more than their fair share of experience in the first-person shooter genre.  The question that seems to be on most fans (or haters) minds is: how will Titanfall stack up to Call of Duty?  Lucky for you guys, I'm here to help answer that question with my limited experience in the PC beta for the game.

Review: Risk of Rain - Forecast: Shitstorm

This holiday season I constructed myself a $1100 computer so that I could finally have a high-powered gaming rig all my own.  Something that would run the shit out of games like Assassin's Creed IV or Splinter Cell and still have memory left over.

Since then I have logged approximately 17 hours in Risk of Rain and 44 in Starbound (will get to that later).  Yes, I have been playing pixelated indie roguelikes on a computer where the highest of graphics settings isn't high enough.  This might not say much for me and my PC gaming needs, but what I find is that it really doesn't say much for the triple-A gaming industry at all.  All of my needs have been met by two games whose combined prices don't even approach a shiny new $60 investment from some money-grubbing CEO's farm of development drones, and who's graphical style is still locked in a time vault from the 1990's with the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.