The Ten Most Important Video Game Movies

Clickbait Title: The Video Game Movies That Are The Most Memorable for Being Very Bad, Very OK, Or Occasionally Pretty Good Video Game movies are historically not very good. There’s been long, arduous debates on whether or not video games…

Retro-Graded Games: Metal Gear Turns 30 – Now What?

While it’s normal to go into one’s 30th birthday with a sense of dread, it’s jarring to see the adage apply to a video game series. Especially one as dear to people as the Metal Gear franchise. Through the community…

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 15 Years Later

This is a personal retrospective of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty !General spoilers for the Metal Gear Solid franchise below! It’s weird to think that it’s been 15 years since the release of MGS 2 here in the states,…

Retro-Graded Games: ‘Castlevania’ After 30 Years

There is something strangely ironic about returning to 1986’s Castlevania for the game’s 30th anniversary: picking the title up on the 3DS Virtual Console feels more like I myself am waking the dead as opposed to taking them on. If…

One Year Later: Metal Gear Solid V

February 2012: “Development Without Borders” – information leaked on the development of Konami and Hideo Kojima’s Next, and final, “Metal Gear Solid.” August 2012: Announcement of game prologue, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Fans create backlash over full price…

TYF’s Picks for The Game Awards 2015

Geoff Keighley of the long dead G4 gaming network had spearheaded a new moment in video game history with his first The Game Awards show last December, which exclusively aired on streaming networks from Twitch.TV to Xbox Live. Critics and developers in the…

E3 2013 Microsoft: Metal Gear, Halo, Forza 5, Witcher 3

It’s time for the Electronic Entertainment Expo of 2013, the week where all the big companies show us the massive arsenal of games to be released within the next year or so, and Microsoft threw a lot on our plate…